Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, and Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, have today opened the redeveloped campus of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM). The RIAM renovation project was built to the rear of Georgian buildings owned by the RIAM on … Read more
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin welcomes a new short film by Mná100 and Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne, titled ‘Mary M. and Sexual Violence: Ordinary Voices and the Irish Civil War’, as part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme 2012-2023. As we begin the final year of the Decade of Centenaries … Read more
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, has announced funding of €300,000 for Minding Creative Minds as part of the Safe to Create Programme. This brings the department’s overall allocation for the Safe to Create Programme to €782,000. Minding Creative Minds is Ireland’s (32 county and Irish overseas) first 24/7 mental … Read more
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media Catherine Martin has today announced funding of €394,500 for Music Network towards the Music Capital Scheme. Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media, the Music Capital Scheme assists with the purchase of musical instruments and is designed to respond to a … Read more
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, TD has welcomed the announcement by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) of almost €2m in awards to 10 radio and TV projects under the Broadcasting Fund Sound and Vision Scheme. The awards follow a special round of Sound and Vision for programming related … Read more
Artists, musicians, writers, members of cultural and creative community organisations, and government agencies North and South will come together today (Thursday 13 October 2022) in Mandela Hall in Belfast to discuss shared challenges and opportunities facing the arts and cultural sector across the island. Arts and Culture on a Shared Island is the twelfth event … Read more
2000 artists have today been awarded grants for the government’s Basic Income for the Arts pilot scheme. The three-year pilot scheme will provide 2000 artists and creative arts workers with €325 per week as part of the research project Over 9,000 applications were made under the scheme, with over 8,200 assessed as eligible and included in a … Read more
National Cinema day will take place on the 3rd of September. Various cinemas across Ireland will celebrate with €4 tickets all day for all seats and all shows. Over 95% of cinemas in Ireland will participate in the initiative, allowing the Irish people easy access to big-screen entertainment. Ireland had the highest rate of cinema … Read more
In order to promote Irish artists internationally through Culture Ireland’s Grants Program, Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media Catherine Martin announced financing of approximately €626,000. Through this support, ninety-one projects, covering architecture, dance, film, literature, music, opera, theatre and visual arts, will reach projected audiences of over 1.1million in 27 countries. Announcing … Read more
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, has announced a funding allocation of €122,045 to support Small Scale Local Festivals and Summer Schools. The funding allocation will support 34 events taking place across the country in 2022. The scheme was created to help small-scale local cultural events that might not … Read more
Minister Catherine Martin has welcomed the announcement by Music Network of funding totalling €306,096 awarded to performing groups and professional musicians through the Music Capital Scheme. This round of funding, under the Music Capital Scheme, is divided between 28 non-professional performing groups (€165,156), 18 individual talented musicians (€100,940) as well as 9 emerging professional performing musicians … Read more
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin, and the Minister of State for Sport and the Gaeltacht, Jack Chambers, announced that €6.14 million has been allocated to 108 different applicants following the conclusion of the appeals process for the 2020 round of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme. Some €143.86 … Read more
Under the Climate Action Plan, funding will go towards TV and radio projects that could help raise awareness of the climate crisis and support behavioural change. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has shared details of the €5m Sound and Vision Scheme that will focus on climate action. The €5m Sound & Vision scheme round is … Read more
Minister Catherine Martin met with Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister for Culture and Information Policy, Ukraine, to discuss Ireland’s support for Ukraine. Discussions focussed on making Ukrainian news and content available to Ukrainian people in Ireland, cultural programmes in Ireland available to people arriving from Ukraine and cooperation on the conservation and restoration of Ukraine’s cultural heritage. … Read more
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, announced a new tender for Online and Live Audience Music Performance and Related Services worth €1.5m over 3 years. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the Department funded a number of music initiatives comprising both online and live audience based … Read more