| Name | Closing Date | Maximum Awarded € | Abstract |
| Arts and disability awards Ireland | Ongoing | 7000 | It is the aim of the scheme to challenge and inspire artists with disabilities to reach their potential through innovative and experimental projects |
| Deis | Ongoing | 50000 | Deis is a scheme established under the Arts Councils Traditional Arts Initiative, 2005-2008. Deis is a proposal-based scheme which is aimed at encouraging and facilitating the traditional arts community to seek funding from the Arts Council for a range of projects. |
| Travel & training award | Ongoing | 12000 | There are two strands to this award: Travel and Training Outbound to support individuals who wish to avail of training and other professional development opportunities abroad; and Travel and Training Inbound to support individuals or organisations who wish to invite specialists from abroad to deliver high-level training or mentoring. |
| Visual artists in prisons scheme | Ongoing | 2400 | The scheme allows artists to work with prisoners in prison/
detention centres for a period of 10 days and complements
an existing arts and education programme in the Education
Units within the prison system. |
| Writers in prisons scheme | Ongoing | 1000 | The scheme offers writers the opportunity to work with prisoners in prison/detention centres and complements an existing arts and education programme in the Education Units within the prison system. |
| Writers in schools scheme | Ongoing | 304 | The Writers in Schools Scheme part-funds visits by writers and storytellers to schools throughout the Republic of Ireland. |
| Arts participation project award | 01 April 2010 | 50000 | Supports projects in the field of arts participation commencing in 2010. |
| Circus project award | 01 April 2010 | 20000 | Supports projects in the field of circus commencing in 2010. |
| Dance project award | 01 April 2010 | 60000 | Supports projects in the field of dance commencing in 2010. |
| Film project award | 01 April 2010 | 50000 | Supports specific projects in the field of film commencing in 2010. |
| Literature project award | 01 April 2010 | 10000 | Supports specific projects in the field of literature commencing in 2010. |
| Music project award | 01 April 2010 | 45000 | Supports projects in the field of music commencing in 2010. |
| Street arts and spectacle project award | 01 April 2010 | 20000 | Supports projects in the fields of arts and spectacle commencing in 2010. |
| Theatre project award | 01 April 2010 | 100000 | Supports projects in the field of theatre commencing in 2010. |
| Visual arts project award | 01 April 2010 | 100000 | Supports projects in the field of visual arts commencing in 2010. |
| Artist in the community scheme | 25 June 2010 | 10000 | The aim of the scheme is to encourage intense collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists, culminating in an artwork or a project in which the members of the community group and the artists work together in order to realise an artistic project or an event. The Artist in the Community Scheme is managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, providing services for arts development and collaborative arts practice in Ireland.
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| Annual funding | Closing date passed | Unlimited | The purpose of Annual Funding is to provide stable and secure funding to certain arts organisations (on an annual basis). Applicants may request a contribution towards both operating and artistic programming costs. |
| Annual programming grants | Closing date passed | Unlimited | The purpose of Annual Programming Grants is to assist applicants with the costs of their artistic programme. The scheme is not intended to provide support for ongoing operating/administrative costs. |
| Architecture bursary award | Closing date passed | 15000 | The award supports professional individual architects in the development of their arts practice. |
| Artist in youth work residency | Closing date passed | 5000 | The aim of the residency is to encourage artistic collaboration between professional artists and young people. |
| Arts participation bursary (arts & health) | Closing date passed | 10000 | The award supports professional individual artists working in the area of arts and health to develop their arts practice. |
| Banff residency | Closing date passed | 11000 | An eight-to-ten week residency in the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada |
| Commissions award | Closing date passed | 10000 | The Commissions Award is focused on partnerships. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate partnerships between commissioners and artists that result in some form of creative output. |
| Dance bursary award | Closing date passed | 10000 | The award supports professional individual artists in the development of their practice. |
| Elizabeth Maconchy composition fellowship | Closing date passed | 48000 | The award is offered to further the advanced training and development of composers, specifically by enabling a composer to complete a doctoral programme in composition at a recognised university. |
| Film bursary award | Closing date passed | 15000 | The award supports professional individual artists working in the field of experimental or non narative film making to develop their arts practice. |
| Frameworks | Closing date passed | 50000 | Frameworks is an established scheme for the making of
animated short films. |
| Kevin Kieran award | Closing date passed | 50000 | Offered by the Arts Council in partnership with the Office of Public Works, the award aims to support the creative development of architects and to direct funding towards architectural excellence and innovation. |
| Literature bursary award | Closing date passed | 15000 | The award supports professional individual writers in the development of their arts practice. |
| Location one fellowship | Closing date passed | 37000 | A 10-month fellowship based in New York |
| Music bursary award | Closing date passed | 15000 | The award supports professional individual artists in the field of Music to develop their arts practice. |
| New work project award | Closing date passed | 50000 | The New Work Project Award is focused on artistic innovation. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate the development and/or making of innovative and challenging new work or working processes. |
| Once-off project award | Closing date passed | 100000 | The Once-off Project Award is focused on audiences and engagement. The primary purpose of this award is to support ambitious, high quality, stand-alone initiatives that specifically deliver a presentation to or an engagement with an audience or public. |
| Performance and touring award | Closing date passed | Unlimited | The Performance and Touring Award aims to assist Irish and
Ireland-based musicians in realising performance opportunities;
offer increased employment opportunities to Irish musicians;
develop the skills base of Irish artists in areas such as project
planning and administration, self-promotion and selfmanagement;
and offer a new source of music programming
to concert promoters, and in turn to audiences throughout
Ireland. |
| Regularly funded organisations | Closing date passed | -1 | The purpose of this programme is to strengthen and make more secure a group of key arts organisations, by contributing to both their operating and artistic programming costs. This funding programme is not open to general applications. Instead, the Arts Council will invite organisations to participate on the basis of published criteria. |
| Skidmore jazz studentship | Closing date passed | 2500 | The Arts Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland jointly fund a place at the Skidmore Jazz Institute, which is held every summer on the campus of Skidmore College in upstate New York. |
| Small arts festivals scheme | Closing date passed | 20000 | The Small Arts Festivals scheme is designed in the main to support and provide opportunities for small arts festivals or events seeking funding of up to €20,000. |
| Street arts and spectacle bursary award | Closing date passed | 15000 | The award supports individual professional artists in the development of their arts practice. |
| Theatre bursary award | Closing date passed | 15000 | The award supports professional theatre artists in the development of their arts practice. |
| Traditional arts bursary award | Closing date passed | 15000 | The award supports professional individual artists in the field of traditional arts to develop their arts practice. |
| Visual arts bursary award | Closing date passed | 15000 | The award supports professional individual artists in the development of their practice. |
| Young ensembles scheme | Closing date passed | 20000 | The Young Ensembles Scheme is one of a number of funding opportunities offered by the Arts Council to support and develop the arts in Ireland. It derives from the Arts Council’s commitment, as expressed in Partnership for the Arts, to ‘create better opportunities for young people to experience the arts’ and ‘to implement a new programme to support youth ensembles and national youth arts resource organisations’. |
| YPCE bursary award | Closing date passed | 10000 | The Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working with, and producing work for, children and young people across a range of artforms. The purpose of the award is to support professional artists to develop their art practice. |