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Application deadline
05 October 2023 17:30
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To provide funding on a competitive basis to support Local Authorities and Ealaín na Gaeltachta with ambitious and imaginative proposals to assist artists in developing their practice and their ideas, and/or deliver excellent arts experiences to the public. Next date to be announced.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
10 October 2023 16:00
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Arts and Disability Connect (ADC) is a scheme open to artists with disabilities working in any artform.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
19 October 2023 17:30
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You may only submit this application if you have applied to 2023 New Dance Company Phase 1 and have been directed to submit an application to 2023 New Dance Company Phase 2
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Maximum award
€2,500,000
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
Ongoing
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The Writers in Schools Scheme part-funds visits by writers and storytellers to schools throughout the island of Ireland.
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Maximum award €200
Accepting applications
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of architecture.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of arts participation.
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Maximum award
€60,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Circus.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Dance.
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Maximum award
€100,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports specific projects in the field of film.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Literature.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Music.
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Maximum award
€40,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the fields of Street Arts and Spectacle commencing.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Theatre.
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Maximum award
€175,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects in the field of Traditional Arts.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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This award supports projects and initiatives in the field of Visual Arts.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
16 November 2023 17:30
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The award supports specific projects in the field of Young People, Children and Education. The window for applications is scheduled to open on 10 October, the guidelines will be available two weeks in advance of this.
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Maximum award
€80,000
Opens 10 October 2023
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Application deadline
23 November 2023 17:30
Next round opens
24 October 2023
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The festival Investment scheme is open to multi-disciplinary festivals and single artform festivals taking place between July and December 2024.
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Maximum award
€45,000
Opens 24 October 2023
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Application deadline
7 December 2023 17:30
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The primary purpose of the award is to enable Irish organisations that have secured funding for artistic activities under the Cooperation Projects strands of the Creative Europe Programme 2021-2027 to apply for co-funding. Funding will be considered to support those elements of Irish arts activities that align with the objectives and priorities of this award. The award is only open to arts organisations based in Ireland that have received an offer of funding, either as Lead Co-ordinator or Partner, from Creative Europe’s Cooperation Projects in 2023.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Opens 7 November 2023
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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The purpose of the award is to support individual freelance artists and arts practitioners at any stage of their careers.
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Maximum award
€5,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 September 2023 17:30
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An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme supports initiatives in the field of local-authority-led arts development.
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Maximum award
€90,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
9 February 2023 17:30
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The award supports professional individual architects in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
31 March 2023 12:00
Next round opens
24 February 2023
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The Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant Scheme is designed to promote innovative partnerships between youth groups, artists and (where relevant) arts organisations. A residency may take the form of an artist in residence in a youth work setting and/or a youth group in residence in an arts setting. There are two strands to the artist and youth work residency scheme: Youth Arts Explorer and Artist and Youth Work Residency Grant.
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Maximum award
€5,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 September 2023 17:00
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The Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
18 October 2021 17:00
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The Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2021: Collaborative Arts and Community Development aims to support individual professional artists working in collaborative socially engaged arts practice.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 September 2023 17:30
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The purpose of Arts Centre Funding is to invest in and support the infrastructure of arts centres required to sustain and develop the arts in Ireland.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
11 May 2023 17:30
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Arts Grant Funding will be awarded to organisations and individuals to carry out a series of activities taking place from either January - December 2024, or January 2024 - December 2025.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
9 February 2023 17:30
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The primary focus of the Arts Participation Bursary Award is on the artist and the exploration and development of the applicant's own individual artistic practice. The award is to support individual professional artists working in any artform to develop their arts participation practice, including collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
8 June 2023 17:30
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The purpose of Authored Works is to provide film artists with the creative and editorial freedom to make a feature-length authored cultural film work from a strong artistic point of view. Films must be artist-led.
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Maximum award
€230,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
25 September 2023 18:00
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Beyond Borders is a co-commissioning and touring programme run in partnership with Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
18 May 2023 17:30
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The Capacity Building Scheme is available across all art forms and arts practice areas supported by the Arts Council.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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The award supports individual professional artists at any stage of their career in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
23 February 2023 17:30
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The Commissions Award is available in Dance, Music, Opera, Traditional Arts, Festivals and Young People, Children and Education.
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Maximum award
€45,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
11 May 2023 17:30
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The Arts Council, in partnership with Cork City Council Arts Office, is looking for interested parties to provide theatre development services in Cork City.
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Maximum award
€200,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
30 March 2023 17:30
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You must be a local authority, an arts organisation or a community development organisation in order to apply for the Creative Place Award or the Creative Place Research and Development Award.
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Maximum award
€330,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
31 August 2023 17:30
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The Arts Council will offer Creative Production Supports across all artforms.
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Maximum award
€240,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
15 June 2023 17:30
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Scoileanna Ildánacha/Creative Schools initiative supports schools/centres to put the arts and creativity at the heart of children’s and young people’s lives.
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Maximum award
€4,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
13 April 2023 17:30
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Culture Night Late is designed to support events that will begin after 9pm and continue late into the night on Culture Night, Friday 22 September 2023. The award is offered in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Night Time Economy Taskforce to offer audiences a greater diversity in their Culture Night experience late into the night, and to encourage more-inclusive and innovative late-night arts events suitable for a range of audience types into the future.
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Maximum award
€16,500
Application closed
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Application deadline
23 February 2023 17:30
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The purpose of this scheme is to stabilise and support a network of dance artists in residence across the country.
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Maximum award
€25,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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The purpose of the award is to support professional artists in the field of dance to develop their art practice. It provides artists at any stage of their career with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
16 February 2023 17:30
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The purpose of the Deis Recording & Publication Award is to provide support for traditional arts projects, or projects involving collaboration between the traditional arts and other artforms, that focus on the recording or publication of work. Next date to be announced.
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Maximum award
€10,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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Dámhachtain sparánachta litríochta don ghaeilge
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
28 October 2021 17:30
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The Film Artist in Residence, based in the School of Film, Music and Theatre, is designed to provide a film artist with a unique opportunity to develop their practice in a university environment while offering students of film and screen media the opportunity to engage with a practising artist in a meaningful way during the course of their studies.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
9 February 2023 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career working in the field of experimental or non-narrative film making to develop their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
6 April 2023 17:30
Next round opens
07 March 2023
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The purpose of the scheme is to support art organisations in the delivery of residency initiatives and to create opportunities for transnational exchange and cooperation across all art forms.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
24 August 2023 17:30
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The Late-Night Events (Pilot Programme) 2023 intends to further extend and diversify the offering for late-night activity and provide opportunities for new and exciting work, encouraging new audiences into existing cultural facilities. It will also seek to identify and address any challenges venues may associate with staying open late. This project is a partnership between the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media and the Arts Council.
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Maximum award
€60,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
19 January 2023 17:30
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The Liam O’Flynn Award is a joint initiative of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the National Concert Hall/An Ceoláras Náisiúnta to provide a traditional artist with a period of artistic reflection, inspiration and creation in residence in the National Concert Hall.
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Maximum award
€15,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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The award supports professional individual writers (writing in the English language) in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
16 February 2023 17:30
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The Markievicz Award is administered by the Arts Council on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, and is open via a public call to artists working in all arts genres supported by the Arts Council.
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Maximum award
€25,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the field of music to develop their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
13 April 2023 17:30
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The purpose of the Next Generation Artists’ Award is to support a group of promising artists across all disciplines at an early but pivotal stage in their career. Each Next Generation Artists’ Award recipient will receive €25,000
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Maximum award
€25,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
9 February 2023 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the field of opera to develop their art practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
23 March 2023 17:30
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The Opera Projects and Production Award is intended to support initiatives by professional practitioners in the development and presentation of opera.
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Maximum award
€450,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
8 June 2023 17:30
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The purpose of Reel Art is to provide film artists with the opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme for cinema exhibition. Reel Art 2023 will open for applications on 9 May.
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Maximum award
€120,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
7 September 2023 17:30
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To provide funding on a competitive basis to support arts organisations with ambitious and imaginative proposals to assist artists in developing their practice and their ideas, and/or deliver excellent arts experiences to the public.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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The award supports individual professional artists at any stage of their career in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
24 February 2022 5.30pm
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The purpose of the Theatre Artist Residency Scheme is to offer professional theatre artists the opportunity to create a year-long programme of work in partnership with arts centres, festivals and local authorities. In each case, the specific contents of the work programme will be designed by the theatre artist in collaboration with an arts centre or festival and a local authority.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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The award supports professional theatre artists in the development of their arts practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
10 August 2023 17:30
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Applications are invited for proposals seeking funding to support the touring of work across all artform and arts practice areas for tours taking place in the Republic of Ireland starting from January to December 2024.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
2 February 2023 17:30
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Applications are invited for proposals seeking funding to support the touring of work across all artform and arts practice areas for tours taking place in the Republic of Ireland with a start date in 2024.
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Maximum award
Unlimited
Application closed
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Application deadline
17 November 2022 17:30
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The Traditional Artist in Residence, based in the Department of Music in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences, is designed to provide a traditional artist (traditional musician, singer, dancer, story-teller or practitioner of the oral arts such as agallamh beirte and lúibíní) with a unique opportunity to develop their practice in a university environment while offering students of music the opportunity to engage with a practising artist in a meaningful way during the course of their studies.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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This award supports professional artists to develop their art practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 September 2023 17:30
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The scheme will award grants of up to €50,000 towards workspace costs – i.e. the running costs of the workspace such as light, heat, rent, administration and/or appropriate management costs and artist development costs. A proportion of support up to a maximum of 20% of the total request may be directed towards essential repair and maintenance.
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Maximum award
€50,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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The award supports professional individual artists at any stage of their career in the development of their practice.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
29 September 2022 17:30
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The Arts Council has a long-standing partnership with a number of Irish universities offering Writer-in-Residence/Fellowship positions to provide university students of Creative Writing MA and MFA programmes with an opportunity to work with and learn from a professional author of distinction, and to enable writers to develop their work while in a position of relative financial stability.
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Maximum award
€30,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
2 March 2023 17:30
Next round opens
31 January 2023
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The primary purpose of the Young Ensembles Scheme is to support groups of young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four to create or critically engage with ambitious and original work together in any artform (e.g. circus, street art, spectacle, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, architecture, or any combination of the above). Groups/ensembles must be made up of three or more members. Next date to be announced.
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Maximum award
€25,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
6 April 2023 17:30
Next round opens
07 March 2023
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YPCE Residencies support artists or arts organisations to spend an academic year in residence in a higher-education institution in Ireland that provides initial teacher education (primary, post-primary or further education) and/or a recognised qualification in early childhood education and care. The residencies are open to all artform and arts-practice areas.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
22 June 2023 17:30
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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.
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Maximum award
€20,000
Application closed
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Application deadline
14 October 2022 17:00
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ilDÁNA is designed to enhance the TG4 schedule by supporting the making of ambitious and cinematic long-form documentaries on the arts in Irish.
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Maximum award
€135,000
Application closed
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