Annual Report Tuarascáil Bhliantúil ’96 · Forty-fifth Annual Report and Financial Statements...
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The Arts Council An Chomhairle Ealaíon ’96 Annual Report Tuarascáil Bhliantúil
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The Arts Council An Chomhairle Ealaíon
’96Annual ReportTuarascáil Bhliantúil
The Arts Council An Chomhairle Ealaíon
’96Annual ReportTuarascáil Bhliantúil
Forty-fifth Annual Report
and Financial Statements for
the year ended 31st December 1996.
Presented to the Government
and laid before each House
of the Oireachtas, pursuant
to Sections 6 (3) and 7 (1) of
the Arts Act, 1951.
ISBN 0 902267 78 8ISSN 0790-1593
The Arts Council
70 Merrion Square,
Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 618 0200
CallSave 1850 392492
Fax: +353 1 676 1302/661 0349
email: [email protected]
http://www.artscouncil.ie
An Cúigiú Tuarascáil
Bhliantúil Daichead maille
le Ráitis Airgeadais don bhliain
dar chríoch 31 Nollag 1996.
Tíocaladh don Rialtas agus leagadh faoi
bhráid gach Tí den Oireachtais de bhun
Altanna 6 (3) agus 7 (1) den
Acht Ealaíon, 1951.
ISBN 0 902267 78 8ISSN 0790-1593
An Chomhairle Ealaíon
70 Cearnóg Mhuirfean,
Baile Átha Cliath 2, Éire
Teil: +353 1 618 0200
CallSave 1850 392492
Faics: +353 1 676 1302/661 0349
email: [email protected]
http://www.artscouncil.ie
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––The Arts Council 1––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Foreword by Chairperson of the Council 3––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Finance 8––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Membership, Staff and Publications 12––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––The Arts in Irish 15––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Aosdána Report 17––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Literature 21––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Visual Arts and Architecture 28––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Film 37––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Drama 42
Theatre Review 49––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Dance 52––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Opera 57––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Music 61––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––International Arts 69––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Multi-Disciplinary Arts 73
Community Arts, Festivals 75
Arts and Disability 77
Arts Centres 79
Children and Young People 81––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Local Authorities and Partnerships 87––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Capital 92––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Sundry 96––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Financial Statements 97––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––An Chomhairle Ealaíon 1––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Réamhrá ó Chathaoirleach na Comhairle 3––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Airgeadas 8––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Baill, Foireann agus Foilseacháin 12––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Na hEalaíona trí Gaeilge 15––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Tuarascáil Aosdána 17––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––An Litríocht 21––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Na Dearcealaíona agus an Ailtireacht 28––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––An Scannánaíocht 37––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––An Drámaíocht 42
Athbreithniú na hAmharclainne 49––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––An Rince 52––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––An Ceoldráma 57––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––An Ceol 61––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Na hEalaíona Idirnáisiúnta 69––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Na hEalaíona Ildisciplíneacha 73
Ealaíona Pobail, Féilte 75
Na hEalaíona agus Míchumas 77
Ionaid Ealaíon 79
Páistí agus Daoine Óga 81––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Na hÚdaráis Áitiúla agus Páirtnéireachtaí 87––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Caipiteal 92––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Ilnithe 96––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Ráitis Airgeadais 97––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Contents
Clár’96
Ciarán Benson, Chairperson/Cathaoirleach
Eavan BolandPáraic BreathnachMary Elizabeth Burke-KennedyJane Dillon ByrneEithne HealyProinsias Mac AonghusaCiarán MacGonigalPaul McGuinness
Laura MagahyVic MerrimanPatrick MurrayAidan O’CarrollTerry ProneVivienne RocheKathleen WatkinsJohn Wilson
Council/An Chomhairle
Director/Stiúrthóir Patricia Quinn (from November 1996/ó Shamhain 1996)
Director/Stiúrthóir Adrian Munnelly (until July 1996/go dtí Iúil 1996)
Acting Director/Stiúrthóir Sealadach David McConnell (July–November 1996/Iúil–Samhain 1996)
Staff/Foireann (at December 1996/Nollaig 1996)
Officers/Oifigigh
Literature/An Litríocht Sinéad Mac Aodha (until December 1996/go dtí Nollaig 1996)
Visual Arts and Architecture/Na Dearcealaíona agus An Ailtireacht Sarah FinlayDrama and Personnel/An Drámaíocht agus Pearsanra Phelim DonlonMusic/An Ceol Dermot McLaughlinOpera/An Ceoldráma Vacant/FolamhRegions and Arts Centres/Réigiúin agus Ionaid Ealaíon Mary CloakeCommunity Arts and Festivals/Ealaíona Pobail agus Féilte Jackie O’Keeffe (until December 1996/go dtí Nollaig 1996)
Youth Arts and Dance (incorporating Education)/
Ealaíona Óg agus An Rince (Oideachas san áireamh) Gaye Tanham (from March 1996/ó Márta 1996)
Arts Co-Operation*/Comhoibriú Ealaíon* Marian FlanaganFinance and Administration/Airgeadas agus Riarachán David McConnellCommunications and Film/Cumarsáid agus An Scannánaíocht Mary Hyland* Appointed jointly with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland/*Ceaptha i gcomhpháirtíocht leis an Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Executive Assistants/Cúntóirí Feidhmitheacha
Sheila GormanKevin HealyNuala O’Byrne
Bernadette O’LearyLiz PowellJennifer Traynor
Secretarial/Rúnaíocht
Jackie CaseyTheresa Cullen (job share/postroinnt)
Maeve GilesMary HickeyAdrienne Martin (job share/postroinnt)
Patricia MoorePaula O’Meara (job share/postroinnt)
Edward ReddingKaren Whelan (job share/postroinnt)
Consultants/Comhairleoirí
Visual Arts/Na Dearcealaíona Helena Gorey (part-time/páirtaimseartha)
Theatre Review Co-ordinator/
Comhordanóir Athbreithniú na hAmharclainne Declan Gorman (until June 1996/go dtí Meitheamh 1996)
Ireland and its Diaspora—Frankfurt Book Fair 1996/Éire agus a Diaspora—Aonach Leabhar Frankfurt 1996
Director/Stiúrthóir Laurence Cassidy (on secondment from post as Literature Officer/
ar iasacht gairme ó phost an Oifigigh Litríochta)
Assistants/Cúntóirí Sandra O’ConnellBarbara-Ann Slevin
The Arts Council is an independent autonomousbody set up in 1951 to stimulate public interestin, and to promote the knowledge, appreciationand practice of the arts. The Council is theGovernment’s principal arts funding and advisorybody and is one of Ireland’s major culturalinstitutions. In the forty-five years of its existenceit has supported the artistic endeavours ofthousands of artists and organisations and hashelped to foster the dynamic artistic and culturallife which is characteristic of Ireland today. The thrust of the Council’s work is currentlyinformed by The Arts Plan, which was adopted byGovernment during 1995.
Operating under the Arts Acts 1951 and1973, the Council carries out its work through awide range of policies and programmes designedto provide financial assistance and other supportservices for individuals and organisations, andgenerally to create an environment in which thearts can develop and flourish. Support of theindividual arts practitioner is the cornerstone ofthe Council’s mission and the Council
Comhlacht neamhspleách is ea an ChomhairleEalaíon a bunaíodh i 1951 d’fhonn suim anphobail ins na healaíona a spreagadh agus eolas,dea-mheasa agus cleachtadh orthu a chur chuncinn. Sí an Chomhairle Ealaíon príomheagraíochtmaoinithe is chomhairlithe an Rialtais igcomhthéacs na n-ealaíon agus tá sí ar cheann demhórinstitiúdí chultúrtha na hÉireann. Le linn nacúig bhliain is daichead gurbh ann di, thug sítaca’iocht d’iarraichtaí ealaíona na mílteealaíontóirí is cultúrtha atá ina shaingné dÉirinnsa lá inniú a chothú. Múnlaítear saothar naComhairle faoi láthair ag Plean na n-Ealaíon, pleangur glacadh leis an Rialtas le linn 1996.
Agus í ag feidhmiú faoi Achtanna Ealaíon1951 agus 1973, cuireann an Chomhairle an obairsin i gcrích trí réimhse leathan polasaithe agus clára thugann faoi chúnamh airgeadais agus seirbhísítacaíochta eile a chur ar fáil do dhaoine aonairagus d’eagríochtaí agus, tríd is tríd, tríthimpeallacht a chruthú inar féidir leis nahealaíona forbairt agus bláthú a dhéanamh. Mardhlúthchuid de chuspóir na Comhairle tá tacaíocht
1The Arts Council
An Chomhairle EalaíonDruid’s
roduction of
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McDonagh’s
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Queen of
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understands that it has aclear responsibility to fosterthose structures which assistand develop dialogue betweenartists, the arts and thecommunities from which theyemerge. The Council also seeksto influence and work with otherstate agencies, local authorities,private business, schools andcolleges in bringing the arts togreater prominence in society, andfrom time to time is asked to advisethe government and governmentdepartments on artistic matters. TheCouncil has a statutory right to makerepresentations to planning authoritiesin certain instances where artistic orarchitectural considerations apply.
The Council consists of a boardof not more than seventeen membersappointed by the Minister for Arts,Culture and the Gaeltacht. The Council meets inplenary session about eleven times a year to setpolicies and make decisions within the terms ofthe Arts Acts. These policies and decisions areimplemented by a staff headed by a Director,appointed by the Council.
The work of the Council has always beenguided by the ‘arms length’ principle whichensures that decisions about specific grants aremade at a distance from the political process,and that the Council remains independent of the day-to-day business of the artists andorganisations it assists.
The Arts Council, as a publicly accountablebody, publishes an annual report and accounts toprovide the Oireachtas and the general publicwith an overview of the year’s work. The Councilalso publishes a quarterly newsletter, Art Matters,and occasional reports on specific topics.
Annual grants from the Oireachtas and fromthe net proceeds of the National Lottery are theCouncil’s principal sources of income. Thesegrants are supplemented by income from otherbodies, usually designated for specific schemes orprojects. The Council also administers a numberof trust funds.
In the Arts Acts the expression ‘the arts’means “painting, sculpture, architecture, thecinema, music, the drama, literature, design inindustry, and the fine and applied arts generally”.
á thabairt don chleachtóir ealaíon aonair agustuigeann an Chomhairle go bhfuil freagracht soléiruirthi na struchtúir sin a chur chun cinn achuideoidh le forbairt na cumarsáide idirealaíontóirí, na healaíona agus na pobail as a n-eascraíonn said. Ba mhaith leis an gComhairle,leis, comhoibriú le haisineachtaí stáit eile, nahúdaráis áitiúla, gnólachtaí príobháideacha,scoileanna agus coláistí agus tionchar a imirt orthud’fhonn ionad níos mó a thabhairt do na healaíonasa tsochaí, agus ó thráth go chéile iarrtar uirthicomhairle a thabhairt don Rialtas agus do RannaRialtais faoi nithe a bhaineann leis na healaíona. Táde cheart reachtúil ag an gComhairle faisnéis a churfaoi bhráid na n-údarás pleanála i gcásanna áirithe abhaineann cúrsaí ealaíne nó ailtireachta leo.
Is é atá sa Chomhairle ná bord de sheachtardéag ar a mhéid agus is é an tAire Ealaíon, Cultúiragus Gaeltachta a cheapann na baill. Buaileann anChomhairle le chéile aon uair déag in aghaidh nabliana, de ghnáth, d’fhonn polasaithe na Comhairlea leagan síos agus cinntí a ghlacadh laistigh dethéarmaí na nAchtanna Ealaíon. CuireannStiúrthóir agus foireann na Comhairle na cinntíagus na polasaithe sin i bhfeidhm.
Múnlaítear saothar na Comhairle agprionsabal ‘fad do ré’, prionsabal a chintíonn gondéanfar na cinní maidir le saindeontais amach ónbpróiséas polaitiúil agus go bhfabfaidh anChomhairle neamhspleách ó ghnáthghnó laethiúlna n-ealaíontóir agus na n-eagraíochtaí a dtugannsí cabhair dóibh.
Comhlacht atá cúntasach den phobal í anChomhairle Ealaíon agus foilsíonn sí tuarascáilbhliantúil agus cúntais chun athbhreithniú ar obairna bliana a chur ar fáil den Oireachtas agus denphobal i gcoitinne. Foilsíonn an Chomhairlenuachlitir, leis, in aghaidh na ráithe, Art Matters,agus tuarascálacha ó am go chéile ar ábhair ar leith.
Is iad príomhfhoinsí ioncaim na Comhairlená deontais in aghaidh na bliana ón Oireachtasagus ó ghlanfháltais an Chrannchuir Náisiúnta.Cuirtear leis na deontais sin trí ioncam óeagraíochtaí eile: go hiondúil dirítear na deontaisser ar shainscéimeanna agus ar thiobnscadail arleith. Riarann an Chomhairle roinnt cistíiontaobhais freisin.
Ins na hAchtanna Ealaíona ciallaíonn anabairt ‘na healaíona’ “péintéireacht; snoíodóireacht,ailtireacht, scannánaíocht, ceol, drámaíocht,litríocht, dearthóireacht tionscail agus na mín-ealaíona agus na healíona feidhmeacha i gcoitinne”.
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Untitled
by Kathlyn
O’Brien
1996 marked the mid-term of this Arts Counciland I would like to make a few observations onour progress to date. The Arts Plan is the workingscript for our current work. Part of the energyneeded to enact it is financial. The Arts Councilbudget moved from £11.6m in 1993 to£18.4m in 1996. This has enabled the Councilto begin the work outlined in the Plan and Iwill say something more about this below.Money is only part of what is needed; withoutideas, without talented artists and students inall areas of the arts, without a criticalappreciative set of audiences, without otheragencies working well, without propermanagement of arts funding, that money fromIrish taxpayers would run the risk, at worst ofbeing wasted, at best of yielding benefits wayfewer than should be expected. Our work overthe last three years has addressed each of theseelements in the overall picture.
We can evaluate ourselves quantitatively. In1995 we gave grants to 357 organisations. Thatfigure rose to 434 in 1996 of whom 127 received
B’é 1996 lár-théarma na Comhairle Ealaíon seoagus is mian liom roinnt pointí eolais a dhéanamhmaidir lenár ndul chun cinn go dtí seo. ‘Sé Plean
na n-Ealaíon an script oibre atá ann don obair atáfúinn faoi láthair. Cúiteamh airgid is ea cuid denfhuinneamh a bheidh de dhith chun é a chur igcrích. Tháinig méadú ar bhuiséad na Comhairleó £11.6m i 1993 go £18.4m i 1996. Chuir séseo ar chumas na Comhairle tús a chur leis anobair a leagadh amach sa Phlean agus pléifear ancheist seo a thuilleadh thíos. Níl san airgead achcuid de sin atá de dhíth orainn. In éagmaispleananna úra, ealaíontóirí cumasacha agusmicléinn cumasacha, in éagmais luchtannaéisteachta criticiúla nó má theipeann arghníomhaireachtaí eile nó ar bhainistiú armhaoiniú na n-ealaíon, cuirfear airgead na n-íocóirí cánach i mbaol nó ar fán go hiomlán. Táár ndíol oibre tar éis dul i ngleic leis na ceisteannaseo sna trí bliana atá imithe tharainn.
Déanaimis breith agus iniúchadh orainn féinsa tslí seo – bhronnamar deontaisí ar 357eagraíocht in 1995. Mhéadaigh an uimhir sin go
3Foreword by Chairperson of the Council
Réamhrá ó Chathaoirleach na ComhairleArts Council
Chairperson,
Ciarán
Benson
in excess of £20,000. A large proportion of thesegrants indirectly supports individual artists. Inaddition the Council was able to direct £1.519million to individual artists in 1996. This is aprimary objective of The Arts Plan and definiteprogress has been made. The body of this AnnualReport and its predecessors contain muchdetailed information about each artform butpurely illustrative examples can serve as indicatorsof how aspects of the Plan are being pursued.
In Music, for instance, the growingreputation of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, nowestablished in Limerick as a full-time playingensemble of seventeenplayers, but with anational and interna-tional remit, isgratifying. Twenty-one new CDs of Irishcontemporary musicwill be on the marketin 1997 wherevirtually none existedin 1993. Jazz, a muchneglected area, butone of the mostvibrant contemporaryforms of music, isreceiving specialattention from theCouncil and willreceive more. Therehas been a fourfoldincrease in perfor-mances of new jazzfrom a very low baseand the six new jazz CDs from the TheImprovised Music Company is just the start ofwhat I hope will be a period of real developmentfor Irish jazz as well as for jazz in Ireland.
Architecture is another field where muchneeds to be done and I hope in the 1997Annual Report to be able to report on thedevelopment of significant initiatives already intrain. In varying degrees the Council’s ownassessments of the needs of each of the artforms is proceeding apace. Our OperaDevelopment Group concluded its work in1996 and Council adopted its recommen-dations. The extensive Theatre Review alsocompleted its work in 1996 and the ArtsCouncil, as one partner in the field of Irish
434 in 1996 agus orthu siúd fuair 127 breis is£20,000 an ceann. Cuidíonn cuid mhór de nadeontaisí seo le healaíontóirí aonaracha. Mar bharrar seo, d’éirigh leis an gComhairle £1,519,000 adháileadh nó a stiúradh i dtreo ealaíontóiríaonaracha in 1996. Is bunaidhm na Comhairle í seoagus deineadh dul chun cinn suntasach. Ba cheartroinnt samplaí aonaracha den dul chun cinn seo aléiriú aineoinn go bhfuil cur síos cuimsitheach archúile foirm ealaíne sa Tuarascáil Bhliaintiúil.
I gcás an Cheoil, mar shampla, is cúismórtais dom go bhfuil clú agus cáil á tharaingt arCheolfhoireann na hEireann, ensemble de seachtar
déag, atá lonnaithe iLuimneach cé gobhfuil dualgáisínáisiúnta agusidirnáisiúnta uirthi.Beidh fiche-haondlúthcheirnín nua decheol comhaimsearachéireannach ar anmargadh in 1997 áitnach raibh achfíorbheagán in 1993.Cuirfear béimspeisialta arshnagcheol, foirmcheoil comhaim-searach nár tugadhdóthain airde uirthigo dtí seo. Tá méadúfá ceathar tagtha ar anlíon de chur i láthairshnagcheoil nua. Is comhartha é an
láinseáil de sé dhlúthchéirnín nua ag an Improvised
Music Company den ré nua forbartha donshnagcheoil éireannach lena bhfuil mé ag súil leis.
Caithfear mórán aird a thairraingt arailtireacht freisin agus déanfar cur síos ar thograíúra san Tuarascáil Bhliaintiúl. Ar morán slite tádeabhadh tagtha ar bhreitheanna na ComhairleEalaíon féin maidir le riachtanaisí na foirmeachaealáine faoi leith. Ghlac an Chomhairle Ealaíonleis na moltaí a thug ár nGrúpa Forbartha umCheoldrámaí ós ár gcomhair, tar éis dóibh a n-obair a chríochnú in 1996. Chriochnaigh anChomhairle athbhreithniú ar stadas nahAmharclainne in 1996 freisin agus tá anChomhairle, mar bhall amháin den amharclan-naíocht in Éireann, tar éis athbhreithniú a
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theatre, has reformulated its own thinking andpublished this in Going On in December 1996.
From its neglected state Dance is showingimpressive signs of rejuvenation and the Council will be paying special attention to thetraining and rehearsal requirements of dance inthe coming years.
The budget for Film has moved from£404,000 in 1993 to £762,000 in 1996. Much of the Council’s work in film over the lastthree years has been to strengthen the exhibitionof film, to develop training and to assistindividual film makers.
Literature hasmoved from a baseof £490,000 in1993 to £908,000in 1996. A majorachievement for1996 was thesuccess of the Ireland
and its Diaspora Festival
at the FrankfurtBook Fair sponsoredby the Arts Council.Special thanks is dueto the Arts Council’sLiterature OfficerLar Cassidy and tohis team for bringingthis project to suchsuccessful fruition.
The Visual Artsare also developingwell in Ireland andwe have many ideas onhow to assist further progress here.
Art forms without audiences would be likesound without ears or colour without eyes.Their relationship is symbiotic and Council hascommitted itself to understanding the nature ofthis relationship and to supporting its growth.Some signs of this are our commitment tobringing the arts and young people intodialogue; we have doubled expenditure onEducation, Children and Young People from 6%to 12% of a greatly increased total arts budget inthree years and we hope to reach 15% beforegoing out of the office.
At the regional level we have increased thenumber of local authority arts officers fromtwenty to twenty-eight. At the same time
dhéanamh ar a dearcadh féin agus a dearcadh úr afhoilsiú in Going On in 1996.
Tá borradh agus fás tagtha ar an Rince ledéanaí agus beidh an Chomhairle Ealaíon ag diriúaird faoi leith ar riachtanaisí traenála aguschleachtaidh sna blianta amach romhainn.
Tháinig méadú ar an mbuiséad Scannáin ó £404,000 in 1993 go £762,000 in 1996. Chuiran Chomhairle béim ar threisiú teaspántais nascannán, ar fhorbairt i dtaobh traenála agus ar tacúle déantúsóirí aonaracha scannán, le trí bliana anuas.
Is ó bhunús de £490,000 in 1993 go£908,000 a d’athraigh an maoiniú don Litríocht.
Ba mhór an éacht é in1996 Féile na hÉireann
agus a Diaspora a fuarurraíocht óngComhairle Ealaíonagus a bhí mar chuidden Frankfurt BookFair. Tá buíochas faoileith ag duld’Oifigeach Litearthana Comhairle, LarCassidy agus dáfhoirne as ucht antionscadal seo a chur i gcrích.
Freisin táborradh tagtha ar nadearcealaíon sa tír seoagus tá roinnt mhaithmoltaí faoi conas gurféidir breis forbarthaa spreagadh.
Dar ndóigh is arscáth a chéile a mhaireann na healaíon agus aluchtanna féachana; da bharr sin chuir anChomhairle faoi, tuiscint agus tacaíocht a thabhairtdon ghaol speisialta seo. Cruthú de seo is ea andóigh ina bhfuil an Chomhairle ag obair armhodhanna a chur in áit a spreagfadhcomhchaidhreamh idir na healaíon agus daoine óga.
Tháinig méadú faoi dhó ar ár gcaiteachasar Oideachas, Pháistí agus Dhaoine Óga ó 6%go 12% den bhuiséad ealaíon iomlán (Buiséadiomlán a bhfuil méadú mór tagtha ar le tríbliana anuas) agus tá sé i gceist againn gombeadh ceatadán comh hard le 15% ann roimhdeireadh ár dtéarma riartha.
Tá méadú ar an líon oifigeach nua ealaíonsna comhairlí áitiúla ó fiche go fiche-ocht agus sa
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Northern Lights by Liam O’Neill and Kevin Donegan
contributions from local authorities have increasedfrom £2.3m to £6m. Our aim of achieving a basicarts infrastructure of at least a municipal gallery, agood performance space and artists’ studios forCork, Galway, Waterford, Limerick and Sligo iswell on the way to achievement. We havesupported five new arts venues in Tallaght,Letterkenny, Longford, Galway and Clonmel withrevenue grants bringing the number of thesevenues in the network to nineteen.
Our commitment to developing the priorityareas identified in The Arts Plan is as strong as ever.Our lack of resources slowed progress a bit butadvances have been made. In Offaly, for example,expenditure on the arts in 1995 was £750. By1997 Co. Offaly will have an arts officer, a theatreunder refurbishment, a writer and an artist inresidence, a community arts festival, and an artsexpenditure programme of £70,000. In the comingyears we hope to match this development in theother priority areas identified in The Arts Plan.
We are actively forging partnerships with avariety of other agencies in areas of education,disability, the Gaeltacht, poverty eradication,employment, local authority, tourism, urban andrural renewal as well as with international bodies,all with a view to fulfilling our statutory responsi-bilities ‘to stimulate public interest in the arts’ andto ‘assist in improving the standards of the arts’.
We have not exempted the Arts Councilitself from scrutiny and reform. All our internalstructures and procedures have been reviewed andmodernised. One measurable effect of this fromthe point of view of our clients is that 90% of ourfinancial allocations to arts organisations havebeen brought forward from April to February. We have instituted pilot schemes in multi-annualfunding and in exploring new ways of self-evaluation. Our information systems andpublicity have all been re-organised.
The burden of this has fallen on thecouncil’s staff who have done an outstandingjob. I would like to pay particular tribute toAdrian Munnelly who served as Director of theArts Council from 1983 to his resignation in1996. Adrian steered the Council through anoften difficult period of its history with greatenergy, integrity and diplomacy. As perhapsonly a chairman can really know, the skillsdemanded of an Arts Council Director aremanifold and we wish Adrian every success inhis new career.
tréimhse céanna fuair na healaíon méadú imaoiniú ó na húdaráis áitiúla ó £2.3 milliúin go £6 milliúin.
Is é sprioc na Comhairle go mbeadhinfrastructúr ealaíon de ar a laghad gailearaícathrach amháin agus ionad léirithe oiriúnach arfáil d’ealaíontóirí i gCorcaigh, i nGaillimh, i bPortLáirge, i Luimneach, i Sligeach. Cheana féin tábaint amach an sprioc seo faoi lánsheoil.Thugamar tacaíocht maoiniú i bhfoirm deontaisído chúig ionad ealaíon úra i dTamhlacht, i LitirCeanainn, i Longfort, i nGaillimh agus i gCluainMeala. Agus na cinn nua seo san áireamh tá naoin-ionad déag sa ghréasán anois.
Táimid fós chomh dírithe céanna arbhaint amach ár bpríomh, spriocanna atáleagtha amach i bPlean na nEalaíon. Chuir an t-easpa áiseanna moill ar ár ndul chun cinn achfós déanadh roinnt mhaith forbairte. In UíbhFháillí, mar shampla, bhí caiteachas de £750 arna hEalaíon in 1995. In 1997 beidh oifigeachealaíon ag an gContae, beidh athchóiriú ádhéanamh ar an amharclann, beidh féile phobailann agus beidh ealaíontóir agus scríobhneoirconaítheach sa chontae. Beidh clár caiteachas de£70,000 ann. Sna blianta atá romhainn bamhaith linn forbairt den chinéal seo a chur chuntosaigh i bpráncheantair eile mar atá luaite ibPlean na nEalaíon.
Táimid ag cothú ceangailtí nua le carn móreagraíochtaí idirnáisiúnta i réimse an oideachais,an mhíchumais, na Gaeltachta, i ruaigeadh anbhochtanais, sna húdaráis áitiúla, idturasóireacht agus in athnuachán oirbeach agustuathach chun go gcomhlíonfar ár ndualgaisíreachtúla i dtaobh ‘cothú suim an phobail snahealaíon’ agus i dtaobh ‘cabhrú le feabhas a churar chaighdéain na n-Ealaíon’.
Níor mhaith linn ach oiread nach ndéanfaíscrúdú agus athchoiriú ar an gComhairle í féinagus tá athbhreithniú agus athnuachán déanta archleachtaí eolais agus modhanna inmhéanacha.Tionchar amháin de seo gur féidir a mheas agusatá tábhachtach dár gcliantaí is ea gur dáileadh90% dár ndeontaisí níos luaithe sa bhliain, i míFeabhra in ionad i mí Aibreáin. Chuireamarscéimeanna ar bun a scrúdaigh maoiniú ilbhliaintiúl agus modhanna nua féinmheastóireachta. Rinneamar atheagrú ar árgcóras poiblíochta agus ar ár gcorais eolais.
Is ar fhoireann na Comhairle Ealaíon a thitan ualach oibre seo agus rinneadar eacht.
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The new Director of the Arts Council isPatricia Quinn who comes to the position withan excellent range of experience and a clearsense of where we wish to move to. On behalfof my colleagues I am delighted to welcomeher. I would also like to thank DavidMcConnell for so helpfully and efficientlyperforming the role of Acting Director untilthe new Director was appointed.
We finally resolved our outstandingdifficulties regarding employment of new staff in1996 and during 1997 the Council’s entireorganisational structure will be reshaped andstreamlined so as to maximise the Council’scontribution to the aims of The Arts Plan.
There is still much to be done. The need foran international agency of some form is pressing,especially in light of the experience of 1996 withthe success of L’Imaginaire Irlandais, which was sosuccessfully curated by Doireann Ni Bhriain, andthe Ireland and its Diaspora Festival in Frankfurt.Next year I hope to be able to report on positivedevelopments in this and in many other areas. Forthe moment it is good to be able to say that thewind in our sails is fresh and invigorating.
Tá ardmholadh tuillte agAdrian Munnelly a bhí marstiúrthóir ar angComhairle Ealaíon ó1983 go 1996. Is iomaíscil a bhíonn de dhíth óstiúrthóir na ComhairleEalaíon agus le linntréimhse éiginnte i stair naComhairle stiúraigh Adrianí le morán fuinnimhe,ionracais agus le scileannataidhleoireachta.
Tá stiúrthóir nuaagainn anois, PatriciaQuinn, duine atá réimseiontach oibre déanta aiciagus tuiscint ríshoiléir aiciar chéard a mba chóirbheith roimh anChomhairle sa todhchaí.Thar ceann na foirne anseotá fíoráthas orm fáilte óchroí a chur roimpi. Bamhaith liom buíochas agabháil le David McConnella bhí mar stiúrthóir
comhlíonach cumasach nó gur ceapadh an stiúrthóir nua.
Ar deireadh d’éirigh linn na fadhbanna a bhíagainn maidir le fostú foirne nua a réiteach in1996. In 1997, déanfaimid atheagrú iomlán chuna bheith níos éifeachtaí agus chun nahaidhmeanna atá luaite i bPlean na nEalaíon abhaint amach.
Ach tá morán le baint amach fós. Tágéarghá le gníomhaireachtaí idirnáisiúnta deshort éigin ach go háirithe agus cuimhne againnar an méid a tharla in 1996 agus ar cé chomhmaith is ar éirigh le L’Imaginaire Irlandais (ad’eagraigh Doireann Ní Bhriain le cumas) agusFéile na hÉireann agus a Diaspora i bhFrankfurt. Tá súil agam go mbeidh dul chun cinn maidir leseo agus le morán nithe eile le fogrú agam anbhliain seo chugainn. Is deas an rud é, afách, abheith in ann a rá gur úr agus fuinneamhach anobair seo atá faoi lánsheoil againn.
Ciarán BensonChairperson
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Zdenek
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Wexford
Festival
Opera
The Council’s State funding for 1996 came fromtwo sources: an Exchequer grant-in-aid of£14.439m and £3.97m from the NationalLottery Fund: a total of £18.409m comparedwith £16.297m in 1995. These funds aretransferred to the Council by the Department ofArts, Culture and the Gaeltacht. The Council’scapital grant allocations (see page 94) are fundedalmost totally from the National Lottery Fund.While the Council, when making revenue grant
allocations, does not differentiate as between theoriginal source of its funds, approximately 17%of the Council’s non-capital arts expenditure in1996 can be regarded as being funded by theNational Lottery.
State Funding 1996 £m_____________________________________________________Oireachtas Grant-in-aid 14.439National Lottery: re capital expenditure 1.000National Lottery: re revenue expenditure 2.970_____________Total 18.409
Tháinig airgeadú na Comhairle i 1996 ó dháfhoinse: deontas i gcabhair de £14.439m ónstátchiste agus £3.97m ón gCrannchur Náisiúnta:is é sin £18.409m san iomlán i gcomparáid le£16.297m i 1995. Aistríonn an Roinn Ealaíon,Cultúir agus Gaeltachta na suimeanna seo go dtí anChomhairle. Déantar cionroinnt deontais chaipitil(féach leathanach 94) na Comhairle a airgeadú gohiomlán, nach mór, ó Chiste an ChrannchuirNáisiúnta. Cé nach ndealaíonn an Chomhairle idirbunfhoinsí a cuid cistí, agus cionroinnt deontaisioncaim á déanamh aici, d’fhéadfaí féachaint ar 17% de chaiteachas na Comhairle ar ghnéithe nachmbaineann le caipiteal i 1996 mar airgead a tháinigón gCrannchur Náisiúnta.
Cistiú ón Stát 1996 £m_____________________________________________________Deontas i gCabhair ón Oireachtas 14.439Crannchur Náisiúnta: re caiteachas ar chaipiteal 1.000Crannchur Náisiúnta: re caiteachas ar ioncam 2.970_____________Iomlán 18.409
8Finance
AirgeadasIrene
Murphy
of Cork
Artists’
Collective
During 1996, grants were paid to 434 organi-sations (1995: 357) and 387 individuals (1995: 456). 127 organisations who eachreceived revenue grants exceeding £20,000 (Total £13.4m) accounted for 93% of theCouncil’s revenue grant-aid.
Direct support for the individual artistduring 1996 amounted to £1.519m, over 8% oftotal arts expenditure. This included a provisionof £665,000 for Cnuais to members of Aosdánaand £192,000 for 1,087 air travel awards underthe ARTFLIGHT scheme operated by the two ArtsCouncils in Ireland in conjunction with AerLingus. Many more individuals received indirectsupport and employment through the Council’sgrants to organisations.
I rith 1996, tugadh deontais do 434 eagras (1995: 357) agus 387 daoine aonair (1995:456). Shuimigh an 127 eagras a fuair deontais ioncaim os cionn £20,000 (£13.4 san iomlán)93% de na deontais ioncaim i gcabhair a bhí ag an gComhairle.
I 1996 chosain cúnamh díreach donealaíontóir aonair £1.519m, níos mó ná 8% denchaiteachas iomlán ar na healaíona agus sanáireamh ansin tá £665,000 de Chnuais do bhaillan Aosdána agus £192,000 ar 1,087 deontasd’aerthaisteal faoi scéim ARTFLIGHT a oibríonn andá Chomhairle Ealaíon in Éirinn i gcomhar le Aer Lingus. Tugadh idir thacaíocht agusfhostaíocht indíreach do go leor daoine aonair trídheontais na Comhairle d’eagrais.
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The Arts Council State Funding, 1992–1996/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Cistiú ón Stát, 1992–1996
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996£m £m £m £m £m
Oireachtas Grant-in-aid/Deontas i gCabhair ón Oireachtas 5.2 6.6 8.3 12.6 14.4
National Lottery/Crannchur Náisiúnta 5.0 5.0 5.0 3.7 4.0
Total State Funding/Cistiú Iomlán ón Stát 10.2 11.6 13.3 16.3 18.4
Accumulation
by Katherine West,
glass/porcelain
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Five-Year Financial Summary (1992–1996)/Achoimre Airgeadais Chúig Bliana (1992–1996)
1996 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992£ % £ £ £ £
Income/IoncaimState Funding/Cistiú ón Stát 18,409,000 16,297,000 13,303,000 11,556,000 10,161,000Other Income/Ioncaim Eile 1,087,000 643,000 362,000 248,000 264,000____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
19,496,000 16,940,000 13,665,000 11,804,000 10,425,000____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________Expenditure/CaiteachasLiterature*/An Litríocht* 1,249,000 6.4% 879,000 600,000 490,000 444,000Visual Arts & Architecture/
Na Dearcealaíona & An Ailtireacht1,622,000 8.3% 1,473,000 1,145,000 888,000 793,000Film/An Scannánaíocht 762,000 3.9% 661,000 498,000 404,000 468,000Drama/An Drámaíocht 6,187,000 31.8% 5,652,000 4,932,000 4,199,000 3,649,000Dance/An Rince 569,000 2.9% 446,000 385,000 233,000 209,000Opera/An Ceoldráma 1,009,000 5.2% 912,000 718,000 628,000 576,000Music/An Ceol 1,452,000 7.5% 1,226,000 903,000 754,000 672,000Multi-Disciplinary Arts/
Na hEalaíon Ildisciplíneacha 2,394,000 12.3% 2,103,000 1,624,000 1,288,000 1,120,000Local Authorities, Development
& Partnerships/Na hÚdaráisÁitiúla & Páirtnéireachtaí 531,000 2.7% 441,000 274,000 235,000 183,000
Aosdána 704,000 3.6% 663,000 686,000 699,000 659,000Capital/Caipiteal 1,027,000 5.3% 924,000 470,000 903,000 818,000Sundry/Ilnithe 696,000 3.6% 289,000 391,000 114,000 99,000Administration/Riarachán 1,270,000 6.5% 1,136,000 933,000 815,000 759,000____________ _______ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
19,472,000 100.0% 16,805,000 13,559,000 11,650,000 10,449,000____________ _______ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
Capital Account/Cuntas Caipitil 27,000 104,000 47,000 15,000 (2,000)____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________19,499,000 16,909,000 13,606,000 11,665,000 10,447,000____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
Out-turn for the year/Clár Fuílleachluach deireadh na bliana (3,000) 31,000 59,000 139,000 (22,000)
Opening Balance/ 43,000 12,000 (47,000) (186,000) (164,000)Fuílleach Túsbliana ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
Closing Balance/ 40,000 43,000 12,000 (47,000) (186,000)Fuílleach Deiridh
Trust Funds/Cistí Iontabhais 206,000 159,000 157,000 155,000 149,000Fixed Assets/Sócmhainní Do-aistrithe 488,000 460,000 356,000 310,000 295,000
____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________Net Assets at 31 December/ 734,000 662,000 525,000 418,000 258,000Sócmhainní glan ar 31 Nollaig
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Previous years’ figures have been re-stated for purposes of comparison
*Literature expenditure in 1996, £1,249,000, includes £341,000 relating to the Ireland and its Diaspora—Frankfurt Book Fair project.
Full financial statements will be found on pages 99 to 109.
Tá na figiúirí a bhaineann le 1996 luaite i dtreo is gur féidir comparáid a dheánamh
*Mar chuid de caiteachas iomlán sa Litríocht, £1,249,000 i 1996 bhí costas £341,000 ar Fhéile na hÉireann agus a Diaspora—
Aonach Leabhar Frankfurt
Tá ráiteas airgeadais iomlán ar fáil ar leathanach 99 go 109.
Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht
The following payments to organisations involved in the contemporary arts were made direct by the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht:
An Roinn Ealaíon Cultúir agus Gaeltachta
Thug an Roinn Ealaíon Cultúir agus Gaeltachta na híocaíochtaí thíos go díreach chuig eagrais a bhí gafa leis na healaíona comhaimseartha:
1996 1995£ £
Attic Community Drama Group, Galway 2,000Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board, Galway 3,410,000 2,962,500Cinema 100: Centenary of Cinema, Dublin 50,000 2,500Everyman Palace, Cork 61,216Feis Ceoil, Baile Átha Cliath 7,000Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin 65,141 59,000Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (current/reatha) 1,288,400 1,188,000Irish Museum of Modern Art (equipment/trealamh) 70,458Irish Museum of Modern Art (capital/caipiteal) 150,000 150,000National Concert Hall/An Ceoláras Náisiúnta 485,000 510,000National Concert Hall/An Ceoláras Náisiúnta (equipment/trealamh) 20,000National Concert Hall/An Ceoláras Náisiúnta (capital/caipiteal) 26,000Ireland and its Diaspora—Frankfurt Book Fair 50,000Galway Theatre Project 1,500,000Black Box Theatre, Galway 151,781 148,219Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe 87,906 85,000Galway Municipal Theatre Trust 8,000L’Imaginaire Irlandais 730,148 424,751Backstage Theatre, Longford 370,000Siamsa Tíre, Trá Lí 30,000 30,000Thurles Theatre 25,000
Arts Awareness Intervention Scheme:Creative Activity for Everyone (C.A.F.E.) 62,000 81,000Irish Museum of Modern Art: Regional Programme 14,400Public Art Development Trust 781 6,000Curriculum Development Unit/Aonad Forbartha Curaclaim 9,000
National Lottery/An Crannchur Náisiúnta
Total National Lottery Fund Expenditure/Caiteachas Iomlán as Ciste an Chrannchuir Náisiúnta 87,959,000 84,857,000
of which:/as a bhfuair:
The Arts Council received/An Chomhairle Ealaíon 3,970,000 3,707,000Other arts, culture and national heritage projects received:Tionscadail eile ealaíon, cultúir agus oidhreachta náisiúnta 18,973,000 17,139,000
Source: An Post National Lottery Annual Reports
Further information is available in the Annual Reports of the An Post National Lottery Company and the Oireachtas Appropriation
Accounts (the Government’s annual accounts) under Vote 42 (Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht) and other votes.
Foinse: Tuarascaíl Bhliantúil An Post i dtaobh an Chrannchur Náisiúnta
Tá a thuilleadh eolais le fáil i dTuarascálacha Bliantúla Chomhlacht Náisiúnta Chrannchúir An Phoist agus i gCuntais
Leithreasaithe an Oireachtais (cuntais bhliaintiúla an Rialtais) faoi vóta 42 (Ealaíona, Cultúr agus Gaeltacht) agus faoi vótaí eile.
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Membership of the Council1996 was the third full year of office of the ArtsCouncil appointed by the Minister of Arts, Cultureand the Gaeltacht in August 1993. During the yearthe Council met twelve times in plenary session,including one joint meeting with the Board of theArts Council of Northern Ireland. The Membersmet on many other occasions in sub-committee todeal with specific areas of the Council’s work.
Baill na ComhairleBa é 1996 an tríú bliain don Chomhairle a cheapan tAire Ealaíon, Cultúir agus Gaeltachta i 1993.Bhuail an Chomhairle le chéile go hiomlán dháuair déag i rith na bliana, uair amháin acusannuair a bhí comhchruinniú ann le Bord an ArtsCouncil of Northern Ireland. Bhuail na baill lechéile an iliomad uair eile ar fhochoistí chungnéithe faoi leith d’obair na Comhairle a phlé.
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Baill, Foireann agus FoilseacháinArts
Council
Director,
Patricia
Quinn
Chairpersons of sub-committees and working groups/Cathaoirligh ar fóchoistí agus grúpaí oibrithe
Literature/Litríocht Ciarán MacGonigalVisual Arts, Architecture, Film/Dearcealaíona, Ailtireacht agus Scannánaíocht Jane Dillon ByrneMusic, Opera, Dance/Ceol, Ceoldráma agus Rince Pat MurrayDrama/Drámaíocht Eithne HealyMulti-Disciplinary Arts/Na hEalaíona Ildiscplíneach Páraic BreathnachLocal Authorities/Na hÚdaráis Áitiúla Jane Dillon ByrneFinance and Communications/Airgeadas agus Cumarsáide Terry ProneCapital/Caipiteal Laura MagahyStrategy/Stratéis Laura Magahy and Vivienne RocheOpera Development Group/Pártaí Oibre ar Fhorbairt Ceoldrámaíochta Laura MagahyTheatre Review/Athbreithniú na hAmharclainne Vic MerrimanIrish Language/Na hEalaíona trí Ghaeilge Proinsias Mac Aonghusa
StaffAdrian Munnelly, who held the position ofDirector since 1983, resigned in July 1996 to takeup the position of Senior Consultant with CarrCommunications. During his period of service withthe Council, which began in 1979 as EducationOfficer, he oversaw the development of a nationalinfrastructure for the arts, forging partnershipswith the local authorities and advocating the casefor arts funding to successive governments.
Patricia Quinn was appointed Director inNovember, following a four-year term asCultural Director of Temple Bar Properties,Dublin. She had previously served as an Officerwith the Council between 1984 and 1992 in avariety of areas including music, opera, artscentres and development. Her interest in issuesof arts development are reflected in both herprofessional qualifications and her role incommissioning and publishing the benchmarkreport The Employment and Economic Significance of the
Cultural Industries in Ireland.
Laurence Cassidy remained on secondmentto The Ireland and its Diaspora Festival, FrankfurtBook Fair 1996 until the end of the year. SinéadMac Aodha acted in a temporary capacity asLiterature Officer during this period ofsecondment, and Jackie O’Keeffe held responsi-bility for Community Arts and Festivals. GayeTanham was appointed Youth Arts and DanceOfficer in March; before joining the staff, sheworked extensively in dance development, youthdrama and education. Mary Hyland took overresponsibility for Film in July in addition to herduties as Communications Officer.
In December, the Council received sanctionfrom the Department of Finance to implement aLabour Court recommendation which will havethe effect of providing an additional nine posts atvarious grades within the organisation over a two-year period. These include three new posts at thegrade of Assistant Director, an expansion ofnumbers at the Executive Assistant grade, andregrading and improved conditions for clericaland secretarial staff. Immediately sanction wasreceived, the Council began the recruitment phasewith a view to putting a new structure in place bymid-1997.
Staff Development and TrainingAdrian Munnelly successfully completed anMBA through a programme offered by
FoireannD’éirigh Adrian Munnelly, a bhí tar éis a bheithina Stiúrthóir ó 1983 anuas, as i mí Iúil 1996chun glacadh le post mar Comhairleoir Sinsearachin Carr Communications. Le linn a thréimse oibreleis an gComhairle a thosaigh i 1979 nuair aceapadh é ina Oifigeach Oideachais, bhí Adriangníomhach san iarracht chun infrastruchtúrnáisiúnta do na healaíona a fhorbairt trí pháirt-néireachtaí a dhéanamh leis na húdaráis áitiúlaagus trí chás na n-ealaíon a chur faoi bhráid périaltas a bhí i réim.
Ceapadh Patricia Quinn ina Stiúrthóir i mína Samhna, tar éis di ceithre bliana ráthúla achaitheamh ina Stiúrthóir Cultúrtha le TempleBar Properties, Baile Átha Cliath. Bhí sí inahOifigeach leis an gComhairle cheana idir 1984agus 1992 nuair a bhí cúraimí éagsúla uirthi ó amgo chéile: ceol, ceoldráma, ionaid ealaíon agusforbairt. Is mór léir forbairt na n-ealaíon mar isléir óna cuid cáilíochtaí gairmiúla agus go háiritheón tuarascáil cheannródaíoch The Employment and
Economic Significance of the Cultural Industries in Ireland
a choimisiúnaigh agus a d’fhoilsigh sí.Lean Laurence Cassidy ar iasacht gairme ag
an Féile na Éireann agus a Diaspora, Aonach LeabharFrankfurt 1996. Ba í Sinéad Mac Aodha a d’fheidhmigh go sealadach mar OifigeachLitríochta ar feadh na tréimhse seo. Bhí JackieO’Keeffe freagrach as Ealaíona Pobail agus Féiltego dtí an Nollaig. Ceapadh Gaye Tanham inaOifigeach Ealaíona Óige agus Rince mí an Mhártatar éis di an-chuid oibre a dhéanamh i bhforbairtrince, i ndrámaíocht an aosa óig, agus sanoideachas. I mí Iúil ghlac Mary Hyland freagrachtna Scannánaíochta uirthi sa bhreis ar a cuiddualgas mar Oifigeach Cumarsáide.
I mí na Nollag cheadaigh an Roinn Airgeadaismoladh de chuid na Cúirte Oibre a chur ibhfeidhm lena gcuirfí naoi bpost breise ar fáil aggráid éagsúla san eagraíocht laistigh de dhá bhliain.Ina meascsan tá trí phost ag grád an StiúrthóraCúnta, níos mó post ag grád an FheidhmeannaighChúnta, agus athgrádú agus coinníollacha níosfearr don fhoireann cléireachais agus rúnaíochta. A luaithe is a fuarthas an cead, chuir an Chomhairletús leis an bpróiseas ceapacháin agus ba cheart gombeadh struchtúr nua ann faoi lár 1997.
Forbairt agus Oiliúint FoirneGhnóthaigh Adrian Munnelly céim MBA ón IrishManagement Institute. Thosaigh Dermot
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University College, Dublin. DermotMcLaughlin commenced study for a professionalqualification in personnel practice with theInstitute of Public Administration/ Institute ofPersonnel and Development. David McConnellsuccessfully completed the IMI Diploma inManagement Information Systems at the IrishManagement Institute.
Information TechnologyDuring the year, the Council developed itsinternal information and decision processes andintroduced a new computerised grantmanagement system into its operations. Thissystem will be developed to meet the needs andresponsibilities of the Council in dealing withboth increased funding and an ever-growingvolume of grant applications and other business.
Employment Policy and EqualityThe Council is committed to the ideal of asociety based on principles of equality andequal opportunity, and in its own employmentpractices aims to ensure that no potential oractual employee receives more or less favourabletreatment on the grounds of race, colour, ethnicor national origins, marital status, gender, sexorientation, age, disability or religiousaffiliation. It is a condition of receipt of grant-aid that organisations assisted by the Councilagree to avoid any form of discriminatorypractice and to pay particular regard topromoting equal opportunities in all areas oftheir work.
Council Publications (1996)■ Annual Report, 1995■ Art Matters Nos. 22, 23 and 24■ Awards and Opportunities for Individuals, 1997■ Writers in Schools Directory
(revised edition, 1996)■ Dialogues 1996 Proceedings of the Arts Council
Theatre Review Consultations■ Going On, Arts Council Drama Policy document■ Planning an Arts Building Project (Alan Tweedie, Ed.)■ Aosdána
McLaughlin ag staidéir le haghaidh cáilíochtagairmiúla i gcúrsaí pearsanra ón Institute ofPublic Administration/Institute of Personnel andDevelopment. Ghnóthaigh David McConnell anIMI Diploma in Management InformationSystems ag Foras Bainistíochta na hÉireann.
Teicneolaíocht Faisnéise I rith na bliana, d’fhorbair an Chomhairle a cuidpróiseas inmheánach chun eolas agus cinní a churar fáil agus tosaíodh ar chóras ríomhairithe aúsáid chun iarratais ar dheontais a phróiseáil.Forbrófar an córas seo chun freastal ar riachtanaisagus ar fhreagrachtaí na Comhairle i scomhthéacscistithe breise, líon iarratas agus gnóthaí eile atáag dul i méid i gcónaí.
Polasaí Fostaíochta agus ComhionannasTacaíonn an Chomhairle go láidir le hídéal sochaí abheadh bunaithe ar chomhionannas agus archomhionnannas deiseanna. Dá réir sin tá séd’aidhm aici maidir lena cúrsaí fostaíochta féinnach ndéanfaí leatrom ar fhostaithe nó ar dhaoine ad’fhéadfadh a bheith ina bhfostaithe nó nachgcaithfí níos fearr leo ach oiread de bharr nagcúinsí seo a leanas: cine, dath, bunús eitneach nónáisiúnta, stádas pósta, gnéas, claonadh gnéasachta,aois, míchumas, nó creideamh. Tá sé de choinníollar aon eagras a ghlacann le deontas i gcabhair óngComhairle, go n-aontóidís leis míchothroimed’aon saghas a sheachaint agus go gcothóidíscothroime deiseanna i ngach gné dá gcuid oibre.
Foilseacháin de chuid na Comhairle (1996)■ Tuarascáil Bhliantúil, 1995■ Art Matters Uimh. 22, 23 agus 24■ Duaiseanna agus Deiseanna do Dhaoine Aonair, 1997■ Eolaire Scríbhneoirí sna Scoileanna
(eagrán leasaithe, 1996)■ Dialogues 1996, Imeachtaí na bpléghrúpaí a
eagraíodh ag an gComhairle Ealaíon i leithAthbreithniú na hAmharclainne
■ Going On, doiciméad ar pholasaí drámaíochta naComhairle Ealaíon
■ Planning an Arts Building Project (Alan Tweedie, Eag.)■ Aosdána
15The Arts in Irish
Na hEalaíona trí GaeilgeThe Arts Council has a commitment toarts development throughout Ireland andto the support of artists working in eithernational language.
A special Irish Language Committeewas established in October 1996 to explorearts provision and practice and to promotethe arts in Irish. The committee establishedthat although direct expenditure on the artsin Irish amounted to approximately£102,000 in 1996, a significant level ofindirect expenditure also occurs annually.Examples of this indirect support in 1996included: the production and tour of anadaptation of Cré na Cille by the NationalTheatre Society; readings organised byPoetry Ireland and the Irish Writers’ Centre;funding for literary journals which operatean open bilingual submissions policy, and theprovision of a range of residencyprogrammes. In total, the level ofexpenditure on support for the arts in Irishin 1996 was approximately £500,000.
Tá an Chomhairle Ealaíon tugtha do fhorbairtna n-ealaíon ar fud na hÉireann agus is mian leítaca a thabhairt d’ealaíontóirí atá ag saothrú igceachtar den dá theanga náisiúnta. Bunaíodhsainchoiste Gaeilge i mí Dheireadh Fómhair1996 chun soláthar agus cleachtú na n-ealaíona iniúchadh agus chun na healaíona tríGhaeilge a spreagadh.
D’fhoghlaim an choiste gurb é ancaiteachas díreach ar na healaíona trí mheán naGaeilge ná £102,000 i 1996 ach go gcaitearsuim shubstantúil ar an nGaeilge gach bhliain,suim atá ceilte don chuid is mó. Is samplaí dentaca ceilte seo ná léiriú de leagan oiriúnaithe deCré na Cille ag an National Theatre Societyagus a thabhairt an thionchuairt; eagrú léamhag Éigse Éireann agus ag Ionad Scríbhneoirí nahÉireann; tacú airgeadais d’irisí liteartha ambíonn polasaí oscailte dátheagacha acu maidirle foilsiú; agus soláthar réim chlárcónaitheacha. Meastar gurbh é an caiteachasiomlán i 1996 ar na healaíona, trí mheán naGaeilge ná timpeall £500,000.
Amharclann
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In the area of Literature, four bursaries witha total value of £21,000 were offered to Irishlanguage writers in 1996. Liam Ó Muirthile wasawarded £10,000; Gréagóir Ó Dúill was awarded£4,000; Áine Ní Ghlinn received £3,500; andPádraig Breathnach received £3,500.
During the year, the Council met with Bord na Gaeilge and with Údarás na Gaeltachta.Discussion took place on a number of jointinitiatives, including the creation of threecommunity arts facilitator posts in Gaeltachtareas, in conjunction with Údarás na Gaeltachta.Discussions also continued on the establishmentof a national residential centre for Irish languagewriters at Teach Ghairfin, Rosmuc, Co. Galway.
The Council’s commitment to makingadequate provision for artists and audienceswho use Irish as their first language is anongoing one and it is intended that several newinitiatives in this area will be introduced. TheCouncil also intends that all of its principalpublications and signage will be fully bilingualby the end of 1997.
I rannóg na Litríochta tairgeadh ceithresparánachtaí do scríbhneoirí Gaeilge i 1996. FuairLiam Ó Muirthile £10,000, Gréagóir Ó Dúill£4,000, Áine ní Ghlinn £3,500 agus PádraigBreathnach £3,500.
Tháinig an Chomhairle le chéile gorialta le Bord na Gaeilge agus le hÚdarás naGaeltachta chun méid áirithe comhbheartaisa phlé: orthú siúd bhí bunú trí phostd’éascaitheoirí ins na healaíona pobail ilimistéir Gaeltachta. Leanadh don idirphlé idtaobh bunú lárionaid náisiúnta cónaí lehaghaidh scríbhneoirí Gaeilge ag TeachGhairfin, Ros Muc, Co na Gaillimhe.
Tá ceangal leanúnach ar an gComhairlesólathar dóthánach a dhéanamh d’ealaíontóiríagus do lucht éisteachta a mbaineann úsáidas an Ghaeilge mar a gcéad teanga agus tátharag súil go gcuirfear tús le roinnt tionscnamhnua ins an rannóg seo. Bheartaigh anChomhairle go mbeadh príomhfhoilsiúcháinagus comharthaíocht na Comhairle dá-theangach ag deireadh 1997.
Introduction1996 was a very active year for Aosdána: twoGeneral Assemblies were held; twenty-seven newmembers were elected as a result of the decisionto extend the total possible membership from150 to 200; Benedict Kiely and Francis Stuartwere elected to the position of Saoi of Aosdánaand Adrian Munnelly resigned as Registrar andwas replaced by Patricia Quinn, the newly-appointed Arts Council Director.
ToscaireachtThe ten-member Toscaireacht of Aosdána during1996 was elected early in 1995 for a two-yearperiod. The members were Seoirse Bodley,Anthony Cronin, Martin Gale, Dermot Healy,Gene Lambert, Melanie le Brocquy, Brian Maguire,Ulick O’Connor, Jane O’Leary and Bob Quinn.
General AssembliesTwo general assemblies were held during 1996,in March and in October. Fifteen new memberswere elected in March and a further twelve in
RéamhráBliain an-ghníomhach a bhí i 1996 don Aosdána:bhí dhá Thionól Ginearálta ann; ceapadh fiche-seacht ball nua de thoradh ar chinneadh líon namball arbh fhéidir a bheith ann a ardú ó 150 go200. Ceapadh Benedict Kiely agus Francis Stuartina Saoithe in Aosdána agus d’éirigh AdrianMunnelly as post an Chláraitheora agus tháinigPatricia Quinn, Stiúrthóir nuacheaptha naComhairle Ealaíon, i gcomharbas air.
ToscaireachtaToghadh an deichniúr ball de ToscaireachtAosdána go luath i 1995. Ba iad na baill ná:Seoirse Bodley, Anthony Cronin, Martin Gale,Dermot Healy, Gene Lambert, Melanie leBrocquy, Brian Maguire, Ulick O’Connor, JaneO’Leary agus Bob Quinn. Maireann ballraíocht naToscaireachta dhá bhliain.
Tionóil GhinearáltaGlaodh dhá thionól ghinearálta i rith 1996, i mían Mhárta agus i mí Dheireadh Fómhair.
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The newmembers are ClareBoylan; CathyCarmen; MarinaCarr; HarryClifton; MickeyDonnelly; EibhlisFarrell; MarieFoley; RichardGorman; HugoHamilton; AliceHanratty; Rita Ann Higgins; John Kelly; AliceMaher; Thomas McCarthy; Paula Meehan; MáireMhac an tSaoi; Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; EdnaO’Brien; Kevin O’Connell; Michael O’Dea; AlannaO’Kelly; Liam Ó Muirthile; Cathal Ó Searcaigh;Tim Robinson; Vivienne Roche; Eithne Strong;Nancy Wynne-Jones (listed under their respectivearts disciplines at the end of this section).
SaoitheIn March, Benedict Kiely, novelist, short storywriter and journalist, was elected to the office ofSaoi in Aosdána. In October this honour wasalso conferred upon the ninety-four year oldwriter, Francis Stuart, a most important andcontroversial figure in the history of 20thcentury Irish literature. Both men were presentedwith the gold torc, the symbol of the Saoi, byPresident Mary Robinson at ceremonies at the Arts Council offices.
InitiativesDuring the year a committee was formed to meetwith the Irish Music Rights Organisation(IMRO) to discuss the implications for creativeartists posed by sophisticated informationtechnology and EU directives concerningcopyright and other intellectual property issues.
ObituariesIt was noted with regret that four members ofAosdána died during the year. In March, writerMary Lavin, the first woman to hold the officeof Saoi of Aosdána, died after a long illness. Three other members, writer Molly Keane,composer Walter Beckett and visual artist,Arthur Armstrong also died in 1996.
Toghadh cúig bhall déag nuaag an gcéad chruinniú agusdhá bhall déag nua ag andara ceann, agus dá réir sin,ardaíodh líon na mball denAosdána go dtí 164.
Is iad na baill nua: ClareBoylan; Cathy Carmen;Marina Carr; Harry Clifton;Mickey Donnelly; EibhlisFarrell; Marie Foley; RichardGorman; Hugo Hamilton;Alice Hanratty; Rita AnnHiggins; John Kelly; AliceMaher; Thomas McCarthy;
Paula Meehan; Máire Mhac an tSaoi; Eiléan NíChuilleanáin; Edna O’Brien; Kevin O’Connell;Michael O’Dea; Alanna O’Kelly; Liam ÓMuirthile; Cathal Ó Searcaigh; Tim Robinson;Vivienne Roche; Eithne Strong; Nancy Wynne-Jones (liostáiltear iad faoina ndisciplíní faoi seachiad ag deireadh na ranna seo).
SaoitheI mí an Mhárta ceapadh Benedict Kiely, úrscéalaí,gearrscéalaí agus iriseoir, ina Shaoi in Aosdána. I mí Dheireadh Fómhair bronnadh an onóir seochomh maith ar an scríbhneoir ceithre bliana isceithre scór d’aois, Francis Stuart, fear a bhfuiltábhacht agus conspóid ag roinnt leis i scríbh-neoireacht Éireannach an 20ú haois. Bhronn antUachtarán Nic Róibín an torc órga, siombail antSaoi, ar an mbeirt acu ag searmanais in oifigí naComhairle Ealaíon.
TionscnaimhBunaíodh coiste chun bualadh leis an IrishMusic Rights Organisation (IMRO) chunimpleachtaí na nuatheicneolaíochtaícumhachtacha eolais agus treoracha anChomhphobail Eorpaigh maidir le cóipcheartagus a ceisteanna údarthachta eile a phlé.
Ómós do na mairbhBa díol bhróin d’Aosdána agus don Chomhairlego bhfuair ceithre bhall d’Aosdána bás i 1996. Imí an Mhárta, fuair Mary Lavin, scríbhneoir, agusan chéad bhean a bhí ina Saoi in Aosdána, bás taréis téarma fada breoiteachta. Lena chois sin, fuairMolly Keane, scríbhneoir, Walter Beckett,cumadóir ceoil, agus Arthur Armstrong,dearcealaíontóir, bás i rith na bliana chomh maith.
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Future PlansA new Toscaireacht will be elected early in 1997.
Towards the end of 1996 it was agreed bythe Arts Council to nominate an officer of theCouncil as Assistant Registrar of Aosdána. Thisdecision was taken as part of the Council’s generalplans to enhance its means of supporting thework of the individual artist — especially theartist in mid-career.
£Cnuais to 34 writers 255,333Cnuais to 44 visual artists 330,563Cnuais to 8 composers 60,000Pension Scheme (Council contribution) 18,620Administration 39,364_____________
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Pleananna sa TodhchaíToghfar Toscaireacht nua go luath i 1997.
I dtreo dheireadh 1996 d’aontaigh anChomhairle Ealaíon oifigeach de chuid naComhairle a ainmniú mar Cláraitheoir Cúnta arAosdána. Glacadh an cinneadh seo mar chuid dena pleananna ginearálta atá ag an gComhairle tacúleis na ealaíontóirí aonair, go háirithe agus iadleathbhealach tríd a saolré.
£Cnuais do 34 scríbhneoir 255,333Cnuais do 44 dearcealaíontóir 330,563Cnuais do 8 cumadóir 60,000Scéim Phinsin (íocaíocht na Comhairle)18,620Riarachán 39,364_____________
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Members of Aosdána/Liosta Ballraíochta Aosdána75 Visual Arts/Na Dearcealaíona; 16 Music/An Ceol; 73 Literature/An Litríocht = 164 (December 1996/Nollaig 1996)
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Robert BallaghJohn BehanPauline BewickBasil BlackshawBrian BourkeFergus BourkeCharles BradyCecily BrennanVincent BrowneMichael BulfinJohn BurkeCathy CarmanJames ColemanBarrie CookeDorothy CrossWilliam CrozierCharles CullenMichael CullenEdward DelaneyMicky DonnellyFelim EganConor FallonMicheal FarrellMary FitzGeraldMarie Foley
Martin GaleRichard GormanTim GouldingPatrick GrahamPatrick HallAlice HanrattyCharles HarperPatrick HickeyEithne JordanMichael KaneJohn KellyBrian KingGene LambertSonja LandweerLouis le BrocquyMelanie le BrocquyCiarán LennonAnne MaddenBrian MaguireAlice MaherLouis MarcusJames McKennaTheo McNabSean McSweeneyHelen Moloney
Carolyn MulhollandEilís O’ConnellMick O’DeaGwen O’DowdAlannah O’KellyTony O’MalleyPatrick O’SullivanKathy PrendergastPatrick PyeBob QuinnYann Renard GouletVivienne RocheJames ScanlonPatrick ScottDavid Shaw-SmithNoel SheridanMaria Simonds-GoodingCamille SouterImogen StuartRod TuachCharles TyrrellBarbara WarrenMichael WarrenNancy Wynne JonesAnne Yeats
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John BanvilleLeland BardwellSebastian BarryDermot BolgerClare BoylanMarina CarrPhilip CaseyHarry CliftonAnthony CroninMargaretta D’ArcySeamus DeanePaul DurcanBernard FarrellPádraic FiaccBrian FrielPatrick GalvinCarlo GéblerErnest GéblerRobert GreacenHugo HamiltonMichael HartnettDermot HealySeamus HeaneyAidan HigginsRita Ann Higgins
Pearse HutchinsonJennifer JohnstonNeil Jordan John B. KeaneBenedict KielyTom KilroyJames LiddyMichael LongleyBrian LynchTom MacIntyreBernard MacLavertyBrian McMahonDerek MahonHugh MaxtonThomas McCarthyJohn McGahernMedbh McGuckianFrank McGuinnessPaula MeehanMáire Mhac an tSaoiJohn MontagueBrian MoorePaul MuldoonVal MulkernsRichard Murphy
Thomas MurphyEilean Ní ChuilleanáinNuala Ní DhomhnaillEdna O’BrienSeán Ó CoistealbhaUlick O’ConnorJulia O’FaoláinCríostóir Ó FloinnDesmond O’GradyLiam Ó MuirthileCathal Ó SearcaighMicheal O’SiadhailJames PlunkettTim RobinsonJames SimmonsPaul SmithSydney Bernard SmithEithne StrongFrancis StuartMatthew SweeneyColm TóibínMervyn WallMacdara Woods
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Gerald BarrySeóirse BodleyBrian BoydellJohn BuckleyFrank CorcoranRaymond Deane
Jerome de BromheadRoger DoyleEibhlis FarrellFergus JohnstonJohn KinsellaPhilip Martin
Kevin O’ConnellJane O’LearyEric SweeneyJames Wilson
IntroductionExpenditure on Literature in 1996,excluding expenditure on Ireland and its
Diaspora — Frankfurt Book Fair 1996, was£908,000, an increase of £111,000 (14%)on the 1995 figure.
PolicyIn 1996 the Council focused its attention andfunding on the two key areas of literary organi-sations and strategic partnerships. With thisfocus the Council hopes to improve the supportsystems available to both new and establishedIrish writers and their readers. This was a centralconcern articulated in The Arts Plan.
InitiativesThe most significant initiative in Literature in1996 was the Arts Council’s support of theIreland and its Diaspora Festival at the Frankfurt BookFair (cf. International Arts). The Festivalprovided an unparalleled international showcasefor Irish publishers and writing.
RéamhráCaitheadh £908,000 ar an Litríocht i 1996,méadú de £111,000 (14%) ar an bhfigiúircomparáideach i 1995. Níl caiteachas ar Féile na
hÉireann agus a Diaspora — Aonach LeabharFrankfurt curtha san áireamh sna figiúirí seo.
PolasaíI 1996 dhírigh an Chomhairle a chuid aire agus acistiú ar dhá ghné thábhachta: eagras litríochtaagus páirtnéireachtaí stráitéiseacha. Sa tslí seo tásúil ag an gComhairle na córais tacaíochta atá arfáil do scríbhneoirí idir nua agus seanbhunaitheagus a gcuid léitheoirí a fheabhsú. Ceist lárnach íseo a luadh i bPlean na n-Ealaíon.
TionscnaimhBa í an nuaíocht ba thábhachtaí sa Litríocht i 1996an tacaíocht a thug an Chomhairle Ealaíon donfhéile Éire agus a Diaspora ag Aonach LeabharFranfurt (cf. Na hEalaíona Idirnáisiúnta). Thug anFéile seo deis neamhghnách d’fhoilsitheoirí agus doscríbhneoirí Éireannacha a saothar a chur faoi
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Audio
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The Writer in Residence Programme wasexpanded and new residencies were established incollaboration with Dublin City University, LaoisCounty Council and Kerry County Council.
A number of new literary journals alsoreceived funding for the first time.
Projects in TrainThe consolidation of the Ireland LiteratureExchange (ILE) continues with increasedsupport from the Arts Council. ILE hasfacilitated the translation of more than fiftyIrish books into languages as diverse asNorwegian and Japanese. A substantial increasein funding (20%) was allocated to the IrishWriters’ Centre in 1996 to support thedevelopment of its wide range of services toIrish writers; funding to the Writers in theCommunity Scheme, administered by theCentre, was doubled.
Children and Young PeopleIn February 1996, the administration of theWriters in Schools scheme, which supportswriters’ visits to schools, was transferred fromthe Arts Council to Poetry Ireland, with asignificantly increased budget of £22,000.
A number of leading publishing housesspecialising in children’s literature alsoreceived grant-aid.
The Children’s Literature Association ofIreland and The Irish Children’s Book Trustamalgamated in December to form a neworganisation, Children’s Books Ireland. Withthe support of an Arts Council capital granttheir office at the Irish Writers’ Centre will nowbecome a new headquarters for the promotionof the writing and reading of children’sliterature in Ireland.
Bursaries and Awards1996 saw an increase in both the number andvalue of literature bursaries awarded. Eighteenbursaries were awarded in total. In line with The
Arts Plan two, two-year bursaries of £10,000were awarded. For the first year ever, critical anddiscursive writing was eligible for considerationand two bursaries were awarded to writers inthese fields.
Four bursaries with a total value of £21,000were awarded to Irish-language writers in 1996.This was in keeping with the Arts Council’s
bhráid lucht féachana idirnáisiúnta. Ar ndóigh leanan Chomhairle ar aghaidh ag tabhairt tacaíochtsuntasach don rannóg fhoilsitheoireachta.
Leathnaíodh scéim na ScríbhneoiríCónaitheacha agus bunaíodh cónaitheachtaí nua igcomhar le hOllscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath,le Comhairle Contae Laoise agus le ComhairleContae Chiarraí.
Tugadh airgead do roinnt irisí liteartha nuaden chéad uair chomh maith.
Tionscadail idir LámhaTacaíodh le hobair Idirmhalartán LitríochtaÉireann (ILE) tríd an gcúnamh breise a sholáthairan Chomhairle Ealaíon. Chabhraigh an ILÉ lehaistriúchán breis is leathchéad leabhar Éireannachgo teangacha iasachta amhail An Ioruais agus antSeapáinis. Méadaíodh go mór (20%) ar anmaoiniú a rinneadh ar Ionad na Scríbhneoirí i1996. Dúblaíodh an maoiniú a rinneadh ar scéimScríbhneoirí sa Phobal, scéim a riarann an tIonad.
Páistí agus Daoine ÓgaI mí Feabhra 1996 aistríodh riaradh na scéimeScríbhneoirí sna Scoileanna, a thacaíonn lecuairteanna scríbhneoirí ar scoileanna, óngComhairle Ealaíon go dtí Éigse Éireann agusardaíodh ciste na scéime go mór go dtí £22,000.
Tugadh deontais chomh maith do roinnttithe foilsitheoireachta a dhíríonn go háirithe arlitríocht do pháistí.
Nasc The Children’s Literature Associationof Ireland agus The Irish Children’s Book Trust lechéile chun eagras nua a dhéanamh, Children’sBooks Ireland. Le maoiniú caipitil ón gComhairleEalaíon beidh a n-oifig in Ionad na Scríbhneoiríina cheannáras nua feasta le haghaidh cur chuncinn scríbhneoireacht agus léitheoireacht nalitríochta do pháistí in Éirinn.
Sparánachtaí agus DuaiseannaTháinig méadú ar idir líon agus luach na sparán-tachtaí a bronnadh i réimse na litríochta. Ochtsparántacht déag a bronnadh san iomlán. Faoi mara moladh i bPlean na n-Ealaíon bronnadh dhásparántacht dhá bhliain £10,000. Den chéad uairriamh, bhí an scríbhneoireacht chriticiúil agus anscríbhneoireacht smaointeoireachta inghlactha saréimse seo agus bronnadh dhá sparántacht arscríbhneoirí sna hábhair seo.
Bronnadh ceithre sparántacht arbh fhiú£21,000 san iomlán iad, ar scríbhneoirí Gaeilge i
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aspiration to promote creative writing in bothnational languages.
The playwright, Marina Carr was awardedthe prestigious Macaulay Fellowship.
Panellists for bursaries in Literature were:Dermot Healy, Declan Kiberd, Eiléan NíChuilleanáin, Bernard Farrell and Eavan Boland.
Future ProjectsWith the assistance of the Arts Council,Clé/The Irish Book Publishers Association,commissioned a researcher in 1996 to draw up ablueprint for the future development of theAssociation. The main recommendation of thisreport is a proposal to appoint a full-timeadministrator to oversee the future developmentof Irish publishing. Following the success ofIrish publishing at the Ireland and its Diaspora
Festival at the 1996 Frankfurt Book Fair, it hasbeen recognised that there is a need for theestablishment of such a post.
Throughout 1996, the Public LibraryAnd The Arts Committee met regularly toexplore opportunities for arts collaborationbetween The Library Council and the ArtsCouncil. Chaired by Declan Kiberd, theCommittee’s objective is to devise a series ofcomprehensive recommendations with regardto the establishment of a jointly-fundedLibrary Arts Officer post.
1996. Chomhardaigh sé seo le mian na ComhairleEalaíon an scríbhneoireacht chruthaitheach sa dátheanga náisiúnta a chur chun cinn.
Bronnadh an duais ghradamúil, The MacaulayFellowship, ar an drámadóir Marina Carr.
B’iad painéalaithe le haghaidh sparánachtaí saLitríocht ná: Dermot Healy, Declan Kiberd, EiléanNí Chuilleanáin, Bernard Farrell agus Eavan Boland.
Tionscadail sa TodhchaíLe cúnamh ón gComhairle Ealaíon, choimisiúnaighClé, eagras na bhfoilsitheoirí Éireannacha,taighdeoir i 1996 chun dréachtphlean a scríobh aleagfadh amach conas a d’fhorbrófaí an t-eagras. Ba é príomh-mholadh na tuarascála seo riarthóirlánaimseartha a cheapadh chun forbairt nafoilsitheoireachta in Éirinn a stiúradh amach anseo.Glactar leis go bhfuil gá a leithéid de phost abheith ann tar éis mar a d’éirigh leis an bhfoil-sitheoireacht Éireannach ag an bhféile Éire agus a
Diaspora ag Aonach Leabhar Frankfurt i 1996.Ar feadh 1996 bhuail an coiste faoin
Leabharlann Phoiblí agus na hEalaíona le chéilego rialta chun deiseanna comhoibrithe idir AnChomhairle Leabharlanna agus an ChomhairleEalaíon a scrúdú. Faoi chathaoirleacht DeclanKiberd, is é is aidhm leis an gcoiste teacht arshraith moltaí cuimsitheacha i dtaobhceapacháin lánaimseartha, comhurraithe marOifigeach Ealaíona Leabharlainne.
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Photomontage from the programme of the Ireland and its Diaspora Festival
The Aristeion Prizes 1996 were administered bythe European Commission. The following werethe nominations by Ireland:
European Translation PrizeTranslator Maureen CharltonTitle Fables of La Fontaine
Author La FontaineYear 1996Publisher Martello, DublinSource Language FrenchTarget Language English
Translator Gearailt MacEoinTitle Deoraíocht/Exile
Author Pádraic Ó ConaireYear 1996Publisher Cló Iar ChonnachtaSource Language IrishTarget Language English
European Literary PrizeAuthor Eoin McNameeTitle Resurrection Man
Year 1995Publisher PicadorLanguage English
Author John MontagueTitle Collected Poems, John Montague
Year 1995Publisher Gallery PressLanguage English
The Irish Jurors on the European Juries wereAilbhe Smith – Literary Prize Jury and MichealO’Siadhail – Translation Prize Jury
The 1996 National Jury was: Ciarán MacGonigal (Chairman); Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin;Katie Donovan; Micheál Ó Riordáin; MorganLlewellyn; Eithne McCarthy.
The Arts Council noted with pleasurethat Deoraíocht/Exile by Gearailt Mac Eoin wasplaced on the shortlist by the EuropeanTranslation Prize Jury.
Riar an Coimisiún Eorpach Duaiseanna Aristeion 1996. Is iad seo a leanas ainmniúcháinna hÉireann:
Duais Aistriúcháin na hEorpaAistritheoir Maureen CharltonTeideal Fables of La Fontaine
Údar La FontaineBliain 1996Foilsitheoir Martello, Baile Átha CliathBunteanga FraincisSprioctheanga Béarla
Aistritheoir Gearailt MacEoinTeideal Deoraíocht/Exile
Údar Pádraic Ó ConaireBliain 1996Foilsitheoir Cló Iar-ChonnachtaBunteanga GaeilgeSprioctheanga Béarla
Duais Litríochta na hEorpaÚdar Eoin McNameeTeideal Resurrection Man
Bliain 1995Foilsitheoir PicadorTeanga Béarla
Údar John MontagueTeideal Collected Poems, John Montague
Bliain 1995Foilsitheoir Gallery PressTeanga Béarla
Ba iad na giúróirí Éireannacha ar an Giúiré Eorpachná: Ailbhe Smith – Giúiré don Duais Liteartha agusMicheal O’Siadhail – Giúiré don Duais Aistriúcháin.
Ba iad baill an Ghiúiré Náisiúnta ná: CiaránMac Gonigal (Cathaoirleach); Eileán NíChuilleanáin; Katie Donovan; Micheál ÓRíordáin; Morgan Llewellyn; Eithne McCarthy.
Ba díol áthais don Chomhairle Ealaíon gurainmníodh Deoraíocht/Exile aistrithe ag GearailtMacEoin ar an ngearrliosta ag an GiúireEorpach Aistriúcháin.
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Literature/An Litríocht
Awards/Duaiseanna £Eva Bourke 3,500Padraic Breathnach 3,500Joanne Carroll 380Leo Cullen 3,500Mary Darcy 2,000Gerald Dawe 75Louis de Paor 3,000Margaret Dolan 400Arnold Fanning 250Ciaran Folan 270Patrick Galvin 116Vona Groarke 4,000Martin Healy 3,500Rita Ann Higgins 6,000Mary Hoey 150Anne Keating 350Rita Kelly 150Anne le Marquand Hartigan 300Mary Leland 300Aidan Mathews 5,000Molley McCloskey 3,500Áine Ní Ghlinn 3,500Anto Nolan 3,500Gréagóir Ó Dúill 4,000Ré Ó Laighleis 5,000Liam Ó Muirthile 5,000Barbara Parkinson 3,500James Ryan 4,000Peter Somerville-Large 3,500Annie Warburton 350Vincent Woods 6,000_____________
78,591_____________
ARTFLIGHT: 187 air travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/187 duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus 33,659
Total—Awards/Iomlán—Duaiseanna 112,250 112,250_____________
Grants/Deontais
The Writer/An ScríbhneoirAspects Festival, Co. Down 1,000Cape Clear Storytelling Festival, Co. Cork 3,050Cork Writers’ Project 1,000Daonscoil na Mumhan, Co. Chorcaí 200Galway Arts Centre/Ionad Ealaíon na Gaillimhe/Cúirt Filíochta 12,000Kerry International Summer School 1,000
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£Summer Writing Workshop, Dublin 1,000Two Chairs Company, Dublin 5,050Tyrone Guthrie Centre/European Poetry Translation Network, Monaghan 5,000Thomas McCarthy 500Cathal O’Searcaigh 250Munster Literature Centre, Cork 4,000Fondúireacht an Bhlascóid, Trá Lí 1,000Listowel Writers’ Week, Co. Kerry 5,250Inniskeen Enterprise, Co. Monaghan 1,200Sligo Co. VEC Flaming Arrows 800Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 2,000Fourth International Womens Playwrights Conference, Galway 5,500 49,800_____________
Writers-in-residence/Scríbhneoirí CónaitheachaTrinity College Dublin 6,000Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 4,000University College Galway 5,000Dublin City University 4000 19,000_____________
Literary Organisations/Eagraíochtaí LitearthaClé Teoranta/Irish Bookpublishers’ Association, Dublin 13,740Ireland Literature Exchange/Idirmhalartán Litríochta Éireann, Dublin 48,000Irish Writers’ Centre/Ionad na Scríbhneoirí, Dublin 66,000Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, Dublin 57,000 184,740_____________
Publishers/FoilsitheoiríAttic Press, Dublin 40,000Brandon Book Publishers, Kerry 30,000Clo Íar-Chonnachta, Co. na Gaillimhe 20,000Coiscéim, Baile Átha Cliath 25,000Dedalus Press, Dublin 27,000Gallery Press, Meath 60,000Lilliput Press, Dublin 35,000Marino Books (Mercier Press), Dublin 16,000New Island Books, Dublin 47,000O’Brien Press, Dublin 28,000Poolbeg Press, Dublin 54,420Salmon Publishing, Clare 20,500Wolfhound Press, Dublin 40,000New Writers Press, Dublin 1,000The Blackstaff Press, Belfast 8,090Tir Eolas, Gaillimh 2,500Fish Publishing, Cork 1,000Relay Publications, Tipperary 2,500Bridge Press, Dublin 1,500 459,510_____________
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Magazines/IrisíBooks Ireland, Dublin 16,000Cyphers, Dublin 2,000Graph, Dublin 4,450Krino: The Review, Dublin 3,500Windows Publications, Monaghan 2,240Salmon Publishing, Clare 1,000Comhar, Dublin 7,000Irish Review, Belfast 2,500Asylum Arts Review, Kerry 2,500Force 10, Sligo 3,000 44,190_____________
Education/OideachasPoetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, Dublin 22,000 22,000_____________ _____________
Total—Awards and Grants/Iomlán—Duaiseanna agus Deontais 891,490
Directly Promoted Activities/Imeachtaí a Cuireadh Chun Cinn go Díreach
Ireland and its Diaspora Festival/Frankfurt Book Fair 1996 341,048Writers-in-Schools/Scríbhneoirí sna Scoileanna 12,439Writers-in-the-Community/Scríbhneoirí sa Phobal 288Writers’ Workshops for Prisoners/Ceardlanna Scríbhneoirí do Phríosúnaigh 1,899Miscellaneous/Ilghnéitheach 1,993Total—Direct Promotions/Iomlán—Imeachtaí Díreacha 357,667_____________
Total for Literature as Note 3 (page 104)/ 1,249,157Iomlán don Litríocht mar atá i Nóta 3 (leathanach 104)
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Macaulay Fellowship (Trust Fund)/Comhaltacht Macaulay (Ciste Iontaobhais)Marina Carr, writer 3,500 3,500_____________
Grants Received/Deontais a FuarthasArts Council of Northern Ireland 48,432 48,432Library Council/An Chomhairle Leabharlanna 1,000 1,000
Re Frankfurt Book Fair: (see Note 2 to financial Statements, page 103/
féach Nóta 2 den Ráiteas Airgeadais leathanach 103)
265,350_____________Total as Note 2 (page 103)/Iomlán mar atá i Nóta 2 (leathanach 103) 314,782__________________________
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IntroductionExpenditure on Visual Arts and Architecture in1996 totalled £1,622,000, an increase of£149,000 (10%) on the 1995 figure.
The increased funding focused largely onsupport for artists’ organisations, galleries andmajor exhibitions, as set out in The Arts Plan.
PolicyArts Council policy for the visual arts is tocreate a sympathetic environment (withincreased opportunities) in which the full-timecreative artist can thrive, and to bring aboutgreater public access to, appreciation of andparticipation in the visual arts.
InitiativesIn 1996 the budgetary provision for Architecturewas almost doubled. The visual arts ApprenticeshipScheme was revised in order to encourage cross-fertilisation between the visual arts andarchitecture. A number of other visual arts schemeswere also opened to application by architects.
RéamhráCaitheadh £1,622,000 san iomlán ar naDearcealaíona agus an Ailtireacht i 1996, méadúde £149,000 (10%) ar fhigiúr 1995.
Is ar thacaíocht d’eagrais ealaíontóirí, arghailearaithe agus ar mhórthaispeántais acaitheadh formhór an airgid bhreise, mar a tugadhle fios i bPlean na n-Ealaíon
PolasaíIs é polasaí na Comhairle timpeallacht bháúil achruthú (le breis deiseanna) ina bhféadfadh an t-ealaíontóir lánaimseartha bláthú, agus níos móteagmhála agus tuisceana ag an bpobal leis nadearcealaíona agus níos mó páirtíochta iontu.
TionscnaimhMéadaíodh faoi dhó nach mór ar an sciarairgid a luadh leis an Ailtireacht sacháinaisnéis. Leasaíodh an ScéimPhrintíseachta sna dearcealaíona chun níos mómalartú smaointe agus eile a chothú idir nadearcealaíona agus an ailtireacht. Glacadh le
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Na Dearcealaíona agus an Ailtireacht‘My Mind
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A new budget was put in place for SpecialProjects. Projects funded included the artsprogramme at the National Maternity Hospitaland Umha Aois for their Bronze Age Project.
Limerick City Gallery of Art was awarded aprogramming grant for the first time.
A major increase in funding was awarded tothe Sirius Project to develop its organisation inCobh and to support its work of bringingimportant international artists to Ireland.
Projects in TrainThe final report of the Public Art Steering Groupwas presented to the Minister for Arts, Cultureand the Gaeltacht, the Minister for theEnvironment, and the Minister for Finance inMarch 1996. The report, which is to be publishedin early 1997, will outline a strategy for thedevelopment of a comprehensive public art policyand its implementation by governmentdepartments and public bodies.
The inter-departmental Steering Grouprepresenting the Department of Arts, Culture andthe Gaeltacht, the Department of theEnvironment, the Office of Public Works, TempleBar Properties and the Arts Council, was set up inDecember 1994 to oversee the Public ArtResearch Project.
ExhibitionsLimerick’s biennial exhibition, EV+A receivedincreased support in 1996 to encourage itsgrowth as a major annual focus onIrish/International art.
Temple Bar’s major print initiative, theTemple Bar International Print Show also receivedan exhibition grant.
Children and Young PeopleThe Arts Council has commissioned sevenexhibitions for schools’ audiences which aremade available to schools through LocalAuthority Arts Officers and V.E.C. ArtsEducation Organisers. The Council also givessupport to certain galleries and arts centres toenable visual artists to make one-day visits toschools to discuss and demonstrate their workwith students. This year, specific funding wasawarded to Cork Printmakers, Butler Gallery(Kilkenny), Limerick City Gallery, Arthouse,Gallery of Photography and Temple Bar Gallerytowards a series of education workshops and
hiarratais ó ailtirí le haghaidh roinnt eilescéimianna dearcealaíona.
Bunaíodh buiséad nua do ThionscadailSpeisialta. Ar na tionscadail ar cabhraíodh leo bhían clár ealaíona sa National Maternity Hospitalagus Umha-Aois le haghaidh a dtionscadal.
Bronnadh deontas do Limerick City ArtGallery le haghaidh sceidealaithe taispeántasden chéad uair.
Bhí ardú mór ar an airgead a deonaíodhdo tionscadal Sirius chun an t-eagras afhorbairt sa Chóbh agus chun tacú lena chuidiarrachtaí mórealaíontóirí tábhachtacha athabhairt go hÉirinn.
Tionscadail idir LámhaBronnadh tuarascáil deiridh An Ghrúpa Stiúrthaum Ealaín Phoiblí ar an Aire Ealaíon, Cultúir agusGaeltachta; ar an Aire Comhshaoil agus ar an AireAirgeadais i mí an Mhárta 1996. Tá sé i gceist antuarascáil a fhoilsiú go luath i 1997.
Bunaíodh an Grúpa Stiúrtha idir-aireachta imí na Nollag, 1994 chun an Tionscadal Taighdear an Ealaín Phoiblí a stiúradh, agus bhíionadaíocht ann ón Roinn Ealaíon, Cultúir agusGaeltachta, ón Roinn Comhshaoil, ó Oifig nanOibreacha Poiblí, ó Temple Bar Properties agusón gComhairle Ealaíon.
TaispeántaisTugadh níos mó cúnaimh don taispeántas EV+Aa tionóltar i Luimneach gach re bliain d’fhonn é achur chun cinn mar mórfhócas don ealaín idirÉireannach agus Idirnáisiúnta.
Bronnadh deontas ar an Temple BarInternational Print Show, mórthionscnamhpriontaí Bharra an Teampaill.
Páistí agus Daoine ÓgaTá seacht dtaispeántas a coimisiúnaíodh d’aonghnó do lucht féachána d’aois scoile imbailiúchán na Comhairle Ealaíon. Tá fáil agscoileanna orthusan trí na hOifigigh Ealaíon snahÚdaráis Áitiúla agus trí Eagraithe OideachasEalaíne sna Coistí Gairmoideachais. Ina theanntasin, tacaíonn an Chomhairle le gailearaithe áiritheagus le hionaid ealaíon chun cur ar a chumas dodhearcealaíontóirí cuairteanna aon lae a thabhairtar scoileanna chun a saothar a chur i láthair agusa phlé le daltaí. I mbliana tugadh deontais ar leithdo Cork Printmakers, Butler Gallery (CillChainnigh), Limerick City Gallery, Arthouse,
projects. The Council has noted the increasinglevel of interest shown on the part of galleriesand arts organisations in the educational aspectsof their work. It was agreed that an analysis ofthe present position regarding young people andchildren in the Visual Arts area should be carriedout during 1997.
Bursaries and AwardsThere was an increase of 28% on expenditure onawards and bursaries in 1996, from £134,300 to£172,000. The maximum available individualbursary was increased from £5,000 to £7,000.Priority was given to artists practising for morethan three years. However, one bursary was alsomade available to recent graduates or artistspractising for fewer than three years.
The areas of critical and curatorial skillswere addressed in a new award which wouldallow would-be curators and critics toparticipate in well-established internationalcuratorial/critical programmes. One award wasoffered in 1996. These areas were furtherdeveloped during the year when it was decidedto offer two separate bursaries, the Bursary inContemporary Visual Art Criticism (jointlyfunded with the Arts Council of NorthernIreland and CIRCA Arts Magazine) and theBursary in Contemporary Visual ArtsCuration, in 1997.
The Michael Byrne Award for Printmakerswas administered for the first time by the ArtsCouncil. The award, which was established tocommemorate the life and work of the lateMichael Byrne, will be made biennially and wasgiven to Felicity Clear in 1996.
The Marten Toonder Award was given toDermot Seymour; the PS1 Fellowship toPaddy Jolley and the George Campbell Awardto Lucy Hill.
Panellists for awards and bursaries in VisualArts and Architecture were: Felim Egan, GwenO’Dowd, Brenda McParland, Jasper McKinney,Jerome O’Drisceoil, Ciarán McGonigal andVivienne Roche.
Future ProjectsThe Council has undertaken an analysis ofprovision for artists’ studio facilities, with a viewto establishing appropriate norms and fundinglevels. This is due to be completed in 1997.
Gallery of Photography agus Temple Bar Gallerychun cuidiú le sraith ceardlanna oideachais agustionscadail. Tá tugtha faoi deara ag angComhairle go bhfuil níos mó spéise á cur aggailearaithe agus ag eagrais ealaíon sa ghnéoideachasúil dá gcuid oibre. Beartaíodh anailís adhéanamh ar chás na ndaoine óga agus na bpáistí maidir leis na Dearcealaíona i gcoitinne i rith 1997.
Sparánachtaí agus DuaiseannaTháinig méadú de 28% ar an gcaiteachas ardhuaiseanna agus ar sparántachtaí i 1996, ó £134,300 go dtí £172,000. Ardaíodh anuasteorainn sparántacht don duine aonair ó £5,000 go dtí £7,000. Tugadh tús áited’ealaíontóirí atá ag saothrú ar feadh níos mó ná trí bliana.
Tugann duais nua aghaidh ar scileannacritice agus coimeádta mar tugann sé deis dodhaoine ar spéis leo a bheith ina gcoimeádaitheagus ina gcriticeorí freastal ar chláir idirnáisiúntacoimeádta/critice atá seanbhunaithe. Bronnadhduais amháin i 1996. Forbraíodh na gnéithe seo irith na bliana nuair a socraíodh dhá sparántacht arleith a bhronnadh i 1997, an Sparántacht igCritic na Dearcealaíne Comhaimseartha (arnacomhchistiú ag an Arts Council of NorthernIreland agus an iris ealaíne CIRCA) agus anSparántacht i gCoimeád na DearcealaíneComhaimseartha.
Riar an Chomhairle Ealaíon Duais MichaelByrne do Chlódóirí den chéad uair. Bronnfar anduais, a bunaíodh i gcuimhne ar shaol agus arshaothar Michael Byrne, nach maireann, gach rebliain agus fuair Felicity Clear é i 1996.
Bronnadh Duais Marten Toonder ar DermotSeymour; an Chomhaltacht PS1 ar Paddy Jolleyagus Duais George Campbell ar Lucy Hill.
B’iad painéalaithe le haghaidhduaiseanna agus sparánachtaí ins naDearcealaíona agus in Ailtireacht ná: FelimEgan, Gwen O’Dowd, Brenda McParland,Jasper McKinney, Jerome O’Drisceoil, CiaránMcGonigal and Vivienne Roche.
Tionscadail sa TodhchaíBheartaigh an Chomhairle an anailís ar sholátharáiseanna stiúideo d’ealaíontóirí a chríochnúd’fhonn teacht ar noirm agus ar leibhéil cistithea bheadh cuí.
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Awards/Duaiseanna £Trevor Ahearn 300Christopher Banahan 300Mary Rose Binchy 1,000Andrew Boyle 3,000Stephen Brandes 500Michelle Byrne 400Jessica Callan and Shane Cullen 2,000Michael Canning 500Robert Clarke 400Angela Clarke 500Felicity Clear 500Éamon Colman 600Oliver Comerford 5,000Stephanie Condon-Casey 400Lorraine Cooke 300Bernadette Cotter 3,009Lynda Cronin 500Mark Dale 500Alan Daly 500Daniel de Chenu 2,500Aoife Desmond 450Patricia Doherty 1,000Chris Doris 500Blaise Drummond 600Sarah Durcan 3,000Brian Fay 300Mike Fitzharris 1,000Fergal Flanagan 500Pauline Flynn 500Martina Galvin 600Laura Gannon 900Gleigh Gaughan 500David Godbold 500Paul Gregg 600James Hanley 600Marie Hanlon 300Cliona Harmey 270Martin Healy 200Lucy Hill 3,000Dave Holland 300Kathleen Holohan 300Shelagh Honan 500Finola Jones 500Kevin Kelly 2,000Ann Marie Kelly 400Catherine Kenny 3,500David Kinane 600
Brian Kreydatus 300Clare Langan 7,000Aidan Linehan 300Jonathan Lynn and Jenny Fox 300Christine Mackey 800Fergus Martin 1,500Bermie Masterson 200Anthony McAteer 400Jane McCormick 500James McCreary 2,500Aidan McDermott 500Maurice McDonagh 3,000Daniel McKeon 500Willie McKeown 1,500Paul Mosse 3,000Donal Murray 300Fionnuala Ní Chíosáin 500Áine Nic Giolla Coda 1,000Nicos Nicolaou 2,000Ciarán Ó Cearnaigh 2,500Abigail O’Brien 500Louise O’Brien 1,000Augustine O’Donoghue 400Margaret O’Keefe 500Alanna O’Kelly 3,500Mick O’Kelly 3,000Séamus O’Rourke 500Janet Pierce 3,000John Reardon 500Leo Regan 5,300Deirdre Rogers 500Orla Ryan 2,000Clare Scott 200Clea Van der Grijn 1,500Stephen Vaughan 2,000Sarah Walker 500Corban Walker 600
Travel Awards/Duaiseanna TaistilMichael Cunningham 200Spark Deeley 180Chris Doris 500Fergus Feehily 450Jonathan Fitzpatrick 300Billy Foley 400Fergus Kelly 200Kirsty McGhie 270Mark McLoughlin 300Deirdre Meaney 200Nick Miller 200
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Holly Nixon 180Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh 300Una Sealy 200Leonard Sheil 300Desmond Shortt 300Martin Yelverton 270 104,979_____________
Ireland America Arts ExchangeResidency by Brian Hand in PS1 Studios, New York/ 21,652Malartán Ealaíona Éireann MheiriceáCónaitheacht Brian Hand i Stiúideonna PS1, Nua Eabhrach
Arts Council of Northern Ireland (re Alice Berger Hammerschlag Award)/ 618(re Duais Alice Berger Hammerschlag)
ARTFLIGHT: 250 travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 44,764250 duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
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Total—Awards/Iomlán—Duaiseanna 172,013
Grants/Deontais
Residencies/CónaitheachtaíWaterford Regional Hospital/Ospidéal Réigiúnach Phort Láirge 3,000Cork Printmakers 4,000Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin 500National Sculpture Factory, Cork 3,000Tallaght Community Arts Centre 2,000 12,500_____________
Joint Purchase/ComhcheannachContemporary Irish Art Society 1,000Kilkenny Technical School/Ceardscoil Chill Chainnigh 500County Monaghan VEC/Coiste Gairmoideachais Chontae Mhuineacháin 750Trinity College Dublin/Coláiste na Tríonóide Baile Átha Cliath 500Wexford County Council/Comhairle Contae Loch Garman 750 3,500_____________
Organisations/EagraíochtaíArthouse, Dublin 54,000Association of Artists in Ireland, Dublin 53,000Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo 15,000Black Church Print Studios, Dublin 30,000Cork Printmakers 25,500Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin 112,000Graphic Studio, Dublin 47,000National Sculpture Factory, Cork 75,500Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, Dublin 66,920Sirius Commemoration, Cork 15,000Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin 97,000 590,920_____________
Studios/StiúideonnaArtspace Studios Galway 14,000Backwater Artists Group, Cork 9,000Cork Artists’ Collective 5,500
New Art Studios, Dublin 8,000Visual Arts Centre, Dublin 7,000Wexford Sculpture Workshop 2,700 46,200_____________
Galleries/GailearaitheButler Gallery, Kilkenny 51,000Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 153,000Gallery of Photography, Dublin 85,000RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin 148,000Sligo Art Gallery 41,000 478,000_____________
Publications/FoilseacháinAssociation of Visual Artists in Ireland, Dublin 1,000Circa, Dublin 30,500Drogheda Corporation/Bardas Dhroichead Átha 500Gallery of Photography, Dublin 3,000Irish Arts Review, Dublin 3,920Kilbride Books, Wicklow 3,000 41,920_____________
Education/OideachasArthouse, Dublin 5,000Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 3,000Cork Printmakers 6,800Gallery of Photography, Dublin 3,000Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art (EV+A) 5,000Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin 4,500 27,300_____________
Major Exhibitions Grants/Deontais le haghaidh MórthaispeántasLimerick Exhibition of Visual Art (EV+A) 95,000Sligo Art Gallery 10,000 105,000_____________
Other Exhibitions/Taispeántais EileArchitectural Association of Ireland, Dublin 4,500ArtHive Gallery, Cork 750Artworking, Dublin 800Camac Sculpture Exhibition, Kildare 1,500Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork 6,000Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council/
Comhairle Contae Dhún Laoghaire-Ráth an Dúin 1,500An Dánlann, Teach an Léinn, Co Tiobraid Árann 690Carmel Doherty/Dromore Woodlands Exhibition, Clare 500Foxford Resources, Mayo 800Graphic Studio, Dublin 2,000Gavin Hogg, Limerick 1,500Insights’ 97, Dublin 2,000Irish Contemporary Ceramics, Dublin 4,000Irish Photographic Federation, Louth 750Kilmainham Gaol/Príosún Chill Mhaighneann, Dublin 1,000Limerick City Gallery 13,500Mosaic, Galway 3,000
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Paul O’Neill/Passport Exchange Exhibition 1,000An t-Oireachtas, Baile Átha Cliath 1,500OPP-ART, Cork 500Out Art, Dublin 1,500Project Arts Centre, Dublin 4,000Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Dublin 2,000Stone Leaf Gallery, Dublin 3,000Tallaght Community Arts Centre 1,000Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 1,000Temple Bar Properties, Dublin 7,000Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 7,000Waterford Corporation/Bardas Phort Láirge 1,500West Cork Arts Centre 1,000Wexford Arts Centre/Ionad Ealaíon Loch Garman 2,000 78,790_____________
Special Projects/Tionscadail SpeisialtaArtworking, Dublin 9,910Critical Access, Dublin 9,650FÍS/National Sculpture Factory, Corcaigh 10,000National Maternity Hospital 7,500Umha-Aois, Brí Chualann 2,000 39,060_____________ __________________________
Total—Awards and Grants/Iomlán—Duaiseanna agus Deontais 1,594,903
Directly Promoted Activities/Imeachtaí a Cuireadh Chun Cinn go DíreachServicing of Council’s Collection/Aire do Bhailiúchán na Comhairle 18,173Artists-in-Prisons/Ealaíontóirí-sna-Príosúin 4,000Schools Exhibitions/Taispeántais Scoileanna 3,747Architectural Advice/Comhairle Ailtireachta 3,081Miscellaneous/Ilnithe (1,714)_____________Total—Direct Promotions/Iomlán—Imeachtaí Díreacha 27,287
Total for Visual Arts and Architecture as Note 3 (page 104)/ 1,622,190__________________________Iomlán do na Dearcealaíona agus an Ailtireacht mar atá i Nóta 3 (leathanach 104)
Marten Toonder Award (Trust Fund)/Duais Marten Toonder (Ciste Iontaobhais)Dermot Seymour, artist/dearcealaíontóir 4,500_____________
Michael Byrne Award (Trust Fund)/Duais Michael Byrne (Ciste Iontaobhais)Felicity Clear, printmaker/clódóir 900_____________
Grants Received/Deontais a FuarthasArts Council of Northern Ireland (Exhibition Venue Guide) 4,800Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Artworking) 9,940Department of Justice (Artists-in-Prisons)/
An Roinn Dlí agus Cirt (Ealaíontóirí-sna-Príosúin) 5,000_____________
Total as Note 2 (page 103)/Iomlán mar atá i Nóta 2 (leathanach 103) 19,740__________________________
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Christopher Banahan Icon from the House oil/printed lace on canvas 1,250of the Tragic Poet /ola/lása i gcló ar chanbhás
Catherine Delaney Bridge Passage bronze/umha 2,530
Fergus Feehily Scent oil on wood/ola ar adhmad 900
Martina Galvin Letter to His Holiness, Pope resin & paper 300Paul III Nicholas Copernicus /roisín agus páipear
Sarah Iremonger Untitled Blue Series 1 ‘94 oil on canvas/ola ar chanbhás 200
John Kelly ‘Karvas’ Series No 35 pencil on paper/peann luaidhe ar páipear 800
Brian Kennedy Laganstown Panorama II monoprint/monoprionta 3,500
Dolores Lynne Connemara Day oil on canvas/ola ar chanbhás 225
Alice Maher Nettle Jacket nettles/pins/hanger 3,000/neatóga/bioráin/crochadán
Fergus Martin Untitled No 9 acrylic on cotton/acrilic ar cadás 750
Jackie McNamee Hair Raising lime wood/ paint/teile/adhmaid/péint 700
Janet Mullarney Look Back in Anger plaster/wood/metal/acrylic 4,000/plástar/adhmad/miotal/acrilic
Kathlyn O’Brien Untitled No 13 from Exhibition found objects/iarsmaí 600‘From Innocence Lost in Transit’
Nigel Rolfe Young Woman with a Rose 2/3 B/W silver gelatin print/ 200D/B cóip airigid
John Noel Smith Bilocation oil on canvas/ola ar chanbhás 6,860
Rachel Toomey Grave Dancing video/físeán 400
Katherine West Accumulation glass/porcelain/gloinne/poirceallán 350
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Total as Note 5 (page 105)/Iomlán mar atá i Nóta 5 (leathanach 105) 26,565__________________________
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An ScannánaíochtIntroductionExpenditure on Film in 1996 totalled £762,000,an increase of £101,000 (15%) on 1995.
This figure includes funding to a numberof film organisations, direct support toindividual film-makers, funding towards theFrameworks Animation Scheme, operated inassociation with The Irish Film Board/BordScannán na hÉireann and RTÉ, and fundingtowards the centenary of cinema celebrations.
PolicyThe Arts Council’s objectives in film are tosupport and develop film as an artform and tosupport the individual film-maker as artist.The Council fulfils its role largely by operatingin three distinct areas of film support:exhibition; training/education and support forthe individual film-maker.
InitiativesIn June, Communications Officer, MaryHyland took responsibility for the Film
RéamhráCaitheadh £762,000 ar an Scannanaíocht i 1996,méadú de £101,000 (15%) ar fhigiúr 1995.
Cuirtear san áireamh ansin an cistiú a rinneadhar roinnt eagras scannánaíochta, an cúnamh a tugadhgo díreach do dhéantóirí aonair scannán, an cistiú arinneadh ar an scéim anamúlachta Frameworks ariartar i gcomhar le Bord Scannán na hÉireann agusRTÉ, agus an cistiú speisialta a rinneadh archeiliúradh chéad bliain den scannánaíocht.
PolasaíIs iad cuspóirí na Comhairle Ealaíon maidir leisan scannánaíocht tacú léi agus í a fhorbairt marmheán ealaíne agus tacú leis an déantóir aonairscannán mar ealaíontóir. Cuirtear na cuspóirítacaíochta seo i gcrích ar thrí bhealach:taispeántas; oiliúint/oideachas agus tacaíocht dondéantóir aonair scannán.
TionscnaimhI mí an Mheithimh ghlac an tOifigeachCumarsáide, Mary Hyland, freagracht portfolio na
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portfolio, thus filling a vacancy which hadexisted for a number of years, and providingthe Council with a designated officer to dealwith film-related matters.
The first of six short animations wascompleted under the Frameworks AnimationScheme which had been established in 1995 byRTÉ, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish FilmBoard and the Arts Council to support the art ofanimation in a more structured way.
The Cinema 100 project, under theCentenary of Cinema Committee, was launched inFebruary 1996 to co-ordinate activities in Irelandin celebration of the centenary of cinema. TheCouncil allocated £30,000. During the year,Cinema 100 organised a variety of eventsincluding a cinema poster exhibition, newsreelsscreenings, educational projects, production of apublication, FilmInfo and a range of screenings,including five free outdoor screenings during themonth of August.
The Council, in association with BordScannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board,the Department of Arts, Culture and theGaeltacht and the National Library of Ireland,supported the production of a CD-ROMdatabase of Irish films and filmmakers. TheCD-ROM was compiled and produced byRobert Monks, and lists, in all their creativeand technical details, more than 1600 filmsmade in Ireland during the one hundred yearperiod, 1896–1996.
Projects in TrainThe Council continues to focus on the needfor training and education for young peoplein film. In this context, Council fundedCAVERN (Cork Audio Visual Education andRealisation Network) for the first time.This core funding enabled the organisationto establish itself on a professional basis.
The Council continues to workclosely with a range of state and semi-stateagencies dealing with Irish film, throughthe forum of STATCOM. In 1996 this bodybegan work on a strategic plan for acultural and industrial framework for filmand television. The vision is to establish afully developed vibrant, creative,competitive and energetic Irish film andtelevision sector by the year 2006.
scannánaíochta uirthi féin agus dá bhrí sin bhíoifigeach ainmnithe ag an gComhairle chundéileáil le cúrsaí scannán.
Críochnaíodh an chéad cheann de shéscannán beaga anamúlachta faoi ScéimAnamúlachta Frameworks a bhunaigh RTÉ, BordScannán na hÉireann agus an gComhairle Ealaíoni 1995 chun cabhrú le healaín na hanamúlachta arbheach níos struchtúrtha.
Seoladh an tionscadal Cinema 100 faoichoimirce Choiste Chéad Bliain denScannánaíocht i mí na Feabhra 1996 chun nahimeachtaí ceiliúrtha in Éirinn a chomhordú.Chuir an Chomhairle £30,000 i leataobh chuigeseo. I rith na bliana d’eagraigh Cinema 100imeachtaí éagsúla, ina measc taispeántas dephóstaeir scannán, taspeántaí seanscannáinnuachta, tionscadail oideachasúla, táirgeadh anfhoilseacháin FilmInfo agus réimse leathantaispeántaí, cúig cinn acu saor agus amuigh faoinspéir i mí Lúnasa.
Chabhraigh an Chomhairle le táirgeadhbunachar CD-ROM de scannáin agus dedhéantóirí scannán Éireannacha 1896–1996. Ba éRobert Monks a thiomsaigh agus a tháirg é aguschistigh an Chomhairle Ealaíon, Bord ScannánÉireann, an Roinn Ealaíon, Cultúir agusGaeltachta agus Leabharlann Náisiúnta nahÉireann é. Tugann an CD-ROM na sonraícruthaitheacha agus teicniúla do breis is 1600scannán a rinneadh anseo le céad bliain anuas.
Tionscadail idir LámhaTá sé i gceist ag an gComhairle an bhéim achoimeád ar an ngá atá le hoiliúint agus oideachasa chur ar dhaoine óga i gcúrsaí scannán. Sachomhthéacs seo, chistigh an Chomhairle CAVERN
(Cork Audio Visual Education and RealisationNetwork) den chéad uair. Chabhraigh ansíolchistiú seo leis an eagraíocht chun é a féin achur ar bonn proifisiúnta.
Leanann an Chomhairle ag comhoibriú godlúth le réimse áisíneachtaí stáit agus leathstáit aphléann an scannánaíocht in Éirinn trí mheánSTATCOM. Chuaigh an comhlacht seo i mbun oibrear phlean straitéiseach i 1996 chun infrastruchtúrcultúrtha agus tionsclaíoch don scannánaíocht agusdon teilifís a fhorbairt. Is é an aisling atá ann earnáilbheoga, chruthaitheach, iomaíoch, fhuinniúil,lánfhorbartha a dhéanamh den scannánaíocht agusden teilifís faoin mbliain 2006.
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Children and Young PeopleThe Junior Galway Film Fleadh became aseparate entity from the Galway Film Fleadhin 1996 and received separate funding for thefirst time. Kilkenny-based Young Irish FilmMakers also received Arts Council funding forthe first time. This innovative organisationinvolves young people in all aspects of film-making and deals with themes specific to young people.
Bursaries and AwardsThe Arts Council sees the Film and VideoAwards as an essential tool for thedevelopment of original and innovative formsof film-making and for the support of the
Páistí agus Daoine ÓgaRinneadh féile ar leith den Junior Galway FilmFleadh murab ionann agus an Galway Film Fleadhi 1996 agus fuair sé cistiú ar leith den chéad uair.Chistigh an Chomhairle Ealaíon Young Irish FilmMakers, lonnaithe i gCill Chainnigh, den chéaduair chomh maith. Cabhraíonn an t-eagrasthionscnamhach seo le daoine óga páirt a ghlacadhi ngach gné den scannánaíocht agus pléann sétéamaí ar leith a mbeadh spéis acu iontu.
Sparánachtaí agus DuaiseannaIs é an dearcadh atá ag an gComhairle Ealaíon arna duaiseanna Scannán agus Video gur áisriachtanach iad d’fhorbairt chineálacha scanná-naíochta nuaí agus nuálaí agus don déantóir
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individual film-maker as artist. Awards aremade under the headings of experimental film,short drama and community film and video.Awards for animation are now made under theFrameworks Scheme.
In February the Council announced itsfirst round of awards. The top award of£10,000 went to Parzival Productions forBrood, a half hour collaboration betweenpoet, Ian Kilroy and director, FrankieMcCafferty. In September three awards of£6,000 each were made to Michael Hewittand Double Band Films for Still Life, aninnovative single character drama whichdeals with the topic of old age; MichaelWest and Joy Giovannelli for Alaska, acomedy about a young man and his vainattempts to ask a girl for a date, and WetPaint Arts for The Tribal Project, a communityarts video tracking a highly innovativejourney into the cultural and imaginativepowers of children.
Panellists for awards in film were: Ciaran Donnelly, Brigid Fitzgerald, DamienO’Donnell, Laura Magahy, Jane Dillon Byrne,Vivienne Roche and Páraic Breathnach.
Future ProjectsIn 1997 the Council will introduce filmtraining awards to enable individuals alreadyworking in film to undertake specialiststudy, professional training or structuredwork programmes abroad which will benefittheir art.
Council also intends to undertake ananalysis of its film policy and support in 1997.This will be carried out in the context of thepresence of other film policy and fundingagencies. It is intended to involve consultationand dialogue with a broad spectrum ofagencies, organisations and individuals involvedin film in Ireland.
aonair scannán mar ealaíontóir. Bronntar naduaiseanna faoi na cinnteidil seo: scannán trialach,dráma gairid agus scannán agus video pobail.Bronntar na duaiseanna don anamúlacht faoiScéim Frameworks anois.
I mí Feabhra d’fhógair an Chomhairle achéad sciar duaiseanna. Bronnadh an príomhdhuaisde £10,000 ar Parzival Productions le haghaidhBrood, píosa comhoibritheach leathuair a chloig, arinne an file Ian Kilroy agus an Stiúrthóir FrankieMcCafferty. I mí Mheán Fómhair bronnadh trídhuais £6,000 an ceann ar Michael Hewitt agusDouble Band Films le haghaidh Still Life, drámanuálach aoncharachtair a phléann an tseanaois; doMichael West agus Joy Giovannelli le haghaidhAlaska, píosa grinn faoi iarrachtaí mírathúla fir óigcoinne a dhéanamh le cailín agus do Wet PaintArts le haghaidh The Tribal Project, video ealaíonapobail a thaiscealaíonn buanna cultúrtha agussamhlaíochta na bpáistí ar bhealach nuálach.
B’iad painéalaithe le haghaidhduaiseanna sa scannánaíocht ná CiaranDonnelly, Brigid Fitzgerald, DamienO’Donnell, Laura Magahy, Jane Dillon Byrne,Vivienne Roche agus Páraic Breathnach.
Tionscadail sa TodhchaíTionscnóidh an Chomhairle duaiseanna oiliúna sascannánaíocht i 1997 chun cur ar a gcumas dóibhsiúd atá ag obair sa scannánaíocht cheana dul tharlear chun tabhairt faoi speisialtóireachtaí, faoinoiliúint ghairmiúil nó faoi chláir struchtúrthaoibre a shaibhreodh a n-ealaín.
Tá sé ar intinn ag an gComhairle chomhmaith anailís a dhéanamh i 1997 ar a cuidpolasaithe a fhad is a bhaineann leis an scanná-naíocht agus leis an tacaíocht a thugtar di.Cuifear san áireamh ansin gurb ann d’áisíneachtaíeile polasaí agus cistithe scannán. Rachfar chuncainte le réimse leathan áisíneachtaí, eagras agusdaoine aonair atá páirteach sa scannánaíocht inÉirinn agus lorgófar comhairle uathu.
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Awards/Duaiseanna £Frameworks Animation Awards Scheme/Duaiseanna Frameworks 25,000 Double Band Films 4,000 Brian Drysdale 6,000 Joy Giovannelli 4,500 Graph Film Productions 8,000 Kestervale, Dublin 5,000 Mandy McIntosh 1,500 Sean Ó Mordha 7,000 John O’Brien 4,000 Paradox Pictures 1,500 Parzival Productions 10,000 Jean Pasley 3,000 Red Mountain Media 2,500 Colum Stapleton 2,500 Wet Paint Arts 6,000 Liam Wylie 9,000
ARTFLIGHT: 73 travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 13,539 73 duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
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Total—Awards/Iomlán—Duaiseanna 113,039
Grants/DeontaisCAVERN, Cork 2,000 Cinema 100, Dublin 30,000 Cork Film Festival 36,500 Dublin Film Festival 22,000 Federation of Irish Film Societies, Dublin 54,000 Film Base, Dublin 68,500 Film Institute of Ireland, Dublin 340,000 Galway Film Fleadh 20,000 Galway Film Resource Centre 37,000 610,000 _____________
Education/OideachasArthouse, Dublin 10,000 Cork Film Festival 3,500 Junior Dublin Film Festival 15,000 Junior Galway Film Fleadh 1,500 Young Irish Film Makers, Kilkenny 1,500 31,500_____________ _____________Total—Awards and Grants/Iomlán—Duaiseanna agus Deontais 754,539
Sundry/Ilnithe 7,475 _____________
Total for Film as Note 3 (page 104)/ 762,014 Iomlán don Scannánaíocht mar atá i Nóta 3 (leathanach 104)
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IntroductionExpenditure on Drama in 1996 totalled£6,187,000, an increase of £471,000 (9%) on 1995.
PolicyThe Theatre Review was inaugurated in mid-1995, with a Steering Committee ofCouncil members appointed under theChairmanship of Vic Merriman.
The Theatre Review completed its workin 1996, with a restatement of policies and arevised range of initiatives and schemes ofsupport informed by the review process (cf. separate chapter).
InitiativesA number of significant initiatives taken by the Council during 1996 apart fromthose outlined in the new policy documentGoing On included:
RéamhráCaitheadh £6,187,000 san iomlán ar anDrámaíocht i 1996, méadú de £471,000 (9%) arfhigiúr 1995.
PolasaíTosaíodh ar Athbreithniú na hAmharclainne i lár1995 nuair a ceapadh baill den Chomhairle arChoiste Stiúrtha faoi chathaoirleacht Vic Merriman.
Críochnaíodh an t-athbhreithniú i 1996nuair a éisíodh ráiteas nua polasaí agus luadhréimse nua tionscnamh agus scéimeanna tacaíochtai bhfianaise an phróisis athbhreithnithe (cf. caibidil ar leith).
TionscnaimhLasmuigh ar fad de na tionscnaimhchuimsitheacha a luadh sa ráiteas nua polasaíGoing On a bhí ina thoradh ar an athbhreithniú aran amharclannaíocht, chuir earnáil na drámaíochtatús le roinnt tionscnamh tábhachtach i rith 1996.
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An DrámaíochtBarabbas...
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■ Wide ranging, tri-partite discussions wereheld, at the suggestion of the Arts Council,involving the Council, the National TheatreSociety and the Department of Arts, Cultureand the Gaeltacht, in the course of whichvirtually all aspects of the operations, thestructures and the policies of the Societywere examined
■ Barabbas ... the Company received their firstrevenue grant
■ The Town Hall Theatre, Galway receivedrevenue grant-aid and a programming grantfor the first time
■ Funding was provided for the first time to theDublin Theatre Fringe Festival.
Projects in TrainThe operation of the Council’s Theatre TouringScheme was examined during the autumn of1996 in the context of the Theatre Review. It was decided to maintain the schemeunchanged during 1997 in order to allowproduction companies and venue managementsmore time to explore the potential for co-production and increased touring activity whichthe ‘deregulation’ of the scheme created.
1996 saw an increase from eight to twelvein the number of production companies inreceipt of touring grants, and the total budgetfor theatre touring was increased by 37% overthe 1995 out-turn.
Funding to support the very successfulPlaywrights’ Commissioning Scheme was increasedfrom £27,500 in 1995 to £30,000 in 1996.
Ina meascsan bhí:■ Plé tríthaobhach, leathan idir an Chomhairle
Ealaíon, an National Theatre Society agus anRoinn Ealaíon, Cultúir agus Gaeltachta inarscrúdaíodh gach gné d’oibriúchán, destruchtúir agus de pholasaithe an NationalTheatre Society
■ Fuair Barabbas … The Company a chéaddeontas ioncaim
■ Fuair The Town Hall Theatre, Gaillimh deontasi gcabhair le haghaidh ioncaim agus deontas lehaghaidh sceidealaithe den chéad uair
■ Cistíodh an Dublin Theatre Fringe Festival den chéad uair.
Tionscadail idir LámhaScrúdaíodh oibriú an Theatre TouringScheme, scéim de chuid na Comhairle, ibhFómhar 1996 mar chuid den Athbhreithniúar na hAmharclainne. Beartaíodh gan an scéima choimeád gan athrú i 1997 chun ligean dochompántais léirithe agus do bhainisteoiríláithreacha araon níos mó a chaitheamh chunimpleachtaí ‘dírialú’ na scéime, agus nadeiseanna breise comhléirithe agus taistil dá réir, a mheas.
Mhéadaigh líon na gcompántas léirithe a bhíag fáil deontas taistil óna hocht go dtí a dó dhéagi 1996 agus tháinig méadú 37% ar an mbuiséadiomlán don amharclannaíocht taistil i 1996 igcomparáid le suim 1995.
Ardaíodh an cistiú don ScéimCoimisiúnaithe Drámadóirí ó £27,500 i 1995 godtí £30,000 i 1996.
Páistí agusDaoine ÓgaArdaíodh an cistiúdon fhoroinn seofaoi 20% agus dáréir sin shroich ancéatadán dedheontais d’eagraisatá ag obair saghort seo ó 8% i1995 go dtí 10%.Deonaíodh ardúsubstaintiúil doBarnstorm TheatreArts (CillChainnigh) agusdon StorytellersLes Danaiides at the 1996 Dublin Theatre Festival
Children and Young PeopleFunding to this subhead was increased by 20%,bringing the proportion of grant-aid to organi-sations working in this sector from 8% in 1995to 10%. Significant increases were awarded toBarnstorm Theatre Arts (Kilkenny) andStorytellers Theatre Company (Dublin). TheCouncil will consider how best to implement thenine specific recommendations contained in Going
On regarding the developmental needs of theatreby and for children and young people.
Bursaries and AwardsThe funding for awards to individuals wasincreased by 20% over the 1995 out-turn. TheCouncil is very encouraged by the success of theawards for individuals in Drama, and by theimprovements in the standards, confidence andcreativity of the recipients of these awards.
The Council is reviewing how best todevelop these awards to be more effective andsupportive of persons on their career paths in the theatre arts.
Panellists for awards and bursaries in Dramawere: Eithne Healy, Mary Elizabeth Burke Kennedy,Vic Merriman, Páraic Breathnach, Pat Murray.
International DimensionThe Third Theatre Shop was organised by RoughMagic to coincide with the Dublin TheatreFestival, and this event proved very beneficial forthe large number of participants.
1996 saw a number of the Arts Council’sfunded organisations presenting work verysuccessfully overseas, including Druid TheatreCompany’s production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane
to the Royal Court in London; Rough MagicTheatre Company’s production of Pentecost toLondon, Brighton and Edinburgh; The NationalTheatre Society’s productions of Observe the Sons of
Ulster to London, Liverpool, Blackpool, Malvern,Plymouth, Paris, Brussels, and Bonn, Portia Coughlan
to London, and Well of the Saints to Paris; Gate TheatreCompany – the stage works of Samuel Beckett atthe Lincoln Festival, New York; Passion Machine’sBuddleia in Poland; Meridian’s Rock Station inLondon; and Macnas’s Balor to Bogota, Columbia.
Theatre Company (Baile Átha Cliath). Déanfaidhan Chomhairle a machnamh ar na slite ab fhearrna naoi sainmholadh a luaitear in Going On a churi gcrích, moltaí i leith riachtanas forbartha nahamharclannaíochta do pháistí agus do dhaoineóga agus i leith na hamharclannaíochta achruthódh na grúpaí seo dóibh féin.
Sparánachtaí agus DuaiseannaMéadaíodh ar chistiú na nduaiseanna seo le20% sa bhreis ar fhigiúr 1995. Is mór an tógáilcroí don Chomhairle an dea-thoradh a bhí ar naduaiseanna a bronnadh ar dhaoine aonair faoiscéimeanna Drámaíochta agus mar ad’fheabhsaigh siad siúd a fuair na duaiseannaseo ó thaobh caighdeán, féinmhuiníne aguscruthaitheachta.
Tá an Chomhairle ag athbhreithniú conasis fearr na scéimeanna seo a fhorbairt gombeidís níos éifeachtaí agus go dtabharfaidísníos mó tacaíochta do dhaoine atá ar bhótharna drámaíochta.
B’iad painéalaithe le haghaidh duaiseannaagus sparánachtaí sa Drámaíocht ná: Eithne Healy,Mary Elizabeth Burke Kennedy, Vic Merriman,Páraic Breathnach, Pat Murray.
An Ghné IdirnáisiúntaD’eagraigh Rough Magic an Third Theatre Shopar aon am leis an Dublin Theatre Festival agusbhain an slua a ghlac páirt ann an-tairbhe as.
I 1996 léirigh roinnt de na heagrais achistíonn an Chomhairle drámaí thar lear, inameasc: Druid Theatre Company a léirigh The
Beauty Queen of Leenane sa Royal Court iLondain; Rough Magic Theatre Company aléirigh Pentecost i Londain, Brighton agus DúnÉidinn; The National Theatre Society a léirighObserve the Sons of Ulster i Londain, Learpholl,Blackpool, Malvern, Plymouth, i bPáras, saBhruiséil agus in Bonn, Portia Coughlan iLondain agus Well of the Saints i bPáras; GateTheatre Company a léirigh saothair stáisteBeckett ag an Lincoln Festival i Nua Eabhrac;Passion Machine a léirigh Buddleia sa Pholainn;Meridian a léirigh Rock Station i Londain agusMacnas a léirigh Balor i Bogota, Columbia.
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Awards/Duaiseanna £Frank Bourke 1,500Kieran Brennan 1,500Johanna Connor 5,000Leslie Doherty 2,000Alexander Downes 2,000Jimmy Fay 500Tana French 1,000Anthony Goulding 2,000Pauline Hutton 1,000Jason Kavanagh 2,000Deirdre Kearney 2,000Belinda Kelly 4,600Fidelma Keogh 1,500Tamsin MacCarthy-Morrogh 2,000Anne Marie McAuley 1,500Eimear McBride 3,500Denise McCormack 2,000Yvonne McDevitt 4,228Michelle McLoughlin 2,000Caroline McSweeney 4,000Deirdre Molloy 1,000Catherine Montague 1,000Emily Nagle 700Ruth O’Connell 1,500Sandra O’Malley 1,400Enda Ormonde 1,500Deirdre Roycroft 1,000Russell Smith 1,500Karen Staples 2,500Helena Walsh 500
ARTFLIGHT: 139 Travel Awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 22,962139 duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
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Total—Awards/Iomlán—Duaiseanna 81,390
Playwrights’ Commission Scheme/Scéim Coimisiúnaithe DrámadóiríBarnstorm Theatre Company, Kilkenny 1,500Calypso Productions, Dublin 1,000Co-Motion Theatre Company, Dublin 1,250Corcadorca Theatre Company, Cork 1,500Druid Theatre Company, Galway 3,000Everyman Palace, Cork 1,500Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin 1,750Galway Arts Centre 1,000
Glasshouse Productions, Dublin 1,500Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Dublin 1,750Island Theatre Company, Limerick 500National Association for Youth Drama, Dublin 1,250Passion Machine, Dublin 1,500Pigsback Theatre Company, Dublin 1,500Project Arts Centre, Dublin 3,000Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford 2,000Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 2,000Storytellers, Dublin 1,750Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe 600 29,850_____________
Grants to Organisations/Deontais d’EagraíochtaíNational Theatre Society, Dublin 2,658,000
(Abbey and Peacock Theatres) (see also under Capital, page 94)/(Amharclanna na Mainistreach agus na Péacóige)(féach chomh maith faoi Caipiteal, leathanach 94)
Amharclann de hÍde, Baile Átha Cliath 60,000Backstage Theatre, Longford 20,000Barabbas...The Company, Dublin 30,000Bickerstaffe Theatre Company, Kilkenny 40,000Blue Raincoat Theatre, Sligo 30,000Calypso Productions, Dublin 20,000Co-Motion Theatre Company, Dublin 40,000Corcadorca Theatre Company, Cork 20,000Cork Opera House 24,000Druid Theatre Company, Galway 267,000Dublin Theatre Festival 220,000Everyman Palace, Cork 70,000Focus Theatre, Dublin 48,000Galloglass Theatre Company, Clonmel 31,914Galway Corporation Town Hall Theatre 20,000Gate Theatre, Dublin 525,000Glasshouse Productions, Dublin 25,000Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo 80,000Island Theatre Company, Limerick 60,000Macnas, Galway 60,000Meridian Productions, Cork 40,000Passion Machine, Dublin 60,000Pigsback Theatre Company, Dublin 40,000Punchbag Theatre Company, Galway 25,000Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford 100,000Rough Magic, Dublin 130,000Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny 45,000Yew Theatre Company, Sligo 30,000 4,818,914_____________
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Barabbas ... The Company, Dublin 20,000Bickerstaffe, Kilkenny 20,000Druid Theatre Company, Galway 70,000Galloglass Theatre, Clonmel 20,000Island Theatre Company, Limerick 20,000Macnas, Galway 30,000Meridian Productions, Cork 20,000Pigsback Theatre Company, Dublin 20,000Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford 40,000Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin 30,000Storytellers, Dublin 20,000 310,000_____________
Theatre Touring: Grants to Venues/Amharclannaíocht ar Chamcuairt: Deontais do Láithreacha
Backstage Theatre, Longford 15,000Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick 30,000Cork Opera House 100,000Everyman Palace, Cork 35,000Garage Theatre, Monaghan 7,500Galway Corporation/Bardas na Gaillimhe 20,000Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford 14,851Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo 25,000Project Arts Centre, Dublin 9,712Siamsa Tíre, Trá Lí 10,000Watergate Theatre Company, Kilkenny 23,000 290,063_____________
Theatre Touring: Grants to Local Authorities/Amharclannaíocht ar Chamcuairt: Deontais d’Údaráis Áitiúla
Book Worms, Ballinasloe/Galway County Council/ComhairleContae na Gaillimhe 1,000Cavan County Council/Comhairle Contae an Chabháin 400Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council/
Comhairle Contae Dhún Laughaire-Ráth an Dún 1,100Donegal County Council/Comhairle Contae Dhún na nGall 2,580Galway Arts Centre/Ionad Ealaíon na Gaillimhe 3,200Mayo County Council/Comhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo 4,795Wexford Arts Centre/Ionad Ealaíon Loch Garman 550 13,625_____________
Theatre Projects/Tionscadail AmharclannaíochtaBedrock Theatre Company, Dublin 10,000Calypso Productions, Dublin 15,000Dublin Fringe Festival 10,000The Machine, Meath 10,000 45,000_____________
Education/OideachasBarnstorm Theatre, Kilkenny 45,000Dublin Youth Theatre 15,000Galway Arts Centre/Galway Youth Theatre 15,000Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork 90,000National Association for Youth Drama, Dublin 72,000Second Age, Dublin 55,000Storytellers, Dublin 45,000Team Educational Theatre, Dublin 170,000Waterford Youth Drama 15,000Lyric Players Theatre, Belfast 2,355Wexford Youth Theatre 5,000Pan Pan Theatre Company, Dublin 7,500Dry Rain Performing Arts, Wicklow 5,000Tallaght Youth Theatre, Dublin 5,000 546,855_____________
Sundry/IlnitheStewart Parker Trust, Belfast 4,000Playcircle, Dublin 2,000Theatre Shop, Dublin 3,500Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe 1,000 10,500_____________
_____________Total—Awards and Grants/Iomlán—Duaiseanna agus Deontais 6,146,197
Directly Promoted Activities/Imeachtaí a Cuireadh Chun Cinn go DíreachTheatre Review/Athbreithniú na hAmharclainne 38,803Miscellaneous/Nithe Ilchineálacha 1,810 40,613_____________
_____________Total for Drama as Note 3 (page 104)/ 6,186,810__________________________Iomlán don Drámaíocht mar atá i Nóta 3 (leathanach 104)
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Plan, the Arts Council recognised the need for anextensive review of theatre to ensure that Councilpolicies in drama would be based on as wide arange of data and information as possible.
A Steering Committee was appointedunder the chairmanship of Vic Merriman. Theother members were, Páraic Breathnach, MaryElizabeth Burke-Kennedy, and Eithne Healy.Declan Gorman was appointed Theatre ReviewCo-ordinator.
By the end of 1995, the first phase of theReview was completed with the publication ofViews of Theatre in Ireland, 1995.
Phase TwoThe second phase, consisting of consultativepublic meetings throughout the country with thetheatre sector, partner organisations, and thewider public, was underway by the end of 1995with the National meeting held at Dublin Castlein December 1995.
Páirt a hAonLe linn ullmhaithe an chúrsa do Phlean na n-Ealaíon,d’aithin an Chomhairle Ealaíon go raibh gá lehathbhreithniú domhain ar an Amharclann chun achinntiú go mbeadh polasaithe na Comhairle sadráma bunaithe ar réimse chomh leathan agus isféidir maidir le heolas agus sonraí.
Bunaíodh Comhairle Stiúrtha agus cuireadhVic Merriman sa Chathaoir. Ba iad na baill eile náPádraic Breathnach, Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy agus Eithne Healy. Ceapadh DeclanGorman mar Chomhordanaitheoir Athbhreithniúna hAmharclainne.
Faoi dheireadh na bliana 1995, bhí an chéadchuid den athbhreithniú curtha i gcrích nuair afoilsíodh Views of Theatre in Ireland, 1995.
Páirt a DóIs é an rud a bhí i gceist leis an dara páirt nácruinnithe poiblí comhairleacha a thionól ar fudna tíre a mbeadh rannóg na hAmharclainne,eagraíochtaí comhpháirtíochta agus an pobal igcoitinne páirteach iontu. Cuireadh seo ar an
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Machine’s
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Buddleia
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Dialogues, 1996 Further meetings took place during January andFebruary 1996 in Waterford, Cork, Monaghan,Longford, Galway and Dublin and a number offocused meetings with the sector followed inMay. This second phase culminated in thepublication of Dialogues, 1996, an edited accountof these consultative meetings.
Phase ThreeThe Review was completed with the publicationof a new drama policy document Going On inDecember 1996. The principal points of thepolicy document are:
■ The Arts Council is concerned with thedevelopment of drama as an artform; excellencein the theatre arts is the uncompromisedoverall objective of the Council
■ A graded structure for funding theatrecompanies is to be introduced in 1997
■ A number of companies are to be selected fora three-year funding cycle, 1997–1999 on apilot basis. This is intended to provide forbetter long-term planning and greaterstability for organisations. It will be subjectto the funding available to the Council forThe Arts Plan
■ Other companies are to be funded on a ‘projectbasis’ – which in certain cases would beprovided for two years – and new companies tobe supported in this way
■ Clear criteria are to be defined and published,and a comprehensive appraisal process to beinitiated as a complementary aspect of the newfunding framework
■ Experimentation and innovation in the theatrearts and theatre production will be encouragedby mise-en-scene grants
■ The Arts Council has developed a compre-hensive understanding of the operations ofthe National Theatre Society over twentyyears of funding. Given this understanding,and its knowledge of the totality of theneeds of the theatre arts in Ireland, the ArtsCouncil asserts that it is the appropriatebody to provide funding for the NationalTheatre Society
■ While the Council is not a training agency, itwill seek to identify the needs and the standardsrequired, and will encourage relevant agenciesand organisations to address that agenda
mbóthar faoi dheireadh na bliana 1995 nuair ationóladh an cruinniú Náisiúnta ag CaisleánBhaile Átha Cliath i mí na Nollag 1995.
Dialogues, 1996Bhí tuilleadh cruinnithe ann le linn mí Eanáiragus Feabhra 1996 i bPort Láirge, i gCorcaigh, iMuineachán, i Longfort, i nGaillimh agus imBaile Átha Cliath agus bhí roinnt cruinnithesainiúlaleis an rannóg i mí na Bealtaine. Tháinigcríoch leis an dara páirt nuair a foilsíodh Dialogues, 1996, cuntas eagraithe ar na cruinnithecomhairleacha seo.
Páirt a TríCríochnaíodh an tAthbhreithniú le foilsiúcháipéis nua ar pholasaí dráma, Going On, i mí naNollag 1996. Is iad príomhphointí an cháipéispholasaí seo:
■ Deimhníonn an Chomhairle Ealaíon gur curamdi forbairt na healaíona agus gurb é feabhas inealaíon na hamharclainne an sprioc diongb-háilte atá aici
■ Go dtabharfaí isteach struchtúr grádaithe igcomhair mhaoiniú comhlachtaíamharclainne i 1997
■ Roghnófar roinnt comhlachtaí le haghaidhtimthriall maoinithe trí bhliain 1997–1999 arbhonn phiolóiteach. Seard is aidhm donbheartas seo náar phleanáil fhadtéarmach afheabhsú, agusbuanacht níos fearr a thabhairtdo na heagraíochtaí. Beidh sé ag brath ar anmhaoiniú a bheadh ar fáil don Chomhairle lehaghaidh Plean na n-Ealaíon
■ Go maoineofaí comhlachtaí eile ar ‘bhunústogra’ – a bheidh curtha ar fáil i gcásannaáirithe ar feadh dhá bhliain – agus go dtacófaíle comhlachtaí nua ar an gcaoi seo
■ Critéir shoiléire a bheith mínithe agusfoilsithe, agus tús a chur le próiseascuimsitheach luachála mar ghné chomhlántachden de chreatlach nua maoinithe
■ Spreagfar tástáil agus athruithe nua in ealaíonaamharclainne agus léiriú amharclainne ledeontais mise-en-scene
■ Deimhníonn an Chomhairle Ealaíon gurb éféin an eagraíocht fheiliúnach chun dul chuncinn agus riachtanais an National TheatreSociety a mheas, toisc a thuiscintchuimsitheach ar an gcaoi a n-oibríonn anCumann atá acu le os cionn fiche bliain, agus
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■ Council will highlight the concept of a ‘careerpath’ for individuals seeking to work in theatre
■ Council will seek to develop effectivepartnerships with Government Departmentsand other state agencies
■ Every funded organisation will be exhorted tofocus on the audience for theatre
■ A local theatre provision scheme will belaunched on a pilot basis in two or three localauthority areas
■ In association with other relevant agenciesmechanisms will be put in place to supportcompanies interested in bringing theirwork overseas
■ A working party will focus on standards andpractice in theatre by and for children andyoung people
■ In partnership with the Arts Council ofNorthern Ireland, the Council will establish adedicated fund for the support of cross-bordertheatre touring in 1997
■ Theatre Touring will continue to be reviewedand modified as the environment changeswith particular attention being paid to theneeds of audiences.
■ Spreagfaidh agus déanfaidh an Chomhairleiarracht comhpháirtíocht éifeachtach a bheithacu le ranna rialtais agus gníomhaireachtaíStáit eile
■ Spreagfar gach eagraíocht maoinithe chun díriúisteach ar an lucht féachana don Amharclann.
■ Seolfar scéim soláthar amharclann áitiúilar bhonn píolóta i dhá nó trí cheantarúdarás áitiúil
■ Cruthófar taisce speisialta i gcomhpháirtíochtle gníomhaíochtaí cuí eile chun tacú lecomhlachtaí ar mhian leo a gcuid oibre athabhairt thar sáile
■ Díreoidh páirtí oibre isteach ar chaighdeáinagus cleachtadh san amharclann ó agus doleanaí agus daoine óga
■ I gcomhpháirtíocht leis an Arts Council ofNorthern Ireland bunaíodh an ChomhairleEalaíon sainchiste chun camchuairteannatrasteorainn a thacú le linn 1997
■ Leanfar le hathbhreithniú agusmionathruithe ar Amharclannaíocht arChamcuairt de réir mar a athraíonn antimpeallacht le haird ar leith á thabhairt arriachtanais an lucht féachana.
an t-eolas atá acu ariomláine nariachtanas atá dedhíth ar ealaíonaamharclainne inÉirinn
■ Cé nachgníomhaireachttraenála í anChomhairle,aithneoidh sí, áfach,na riachtanais agusna caighdeáin atá agteastáil, agusspreagfaidh sí nagníomhaireachtaíchuí chun tabhairtfaoin gclár oibre sin
■ Tabharfaidh anChomhairle chunsuntais coincheap an‘chasáin gairme’ dodhaoine aonair abhíonn ag lorg oibresan amharclann
Bickerstaffe’s
production of
Hard to
Believe by
Conall
Morrison
IntroductionExpenditure on Dance in 1996 totalled £569,000,an increase of £123,000 (28%) on 1995.
PolicyIn March, Council appointed Gaye Tanham asOfficer with responsibility for Dance and YouthArts. It was agreed that her first task in Dancewould be to address key developmental issues, asidentified in The Arts Plan, to include an investi-gation into the current situation regardingvocational dance training, gaps in danceinfrastructure, and the need to put in placeincentives to assist the work of creative danceartists in Ireland.
Initiatives■ The Council, in collaboration with the
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, commissioned an independent enquiry intocurrent levels and practice of vocationaldance training in Ireland. This study, whichwill be completed in 1997, is being carried
RéamhráSan iomlán caitheadh £569,000 ar Rince i 1996, sin méadú de £123,000 (28%) ar 1995.
PolasaíI mí na Márta, d’ainmnigh an Chomhairle GayeTanham mar oifigeach le freagracht do Rince agusEalaíona na hÓige. Sa Rince aontaíodh gurb é acéad tasc tabhairt faoi phríomhcheisteannaforbartha, fé mar a aithníodh i bPlean na n-Ealaíon,a chuirfeadh san áireamh fiosrú sa chás atá annfaoi láthair maidir le traenáil rince gairme, bearnaísa bhonneagar rince, agus an gá spreagadh abheith ann chun cuidiú le hobair na n-ealaíontóirírince cruthaitheach in Éirinn.
Tionscnaimh■ D’iarr an Chomhairle, i gcomhar leis an Arts
Council of Northern Ireland, fiosrúchánneamhspleách a dhéanamh sna leibhéil agus sachleachtadh atá ag traenáil rince gairmiúil inÉirinn. Tá an staidéar seo, a bheas críochnaithei 1997, á dhéanamh ag Victoria Todd agus
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■ Support was given for the first time to theFirkin Crane Centre (Cork) in recognition ofthe potential this centre has to become animportant resource for dance, locally andnationally. The funding has enabled the Centreto appoint a Development Officer
■ The first performance programmesarising out of the Council’s new dancecommission scheme were presented byFirkin Crane Centre (ch. Andrew Wilson)and Wexford County Council (ch.Deirdre Grant)
■ A dance touring scheme was set up to facilitatewider audience access to dance performancespresented by Irish-based companies
Anna Leatherdale ón Council for DanceEducation and Training (R.A)
■ Tugadh tacaíocht don chéad uair riamh donFirkin Crane Centre (Corcaigh) maraitheantas don chumas atá ag an ionad abheith ina acmhainn thábhachtach don rince,go háitiúil agus go náisiúnta. Leis anmaoiniú seo, bhí ar chumas an IonaidOifigeach Forbartha a fhostú
■ Na chéad cláracha léirithe a tháinig chun cinnde bharr scéim coimisiúin rince nua naComhairle, chuir an Firkin Crane Centre (ch. Andrew Wilson) agus Comhairle ChontaeLoch Garman (ch. Deirdre Grant) i láthair iad
■ Bunaíodh scéim chamchuairte rince chun cuidiúle níos mó de lucht féachana dul chuigtaispeántais rince léirithe ag comhlachtaíbunaithe in Éirinn
US dance
company
Deadpan at
the Project
Arts Centre
■ A number of capital funding requests fromdance companies and centres were met withregard to specialist equipment and flooringrequirements for dance
■ Support was given to a new project set upby the Shawbrook School (Longford).This residential project is aimed at youngIrish pre-professional dancers, most arecurrently in full-time training elsewhere.This project aims to bring them togetherto work on a choreographic project.
Projects in TrainFour dance companies received significantincreases this year: Irish Modern DanceTheatre, Dance Theatre of Ireland, CoisCéim, and Daghdha Dance Company basedat University of Limerick. The ongoingsupport work of the Association ofProfessional Dancers in Ireland wasacknowledged by a 100% allocation towardsits core programme funding request. Fundingwas made available to the Samuel BeckettCentre at Trinity College to appoint CathyO’Kennedy as dancer-in-residence for itsautumn/winter terms. This award willenhance and further develop the presence ofdance within the Centre.
Children and Young PeopleThe Council continues to value and supportthe educational programmes of DaghdhaDance Company which tours extensively toschools in Ireland. The company has beeninvited by the Arts Council of NorthernIreland to bring its programme to someschools in Northern Ireland. A series ofsummer schools for young dancers (based inCork, Dublin and Longford) receivedsupport towards the costs of guest tutors.Irish Junior Ballet was awarded a first-timegrant towards its programme of eventsincluding performances at the RHAGallagher Gallery (Dublin).
Bursaries and AwardsDance bursaries and awards received an 89%increase over the 1995 allocation. This increaseextended the number of awards available to theprofessional dance sector and aspirant dancers.Panellists for awards in Dance were: FinolaCronin, Andrew Wilson, Judy Spence.
■ Sásaíodh roinnt iarratais mhaoiniú chaipitil óchomhlachtaí agus ionaid rince maidir le fearaisspeisialta agus riachtanais urláir don rince
■ Tugadh tacaíocht do thogra nua a bhunaigh anShawbrook School (Longfort). Díríonn antogra cónaithe seo ar rinceoirí Éireannacha ógaréamhghairmiúla, a bhfuil a bhformhór agtraenáil in áit éigin eile cheana féin. Is í aidhman togra iad a thabhairt le chéile chun oibriú arthogra córagrafach.
Tionscadail idir LámhaFuair ceithre chomhlacht rince méaduithe móra imbliana; is iad seo Irish Modern Dance Theatre,Dance Theatre Ireland Cois Céim, agus DaghdhaDance Company atá lonnaithe in OllscoilLuimnigh. Aithníodh obair thacaíochta anAssociation of Professional Dancers in Ireland trídeontas 100% a thabhairt dá bpríomhiarratasmaoinithe. Cuireadh maoiniú ar fáil don SamuelBeckett Centre ag Coláiste na Tríonóide chunpost a thabhairt do Cathy O’Kennedy mardamhsóir cónaithe i gcomhair na dtéarmaíFómhar/Geimhridh. Cuideoidh an post seo leforbairt níos fearr a dhéanamh ar theacht i láthairan rince laistigh den ionad.
Páistí agus Daoine ÓgaLeanann an Chomhairle le tacaíocht agus meas athabhairt do chláranna teagaisc an DaghdhaDance Company a théann ar chamchuairteannaleithne chuig scoileanna in Éirinn. Tá cuireadhfaighte ag an gcomhlacht i mbliana ón ArtsCouncil of Northern Ireland an clár a thabhairtchuig roinnt scoileanna i dTuaisceart Éireann.Fuair sraith de scoileanna samhraidh dodamhsóirí óga (lonnaithe i gCorcaigh, BaileÁtha Cliath agus Longfort) tacaíocht igcomhair costas aoi-theagascóirí. Fuair IrishJunior Ballet a chéad deontas i gcomhair a gclárimeachtaí: orthu sin bhí léiriú ag an RHAGallagher Gallery (Baile Átha Cliath).
Sparánachtaí agus DuaiseannaTháinig méadú de 89% ar sparántachtaí agus ardhuaiseanna rince thar an méid a tugadh i 1995.Mhéadaigh an méadú seo an uimhir duaiseanna ad’fhéadfaí a thabhairt don rannóg rince gairmiúilagus do dhamhsóirí óga atá ar an mbealach aníos.
B’iad painéalaithe le haghaidh duaiseannasa rince ná: Finola Cronin, Andrew Wilson,Judy Spence.
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Awards/Duaiseanna £Miriam Bowe 2,000Simon Brambell 3,000Adrienne Brown 1,500Cathy Coughlan 2,000Cindy Cummings 1,200Robert Foley 2,000Edward Hayes-Neary 3,000Claire Keating 1,250Clodagh Kelly 2,000Mairead Langan 2,000Chantal McCormack 2,000Michelle McCullagh 3,000Aoife McGrath 4,000Lisa McLoughlin 5,050Kim Nolan 2,000Rebecca Reilly 3,000Claire Marie Rooney 3,000Robert Connor 500Victoria O’Brien 750Diana Richardson 750Loretta Yurick 500
ARTFLIGHT: 51 travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 6,75851 duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
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Total—Awards/Iomlán—Duaiseanna 51,258
Dance Commission Scheme/Scéim Coimisiúin Rince
Firkin Crane, Cork 7,500Wexford County Council 4,000 11,500_____________
Touring/CamcuairteannaCork Opera House 3,000New Balance Dance Company, Dublin 5,000Firkin Crane, Cork 9,000Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dublin 10,000Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Dublin 8,000Coiscéim Dance Theatre, Dublin 5,000 40,000_____________
Grants/DeontaisAssociation of Professional Dancers in Ireland, Dublin 30,000Coiscéim Dance Theatre, Dublin 25,000Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dublin 98,000Ennis Composition Summer School 200Firkin Crane, Cork 27,000Gibson Madden School of Dance, Cork 2,000Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Dublin 75,000Mandance, Dublin 7,500New Balance Dance Company, Dublin 25,000Royal Academy of Dancing, Irish Region 2,500Rubato Ballet, Dublin 61,000Shawbrook School of Ballet, Longford 9,500Trinity College, Dublin 5,500Westmeath VEC 200 368,400_____________
Education/OideachaisDaghdha Dance Company, Limerick 85,000Giant Productions, Dublin 8,000Irish Junior Ballet, Dublin 4,000 97,000_____________ _____________Total Awards and Grants/Iomlán Duaiseanna agus Deontais 568,158
Sundry/Ilnithe 1,139
_____________Total for Dance as Note 3 (page 104)/ 569,297
Iomlán don Rince mar atá i Nóta 3 (leathnach 104)__________________________
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IntroductionExpenditure on Opera in 1996 totalled£1,009,000, an increase of £97,000(11%) on 1995.
The major decision in 1996 was to establishan Opera Development Group from within themembership and staff of the Council, whose remitwas to ‘examine existing provision for opera inIreland and make recommendations for thedevelopment of the artform’.
Funding to Wexford Festival Opera,Opera Ireland and Opera Theatre Companywas maintained at 1995 levels pending theoutcome of the opera policy considerationslater in the year.
PolicyThe Opera Development Group held a series ofmeetings throughout 1996. A public call forsubmissions was made to address the many issuesinvolved in the current situation and futuredevelopment of opera in Ireland. Suggestedsubjects for discussion included:
RéamhráBa é iomlán an chaiteachais ar Cheoldrámaíochti 1996 ná £1,009,000, méadú de £97,000 (11%) ar 1995.
Ba é an príomhchinneadh i 1996 PáirtíOibre ar Fhorbairt Ceoldrámaíochta a bhunú asbaill agus foireann na Comhairle, arbh é a dtreoir ‘fiosrú a dhéanamh ar sholáthar docheoldrámaíocht in Éirinn agus moltaí adhéanamh ó thaobh fhorbairt na healaíona sin’.
Coinníodh an maoiniú Wexford OperaFestival, Opera Ireland agus an Opera TheatreCompany ag leibhéil 1995 go dtí go mbeadhtoradh ar mheasúnú pholasaí ceoldrámaíochtaníos déanaí sa bhliain.
PolasaíRinne an Páirtí Oibre ar FhorbairtCeoldrámaíochta machnamh i rith 1996.Lorgaíodh moltaí ón phobail i dtaobh stadas naceoldrámaíochta in Éirinn faoi láthair agus anfhorbairt sa todhchaí. Moladh go ndéanfaí pléar go leor ábhar:
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Opera
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The Magic
Flute
■ artistic issues (new work, co-productions, venues)
■ access and participation■ employment within the sector■ financial and other resources■ planning and co-ordination■ the importance of opera in Irish cultural life,
and its future development.
Thirty-six written submissions from operacompanies, artists, promoters, composers, artsofficers, arts centres, theatre companies, musicorganisations and other individuals throughoutthe country were received in response to this call.
Following this approach, a questionnaire wasdeveloped and circulated to over 150 singers bothat home and abroad exploring the issues of careerdevelopment, employment issues and a vision forthe future of opera in Ireland. Forty-onesubmissions were received from singers.
In an attempt to research further thepotential of new work, to create new audiencesand to ascertain a view of the possibleinhibitors to that progress, meetings were heldthroughout Ireland with a wide range ofindividuals and organisations.
These included:■ arts organisations involved with the creation
and promotion of opera at present■ arts organisations who are not involved with
the promotion nor creation at the moment■ non-arts organisations whose broad brief
may include promotion and developmentof the arts.
Meetings were held with twenty-four individualsand organisations.
As well as these strategies, the OperaDevelopment Group engaged in direct dialoguewith funded organisations and other key playersin a series of consultative meetings.
At year end the Group was preparing a reportwhose main recommendations were as follows:■ To consolidate the revenue funding levels of the
three production companies already funded■ To establish a fixed circuit of regional venues
to be served by Opera Theatre Company with aprogramme of mainstream small-scale operawith orchestral accompaniment
■ To provide a fund for commissioning newopera by Irish composers and librettists
■ ceisteanna ealaíonta (saothair nua, comhléiriúcháin, ionaid)
■ insroichteacht agus comhpháirtíocht■ fostaíocht laistigh den rannóg■ acmhainní airgid agus eile■ pleanáil agus comhordú■ an tábhacht a bhaineann le ceoldrámaíocht i saol
cultúrtha na hÉireann agus a forbairt sa todhchaí.
Fríothadh tríocha a sé moladh scríofa óchomhlachtaí ceoldrámaíochta, tionscnóirí,cumadóirí, oifigí ealaíon, ionaid ealaíon,comhlachtaí amharclainne, eagraíochtaí ceoil agusdaoine aonair ar fud na tíre de bharr an éilimh seo.
Ag teacht ón gcur chuige seo, forbraíodhceistiúchán agus seoladh é chuig os cionn 150amhránaí sa bhaile agus thar sáile ag fiosrú nagceisteanna a bhaineann le forbairt gairme,ceisteanna fostaíochta agus íomhá do thodhchaíceoldrámaíochta in Éirinn. Fríothadh ceathracha ahaon moladh ó amhránaithe.
Mar iarracht chun níos mó taighde adhéanamh ar chumas na hoibre nua, lucht féachananíos fairsinge a chruthú agus tuiscint a fháil arbhacanna a d’fhéadfadh cur as don dul chun cinn,tionóladh cruinnithe ar fud na hÉireann le réimseleathan de dhaoine aonair agus eagraíochtaí.
Ina measc seo bhí:■ eagraíochtaí ealaíon a bhfuil baint acu le
cruthú agus cur chun cinn na ceoldrámaíochtafaoi láthair
■ eagraíochtaí ealaíon nach bhfuil baint ar bithacu faoi láthair leis an gcur chun cinn ná cruthú
■ eagraíochtaí nach eagraíochtaí ealaíon iad achar féidir go mbeadh baint acu le cur chun cinnagus forbairt na n-ealaíon.
Tionóladh cruinnithe le fiche ceathair daoineaonair agus eagraíochtaí.
Chomh maith leis na straitéisí seo, chuaigh anPáirtí Oibre ar Fhorbairt Ceoldrámaíochta chuncainte go díreach le eagraíochtaí maoinithe aguspríomhdhaoine eile i sraith cruinnithe comhairleacha.
Ag deireadh na bliana bhí an grúpa agullmhú tuarascála. Seo leanas na príomhmholtaí:■ Chun léibhéal maoinithe ioncaim na dtrí
chomhlacht léirithe a maoiníodh cheana a neartú■ Cum timthriall sochair de ionaid réigiúnacha a
bhunú ar an ndéafadh an Opera Theatre Companyfreastal le clár de cheoldrámaíocht mhionscálalárshrutha maraon le tionlacan ceolfhoirne
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■ To provide bursaries and project awards toassist in the career development of Irish singersand other artists in opera
■ To consolidate support for the NationalChamber Choir as the core of a professionalopera chorus
■ To provide project grant-aid to assist occasionalproductions of opera and music theatre, so asto broaden the range of opera practitioners, andto expand the audience for opera
■ To promote actively with Government thedevelopment of a major new centre for theperforming arts in Dublin’s docklands.
1996 ProductionsDuring 1996, Opera Ireland presented Tosca
(Puccini), The Magic Flute (Mozart), La Bohème
(Puccini) and l’Elisir d’amore (Donizetti) intwenty performances over its winter and springseasons. Opera Theatre Company toured Zaide
(Mozart), Amadigi (Handel) and Katya Kabanova
(Janaek) over three seasons to over twenty venues,both North and South, and to London, Buxtonand Edinburgh; Wexford Festival Opera presentedthree operas over eighteen nights: Parisina byDonizetti, l’Etoile du Nord by Meyerbeer and Sarka
by Zdenech Fibich.Other
productionsassisted werefour perfor-mances ofBizet’s Carmen
by OperaSouth at theCork OperaHouse; andnine perfor-mances of West Side Story
(Bernstein) by PimlicoOpera atMountjoyPrisoninvolving professional artists and prisoners.
An Opera Commissioning grant wasprovided to Meridian Theatre Company for a newwork by John Browne with a libretto by JohnnyHanrahan based on The House of Madame Tellier byGuy Maupassant.
■ Chun ciste a bhunú d’fhonn ceoldrámaíúra le cumadóirí libreógaithe Éireannachaa choimisiúniú
■ Chun spárantachtaí agus duaiseannationscnaimh a sholáthatar d’fhonn gairmeachacheoltóirí agus dhaoine eile gníomhach sancheoldrámaíocht a chothú
■ Chun taca don National Chamber Choir adhaingniú mar eithne de chór ghairmiúlceoldrámaíochta
■ Chun cúnamh deontais i leith tionscnaimh asholáthar d’fhonn cúnamh a thabhairt dochorrléirithe ceoldrámaíochta agus d’fhonn luchtéisteachta na ceoldrámaíochta a fhairsingiú
■ Chun mórionaid nua do na beoealaíona afhorbairt i nDuglanna Bhaile Átha Cliath achomhthionscnamh in éineacht leis an Rialtas.
Léiriúcháin 1996I rith 1996, chur Opera Ireland Tosca (Puccini),The Magic Flute (Mozart), La Bohème (Puccini) agusl’Elisir d’amore (Donizetti) i láthair ag fiche léiriú lelinn a shéasúir gheimhridh agus earraigh. Chuaighan Opera Theatre Company ar chamchuairt leZaide (Mozart), Amadigi (Handel) agus Katya
Kabanova (Janacek) le linn trí shéasúr in os cionnfiche ionad, ó thuaidh agus ó dheas, agus go
Londain, Buxton agusDún Éideann; chuirWexford Festival Opera trícheoldráma i láthair arocht n-oíche dhéag:Parisina le Donizetti,l’Etoile du Nord leMeyerbeer agus Sarka leZdenech Fibich.
Tugadh cabhair docheithre léiriú de Carmen
(Bizet) ag Opera Southag an Cork Opera House;agus do naoi léiriú de West Side Story (Bernstein)ag Pimlico Opera agPríosún Mhuinseo inaraibh ealaíontóirí
gairmiúla agus príosúnaigh i bpáirt.Tugadh deontas ón coimisiúnaithe do
Meridian Theatre Company le haghaidh saothairnua ó John Brown le leabhróg ó Johnny Hanrahanbunaithe ar The House of Madame Tellier de chuidGuy Maupassant.
Opera Theatre Company ’s production of Katya Kabanova
Children and Young PeopleThe National Chamber Choir (NCC) receiveda grant of £50,000, an increase of £35,000 on1995. This professional choir, based inDublin City University is also supported byRTÉ. Its programme is aimed at children andyoung people.
In 1996 the Arts Council supportedNCC’s extensive programmes for commis-sioning new works, training and coachingsingers on a regular and systematic basis, andorganising public performances of bothmainstream and newly-composed repertoire.The Council hopes that detailed discussionsinvolving the Arts Council, NCC and RTÉ willclarify the National Chamber Choir’s role asan independent professional choir serving theneeds of both RTÉ as a broadcaster andcontributing to the development of the vocalarts in Ireland.
International DimensionOpera Theatre Company toured Zaide to theEdinburgh Festival Theatre, and Amadigi tothe Covent Garden Festival in London,Buxton Opera Festival and to the FestivalTheatre in Edinburgh.
Páistí agus Daoine ÓgaFuair an National Chamber Choir deontas£50,000, méadú de £35,000 ar 1995. Tá ancór gairmiúil seo, atá lonnaithe in OllscoilChathair Átha Cliath, ag fáil tacaíochtachomh maith ó RTÉ. Tá a chlár dírithe arleanaí agus daoine óga.
I 1996 thug an Chomhairle Ealaíontacaíocht do chláranna fairsinge an NationalChamber Choir do choimisiúnú píosaí nua oibre,traenáil agus múineadh amhránaithe ar bhonnrialta chórasach, agus i in eagrú léiriúchán poiblíde stór amhráin idir ghnáthphíosaí agusnuachumtha. Tá súil ag an gComhairle gosoiléireoidh plé mion ina mbeidh an ChomhairleEalaíon, an National Chamber Choir agus RTÉpáirteach, gnó an National Chamber Choir marchór neamhspleách gairmiúil ag freastal arriachtanais RTÉ mar chraoltóir agus ag cur leforbairt na n-ealaíon gutha in Éirinn.
An Ghné IdirnáisiúntaThug Opera Theatre Company Zaide go dtí andEdinburgh Festival Theatre agus Amadigi go dtían Covent Garden Festival i Londain, AnBuxton Opera Festival agus an Festival Theatrei nDún Éideann.
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Opera/An Ceoldrámaíocht£
Opera Ireland (DGOS), Dublin 385,000Wexford Festival Trust 300,000Opera Theatre Company, Dublin 230,000Opera South, Cork 20,000National Chamber Choir, Dublin 50,000Meridian Productions, Cork 3,000IRD, Kiltimagh/Opera Northern Ireland 750Pimlico Opera, London 2,000
ARTFLIGHT: 15 air travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 2,50715 duais duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
_____________Total Awards and Grants/Iomlán Duaiseanna agus Deontais 993,257
Sundry/Ilnithe 15,363_____________
Total for Opera as Note 3 (page 104)/ 1,008,620__________________________Iomlán don Cheoldrámaíocht mar ar Nóta 3 (leathanach 104)
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An CeolIntroductionTotal expenditure on music was £1,452,000, anincrease of £226,000 (18%) on the 1995 figure.
PolicyIn 1996, the Council identified the mainresource organisations in music, including theIrish Chamber Orchestra, as priorities forfunding. In the Council’s view, the plansoutlined by this core group of professionalbodies represent the most effective and strategicuse of the funds available to support music ofall genres and to address issues concerningaccess and audience development.
InitiativesThe Council provided an additional £50,000 tothe Limerick-based Irish Chamber Orchestra(ICO) to advance the establishment of its coregroup of string players, to commission, performand record more new works by Irish composers,and to extend its touring circuit within Ireland tonew venues which have not hitherto had access to
RéamhráBa é iomlán an chaiteachais ar cheol ná £1,452,000,méadú de £226,000 (18%) ar an tsuim do 1995.
PolasaíI 1996 d’aithin an Chomhairle na príomheagraíochtaí acmhainne sa cheol, an IrishChamber Orchestra ina measc, mar riachtanaisítosaíochta ó thaobh maoinithe. Dar leis angComhairle is é an bealach is éifeachtaí agus isstráitéisí chun an ciste airgid atá ar fáil armhaithe leis an gCeol de gach genre a úsáidagus chun ceisteanna i dtaobh insroichteachtaagus forbairt an lucht éisteachta a réiteach ná,cloí leis na bpleananna atá leagtha amach ag anmbungrúpa seo d’eagraíochtaí gairmiúla.
TionscnaimhChuir an Chomhairle £50,000 sa bhreis ar fáildon Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO), atálonnaithe i Luimneach, chun cur leis an mbunú dálárghrúpa seinnteoirí téada, níos mó saothar nua óchumadóirí Éireannacha a choimisiúnú, a léiriú
ontemporary
sic ensemble,
Concorde
live orchestral music. This funding also allowedICO to establish a new International Festival ofMusic at Killaloe, Co. Clare.
Over £160,000 additional funding went tothe main support organisations in music, includinga 54% increase to Music Network and anindication of support for a three-year developmentand funding cycle for this organisation.
The main resource organisations fortraditional and contemporary music, IrishTraditional Music Archive and the ContemporaryMusic Centre, received increased funding insupport of their extensive programmes ofdocumentation and information services. TheCouncil also supported MusicBase to provideadvice, information and other services in thepopular music sector.
Support for jazz and improvised music wasdiscussed in detail by the Council with represen-tatives of the jazz sector and the Council decidedto implement the findings of a report on thedevelopment of jazz over a three-year period.
Projects in TrainIt was decided to mark the tenth anniversary ofthe publication of the Council report, Deaf Ears
(a report on the provision of music education inIreland) by commissioning a short study todescribe local initiatives in the provision of musiceducation (including the emergence of MEND/theMusic Education National Debate), with a viewto encouraging the transfer of successful modelsto and, ultimately, enhancing the prospect offunding from, the Department of Education. This research will get underway in Spring 1997.
The Improvised Music Company produced aseries of six CD recordings of jazz. This is the firststage of their plans to have a comprehensive set ofrecordings of Irish jazz, including much originalmaterial by Irish musicians. Funding increases toMoving On Music have helped that organisationexpand its programme of events and services to themusic community throughout Ireland.
Bursaries and Awards1996 was the first year of the new awardsscheme for advanced instrumentalists andsingers and the Council made five awardsworth £20,000 to talented Irish performerswho are about to commence a career inperformance. The largest single award of£8,600 made under the scheme went to Cork
agus a thaifeadadh agus chomh maith chun fad achur lena chamchuairteanna laistigh d’Éirinnchuig ionaid nua nach bhfuil aon teacht acu go dtíseo ar cheol beo cheolfhoirne. Chuidigh anmaoiniú seo freisin leis an ICO Féile CeoilIdirnáisiúnta nua a bhunú i gCill Dá Lua igContae an Chláir.
Chuaigh os cionn de £160,000 de mhaoiniúbreise chuig na príomheagraíochtaí tacaíochtaceoil, mar champla, tugadh méadú de 54% doMusic Network agus tuiscint de thacaíochtmaoine agus forbartha trí bliana don eagraíocht.
Fuair na príomheagraíochtaí acmhainne docheol thraidisiúnta agus do cheol chomhaim-seartha, Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann agus anContemporary Music Centre, méadú maoinithemar thacaíocht dá gcláranna fairsingedoiciméadaithe agus seirbhísí eolais. Thug anChomhairle tacaíocht freisin do MusicBase chuncomhairle, eolas agus seirbhísí eile a chur ar fáil irannóg cheoil don slua.
Bhí plé mion faoin tacaíocht doshnagcheol agus ceol tobchumtha idir anChomhairle agus toscairí ón rannóg snagcheoilagus chinn an Chomhairle torthaí tuairisce achur i bhfeidhm i leith forbairte snagcheoilthar tréimhse trí bliana.
Tionscadail idir LámhaCinneadh ó tharla é a bheith cothrom deichmbliana ó foilsíodh tuairisc na Comhairle, Deaf
Ears (tuairisc ar sholáthar oideachas ceoil inÉirinn) an ócáid a chomóradh trí staidéar gearr achoimisiúnú a chuirfeadh síos ar thionscnaimháitiúla i soláthar oideachas ceoil (ina measc teachtchun cinn MEND/An Díospóireacht Náisiúnta idtaobh Oideachais Cheoil), ag súil gobhfeabhsófar an t-aistriú de shamhaileacha aréirigh leo go dtí an Roinn Oideachais.Ins andeireadh thiar bheadh seans níos fearr an maoiniúa fheabhsú sa tslí sin. Tosóidh an taighde seo inEarrach 1997.
Sholáthair an Improvised Music Companysraith de sé cinn de CD ar a raibh taifeadadhsnagcheoil agus seo é an chéad chuid dá bpleango mbeadh sraith taifeadta cuimsitheach deshnagcheol Éireannach acu, ina mbeadh go leorpíosaí bunaidh ó cheoltóirí Éireannacha ann.Chabhraigh méadú maoine freisin do MovingOn Music chun go bhféadfadh an eagraíocht sina chlár imeachtaí agus seirbhísí a leathnú ar fudan phobail ceoil in Éirinn.
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violinist Catherine Leonard to assist herstudies with Ruggiero Ricci in Salzburg.
Marion Ingoldsby was awarded the firstElizabeth Maconchy Composition Fellowship(£24,000) to study at the University of York.This new award has been developed in associationwith the Contemporary Music Centre and aims toprovide opportunities for Irish composers todevelop and broaden their experience in writing.
Panellists for awards and bursaries in Musicwere: Bernadette Greavy, Helmut Seeber, ProinsiasÓ Duinn, Brian Carson, Brian Irvine, PamelaSmith, Joe Ryan, Marian Doherty, Aidan O’Carroll.
Children and Young PeopleThe Council provided an increased fund formusic masterclasses and workshops in 1996.Overall, there was a substantial increase in therange, variety and value of opportunities for
Sparánachtaíagus DeontaisBa é 1996 an chéadbhliain do scéim nuaduaiseanna dosheinteoirí oiltreuirlisí agusamhránaithe agusthug an Chomhairlecúig dhuais arbhfhiú £20,000 saniomlán iad dosheinnteoiríéirimiúlaÉireannacha, atá artí tús a chur lenangairm i léiriú.Bronnadh an duaissingil a ba mhófaoin scéim(£20,000) ar anveidhleadóir asCorcaigh, CatherineLeonard, chuncabhrú léi inastaidéar le RuggieroRicci i Salzburg.
Tugadh anchéad ElizabethMaconchyCompositionFellowship, ar fiú£24,000 é, do
Marion Ingoldsby chun staidéar a dhéanamh inOllscoil York. Forbraíodh an duais nua seo ibpáirt leis an Contemporary Music Centre agus isí a haidhm deiseannaseansanna a thabhairt dochumadóirí Éireannacha forbairt agus leathnú adhéanamh ar a dtaithí sa scríobh.
B’iad na painéalaithe le haghaidh naduaiseanna agus na sparánachtaí sa cheol ná:Bernadette Greavy, Helmut Seeber, Proinsias ÓDuinn, Brian Carson, Brian Irvine, Pamela Smith,Joe Ryan, Marian Doherty, Aidan O’Carroll.
Páistí agus Daoine ÓgaChuir an Chomhairle méadú maoine ar fáil domháistir-ranganna agus ceardlanna ceoil i 1996.Tríd is tríd, bhí méadú maith ar réimse, éagsúlachtagus fiúntas na deiseanna do dhaoine óga a bheithpáirteach i ngach cineál ceoil cé go bhfuil sédeacair tabhairt faoina riachtanais ar fad atá le
Tommy
Peoples,
Music
Network
tour,
September
young people involved in all forms of music,although it remains difficult to address all of theneeds which are evident throughout the country.Events funded during 1996 included orchestralmusic, traditional music, and jazz. Many fundedorganisations also provide services and opportu-nities in this area and the Council’s schemes aimto complement this existing provision.
The Council also played an active role indeveloping the Federation of Musicians’Collectives, the Irish Association of YouthOrchestras, the Irish section of FederationInternationale des Jeunesses Musicales/Macaoimh an Cheoil. The Ark, through its coreprogramming, has also contributed significantlyto creating opportunities for children to getinvolved with making music. All of these havelong-term implications nationally and interna-tionally for youth music in this country.
Future ProjectsThe Council is looking at the possibility ofassisting the purchase and management of ‘banks’of musical instruments and also the issue ofprovision of good quality pianos purchased andmanaged in association with local authorities.Based on the success of its arrangements withWaterford Corporation, the Council sees this asone effective way of addressing this issue.
feiceáil ar fud na tíre. I measc na n-imeachtaí amaoiníodh i rith 1996 bhí ceol cheolfhoirne, ceoltraidisiúnta agus snagcheol. Cuireann go leoreagraíochtaí maoinithe seirbhísí agus seansanna arfáil chomh maith sa réigiún seo agus is í aidhmscéimeanna na Comhairle cur leis an soláthar atáann faoi láthair.
Bhí páirt ghníomhach ag an gComhairlefreisin i bhforbairt an Federation of Musicians’Collectives, an Irish Association of YouthOrchestras, agus an rannóg Éireannach deFederation Internationale des JeunessesMusicales/Macaomh an Cheoil. Chuidigh TheArk chomh maith, trína bhunchlárú, leseansanna a chruthú do leanaí a bheith páirteachi ndéanamh an cheoil. Tá impleachtaífadtéarmacha náisiúnta agus idirnáisiúnta acuseo ar fad do cheol na hóige sa tír seo.
Tionscadail sa TodhchaíTá an Chomhairle ag iniúchadh na ceiste, anféidir cabhrú le ceannacht agus bainistíocht‘bancanna’ uirlisí ceoil agus chomh maith ancheist faoi phianónna de chaighdeán maith acheannacht agus a bhainistiú i gcomhar leis nahúdaráis áitiúla. Tharla gur eirigh chomh maithlena socruithe le Bardas Loch Garman, glacann anChomhairle le seo mar bhealach maith amháinchun tabhairt faoin gceist.
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Awards/Duaiseanna £Cathal Ó Dúill 750Cían Ó Dúill 1,000Celine Barry 750Michael Buckley 257Johanna Byrne 500Brian Byrne 500Julia Canavan 1,500Aisling Casey 750Anna Cashell 1,500Nicola Cleary 1,500Maria Cleary 2,750Cíarán Crilly 1,500Niamh Crowley 1,000Leonie Curtin 500Chris Darby 700Rónán de Búrca 1,000Brendan Doyle 400Aileen Dullaghan 875Rónán Dunne 1,000Brian Fleming 3,000Adrian Gallagher 750Fiona Hearún 625Michael Holohan 750Lorna Horan 500Adrian Hughes 1,000Marian Ingoldsby 4,000Michael Joyce 500Hilda Leader 1,000Catherine Leonard 2,100Lisa McLoughlin 750Sarah McMahon 1,000Kieran Moynihan 1,000Gráinne Mulvey 750Anne Murnaghan 1,000Clíodhna Ní Aodáin 500Niamh Ní Chonaill 750Úna Ní Chonchuir 750Aoife Ní Raghaill 1,000Éamonn Nolan 375Edel O’Brien 1,000Geraldine O’Doherty 1,000Orla Palliser 500Sarah Quinn 750Emma Roche 1,000Clíodhna Ryan 750Vourneen Ryan 1,000
Peter Shannon 1,500Fergus Sheil 900Nicky Sweeney 1,000Patricia Treacy 1,000Carla Vedres 1,000Jennifer Walshe 500 52,732_____________
ARTFLIGHT: 280 travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 49,186280 duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
New Music Commission Scheme/Scéim Choimisiúnaithe NuacheoilGerald Barry 8,500Seóirse Bodley 2,500John Buckley 4,900Rhona Clarke 900Frank Corcoran 1,500Raymond Deane 4,250Roger Doyle 1,300Marian Ingoldsby 2,000Fergus Johnston 750John Kinsella 2,475Philip Martin 2,275Colin Mawby 1,300Michael McGlynn 500Jane O’Leary 2,300Eric Sweeney 2,100Kevin Volans 750Ian Wilson 1,000 39,300_____________ _____________
Total: Awards and Commissions/Iomlán: Duaiseanna agus Coimisiúnú 141,218
Grants to Organisations & Performing Groups/Deontais d’Eagraíochtaí agus do Ghrúpaí Seinnte
Concorde, Galway 10,000Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin 130,339Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór, Cork 60,000Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann, Baile Átha Cliath 2,000Douglas Gunn Ensemble, Laois 1,000Irish Chamber Orchestra, Limerick 328,500Music Network, Dublin 200,000MusicBase, Dublin 105,000Na Píobairí Uilleann, Baile Átha Cliath 35,000Irish Traditional Music Archive/
Taisce Cheoil Dúchais Éireann, Baile Átha Cliath 139,350 1,011,189_____________
Concert Promotion/Tionscnamh CeolchoirmeachaClifden Arts Society, Galway 5,000Cork Orchestral Society 6,500Kilkenny Music Museum 1,000
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Events/ImeachtaíClare Festival of Traditional Singing 2,900Cork International Choral Festival 20,000Dublin International Organ & Choral Festival 10,000Inishowen Traditional Singers Circle, Donegal 2,600Slieve Gullion Festival of Traditional Singing, Down 700Sligo International Choral Festival 10,000 46,200_____________
Recordings—Publications/Taifeadadh—FoilsiúcháinConcorde, Galway 5,000Cork International Choral Festival 2,500John Feeley 3,500Douglas Gunn Ensemble, Laois 4,500Una Hunt 2,995Philip Martin 500Improvised Music Company, Dublin 7,500Fergus Johnston 2,500Largo Records/Gerald Barry 4,750Peter O’Brien 1,000Chris Darby 300Radio Telefís Éireann/Irish Composers Series 10,000 45,045_____________
Education and Young People/Oideachas agus Daoine ÓgaAlternative Entertainments, Tallaght 6,500Aonach Paddy O’Brien, An tAonach 750Bannow Folk and Traditional Society, Wexford 1,150Cairde na Cruite, Termann Fhéichín 500Cairdeas na bhFidléirí, Tír Chonaill 3,900Coiste Forbartha Cheantar Mhín an Aoire, Tír Chonaill 300Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann:
Joe O’Dowd Branch, Sligo/Craobh Joe O’Dowd, Sligeach 400Riverstown Branch/Craobh Riverstown 1,000Lixnaw Branch/Craobh Lixnaw 750
DELTA/Traditional Music Seminar, Dublin 1,000Donegal Arts Festival 300Drake Research Project, Dublin and Belfast 10,000Dublin Youth Orchestra 350Ennis Composition Summer School 5,420European Piano Teachers’ Association, Dublin 750
Féile Caomhán, Inis Oírr 400Feakle Traditional Singers, Clare 350Féile Chois Cuain, Cluain Cearbán, Maigh Eo 500Fiddler of Oriel, Monaghan 450Galway Early Music 300Improvised Music Company, Dublin 10,000Irish Association of Brass Bands 3,000Irish Association of Youth Orchestras, Cork 2,000Irish Pipe Band Association, Wexford 6,000Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, Dublin 3,000Jeunesses Musicales Ireland 900Larry Kelly Cultural Centre, Roscommon 250Limerick Jazz Society 1,750Music Association of Ireland, Dublin 21,000Newpark Music Centre, Dublin 2,000O’Carolan Harp & Culture Festival, Nobber 500O’Carolan Harp Festival, Keadue, Roscommon 500Oideas Gael, Tír Chonaill 750Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin 2,000Scoil Acla, Maigh Eo 2,450Scoil Ceoil Geimhridh Frankie Kennedy, Leitir Ceanainn 500Scoil Ceoil Inis Meáin 250Scoil Leacht Uí Chonchúir, Lahinch 2,470Scoil Samhna Séamus Ennis, Baile Átha Cliath 450Scoil Samhraidh Liatroma 1,500Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy, An Chláir 16,400Sean-Nós Cois Life, Baile Átha Cliath 500Siamsa Choilm de Bháilis, Conamara 500Silgo Early Music Ensemble 500Songwriters Workshop, Dublin 500South Sligo Summer School 3,000Treasure Island Promotions, Dalkey 900Waterford Corporation/Bárdas Phort Láirge 500 119,140_____________
Special Projects/Tograí SpeisialtaFederation of Musicians’ Collectives 8,000Unemployed Musicians Committee, Cork 2,500 10,500_____________Previous years grants not required/
Deontais na bliana roimhe nár theastaigh (3,200)
Total Awards and Grants/Iomlán Duaiseanna agus Deontais 1,420,342
Sundry/Ilnithe 31,980_____________
Total for Music as Note 3 (page 104)/Iomlán don Cheol mar Nóta 3 (leathanach 104) 1,452,322_____________
Grants Received/Deontais a FuarthasArts Council of Northern Ireland 46,756_____________
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Through the extensive use of the ArtsCouncil’s successful ARTFLIGHT scheme withAer Lingus, a wide range of artists and artspractitioners from all over Ireland have builtinternational contacts, attended performancesor exhibitions of their work, availed ofopportunities to engage in artistic projectsabroad and to engage in international collaborative projects. Since the introductionof the ARTFLIGHT scheme in 1991, 5,400awards have been made.
In addition to ARTFLIGHT, the ArtsCouncil also offers travel grants to artists increative and interpretative disciplines to allowthem to work outside Ireland and expand theirartistic experience.
Indirectly, the Arts Council is involvedin more extensive support for the promotionof Irish art abroad. Many of the companieswhich rely on Arts Council support for their core activities have taken their work on international tour, with funding chiefly fromthe Cultural Relations Committee of the
Bhain grúpa leathan d’ealaíontóirí agus dochleachtóirí na n-ealaíon ó gach chearn d’Éirinnleas fairsing as scéim rathúil ARTFLIGHT de chuidna Comhairle Ealaíon chun teagmhálaidirnáisiúnta a thógáil, chun freastal a dhéanamhar léirith nó ar thaispeántais da chuid saothair,chun deiseanna a thapú chun páirt a ghlacadh idtionscnaimh ealaíonta thar lear, nó chun a bheithpáirteach i dtionscnaimh chomhoibritheachaidirnáisiúnta. Ón uair a cuireadh tús le scéimARTFLIGHT i 1991 bronnadh 5,400 duaiseanna.
De bharraíocht ar ARTFLIGHT bronann anChomhairle Ealaíon deontais taistil d’ealaíontóiríins na disciplíní cruthaitheacha agus mínitheachachun a chur ar a gcumas shaothrú lasmuighd’Eirinn agus chun a dtáithí ealaíonta a leathnú.
Go neamh díreach bíonn lámh ag angcomhairle i dtacaíocht níos leithne do chothúealaíon na hÉireann thar lear. Tá a lán denaheagraíochtaí a bhíos ag brath ar thacú óngComhairle Ealaíon le haghaidh a bpríomhgh-níomhacthaí tar éis a saothar a thabhairt arthimchuairt idirnáisiúnta: faicheann siad airgeadú
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Department of Foreign Affairs, fromsponsorship, and from commercial and non-commercial sources in the hostcountries. In 1996, this list included a broadrange of companies and individuals includingThe Abbey Theatre, the Gate Theatre, DruidTheatre Company, TEAM Theatre-in-Education Company, Rough Magic, Macnas,Opera Theatre Company, the Irish ChamberOrchestra, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Cois Céim, Daghdha, Project Arts Centreand a variety of artists, publishers andpromoters of different kinds. There isevidence of great ingenuity and enterprise onthe part of Irish artists in promoting theirwork internationally.
Ireland and its Diaspora Festivalat the Frankfurt Book Fair 1996The Ireland and its Diaspora Festival at theFrankfurt Book Fair was a major event in theinternational arts calendar for 1996. Beinghonoured with the designation of focal theme ofthe Frankfurt Book Fair provided Ireland with anopportunity to present Irish writing andpublishing to the 20,000 members of theinternational publishing community, the 9,500journalists and the 300,000 visitors whoattended the Fair. The Arts Council, who co-ordinated the Irish participation, choseIreland and its Diaspora as an appropriate theme,celebrating the fact that seventy million peopleworld-wide acknowledge that they are Irish.
On the evening of October 1st almosttwo years of hard work and planning at theArts Council culminated in the opening of The Ireland and its Diaspora Festival by MinisterMichael D. Higgins in the presence ofPresident Mary Robinson. Earlier that sameday the official opening ceremony of the BookFair had taken place, addressed by PresidentRobinson, Seamus Heaney and GermanChancellor, Helmut Kohl.
Operating under an independent board,Director Lar Cassidy and his team organised amajor festival of Irish writing in Germany. The Festival functioned at three levels: within theBook Fair Grounds; within Frankfurt City; andnationwide in Germany. An alliance was forgedwith irland journal, an Irish-interest quarterlypublished in Germany, to co-ordinate A Day of
Irish Life in Germany, an Irish Festival with over
ach go háirithe ón Choiste um ChaidrimhChultúrtha de chuid An Roinn GhnóthaíEachtracha, ón urraíocht, agus ó fhoinsí gheillea-gracha agus neamhgheilleagracha ins nahaoithíortha. Ins an bhliain 1996 bhí grúpa leathand’eagraíochtaí agus de dhaoine aonair ar an liostaseo: orthu sin bhí Amharclann Mainistreach nahÉireann; Amharclann an Gheata; Druid TheatreCompany; TEAM Theatre-in-Education Company;Rough Magic; Macnas; Opera Theatre Company;Irish Chamber Orchestra; Irish Modern DanceTheatre; Cois Céim; Daghdha; Project Arts Centreagus meascán d’ealaíontóirí, de fhoilsitheoirí agusde thionscnóirí de shaghasanna éagsúla. Is léir gombíonn ealaíontóirí na hÉireann beartach fiontrachi bhfógrú a saothair ar fud an domhain.
Féile na hÉireann agus a Diaspora ag Aonach Leabhar Frankfurt 1996Ba mhórimtheacht ar fhéilire idirnáisiúnta na n-ealaíon i 1996 í Féile na hÉireann agus a Diaspora. Dá bhrí gur tugadh an onóir d’Éirinn téamacomhtheagmhá la Aonach Leabhar Frankfurt acheapadh bhí deis ag Éireann scríbhneoireacht agusfhoilsitheoireacht na tíre seo a léiriú do na 20,000baill den comhluadar idirináisiúntafoilsitheoireachta, na 9,500 iriseoiri, agus na300,000 cuairteoirí a d’fhreastal ar an Aonach. B’í anChomhairle Ealaíon a rinne comhordanáidiú ar anrannpháirtíocht Éireannach. Roghnaigh sí Éire agus a
Diaspora mar théama chuí, ag ceiliúradh na fírice gobhfuil seachtó milliún daoine ar fud an domhain aadmhaíonn gur de shliocht Éireannach iad.
Tháinig rath ar dhá bhliain dianoibre agusdianphleanála sa Chomhairle Ealaíon ar an gcéad láde Dheireadh Fómhair nuair a cuireadh tús leis anbhféile Éire agus a Diaspora ag Aonach LeabharFrankfurt i 1996. Sheol an tAire Micheál D. Ó hUiginn an fhéile um thráthnóna i láthair anUachtaráin Máire Nic Róibín. Bhí an tUachtarán,Séamus Heaney agus Seansailéir na Gearmáine,Helmut Kohl, tar éis labhairt ag oscailt oifigiúil anAonaigh Leabhar níos luaithe sa lá.
Ag gníomhú faoi bord neamhspleách,d’eagraigh an Stiúrthóir Lar Cassidy agus a fhoireannmórfhéile Scríbhneoireachta Éireannaí sa Ghearmáin.D’fheidhmigh an fhéile ar thrí leibhéal: laistigh denAonach Leabhar; laistigh de chathair Frankfurt; agusó cheann ceann na Gearmáine. Chuathas i bpáirt leirland journal, ráitheachán a phléann cúrsaíÉireannacha agus a foilsítear sa Ghearmáin, chun A Day of Irish Life in Germany a chomhordú, féile
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1,000 events, which took place in 500 cities andtowns throughout Germany.
A total of forty-five writers and criticstook part in the Ireland and its Diaspora Festival
with capacity audiences attending readingsand discussions both within and without theBook Fair Grounds. There was a variety ofexhibitions at venues across Frankfurt and inthe Irish Pavilion, the main exhibition, whichwas curated by Luke Dodd, illustrated therole of Irish literature in a world context.This was seen by over 60,000 visitors duringthe Fair’s six day run.
Ireland and its Diaspora was greeted with hugeenthusiasm both in Frankfurt and throughoutGermany. There was enormous media interestwith colourful headlines and substantialcoverage in the Irish, German and internationalpress. The Festival opening events wereextensively covered by television and radio newsservices, both at home and abroad, and nationaland international television stations producedseveral programmes on the Festival. A number ofIrish writers were invited by national Germannewspapers to present Irish literature in a seriesof articles and literary supplements.
L’Imaginaire IrlandaisAnother significant international event in 1996was L’Imaginaire Irlandais. This festival of Irishculture held in France was initiated by the IrishGovernment and supported by the Arts Council,among many other statutory and non-statutorybodies. It took place over a five month period,March to July, and was a major event in the culturalcalendar of both France and Ireland. The ArtsCouncil complemented Government support forthe project by providing premises for the festivalCommissioner and her team and by providing anextensive administrative back-up to the project.
L’Imaginaire Irlandais, which originated withPresident Mary Robinson, arose out of arecognition of a significant French interest inIreland and contemporary Irish culture. This wasfollowed by a commitment to bring the originalconcept to fruition, on the part of Governmentand a number of agencies, including the ArtsCouncil. Government voted a sum of £1.5m inlate 1993 and Ireland and France appointedcommissioners in each country.
Early in the project, the phrase ‘enteringthe bloodstream of French cultural life’ was used
Éireannach ina raibh 1,000 imeacht a ceiliúradh i500 cathair agus baile ar fud na Gearmáine.
Bhí daichead a cúig scríbhneoir aguscriticeoir páirteach san fhéile Éire agus a Diaspora:Bhí an-chuid de na himeachtaí lán go béal ar feadhsheachtain an Aonaigh Leabhar, go háirithe antsraith inar léigh agus phléigh 40 scríbhneoirÉireannacha a saothar. D’fhreastail 60,000cuairteoir ar an bPailliún Éireannach le linn sé láan Aonaigh chun féachaint ar an taispeántas amhínigh ról litríocht na hÉireann i gcomhthéacsdomhanda. Ba é Luke Dodd a d’ullmhaigh é.
Glacadh go rífhonnmhar le hÉire agus a
Diaspora in Frankfurt agus ar fud na Gearmáine.Nocht na meáin chumarsáide an-spéis ann agusb’iomaí ceannlíne spleodrach agus alt téagarthafaoi sna nuachtáin in Éirinn, sa Ghearmáin agusgo hidirnáisiúnta. Tuairiscíodh imeachtaí oscailtena féile go forleathan ar na seirbhísí teilifíse agusraidió anseo in Éirinn agus thar lear agus rinneidir stáisiúin náisiúnta agus idirnáisiúnta cláirfaoin bhféile. Thug nuachtáin náisiúnta de chuidna Gearmáine cuireadh do roinnt scríbhneoiríÉireannacha forlíonta liteartha a chur in eagar agussraitheanna alt a scríobh chun litríocht nahÉireann a chur in aithne don phobal.
L’Imaginaire IrlandaisB’imeacht suntasach eile i 1996 L’Imaginaire Irlandais.B’é Rialtas na hÉireann a thionscnaigh an fhéile seosa Fhrainc de chultúir na hÉireann, agus thug anChomhairle Ealaíon, maraon lena lán eagraíochtaíeile, idir chinn statúideacha agus chinnneamhstatúideacha, taca di. Lean sí ar feadh tréimhsechuíg mhí ó Mhárta go hIúil, agus ba mhórimeacht íi bhféilire cultúrtha na Fraince agus na hÉireann.Chuir an Chomhairle Ealaíon le taca an Rialtais dontionscnamh trí aitreabh a sholáthar do Choimisinéirna féile agus dá foireann, agus trí cúltacha mórriarachán a chur ar fáil don tionscnamh.
B’í an tUachtarán, Máire Nic Róibín, a chuirtús le L’Imaginaire Irlandais. D’fhás an tionscnamhde bhrí gur aithníodh go raibh spéis suntasach agmuintir na Fraince i gcultúr comhaimseartha nahÉireann. Mar thoradh ar sin chuir an Rialtas aguslíon áirithe gníomhaireachtaí, an ChomhairleEalaíon ina measc, ceangal orthú féin anbhunchóincheap a thabhairt chun blátha. Vótáil anRialtas suim de £1.5m go mall i 1993 agus cheapÉire agus an Fhrainc coimisinéirí ins an dá thír.
Go luath ins an tionscnamh baineadh úsáidas an leagan cainte ‘ag dul isteach i sruth fola saoil
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to describe what the team of L’Imaginaire Irlandais
was trying to do. Over the planning period andduring the festival itself, numerous Frenchcurators, publishers, festival organisers,journalists and cultural programmers visitedIreland and were familiarised with currentdevelopments in Irish cultural life. The Irishartists who went to France in 1996 introduced anew public to Irish arts.
There was an extraordinarily positivereaction from the French public to this presen-tation of contemporary Irish culture. Thepublic and media response to large-scale eventslike the St Patrick’s Day concert in La Villette,Seamus Heaney’s reading at the Maison de laPoésie, or the Abbey theatre’s two-week run atthe Théâtre de l’Odéon was a palpable measureof French enthusiasm for Irish culture. Thehundreds of events, residencies and mostimportantly of all, perhaps, publications whichcame about as a result of L’Imaginaire Irlandais
ignited an interest in Irish culture in Francewhich will long outlast the festivities.
chultúrtha na Fraince’ chun cur síos a dhéanamh ara raibh beartaithe ag L’Imaginaire Irlandais. Le linnna tréimhse pleanála agus le linn na féile féin thuga lán coimeádaithe, foilsitheoirí, eagraitheoiríféilte, iriseoirí, agus cláraitheoirí cultúir de chuidna Fraince cuairt ar Éirinn agus cuireadh ar a n-eolas iad i dtaobh imeachtaí reatha i saol cultúrthana hÉireann. Na healaíontóirí Éireannacha achuaigh go dtí an Fhrainc i 1996, chuir siad pobalnua in aithne d’ealaíona na hÉireann.
Ghlac pobal na Fraince go fonnmhar leis anléiriú seo de chultúr chomhaimseartha nahÉireann. Ba slat tomhais soiléir ar dhúil nabhFrancach i gcultúr na hÉireann fritoradh anphobail agus na meán cumarsáide ar na himeachtaímórscála ar nós coirm cheoil Lá Fhéile Phádraig iLa Villette, léamh Séamus Heaney ag Maison de laPoésie, nó clár coicíse Amharclann na Mainistreachag Theâtre de l’Odéon. Na céata imeachtaí,tréimhsí cónaithe, agus go háirithe na foilseacháina lean L’Imaginaire Irlandais, chothaigh siad spéis igcultúr na hÉireann ins an Fhrainc, spéis amhairfeas i bhfad i ndiaidh na siamsaí.
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IntroductionMulti-Disciplinary Arts represents a majorelement of the Council’s expenditure in the areasof audience, access to and participation in thearts. It embraces Council programmes in thefields of Community Arts, Festivals, Arts Centres,Arts and Disability, and also those programmesfor Children and Young People not includedunder individual artforms.
Expenditure in 1996 totalled £2,394,000,an increase of £291,000 (14%) on 1995.
InitiativesIn 1996, the Arts Council and the CombatPoverty Agency established a partnership toexamine issues relating to poverty and thearts. A working party, chaired by ProfessorJohn O’Hagan, was established and metregularly over the year. The report of theworking party will include a research reportby Jeanne Moore, and make recommen-
RéamhráTá na hEalaíona Ildisiplíneacha mar chuid mhórde chaiteachas na Comhairle ó thaobh luchtféachana, insroichteachta agus comhpháirtíochtade sna healaíona. Glacann sé chuige clárachamaidir le hEalaíona Pobail, Féilte, Ionaid Ealaíon,Ealaíona agus Míchumas, agus chomh maith leissin na cláracha do Leanaí agus Daoine Óga nachbhfuil san áireamh faoina healaíona ar leith.
San iomlán caitheadh £2,394,000 i 1996,méadú de £291,000 (14%) ar 1995.
TionscnaimhI 1996, bhunaigh an Chomhairle Ealaíon agus anCombat Poverty Agency comhpháirtíocht chunsúil a chaitheamh ar cheisteanna a bhain lebochtanas agus na healaíona. Bunaíodh páirtíoibre, leis an ollamh John O’Hagan sa chathaoir,agus bhí cruinnithe rialta acu ar feadh tréimhsebliana. I dtuairisc an pháirtí oibre, Poverty: Access
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dations on the accessibility of the arts topeople living in poverty.
The report provided the focus for debate ata conference entitled Poverty: Access and Participation
in the Arts organised under the auspices of the IrishPresidency of the EU in November 1996.
tuairisc taighde le Jeanne Moore, agus déanann sémoltaí ó thaobh insroichteachta na n-ealaíon dodhaoine atá ag maireachtáil ar an ngannchuid.
Bhí an tuairisc seo mar ábhar díospóireachtaag comhdháil den teideal céanna, a heagraíodh faoithionchar Uachtaránacht na hÉireann ar an AE.
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PolicyThroughout 1996, a small group of practitioners and experts in the area ofcommunity arts met to discuss and consider thefuture development needs of the communityarts sector, and make recommendations to the Arts Council.
Two key areas were identified:■ the need to research and document the
current range and extent of community artspractice in Ireland
■ the need to create opportunities for dialoguebetween practitioners in the form ofconferences, publications and debates.
The Arts Council is due to consider theseissues in 1997.
Organisations In 1996, three new community arts organisationsreceived funding for the first time. They areArtlink in Buncrana, County Donegal, the
PolasaíI rith 1996, tháinig grúpa cleachtaithe agussaineolaithe in ealaíona pobail le chéile chun curagus cúiteamh a dhéanamh maidir le riachtanaisforbartha na todhchaí do rannóg na n-ealaíonpobail, agus chun moltaí a dhéanamh donChomhairle Ealaíon.
Aithníodh dhá ní ar leith:■ gur gá taighde agus cur síos a dhéanamh ar
réimse chleachtadh na n-ealaíon pobail faoiláthair in Éirinn
■ gur gá seansanna a chruthú do chomhráití idircleachtaithe i bhfoirm comhdháileanna,foilsiúcháin agus díospóireachtaí.
Tabharfaidh an Chomhairle Ealaíon faoinagceisteanna seo i 1997.
EagraíochtaíI 1996 fuair trí eagraíocht nua ealaíon pobailmaoiniú don chéad uair. Sin iad Artlink i mBunCranncha, Contae Dhún na nGall, an Umbrella
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Festivals receiving funding for the first timewere Rathdrum Cartoon Festival and DroghedaSamba Festival.Substantial increaseswere allocated toBeara CommunityArts Week andBallina SalmonFestival to enable the consolidation of a consistentprogramme of work.Increases were alsomade to other organisations todevelop programmesaimed specifically atchildren and young people.
InitiativesIn 1995, the ArtsCouncil and FinglasPartnership co-funded a one-yearcommunity artsresidency scheme ona pilot basis.Following the pilotproject, three one-year residenciesreceived funding in1996: Leitrim Area Partnership; BallymunArea Partnership; Kilkenny Community ArtsNetwork. A key objective, by the end of theseresidencies, is to have developed an arts planfor each organisation.
This scheme will be reviewed in 1997.
Project i gCathair Luimnigh, agus Draíocht inIarthar Uíbh Fhailí.
Ba iad na féilte a fuair maoiniú den chéaduair ná Féile Chartún Ráth Droma agus Féile
Samba DhroicheadÁtha. Tugadhméaduithe móra doSheachtain EalaíonPobail Bhéara agusdo Fhéile BhradáinBhéal an Átha chunclár oibre seasta adhaingniú. Tugadhméaduithe freisind’eagraíochtaí eilechun cláranna afhorbairt dirithe godíreach ar leanaíagus ar dhaoine óga.
TionscnaimhI 1995, chomhb-hunaigh anChomhairle Ealaíonagus FinglasPartnership scéimcónaithe ealaíonpobail aon bhlianaar bhonn píolóta.Ag teacht óntionscnamh píolótafuair trí áit eilemaoiniú aon bhliana i 1996:
Leitrim Area Partnership; Ballymun AreaPartnership; Kilkenny Community Arts Network. Is príomhsprioc, faoi dheireadh na n-áitreamh sin, go mbeadh plean ealaíon forbairte ann don eagraíocht.
Déanfar athbhreithniú ar an scéim seo i 1997.
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Arts and Disability was a major focus of ArtsCouncil attention in 1996, with a substantialbudget increase and a new initiative in terms ofpolicy development.
The increased level of funding made itpossible for a partnership to be created between anumber of bodies including the Linenhall ArtsCentre, Mise Fresin, the Mid Western HealthBoard, to bring into existence ‘The Trip to ClareIsland’ an exciting and innovative adventureproject based in Castlebar for young people withlearning disabilities.
The Arts Council, in co-operation withthe National Rehabilitation Board,established a working group to advise on howbest to address the needs of people withdisabilities in terms of its policy and practice.The group was chaired by Professor SeamusÓ Cinnéide. Research-based and other contri-butions were made by Mary Duffy. The workof the group was closely linked to the parallelpreparation of the Report of the Commissionon the Status of People with Disabilities,
Dhírigh an Chomhairle Ealaíon a aird go mórar Ealaíon agus Míchumas i 1996: tharla leméadú mór bhuséad agus tionscnamh nua ibhfhorbairt polasaí.
Leis an méadú mór maoine seo bhí séindéanta comhpháirtíocht a chruthú idireagraíochtaí áirithe (ina measc an Linenhall ArtsCentre, Mise Freisin agus Bord Sláinte anIarthair) chun tionscnamh eachtraíochtacorraitheach agus cruithaítheach, ‘An Turas gohOileán Chléire’, a thabhairt chun cinn,tionscnamh atá lonnaithe i gCaisleán anBharraigh.Tá an togra seo dírithe ar dhaoine ógago bhfuil deacrachtaí foghlamtha acu.
I gcomhoibriú leis an mBord AthshlánaitheNáisiúnta bhunaigh an Chomhairle Ealaíon grúpaoibre chun comhairle maidir le polasaí aguscleachtadh a thabhairt ar an mbealach is fearr letabhairt faoi riachtanais na ndaoine a bhfuilmíchumas orthu. Ba é an tOllamh Séamus ÓCinnéide Chathaoirleach an grúpa. Rinne MaryDuffy i measc cuidiú eile bunús na taighde. Bhídlúthcheangal idir obair an ghrúpa seo agus ullmhú
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A Strategy for Equality. The working group’sreport, together with the associated researchpapers, is due for consideration by the ArtsCouncil in early 1997.
Tuairisc an Choimisiúin ar Stadas na nDaoine leMíchumas, A Strategy for Equality. Tá tuairisc anghrúpa oibre, maidir leis na páipéir thaighde, le curfaoi bhráid na Comhairle Ealaíon go luath i 1997.
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IntroductionA major increase was made in the allocation toarts centres in 1996 to enable consolidation ofthe work of a number of existing centres, and togive support for the first time to a number ofnew arts centres.
The existing centres which receivedsubstantial increases included: Siamsa Tire,Tralee; Triskel Arts Centre, Cork; and GarterLane, Waterford.
Three new centres came on stream as aresult of partnership funding with a numberof local authorities: ■ South Dublin County Council has entered into
a 50% revenue funding relationship with theArts Council in respect of Tallaght CommunityArts Centre
■ Tipperary (South Riding) County Councilhas partnered the Arts Council on a 50/50basis in relation to staff costs for SouthTipperary Arts Centre
RéamhráTugadh méadú mór in allúntas na nIonadEalaíon i 1996, chun go bhféadfaidís saotharroinnt Ionad atá ann cheana féin a dhaingniú,agus tacaíocht a thabhairt don chéad uair doroinnt ionad nua ealaíon.
I measc na nIonad a bhí ann cheana agus afuair méadú mór bhí: Siamsa Tíre, Trá Lí;Ionad Ealaíon Triskel, Corcaigh; agus GarterLane, Port Láirge.
Tháinig trí ionad nua chun cinn de bharrmhaoiniú comhpháirtíochta le roinntúdarás áitiúil.■ I bpáirt leis an gComhairle Ealaíon thug
Comhairle Contae Dheisceart Bhaile ÁthaCliath 50% de mhaoiniú bhliantúil isteach óthaobh Ionad Ealaíon Phobal Thamhlachta de
■ Tá Comhairle Contae Thiobraid Árann (TaobhTheas) i bpáirt leis an gComhairle Ealaíon arbhonn 50/50 maidir le costaisí foirne d’IonadEalaíon Dheisceart Thiobraid Árann
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■ Donegal County Council has supported thenewly-built Letterkenny Arts Centre as part ofa programme of ongoing development ofvenues, in Letterkenny in particular, and inCounty Donegal in general.
InitiativesIn 1996 the Arts Council allocated a sum of£20,000 for a pilot programme to enable anArts Centre, or a group of Arts Centres tocommission a piece of work for performanceand/or exhibition. The fund is a response toarts centres’ own demands to extend their rolebeyond that of receiving venues. The intentionof the scheme is to allow arts centres to initiatethe creation of work which is relevant foraudiences and for artists who work within thecontext of an arts centre.
In 1996, two awards were made: ■ Garter Lane Arts Centre received £15,000
for a visual arts/live arts project curatedby Gary Phelan
■ Project Arts Centre received £5,000towards the commissioning of a new pieceof work from the London-based groupDesperate Optimists.
The Council will consider the results of this pilotphase of the scheme in 1997.
■ Thug Comhairle Chontae Dhún na nGalltacaíocht d’Ionad Ealaíon Leitir Ceanainn atógadh le déanaí, mar chuid dá chlár arfhorbairt ionad i Leitir Ceanainn ach goháirithe agus i nDún na nGall i gcoitinne.
TionscnaimhI 1996 thug an Chomhairle Ealaíon suim de£20,000 do chlár píolóta chun go bhféadfadhionad ealaíon, nó grúpa d’ionaid ealaíon píosaoibre a chomisiúnú i gcomhair léirithe nótaispeána. Ba freagra an maoiniú seo ariarrataisí ó na hIonaid Ealaíon féin go mbeadhról níos leithne acu ná mar a bhíonn ag ionaidglactha. Is é sprioc na scéime seo ná deis athabhairt dona hIonaid Ealaíona saothar nua athionscnamh, saothar a bheadh féiliúnach dolucht féachana agus d’ealaíontóirí a oibríonn igcomhthéacs Ionad Ealaíon.
I 1996, rinneadh dhá bhronnadh:■ Fuair Ionad Ealaíon Garter Lane £15,000 do
thionscnamh dearcealaíona/ealaíon bheo faoistiúir Gary Phelan
■ Fuair Ionad Ealaíon Project £5,000 i gcomhairpíosa nua saothair a choimisiúnú ón ngrúpaDesperate Optimists as Londain.
Measfaidh an Comhairle torthaí an chuid phíolótaseo den scéim i 1997.
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The Council appointed Gaye Tanham to the postof Officer with responsibility for Youth Arts andDance. Responsibility for Arts Council policydevelopment on children and young people resideswithin the area of Multi-Disciplinary Arts.Budgeting for this area has been integrated intothe eight individual art form areas (i.e., music,drama, dance, opera, visual arts, architecture,literature, film) and the development andcombined arts areas (i.e., arts centres, localauthority partnerships). Since 1993, theproportion of arts expenditure to children andyoung people has increased from 6% to 12%,moving towards the Council’s expressed desire toreach a 15% target by 1998.
During 1996, support was provided to anumber of Arts Centres and Local AuthorityArts Officers to assist with locally-based artsprogrammes for children and young people.The Council supported the first full year ofprogramming at The Ark, the Children’sCultural Centre (based in Temple Bar) with agrant of £180,0000.
D’ainmnigh an Chomhairle Gaye Tanham donphost mar Oifigeach le freagracht do Rince agusd’Ealaín na hÓige. Luíonn freagracht naComhairle Ealaíon i bhforbairt polasaí i leithleanaí agus daoine óga i réimse na nEalaíonIldisiplíneach. Tá an buiséadú don réimse seomeasctha isteach in ocht ndisciplín ealaíne ar leith(i.e. ceol, dráma, rince, ceoldrámaíocht,dearcealaíon, ailtireacht, litríocht, scannánaíocht)agus i limistéir ilealaíona (i.e., ionaid ealaíon,comhpháirtíochtaí le húdaráis áitiúla). Ó 1993 ileith tháinig méadú ar an gcaiteachas san ealaín dodhaoine óga ó 6% go dtí 12%, figiúr atá aggluaiseacht i dtreo sprioc oifigiúil na Comhairlede 15% faoi 1998.
I rith 1996 tugadh tacaíocht do roinntIonad Ealaíon agus d’Oifigigh Ealaíon ÚdarásÁitiúil chun cabhrú le cláracha ealaíona áitiúlado leanaí agus do dhaoine óga. Thug anChomhairle tacaíocht do chlárú iomlán na céadbliana ag The Ark, (an tIonad CultúrthaLeanaí, lonnaithe i mBarra an Teampaill) ledeontas de £180,000.
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A pilot initiative in the area ofcurriculum development was begun incollaboration with the Department of Education (In-Career Unit)and WexfordCounty Council.‘The Arts in theClassroom’project isdesigned togeneratecurriculum ideasfor primaryschool level andbrings artistsinto theclassroom towork alongsideteachers andstudents.
This yearthe Council willreview the firstphase of the Youth Arts Initiative, anotherpartnership initiative involving the Departmentof Education (Youth Affairs Section) and theNational Youth Council of Ireland, aimed atthe informal education sector. The Councilwelcomed the report of the SteeringCommittee set up to oversee the first phase,the findings of which will inform the nextstage of this valuable initiative.
The very successful artist-in-residence in schools scheme was extendedto include established youthwork organi-sations and the Council continues to makespecialist research and study awardsavailable to arts educators.
The Council noted with regret thedecision of Wet Paint Arts to cease trading.The pioneering work of this organisation, ledby Niall O’Baoill, will continue to benefit thedevelopment of youth arts practice in Irelandfor many years to come.
Details of activities within the artsdisciplines are set out in the artform chaptersof this report.
Tosaíodh tionscnamh píolóta maidir leforbairt churaclaim i bpáirt leis an RoinnOideachais agus le Comhairle Chontae Loch
Garman. Tá antionscnamh ‘The Arts in theClassroom’ dearthachun tuairimícuraclaim aghineadh do leibhéalna bunscoile aguschun ealaíontóirí athabhairt isteach saseomra ranga chunoibriú i dteanntaleis na múinteoiríagus na daltaí.
I mblianadéanfaidh anChomhairleathbhreithniú ar angcéad chuid denYouth ArtsInitiative,
tionscnamh a eagraíodh i gcomhpháirtíocht leis anRoinn Oideachais (Rannóg Gnóthaí Óige) agus leComhairle Náisiúnta Óige na hÉireann, é dírithe aran rannóg oideachais neamhfhoirmeálta. Chuir anChomhairle fáilte roimh thuairisc an ChoisteStiúrtha a ceapadh chun a bheith i bhfeighil anchéad choda, agus múnlóidh torthaí na tuairisce seoan chéad chéim eile den tionscnamh luachmhar seo.
Leathnaíodh scéim na n-ealaíontóircónaitheach ins na scoile, scéim gur éirigh tharcionn léi, chun páirt a thabhairt do roinnteagraíochtaí ógshaothair seanbhunaithe. Leanannan Chomhairle ar aghaidh ag cur saindeontaistaighde speisialtachta agus duaiseanna staidéir arfáil do theagascóirí ealaíona.
Is trua leis an gComhairle an cinneadh athóg Wet Paint Art éirí as trádáil. Leanfaidh obaircheannródaíochta na heagraíochta seo, a bhí faoicheannas Niall Ó Baoill, ina chuidiú le forbairtchleachtadh ealaíon na n-óg in Éirinn go cionnblianta fada.
Tá sonraí d’imeachtaí laistigh de dhisciplíníealaíne leagtha amach i gcaibidil ealaíne natuairisce seo.
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Awards/Duaiseanna £Niamh Cooney 1,800Caoimhin Corrigan 450Patricia Glynn 1,000Helen Hallissey 700Marie Martin 1,900Aoife McNamara 900Kevin Murphy 1,000Pádraic O Curraoin 450Danusia Oslizlok 1,800Kathie Prince 900
ARTFLIGHT: 49 travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 8,03849 duais taistil i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
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Total Awards/Iomlán Duaiseanna 18,938
Arts Centres/Ionaid EalaíonArtHive Gallery, Cork 5,000Ballina Arts Events, Mayo 3,000Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick 110,000City Arts Centre, Dublin 125,000Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda 45,000Galway Arts Centre/Ionad Ealaíon na Gaillimhe 74,000Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford 103,000Garter Lane Arts Centre (Playwrights’ Conference) 20,000Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar 75,000Midland Arts Resource Centre, Mullingar 1,000Model Arts Centre, Sligo 49,000Project Arts Centre, Dublin 175,000Siamsa Tíre, Tralee 116,000South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel 10,000St John’s Heritage Centre, Listowel 45,000Tallaght Community Arts Centre 20,000Triskel Arts Centre/Ionad Ealaíon Triskel, Cork 125,000Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan 155,000West Cork Arts Centre/Ionad Ealaíon Iarthar Chorcaí 50,000Westmeath VEC/Midlands Arts, Mullingar 15,000Wexford Arts Centre/Ionad Ealaíon Loch Garman 80,000 1,401,000_____________
One-Year Residencies/Cónaitheacha Aon-BhliainNeighbourhood Youth Project, Western Health Board/ 10,000 10,000Bord Sláinte an Iarthair
Organisations/EagraíochtaíAlternative Entertainments, Tallaght 25,000Artlink, Buncrana 6,000Beyond Borders, Inishowen 13,000Boann, Droichead Átha 1,000Buí Bolg, Loch Garman 9,500C.A.F.E., Dublin 83,000Cork Community Artlink 600Craic na Coillte, Cluain na Coillte 4,000Draíocht/West Offaly Street Theatre 1,000Droichead Arts Centre/Drogheda Samba School 2,000Macnas, Galway 100,000Tallaght Arts Forum 500Theatre Omnibus, Clare 52,000Umbrella Project, Limerick 4,000 301,600_____________
Festivals/FéilteAfrica Festival, Dublin 4,000Ballina Salmon Festival, Mayo 2,000Beara Community Arts Society, Cork 2,000Beg Borrow & Steal Theatre Company, Dublin 500Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon 8,300Cashel Heritage & Development Centre, Tipperary 500Clifden Community Arts Week, Galway 14,000Cootehill Arts Festival, Cavan 2,000Cork Regional Technical College 8,000Droichead Arts Centre/Drogheda Samba Festival 1,000Dublin 15 Community Arts Festival 3,000Dunlavin Arts Festival, Wicklow 500Éigse Cheatharlaigh 10,500Fermanagh District Council/Comhairle Ceantair Fhearmanach 1,000Galway Arts Festival/Féile Ealaíon na Gaillimhe 115,000George Moore Society, Mayo 3,000International Cartoon Festival, Wicklow 1,000Kilkenny Arts Week 55,000Lambert Puppet Theatre, Dublin 14,000Limerick County Council 500Roscommon Active Age Group 600Samhlaíocht Chiarraí, Trá Lí 8,000Sligo Arts Festival 27,000Sligo Arts Festival (Gulbenkian Foundation) 2,904South Docks Festival, Dublin 500Waterford Spraoi 5,000Westport Arts Festival, Mayo 6,000 295,804_____________
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Community Arts Projects/Tionscnaimh Ealaíne PobailArtquake, Monaghan 2,000Athlone Youth Project 2,000Attic Community Drama, Galway 1,000Barnstorm Theatre Company, Kilkenny 800Bishop Birch Place Community Project, Kilkenny 750Coleman Heritage Centre, Co. Sligo 1,500Connacht Rural Women’s Group, Roscommon 500Dún Laoghaire Youth Service 1,000Dublin Institute of Technology 1,000Family Resource Centre, Dublin 2,000Hospice October Project, Kildare 1,500Knocknaheeney/Hollyhill Community Arts, Cork 1,500Laois County Council/Comhairle Contae Laoise 1,000Limerick Travellers Development Group 1,000Lucena Clinic, Dublin 1,500Manorhamilton Community Council, Leitrim 2,000North Wall Women’s Centre, Dublin 625Our Lady’s Hospice, Dublin 1,000Parnell Square Studios, Dublin 1,500Rowlagh Women’s Group, Dublin 500St. Michael’s House, Finglas 1,500St. Michael’s Parish, Dublin 1,500The Hatters, Galway 2,000Waterford Corporation/Bardas Phort Láirge 1,000 30,675_____________
Arts and Disability/Ealaíona agus MichumasAPIC Cooperative Centre, Dublin 12,000Disabled People of Clare 120Pan Pan Theatre Company, Dublin 7,500Rehabilitation Institute, Dublin 10,000Verbal Arts Centre, Derry 500 30,120_____________
Children and Young People/Páistí agus Daoine ÓgaThe Ark, Dublin 180,000The Ark, Dublin (Gulbenkian Foundation) 4,794City Arts Centre, Dublin 25,000National Youth Council of Ireland 22,500Wet Paint Theatre Company, Dublin 30,000 262,294_____________
Schools Residencies/Scéim Cónaithe sna ScoileannaBeaufort National School, Meath 1,200City Quay National School, Dublin 1,200Elphin Vocational School, Roscommon 1,200Grange Community College, Dublin 1,200Kilkenny Technical School 1,200Mater Dei Primary School, Dublin 1,200
Monageer National School, Enniscorthy 1,200Presentation Secondary, Clonmel 1,500Sacred Heart Convent, Longford 1,200Scoil Cholmcille, Lifford 1,200Scoil Mhuire, Loch Garman 3,000Scoil Naithí, Baile Átha Cliath 1,200Scoil Naomh Lorcan Ó Tuathail, An Tóchar, Corcaigh 1,200Silgo School Project 1,200St Aidan’s Primary School, Wexford 1,080St Brendan’s National School, Sligo 1,200St Brigid’s School, Tuam 1,200St Louis High School, Dublin 1,200St Michael’s House, Dublin 1,200 24,780_____________
Previous years grants not required/Deontais na bliana roimhe nár theastaigh (5,000)_____________
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Directly Promoted Activities/Gníomhaíochtaí curtha chun cinn go díreachArts and Disability/Na hEalaíona agus Neamhacmhainn 11,808Arts Centres/Ionaid Ealaíon 8,280Training/Traenáil 1,755Festivals & Community Arts/Féilte agus Ealaíona Pobail 836Miscellaneous/Ilghnéitheach 567 23,246_____________
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Total for Multi-Disciplinary Arts as Note 3 (page 104)/ 2,393,457__________________________Iomlán do Ealaíona Ildisiplíneacha mar atá i Nóta 3 (leathanach 104)
Grants Received/Deontais a FuarthasArts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 45,120Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
(The Ark, Dublin) 4,794(Sligo Arts Festival) 2,903 7,697_____________
Department of Education/An Roinn Oideachais (Youth Arts Development Officers) 30,000_____________
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IntroductionThe Local Authorities and Partnerships budgetheading represents the Council’s expenditure onstrategic partnerships in a number of key areas,principally that of Local Authorities.
Expenditure under this heading in 1996amounted to £531,000, an increase of £90,000(20%) on 1995.
PolicyThe partnership between the Arts Council andlocal authorities is most clearly expressed in theemployment of local authority arts officers. Theseare the key executives responsible for theexecution of arts policies and programmes at localauthority level. The Arts Council also providesprogramming grants to Local Authorities.
InitiativesIn 1996, the Association of Local AuthorityArts Officers was funded by the Arts Councilto take a number of initiatives associated withthe collective needs of arts officers. This
RéamhráSeasann teideal buiséid na n-Údaráis Áitiúla agusComhpháirtithe do chaiteachas na Comhairle archomhpháirtíochtaí straitéiseacha i roinnt limistéartabhachtach, go príomha leis na húdaráis áitiúla.
Ba é iomlán an chaiteachas faoin teidealseo ná £531,000, méadú de £90,000 (20%)ar an tsuim do 1995.
PolasaíLéiritear an chomhpháirtíocht idir an ChomhairleEalaíon agus na húdaráis áitiúla ach go háirithe ibhfostú oifigeach ealaíon údaráis áitiúla. Seo iadna príomhfheidhmeannaigh i gcur i bhfeidhmpolasaithe ealaíon agus cláracha ag leibhéal na n-údarás áitiúil. Tugann an Chomhairle Ealaíondeontais chláraithe do na hÚdarás Aitiúla.
TionscnaimhThacaigh an Chomhairle Ealaíon leis angCumann na nOifigeach Ealaíon de chuid nanudaráis aitiúil 1996 chun roinnt tionscnamh athógáil ar lámh a bhaineann leis na riachtanais
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included, as a major element, the developmentof international linkages.
During 1996 new arts officers wereappointed in Cork County, Waterford County,Offaly, Longford/Leitrim and Meath.
Projects in TrainThroughout the year, a working party consistingof members of the City and County Managers’Association and the Arts Council met to reviewelements of the partnership between the ArtsCouncil and local authorities.
The group commissioned research andconsidered ways in which the relationshipbetween the Arts Council and local authoritiescould be improved. The group, which includesmembers of the Arts Council and CountyManagers from Kerry County Council, MayoCounty Council, Dun Laoghaire RathdownCounty Council, Laois County Council,Wexford County Council, Cork Corporationand Cork County Council, is due to report tothe Arts Council in 1997.
County Arts Plans1996 saw a new approach to funding localauthority arts activity. Two priority counties,Donegal and Laois, were recipients ofsubstantial increases in programming funds.These funding increases were set in the contextof funding agreements between the Arts Counciland the two county councils. Both countiesreceived £30,000 funding from the ArtsCouncil, making available arts developmentfunds of at least £60,000 in each case. In July,Laois County Council and the Arts Councilformally launched the first County Arts PlanAgreement, to mark this initiative.
At a central government level, greaterintegration of approaches and co-operationbetween the various Departments and agenciesinvolved in local authority arts development wasidentified as a priority. A small interdepartmentalteam, consisting of officials of the Department ofArts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, the Departmentof the Environment and the Arts Council wasestablished on an informal basis to encourageeasier linkages.
North-South Co-operationThe Council has a long-standing relationshipwith the Arts Council of Northern Ireland,
chomhchoitianta a bhíonn ag Oifigigh Ealaíon.San áireamh, mar phríomheilimint, bhí forbairtna gceangal idirnáisiúnta.
I rith 1996, tugadh post d’Oifigigh Ealaíonnua i gContae Chorcaí, i gContae Phort Láirge agusin Uíbh Fhailí, Longfort/ Liatrom agus an Mhí.
Tionscnaimh idir LámhaLe linn 1996 chas páirtí oibre ina raibh baill deChumann na mBainisteoir Cathrach is Contae agusan Chomhairle Ealaíon ar a chéile chun athbhre-ithniú a dhéanamh ar an gcomhpháirtíocht idir angComhairle Ealaíon agus na húdaráis áitiúla.
Chomisiúnaigh an grúpa taighde agus mheassiad bealaí ina bhféadfaí an gaol idir anChomhairle Ealaíon agus na húdaráis áitiúla afheabhsú. Tá faoin ngrúpa, a bhfuil baill denChomhairle Ealaíon agus Bainisteoirí Contae óChomhairle Chontae Chiarraí, Comhairle ChontaeMhaigh Eo, Comhairle Chontae Dhún Laoghaire –Rath Dúin, Comhairle Chontae Laoise, ComhairleChontae Loch Garman, Bardas Chorcaí agusComhairle Chontae Chorcaí, tuairisc a thabhairtdon Chomhairle Ealaíon i 1997.
Pleananna Ealaíon ContaeCuireadh bealach nua chun gníomhaíochtaí ealaíonana nUdarás Áitiúil a mhaoiniú i bhfeidhm i 1996.Fuair dhá chontae tosaíochta, Dún na nGall agusLaois, méaduithe móra maidir le maoiniú clárúcháin.Cinneadh na méaduithe maoinithe seo igcomhthéacs socruithe maoinithe idir an gComhairleEalaíon agus an dá Chomhairle Contae. Fuair gachcontae acu, £30,000 i maoiniú ón gComhairleEalaíon, rud a d’fhág maoiniú forbartha ealaíon de ara laghad £60,000 an contae ar fáil. I mí Iúil sheolComhairle Chontae Laoise agus an ChomhairleEalaíon go foirmiúil an chéad Plean AontaitheEalaíon Contae chun an tionscnamh seo a mharcáil.
Ag leibhéil an rialtais lárnaigh, tuigeadh antábhacht a bhain le suimeáil níos mó a bheith i gcurchuige agus comhoibriú idir na ranna éagsúla agusna gníomhaireachtaí atá páirteach i bhforbairtealaíon údarás áitiúil. Bunaíodh foireann beag idir-ranna, ar a raibh oifigigh ón Roinn Ealaíon, Cultúiragus Gaeltachta, an Roinn Comhshaoil agus anChomhairle Ealaíon ar bhun go neamhfhoirmeáltachun ceangail níos éasca a chothú.
Comhoibriú Thuaidh agus TheasTá gaol seanbhunaithe ag an gComhairle leis anArts Council of Northern Ireland, é bunaithe ar an
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based on the premise that arts development isstrengthened by a thirty-two county co-operative approach. The relationship isbased around the following: joint support offunded organisations which operate on athirty-two county basis; joint residencyprogrammes and programmes to facilitatethirty-two county touring. In 1996, the ArtsCouncils began to negotiate a jointprogramme for the support of community artsactivity and the strengthening of the artsinfrastructure in the border counties.
The two Arts Councils have a number ofmechanisms for ensuring the delivery of theseobjectives. These include the joint post of ArtsCo-operation Officer, which continued in1996; regular meetings of the the North-South Committee; and an annual meetingbetween the two Councils, which took place inNovember 1996.
Other Partnerships and InitiativesThe interdisciplinary collaborations schemefunded a number of new collaborations in 1996.These included the Venus’ Slipper project based atthe Botanic Gardens, Dublin; Magagh TheatreCompany, Galway for its multi-media project,Metaphorically Speaking; The Machine TheatreCompany, Meath for its production of The Yellow
Man in collaboration with visual artist PaulineBewick; and Two Chairs Company, Dublin, for amusic/storytelling project.
Macra na FeirmeIn 1996, the Arts Council and Macra naFeirme began year two of a three-yearpartnership as part of a strategy to animateexisting cultural networks. The first phase ofthe project saw Macra groups around thecountry participating in a variety of develop-mental arts programmes, including Samba andpercussion projects, and a series of workshop-based theatre development projects resulting inthe creation of new one-act plays.
Údarás na GaeltachtaThe Arts Council opened discussions with Údarásna Gaeltachta in 1996 with a view to establishingsupport systems for the development of the artsin Gaeltacht areas.
dtuiscint go láidrítear forbairt na n-ealaíon trí curchuige comhoibritheach tríocha a dó contae. Tá angaol bunaithe thart ar na téamaí seo a leanas:comhthacaíocht d’eagraíochtaí maoinithe aoibríonn ar bhonn tríocha a dó contae, comhthion-scnaimh chónaithe agus cláracha a chuidíonn lechamchuairteanna ar fud dhá chontae is tríocha.
Chuaigh na Comhairlí Ealaíon i mbun caintei 1996 ar chomhchlár chun tacaíocht a thabhairtdo ghníomhaíocht ealaíne pobail agus chun láidriúa dhéanamh ar an mbonneagar ealaíona igcontaetha na teorann.
Tá na Comhairlí Ealaíon tar éis roinntteicnící a fhorbairt lena chinntiú go dtabharfar naspriocanna comhpháirtíochta seo chun cinn. Leanan post comhpháirteach mar OifigeachComhoibrithe Ealaíon i 1996, chas an CoisteThuaidh-Theas ar a chéile faoi dhó i 1996 agustionóladh an comhcruinniú bliantúil idir an dháChomhairle i mí na Samhna 1996.
Comhpháirtíochtaí agus Tionscnaimh eileMhaoinigh an scéim comhoibrithe idirdhisci-plíneach roinnt chomhoibrithe nua i 1996. Inameasc seo bhí togra an Venus’ Slipper, lonnaithe agGairdíní na Lus, Baile Átha Cliath; MagadhTheatre Company, Gaillimh dá thogra ilmheán,Metaphorically speaking; The Machine TheatreCompany dá léiriú The Yellow Man i bpáirt leis anndearcealaíontóir Pauline Bewick; agus TwoChairs Company, Baile Átha Cliath dá thograceoil/scéalaíochta.
Macra na FeirmeI 1996, chuir an Chomhairle Ealaíon agus Macrana Feirme tús leis an dara bliain dechomhpháirtíocht trí bliana mar chuid de straitéischun gréasáin chultúrtha atá ann faoi láthair abheochan. Sa chéad chuid den togra bhí grúpaí deMacra ar fud na tíre ag glacadh páirte in saothairealaíona éagsúla, ina measc tograí Samba aguscnaguirlísí, agus i sraith tograí fhorbairtamharclainne a bhí ceardlann-bhunaithe, as artháinig cruthú drámaí nua aon ghnímh.
Údarás na GaeltachtaChuaigh an Chomhairle Ealaíon chun cainte lehÚdarás na Gaeltachta i 1996 le súil go mbunófaícórais tacaíochta d’fhorbairt na n-ealaíon igceantair Ghaeltachta.
The local authority Arts Officers at December 1996 are:Cavan County Council Caitríona O’ReillyClare County Council Vacant
Cork County Council (from June 1996) Ian McDonaghDonegal County Council Traolach Ó FionnáinDublin Corporation Jack GilliganDún Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council Cliodhna ShaffreyDundalk UDC Brian HartenFingal County Council Rory O’ByrneGalway County Council James HarroldKerry County Council Vacant
Kildare County Council Mary LenihanKilkenny County Council Margaret CosgraveLeitrim and Longford County Council (from November 1996) Fergus KennedyLimerick Corporation Sheila DeeganLimerick County Council Joan McKernanMayo County Council John CollMeath County Council (from November 1996) Gerardette BaileyMonaghan County Council Somhairle MacConghailOffaly County Council (from November 1996) Sharon MeeRoscommon County Council Emer LeavySouth Dublin County Council Gina KellyWaterford Corporation Mary McAuliffeWaterford County Council (from February 1996) Margaret FlemingWexford County Council Lorraine Comer
Oifigeach Ealaíon Údaráis Áitiúla (Nollag 1996):Comhairle Contae Chábháin Caitríona O’ReillyComhairle Contae an Chláir Folamh
Comhairle Contae Chorcaí (ó Meitheamh 1996) Ian McDonaghComhairle Contae Dhún na nGall Traolach Ó FionnáinBardas Bhaile Átha Cliath Jack GilliganComhairle Contae Dún Laoghaire /Rath Dúin Clíodhna ShaffreyUDC Dún Dealgan Brian HartenComhairle Contae Fine Gall Rory O’ByrneComhairle Contae na Gaillimhe James HarroldComhairle Contae Chiarraí Folamh
Comhairle Contae Chill Dara Mary LenihanComhairle Contae Chill Chainnigh Margaret CosgraveComhairlí Contae Liatroma agus Longfoirt (ó Shamhain 1996) Fergus KennedyBardas Luimnigh Sheila DeeganComhairle Contae Luimnigh Joan McKernanComhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo John CollComhairle Contae na Mí (ó Shamhain 1996) Gerardette BaileyComhairle Contae Mhuineacháin Somhairle Mac ConghailComhairle Contae Uíbh Fhailí (ó Shamhain 1996) Sharon MeeComhairle Contae Ros Comáin Emer LeaveyComhairle Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath Theas Gina KellyBardas Phort Láirge Mary McAuliffeComhairle Contae Phort Láirge (ó Feabhra 1996) Margaret FlemingComhairle Contae Loch Garman Lorraine Comer
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Awards/Duaiseanna £ARTFLIGHT: 5 travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 8485 duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
Paycost grants to 22 local authorities/Deontais Paycost do 22 údarás áitiúil 184,227
Arts programme grants to local authorities/Deontais clár ealaíon d’údaráis áitiúla 202,250
Sundry Grants/Deontais IlnitheTipperary (SR) County Council/Comhairle Contae Thiobraid Árann (Theas) 250Working Artists, Roscommon 2,500Model Arts Centre, Sligo 2,500Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan 3,000Cavan County Council/Comhairle Contae an Chabháin 4,000Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council/
Comhairle Contae Dún Laoghaire – Rath an Dún 2,500Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown (special project)/
Comhairle Contae Dún Laoghaire – Rath an Dún (togra speisialta) 5,000South Dublin County Council/Comhairle Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath Theas 2,500Fingal County Council/Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall 2,000 24,250_____________
Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration/Páirtíocht IdirdhisciplíneachThe Machine, Meath 8,000Two Chairs Company, Dublin 1,500North-West Achill Community Development 2,500Magadh, Gaillimh 10,000Venus’ Slipper, Glasnevin 5,000 27,000_____________
Innovation/TionscnamhMacra na Feirme 26,697
Training/TraenáilMacnas Training, Galway 20,000
Previous years’ grants not required/Deontais na bliana roimhe nár theastaigh (7,500)_____________477,772
Directly Promoted Activities/Gníomhaíochtaí curtha chun cinn go díreach 53,537
Total as Note 3 (page 104)/Iomlán mar Nóta 3 (leathanach 104) 531,309_____________
Grants Received/Deontais a FuarthasCalouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Macra na Feirme) 9,209Combat Poverty Agency 533An Roinn Ealaíon, Cultúir agus Gaeltachta 6,000
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IntroductionExpenditure on capital projects in 1996amounted to £1,027,000, an increase of£103,000 (11%) on 1995.
PolicyTowards the end of 1995, the Councilreorganised its capital spending programmeand in a strategic approach to capitalspending earmarked at least £1m annuallyfor capital projects. 1996 was the first yearin which this strategic approach was taken.Because of the very high demand, it wasagreed to focus capital spending on the needsof organisations currently funded by the Arts Council.
A number of reviews of capital expenditureprogrammes were initiated during the year:
Studio Review The Council agreed to review the needs of artistsfor individual studio space and access to sharedresources such as darkrooms and print facilities.
RéamhráIs é an caiteachas a bhí ar thograí caipitil i 1996ná £1,027,000: ba méadú é seo de £103,000(11%) ar 1995.
PolasaíAg druidim le deireadh na bliana 1995, d’athea-graigh an Chomhairle a clár caiteachais caipitilagus i gcur chuige straitéiseach do chaiteachascaipitil d’aontaigh sé ar a laghad £1m sa bhliain achur i leathtaobh do thograí caipitil. Ba é 1996 anchéad bhliain ar baineadh úsáide as an gcur chuigestraitéiseach seo agus mar gheall ar an éileamh arda bhí air, aontaíodh an caiteachas caipitil a dhíriúisteach ar riachtanais ghníomhaíochtaí a bhí ámaoiniú ag an gComhairle Ealaíon faoi láthair.
Cuireadh tús le cúpla athbhreithniú archláracha caiteachas caipitil i rith na bliana.
Athbhreithniú StiúideonnaD’aontaigh an Chomhairle athbhreithniú adhéanamh ar riachtanais ealaíontóirí do spás stiúideodóibh féin agus insroichteacht chun acmhainní
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It is intended that the findings of the StudioReview will inform the Council’s capitalexpenditure in this area in 1997.
Major ProposalsThe Council also agreed to review theprocedures and systems by which it considersproposals for large capital projects fromorganisations which do not have an on-goingrevenue funding relationship with theCouncil. Following on from the review,developments may include support to localamateur drama groups and musical societiesto create or improve rehearsal andperformance spaces, support to collectives ofartists to create workspaces or to traditionalmusic groups who may wish to establishresource and education centres.
roinnte ar nós seomraí dorcha agus áiseannapriondála. Tá sé i gceist go mbeidh tionchar aige seoar chaiteachas caipitil na Comhairle i 1997.
PríomhmholtaíTá sé aontaithe ag an gComhairle freisin athbhre-ithniú a dhéanamh ar an tslí agus na córais inandéanann sí mholtaí do thograí mhóra caipitil óeagraíochtaí nach bhfuil faoi láthair, agus gurdócha nach mbeidh sa todhchaí, gaol leanúnachmaoinithe acu leis an gComhairle. D’fhéadfadh gon-áireodh na forbairtí seo tacaíocht do ghrúpaídrámaíochta agus cumainn cheoil áitiúlaneamhghairmiúla chun spás taispeántais aguscleachtaithe a fheabhsú nó a chruthú, tacaíocht doghrúpaí ealaíontóirí chun spás saothair a chruthúnó do ghrúpa ceoil traidisiúnta ar mhaith leoionaid oideachais agus acmhainne a bhunú.
Capital Grants/Deontais Caipiteal£
Éigse Ceatharlach 2,800Abbey Centre Trust, Donegal 40,000African Cultural Project, Dublin 2,500Alternative Entertainments, Dublin 3,000Amharclann de hÍde Baile Átha Cliath 4,000APIC Cooperative Centre, Dublin 3,000Arthouse, Dublin 15,528Artlink, Buncrana 2,000Association of Professional Dancers, Dublin 2,500Backstage Theatre, Longford 10,000Ballina Arts Events, Mayo 2,000Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo 15,000Beyond Borders Inishowen 3,000Bickerstaffe Ltd, Kilkenny 2,000Black Church Print Studios, Dublin 2,443Bog Lane Theatre Company, Leitrim 5,000Carl Bracken 500Buí Bolg, Wexford 2,500C.A.F.E., Dublin 4,000Circa Publications Ltd, Dublin 3,000City Arts Centre, Dublin 100,000Coiscéim, Dublin 5,000Coiscéim Dance Theatre, Dublin 1,300College of Dance Ltd, Dublin 27,000Corcadorca Theatre Company, Cork 5,000Cork Artists’ Collective 3,000Cork Printmakers 500Craftcrews, Dublin 20,000Dance Theatre of Ireland, Dublin 4,000Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda 2,000Druid Performing Arts, Galway 4,332Dry Rain Performing Arts, Wicklow 2,500Dublin Theatre Festival 5,000Dublin Tourism/Dublin Writers’ Museum 50,000Dublin Youth Theatre 2,000Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 3,000Everyman Palace, Cork 10,000Film Institute of Ireland, Dublin 20,000Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin 16,000Gallery Press, Meath 7,000Galway Arts Centre 2,000Galway Arts Festival 6,000Galway Film Centre 12,000Garage Theatre, Monaghan 7,000Gate Theatre, Dublin 8,500Gorey Little Theatre, Wexford 3,000
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Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork 20,000Graphic Studio, Dublin 30,000Iomha Ildánach, Baile Átha Cliath 3,000Ireland Literature Exchange/Idirmhalartán Litríochta Éireann 800Irish Association of Youth Orchestras, Cork 17,000Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Dublin 1,849Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin/Ionad na Scríbhneoirí, Baile Átha Cliath 7,000Island Theatre Company, Limerick 11,000Kilkenny Arts Week Ltd 5,000Lambert Puppet Theatre, Dublin 5,000Macnas Ltd, Galway 5,000Mall Theatre & Cinema, Tuam 10,000Manorhamilton Community, Leitrim 2,000Model Arts Centre, Sligo 10,000National Theatre Society/Abbey Theatre 125,000New Art Studios, Dublin 4,000New Balance Dance Company, Dublin 2,000Newbury House Family Centre, Cork 20,000Newpark Music Centre, Dublin 1,000Antóin Ó hEocha 3,000Opera Ireland, Dublin 9,000Ormond Multimedia Gallery, Dublin 4,700Project Arts Centre, Dublin 6,000Punchbag Theatre Company, Galway 5,000Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford 5,000RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin 20,000Rough Magic, Dublin 4,000Samhlaíocht Chiarraí 2,000Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, Dublin 7,000Sirius Commemoration Trust, Cork 2,000Sligo Arts Festival 1,700Smashing Times Theatre, Dublin 1,300South Tipperary Arts Centre 14,500Tallaght Theatre Group 5,000Theatre Omnibus, Clare 5,000Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 5,000Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan 162,234Waterford VEC 4,200Watergate Theatre Company, Kilkenny 5,000West Cork Arts Centre 1,337West Cork Music 2,000Wexford Festival Trust 12,000Wexford Sculpture Workshop 1,000Working Artists, Roscommon 500World’s End, Dublin 207Yew Theatre Production, Mayo 5,000Young Irish Film Makers, Kilkenny 3,000
Total as per Note 3 (page 104)/Iomlán faoi mar atá i Nóta 3 (leathanach 104) 1,027,230__________________________
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Arts Management Awards/Duaiseanna Bainistíochta Ealaíon £Nuala Hunt 750Stella Coffey 2,600Aisling Prior 670Kymberly Dunne 950Jan Farmer 550Annie Fletcher 750Marie Bugler 570Deirdre Kelly 800 7,640_____________
ARTFLIGHT: 44 travel awards in association with Aer Lingus/ 9,746 44 duais eitilte i gcomhar le hAer Lingus
Grants/DeontaisMinimum Income Guarantee/Íosmhéid Urra Ioncaim 8,000COTHÚ/Business Council for the Arts 1,000Ciste Cholmcille 10,000University College Dublin /Newman Scholarship/ 13,000Coláiste Ollscoil Bhaile Átha Cliath/Scoláireacht NewmanAssociation of Artists in Ireland/European Forum for Arts and Heritage 1,000 33,000_____________
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Total Awards and Grants/Iomlán Duaiseanna agus Deontais 50,386
Directly Promoted Activities/Gníomhaíochtaí curtha chun cinn go díreachFORCE Project 2,054L’Imaginaire Irlandais 563,270Miscellaneous Research Projects/Taighde 10,702 Annual Report/Tuairisc Bhliantúil 11,357Art Matters 10,408Awards Schemes/Scéimeanna Duaiseanna 14,248Sundry/Inlithe 33,647 645,686_____________ _____________
Total as per Note 3 (page 104)/Iomlán mar atá i Nóta 3 (leathanach 104) 696,072__________________________
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An Chomhairle EalaíonReport of the Comptroller and Auditor General
I have audited the financial statements on pages 99 to 109.
Responsibilities of the Council and of the Comptroller and Auditor GeneralThe accounting responsibilities of the Council are set out in the Statement ofResponsibilities of the Council on page 98. It is my responsibility under Section6 of the Arts Act, 1951 to audit the financial statements presented to me by theCouncil and to report on them. As the result of my audit I form an independentopinion on the financial statements.
Basis of OpinionIn the exercise of my function as Comptroller and Auditor General, I plan andperform my audit in a way which takes account of the special considerationswhich attach to State bodies in relation to their management and operation.
An audit includes examination, on a test basis, of evidence relevant to theamounts and disclosures in the financial statements. It also includes anassessment of the significant estimates and judgements made in the preparationof the financial statements and of whether the accounting policies areappropriate, consistently applied and adequately disclosed.
My audit was conducted in accordance with auditing standards whichembrace the standards issued by the Auditing Practices Board and in order toprovide sufficient evidence to give reasonable assurance that the financialstatements are free from material misstatement whether caused by fraud orother irregularity or error. I obtained all the information and explanations thatI required to enable me to fulfil my function as Comptroller and AuditorGeneral and, in forming my opinion, I also evaluated the overall adequacy ofthe presentation of information in the financial statements.
OpinionIn my opinion, proper books of account have been kept by the Council and thefinancial statements, which are in agreement with them, give a true and fair viewof the state of the affairs of an Chomhairle Ealaíon at 31 December 1996 and ofits income and expenditure and cash flow for the year then ended.
John PurcellComptroller and Auditor General
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Statement of Responsibilities of the Council
Section 6 (1) of the Arts Act, 1951, requires the Council to keep accounts insuch form as may be approved by the Minister for Finance. In keeping suchaccounts and preparing financial statements, the Council is required:
■ to select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; ■ to make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; ■ to prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is
inappropriate that an Chomhairle Ealaíon should continue in operation.
The Council is responsible for keeping proper books of account which disclosewith reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of an ChomhairleEalaíon and which enable it to ensure that the financial statements comply withSection 6 (1) of the Act. The Council also is responsible for safeguarding theassets of an Chomhairle Ealaíon and for taking reasonable steps for theprevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Ciarán Benson John P. Wilson Chairperson Council Member
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Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles
1. General An Chomhairle Ealaíon is an independent body set up pursuant to the Arts Acts,1951 and 1973, to promote and assist the arts.
2. Basis of Accounting The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention.
3. Oireachtas Grant Income shown as Oireachtas Grant-in-Aid is the actual cash received in the yearfrom the Vote for an Chomhairle Ealaíon (£14,430,000) and the Vote forIncreases in Remuneration (£9,000). Income from the National Lottery is alsothe cash received in the year.
4. Fixed Assets Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation which is charged atrates calculated to write-off the cost of each asset over its expected useful life ona straight line basis, as follows:
Furniture and Equipment – over 5 years.
There is no depreciation charge in the year of disposal of fixed assets. Works ofart are stated at cost and are not depreciated.
5. Capital Account The Capital Account represents the unamortised amount of income used toacquire fixed assets. The transfer to or from the Income and ExpenditureAccount represents the net change in the book value of fixed assets.
6. Bad Debts Provision is made for any doubtful debts which then are written-off in the year inwhich it is recognised that they have become irrecoverable.
7. Superannuation The Council’s contributions to superannuation costs are charged to the Incomeand Expenditure Account in the period to which they relate and over the lengthof an employee’s service or of membership of Aosdána.
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Income and Expenditure Accountfor the year ended 31 December 1996
1996 1995 Notes IR£ IR£
IncomeOireachtas Grant-in-aid 14,439,000 12,590,000National Lottery (1) 3,970,000 3,707,000 Other Grants (2) 1,045,423 588,030 Other Income 41,458 54,784
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Current ExpenditureExpenditure on the Arts (3) 18,202,358 15,668,641 Administration (4) 1,269,470 1,136,285
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Surplus 24,053 134,888
Transfer to Capital Account (6) (27,413) (103,865)
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Accumulated surplus brought forward 43,014 11,991_____________ _____________
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The Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles and Notes 1 to 13 form part of these financial statements
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Balance Sheetat 31 December 1996
1996 1995Notes IR£ IR£
Fixed Assets (5) 487,855 460,442
Financial AssetsTrust Funds (7) 206,315 158,808Loans (8) 332,748 301,047
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Current AssetsGrants outstanding 144,685 117,756Debtors and prepayments 71,148 40,529Bank 141,273 153,979
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Current LiabilitiesCreditors and accruals 340,776 252,733Grants outstanding 309,424 317,564
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Net Current Liabilities (293,094) (258,033)_____________ _____________
Total Assets less Current Liabilities 733,824 662,264_____________ __________________________ _____________
Represented byCapital Account (6) 487,855 460,442 Income & Expenditure Account: Surplus 39,654 43,014 Trust Funds (7) 206,315 158,808
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The Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles and Notes 1 to 13 form part of these financial statements
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Cash Flow Statementfor the year ended 31 December 1996
1996 1995IR£ IR£
NotesOperating deficit (3,360) 31,023Depreciation (5) 77,314 65,316Transfer to Capital Account 27,413 103,865(Increase)/decrease in debtors (30,619) 45,983(Increase) in grants paid in advance (26,929) (15,004)Increase in creditors 88,043 44,522(Increase)/decrease in grants outstanding (8,140) (252,467)Net movement in loans (8) (31,701) 89,053Proceeds from sale of fixed assets _ (100)
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Capital Expenditure and Financial InvestmentPurchase of tangible fixed assets (5) (104,727) (169,181)Sale of fixed assets – 100
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Analysis of Changes in Cash and Cash EquivalentsBalance at 1 January 153,979 210,869Net cash outflow (12,706) (56,890)
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Cash in hand and at bank 141,273 153,979_____________ __________________________ _____________
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Note 1: National Lottery
Pursuant to Section 5(1)(a) of the National Lottery Act, 1986, a sum of IR£3,970,000 was paidto the Council on the determination of the Government and was expended in accordance withSection 5(2) of the Arts Act, 1951, as part of the Council’s programme of support for the arts.
Note 2: Other Grants
(The project or scheme for which each grant was designated is given in parentheses)
IR£ IR£ Literature: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 48,432
An Chomhairle Leabharlanna 1,000
Frankfurt Book Fair 1996:
International Fund for Ireland 100,000Bord Fáilte 40,000Austellungs U. Messe GmbH 30,509Guinness Ireland Group Ltd 30,000Department of Foreign Affairs 21,000American Ireland Fund 15,625Verein zur deutsche/irischen Kulturfoerderung e.V. 10,639Ireland Funds 6,289Arts Council for Northern Ireland 4,800An Bord Bia 2,995German Ireland Fund 1,993Bord na Gaeilge 1,500_____________ 314,782
Visual Arts: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (grants) 4,800Department of Justice 5,000Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 9,940_____________ 19,740
Drama: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 1,917Music: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 46,756Multi-Disciplinary Arts:
Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 45,120Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 7,697Department of Education (Youth Arts Development Officers) 30,000_____________
82,817
Local Authorities/Development/Partnerships: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 9,209Combat Poverty Agency (Poverty and the Arts research project) 533An Roinn Ealaíon, Cultúir agus Gaeltachta (Capital research) 6,000_____________
15,742
Capital: Tyrone Guthrie Trust (Grant) 21,735Sundry: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ARTFLIGHT) 19,200
An Roinn Ealaíon, Cultúir agus Gaeltachta(L’Imaginaire Irlandais) 512,940Sundry (ARTFLIGHT) 9,794_____________
541,934_____________
1,045,423__________________________
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Note 3: Expenditure on the Arts
DirectlyPromoted 1996 1995
Grants Activities Total TotalIR£ IR£ IR£ IR£
Literature 891,490 357,667 1,249,157 879,209*Visual Arts and Architecture 1,594,903 27,287 1,622,190 1,472,707Film 754,539 7,475 762,014 660,580Drama 6,146,197 40,613 6,186,810 5,652,126Dance 568,158 1,139 569,297 445,749Opera 993,257 15,363 1,008,620 912,019Music 1,420,342 31,980 1,452,322 1,225,616Multi-Disciplinary Arts 2,370,211 23,246 2,393,457 2,103,133Local Authorities,
Partnerships, Development 477,772 53,537 531,309 441,031Aosdána 645,896 57,984 703,880 663,115Capital 1,027,230 – 1,027,230 924,335Sundry 50,386 645,686 696,072 289,021_____________ _____________ _____________ _____________Totals 16,940,381 1,261,977 18,202,358 15,668,641_____________ _____________ _____________ __________________________ _____________ _____________ _____________
Previous year’s figures have been restated for purposes of comparison.
* Visual Arts and Architecture expenditure includes grants towards the cost of works of art acquired by approved bodies under the
Council’s Joint Purchases Scheme. The works may not be sold without the prior agreement of the Council and, in the event of such an
agreement, they may not be sold for less than their original price and half the sum realised shall be refunded to the Council.
Note 4: Administration
1996 1995IR£ IR£
Staff Remuneration, PRSI and Superannuation 646,178 571,601Council and Staff Expenses 248,251 197,473Consultants’ Fees and Expenses 25,796 11,139Rent, Light, Heat, Insurances, Cleaning, Repairs
and Other House Expenses 122,106 162,768Printing, Stationery, Postage, Telephone
and Sundry Expenses 149,825 127,988Depreciation 77,314 65,316_____________ _____________
1,269,470 1,136,285_____________ __________________________ _____________
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Note 5: Fixed Assets
Works Furniture andof Art Equipment Total
Cost IR£ IR£ IR£Balance at 31 December 1995 271,431 468,387 739,818Additions at cost 26,565 78,162 104,727_____________ _____________ _____________Balance at 31 December 1996 297,996 546,549 844,545_____________ _____________ __________________________ _____________ _____________
Depreciation
Balance at 31 December 1995 – 279,376 279,376Charge for the year – 77,314 77,314_____________ _____________ _____________Balance at 31 December 1995 – 356,690 356,690 _____________ _____________ __________________________ _____________ _____________
Net Book Value
At 31 December 1996 297,996 189,859 487,855_____________ _____________ __________________________ _____________ _____________
At 31 December 1995 271,431 189,011 460,442_____________ _____________ __________________________ _____________ _____________
Note 6: Capital Account
1996 1995IR£ IR £
Balance at 1 January 460,442 356,577
Transfer from Income and Expenditure Account
Funds allocated to acquire fixed assets 104,727 169,181 Amortised in line with depreciation 77,314 65,316_____________ _____________
27,413 103,865_____________ _____________Balance at 31 December 487,855 460,442_____________ __________________________ _____________
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Note 7: Trust Funds
Assets at 31 December 1996
IR£ IR£President Douglas Hyde Award
£2,161 7.50% Capital Stock, 1999 2,000 (Market Value of Investment £2,234)Cash at Bank 172
2,172_____________
W.J.B. Macaulay Award£13,414 6.50% Exchequer Stock, 2000–05 13,498
6,912 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £1 Units 21,023 (Market Value of Investment £50,627) _____________
34,521 Debtor 265 Cash at Bank 4,291
39,077_____________
Denis Devlin Award2,212 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £1 Units 7,016
(Market Value of Investment £11,901) _____________7,016
Debtor 79 Cash at Bank 2,333
9,428_____________
Ciste Cholmcille£7,336 7.50% Capital Stock, 1999 6,736 7,920 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £1 Units 16,339
11,921 Allied Irish Banks plc 25p shares 15,855 (Market Value of Investment £59,054) _____________
38,930 Debtor 776 Cash at Bank 2,067
41,773_____________
Marten Toonder Award£10,582 6.50% Exchequer Stock, 2000–05 10,658 10,744 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £1 Units 11,995 20,754 Allied Irish Banks plc 25p shares 15,002
(Market Value of Investment £150,592) _____________37,655
Debtor 1,219 Cash at Bank 9,572
48,446__________________________
Carried forward 140,896
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IR£ IR£Brought forward 140,896
Doris Keogh Award2,334 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £1 Units 7,000
(Market Value of Investment £12,557) _____________7,000
Debtor 92 Cash at Bank 372
7,464_____________
Michael Byrne Award3,590 Allied Irish Banks plc 25p shares 8,808
(Market Value of Investment £14,216) _____________8,808
Debtor 139 Cash at Bank 402
9,349_____________
Mary Farl Powers Award1,400 Allied Irish Banks plc 25p shares 5,000 1,928 Irish Life Ordinary 10p shares 5,000
(Market Value of Investment £10,827) _____________10,000
Debtor 115 Cash at Bank 442
10,557_____________
Margaret Arnold Scholarship£10,017 6.5% Exchequer Stock, 2000–05 9,791
2,000 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £1 Units 9,3732,500 Allied Irish Banks plc 25p shares 9,1203,800 Irish Life Ordinary 10p shares 9,216
(Market Value of Investments £41,109) _____________37,500
Debtor 37 Cash at Bank 512
38,049__________________________
206,315__________________________
Note: Investments are shown at cost and are held in trust by an Chomhairle Ealaíon
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Note 7: Movement of Trust Funds
31 Dec 31 Dec1995 Income Expenditure 1996
IR£ IR£ IR£ IR£President Douglas Hyde Award 2,009 163 – 2,172W.J.B.Macaulay Award 40,323 2,254 (3,500) 39,077Denis Devlin Award 8,962 466 – 9,428Ciste Cholmcille 44,362 14,413 (17,002) 41,773Marten Toonder Award 46,522 6,424 (4,500) 48,446Doris Keogh Award 7,014 450 – 7,464Michael Byrne Award 9,616 633 (900) 9,349Mary Farl Powers Award – 10,557 – 10,557Margaret Arnold Scholarship – 38,049 – 38,049_____________ _____________ _____________ _____________
158,808 73,409 (25,902) 206,315_____________ _____________ _____________ __________________________ _____________ _____________ _____________
Note: During 1996 the Council set up two additional trust funds:
(i) To provide a biennial award for a printmaker arising from the gift of IR£10,000 in memory of the late Mary Farl Powers;
(ii) To establish The Margaret Arnold Scholarship for Irish instrumentalists or singers arising from a bequest of IR£37,500
by the late Margaret Sutcliffe.
Note 8: Interest-Free Loans
During 1996 ten additional interest-free loans were given.IR£
Balance at 31 December 1995 301,047
Additional Loans 136,519Repayments (104,818)_____________Balance at 31 December 1996 332,748__________________________
Note 9: Premises
The Council occupies premises at 69 and 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, under leases which expirein 2015 and 2014 respectively. The annual rent is IR£72,850, subject to reviews every five years.The next reviews fall due in 2001 and 1999.
Note 10: Future Commitments
At 31 December the Council had entered into commitments in connection with activities due to takeplace after that date. The amount involved, IR£9.5m., is not reflected in these accounts.
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Note 11: Superannuation Schemes
(a) A Staff Superannuation Scheme under the Arts Act, 1973, Section 10, is inoperation. Benefits are defined and the scheme provides for equal contributionsto be made by Council and staff. The assets of the Scheme comprise acombination of an insured fund and a managed fund. Irish Pensions Trust Ltd actas independent corporate trustees and the manager is Irish Life Assurance plc.Actuarial reviews are carried out every three years. The last review, carried out asat 1 January 1995, showed that, while the assets were more than sufficient tocover accrued liabilities based on current salary levels, they were not sufficient tocover accrued liabilities in respect of service taking into account projected futuresalary increases. In view of this, the Actuary strongly recommended a fundingincrease. A provision at current premium rates is maintained in respect of theextra liability arising out of future salary adjustments but funds have not beenprovided to meet this liability. At 31 December 1996 the provision wasIR£176,683 (1995: IR£153,789). The next actuarial review will be undertakenas at 1 January 1998. Total staff superannuation costs charged to the Income andExpenditure Account for the current year are IR£54,054 (1995: IR£56,012).
(b) A Superannuation Scheme is in operation for members of Aosdána on thebasis of insured annuity contracts and defined contributions. The cost ofthe annual premiums is shared equally by the Council and the members. The charge to the Income and Expenditure Account for the current year isIR£19,120 (1995: IR£19,531).
Note 12: Subsidiary Companies
At 31 December 1996 the following companies limited by guarantee weresubsidiaries of the Council as it controlled the appointments to their boards:
Fire Station Artists Studios Ltd – established to provide a workspace for artists inthe former fire station at Buckingham Street, Dublin 1. Grants totallingIR£128,000 were paid to the company by the Council during 1996. Auditedfinancial statements are not yet available. In March 1997 the Articles ofAssociation of the company were amended, as a result of which the Council nolonger controls the appointment of the company’s directors.
Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig – established to manage and developAnnaghmakerrig House, Co. Monaghan, as a workplace for artists and controlledjointly with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Taking account of grants fromthe Council, IR£280,114, and from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland,IR£45,120, at 31 December 1996 the company had Net Current Liabilities of IR£159,400 (1995: IR£144,200) and Net Assets of IR£837,700 (1995: IR£720,000).
Note 13: Council Members’ – Disclosure of Interests
The Council has fulfilled the requirements of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995,in relation to the disclosure of interests by Council Members and Director.
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