Grants awarded in December 2008 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Ursula Mawson-Raffalt presenting “ephemeral silence or the universe of d.a.n.t.e. #1” in Aarhus, Denmark from 20th - 22nd March 2009 €1,000 Prof Anthony Roche/ Irish participation in seminars,talks and readings to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of Brian Friel at New York University on 2nd May 2009 €3,000 Megan Riordan performing “Luck” at the Arches Theatre Festival, Glasgow and Shunt Vaults, London in April 2009 €4,000 Irish Arts Center presenting “Voyage for Freedom: Frederick Douglass in Ireland and Barack Obama in America” at the Irish Arts Center from the 17 - 21 March 2009 €3,000 Sarah Jane Scaife performing scenes from “An Anthology of Irish Literature” in Beijing March 2009 €5,000 Irish Arts Center presenting “Ladies and Gents” by Paul Walker at Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, NY from 16th March to 12th April 2009 €20,000 Barabbas Theatre Company performing “Circus” at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, Connecticut from the 13th - 21st June 2009 €35,000 Daghdha Dance Company presenting “Choreography for Blackboards” at the Zodiak Centre, Helsinki from the 6th - 7th February 2009 €4,000 Irish National Youth Ballet Company performing at the Youth Dance Festival in Nettuno, taly on the 9th May 2009 €5,000 Bealtaine (Age and Opportunity) joint collaboration and performance at the Dance Life Festival 2009, Sapporo, Japan from the 9th - 17th March 2009 €8,000 Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre and English National Opera theatre/dance co-production of “The Rite of Spring” at the London Coliseum in November 2009 €100,000 Gare St Lazare presenting “First Love” by Samuel Beckett in New Haven Connecticut, USA from 16th - 20th June, Grahamstown, South Africa 3rd - 6th July and Capetown, South Africa from the 8th - 12th July 2009 €9,000 Team Educational Theatre Company performing “Devotion” in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa in Autumn 2009 €35,000 Dance Base presenting “Dialogue” by Fearghus Ó Conchuir from 5th - 23rd August and “Raw” by Fidget Feet from 18th - 30th August 2009 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe €75,000 Dance Theatre of Ireland performing “Block Party” at international dance festivals in Korea in April - May 2009 and at the Greenwich & Docklands Festivals, London in June 2009 €40,000 Irish Modern Dance Theatre performing “The White Piece” by John Scott in Dance Landscapes, a network of three festivals in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine from the 18th - 27th April 2009 €35,000 The London St Patrick’s Day Festival Irish participation, 15th March 2009 €8,000 SUBTOTAL €390,000 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Kerry Film Festival promoting Irish Short film at the Sundance Film Festival, January 2009 €1,500 Marc - Ivan O’Gorman presenting a selection of short films at the Mint Gallery, New Delhi from the 13th - 29th March 2009 €3,000 Paul Rowley presenting feature documentary “Seaview” in Berlin and to tour ten cities in February - March 2009 €4,000 Zero Em Comportamento Irish participation and presentation of Irish cinema in the IndieLisboa Film Festival, Lisbon from the 23rd April - 3rd May 2009 €5,500 David P Kelly Films presenting the London Irish Film Festival in various London venues from the 7th - 15th March 2009 €7,000 Cork Film Festival film presenting a showcase of Irish cinema at the Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen du Tetouan, Morocco from the 29th March - 6th April 2009 €6,000 Seamus Byrne presenting “Eamon” at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009 €3,000 Esperanza Collado presenting Irish film programme in Margenes festival of experimental film and art, Madrid, from the 23rd - 29th May 2009 in Madrid, Spain €8,000 Fleadh Foundation organising the Craic film and music festival in New York from the 11th - 14th March 2009 €12,000 Tony O Donohue presenting “A Film from my Parish – 6 Farms” at the Sundance Film Festival, in Utah, USA from 15 – 25 January 2009 €2,000 SUBTOTAL €52,000 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Fergal Dowling performing at the Ohrenhoch der Gerauschlade sound art Gallery, Berlin from the 18th - 20th March 2009 €400 Tonos Early Music Ensemble performing “Music of the Wild Geese” recital and lecture at the Royal Society for Arts, London on the 26th February 2009 €300 Tyneside Irish Cultural Society presenting a series of concerts by traditional Irish musicians from the 29th January - 23rd April 2009 €1,000 Shamrock Traditional Irish Music Society presenting traditional Irish music concerts in Fairfield, CT, US from January - March 2009 €500 Noelie Mc Donnell music performing at the Folk Alliance conference / showcase, Memphis, US from the 18th - 22nd February 2009 €750 Irene Buckley presenting performance of “Evolution of close double stars” at the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival from the 2nd - 4th April 2009 €1,200 Sonya Keogh performing and leading workshops in Tokyo and other venues in Japan, from the 12th - 26th March 2009 €1,000 Irish Arts Foundation presenting concerts by Beoga, Swallows Tail and other artists at venues in Leeds, UK, from February - April 2009 €1,000 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Emmet Scanlan performing at the Folk Alliance conference / showcase, Memphis, US from the 18th - 22nd February 2009 €2,000 Martin Healy performing concerts, Montserrat, West Indies from the 12th - 22nd March 2009 €1,500 Aindrais Stack performing “Around the World on 80 Quid” at festivals in Australia and New Zealand, February - April 2009 €1,500 Embassy of Ireland in Latvia Organising “Voices from Ireland” festival of songwriting, Riga, Latvia from the 13th - 17th March 2009 €3,000 Romana Kokoska Pulchartova presenting the Callino Quartet at the Marble Hall, Prague Castle on the 7th April 2009 €2,000 Líadan performing concerts in Texas, New York and New Jersey from the 6th - 14th March 2009 €3,000 Irish Diaspora Foundation presenting three Irish music concerts in the London Irish Centre, Birmingham Irish Centre and Manchester Irish World Heritage Centre from the 4th - 6th March 2009 €2,500 Kevin Brady (Organics)/Organics performing a tour of Mexico from the 25th March - 5th April 2009 €4,500 Magnetic Music GmbH presenting a 15 concert tour by Fallen Angels, Outside Track and Searson in Germany and Switzerland from the 12th - 29th March 2009 €3,000 Ensemble Scratch the Surface performing concerts in Brighton, Manchester and London from 12th - 17th July 2009 €2,000 Mary Dullea Fidelio Trio performing a tour in China from the 1st - 15th June 2009 €6,500 Ceoltoiri na Sionainne performing at the North American Comhaltas Convention, St Louis from the music 16th - 19th April 2009 €3,000 Patrick Garrett/Beoga performing a US tour from the 27th Feb - 28th March 2009 €3,000 Cantor Music/Carmel Conway and band performing a US tour from the 26th February - 17th March 2009 €1,000 Camerata Ireland performing at the La Chaise Dieu and Berlioz Festivals in France on the 26th and 27th August 2009 €10,000 Gráda performing a US tour from the 26th February - 29th March 2009 €3,000 Opera Theatre Company performing Handel’s “Orlando” at the Buxton Festival from the 13th - 27th July 2009 €30,000 Na Píobairí Uilleann US tour and UK tour of “Piperlink” from May - September 2009 €17,000 El Feile presenting Festival in Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao from the 12th - 21st March 2009 €10,000 Irish World Academy of Music and Dance presenting a concert in Paris by ACADEMOS Irish World Strings, March 2009 €7,000 Our Lady’s Choral Society performing Handel’s “Messiah” in the Vatican, Rome on the 12th February 2009 €15,000 U.S Ireland Alliance /Irish Artists performing at the “Oscar Wilde” event in Los Angeles, February 2009 €40,000 Irish Arts Center presenting “Sweet Rosie O’Grady:An Irish Salute to Tin Pan Alley” at Symphony Space, New York, 16 March 2009 €3,000 SUBTOTAL €184,950 PRODUCTION NAME AMOUNT Barry Hughes presenting a solo exhibition in association with the 411 Gallery, Shanghai in April 2009 €750 Marie Brett presenting a exhibition of work at the NES Centre, Skagastrond, Iceland from the 4th - 29th March 2009 €850 Michelle Browne presenting a visual arts performance “The Bearer” at the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow on the 12th February 2009 €1,200 Peter Fulop presenting a solo exhibition at the Sculpture Factory, Jingdezhen, China in May 2009 €1,300 Christine Mackey participating in a collaborative programme and exhibition in Argentina from the 9th - 23rd March 2009 €1,100 Enda O’Donoghue presenting a solo exhibition at the Irish Arts Center, New York from the 27th April - 23rd June 2009 €2,500 Katie Holten presenting an exhibition in the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf from May - August 2009 €1,700 Stephen Lawlor presenting a solo exhibition at the Galleri Astley Culture Centre, Bergslagen, Sweden, from the 15th March 2009 - 12th April 2009 €2,500 Dan Murphy organising a photographic exhibition in China as part of a Chinese Irish exchange, 2009 - 2010 €3,500 Janet Pierce presenting an exhibition at Galleries Artfelt, New Delhi from the 6th - 21st visual art March 2009 €4,000 Limerick City Gallery of Art presenting “Into Irish Drawing” at CCI, Paris, France and Aktuele Kunst Hengelo, The Netherlands from the 13th September - December 2009 €5,000 The George Moore Society presenting “Ground: Contempory art from Ireland” at the American Irish Historical Society, New York, from the 26th February - 29th March 2009 €15,000 RHA Projects presenting work by John Gerrard at the Venice Art Biennale in June 2009 €25,000 Varvara Shavrova presenting “Untouched” a multi media project at the festival of Irish Culture Shanghai from the 14th March - 12th April