Outcome Grant February 2022

Circus

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 13,000
Fidget Feet Aerial Dance performing 'A Handful of Dreams' at the Hat Fair Festival, Winchester, Britain, 30 June – 2 July 2022.

United KingdomWinchester10,000
Seve Feathers performing FLEETING at the Hat Fair Festival, Winchester, Britain, 1- 2 July 2022.United KingdomWinchester3,000

Film

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 15,000
Irish Screen America screening 'Young Plato' for irelandweek at the Laemmle Theater Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA, May 2022.United StatesLos Angeles6,000
Film screenings of 'New York Our Time', by Vivienne Dick, and 'To the Moon' by Tadhg O'Sullivan, in Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds and Glasgow, Britain and Scotland, 3 - 20 June 2022.United KingdomGlasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle5,000
Screenings of 'John Hume in America', a film by Maurice Fitzpatrick, in Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin, New Zealand, spring 2023.New ZealandAuckland, Wellington and Otago/ Dunedin2,500
Irish Screen America screening 'New York Our Time', a film by Vivienne Dick, at Anthology Film Archives, New York City, USA, May 2022.
United StatesNew York City1,500

Literature

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 15,000
Irish writers Colm Tóibín, Marian Keyes, Patrick McCabe, Wendy Erskine, Aine Ni Ghlin and Liz Nugent participating in MOTIVE: Toronto's Crime & Mystery Festival, Canada, 3 - 5 June, 2022. CanadaToronto4,000
Irish writers participating in Sopot by the Book Festival, Poland, 18 - 21 August 2022.PolandSopot3,000
Stephen James Smith undertaking a tour in Britain, 18 - 22 May 2022.United KingdomLondon,, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow2,500
Presentation of Irish writers at 27th International James Joyce Festival, at the Trieste Joyce School, Trieste, Italy, 26 of June - 2 July 2022.ItalyTrieste2,000
Hay Festival Wales presenting Irish artists to mark the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses, Hay-on-wye, Wales, 26 May - 5 June 2022.United KingdomHay-on-wye2,000
Presentation of Irish writers at the Auckland Writers Festival online and in person at the Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand, 23 - 28 August 2022.New ZealandAuckland1,500

Music

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 214,450
Just Mustard undertaking a tour of the USA, Canada, and Europe, 21 April - 11 June 2022.
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, NetherlandsWashington, DC, Philadelphia, Asbury Park, Boston, New York City, Columbus, Cleveland, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Bristol, Nottingham , Kingston, Nottingham, Leeds, Berlin, Eindhoven20,000
irelandweek presenting Music From Ireland Showcase in partnership with It's A School Night, at the Bardot, Los Angeles, USA, 16 - 21 May 2022.United StatesLos Angeles15,000
Inhaler undertaking a tour of Europe, performing in Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, and Spain, 16 April - 19 May 2022.
Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, SpainHamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Cologne, Paris, Luxembourg, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Odense, Prague, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Milan, Nimes, Barcelona, Madrid12,000
Pillow Queens undertaking a tour of Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Belgium and Britain, 3 May - 15 June 2022.United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, BelgiumLeeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Brighton, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Thun, Madrid, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Majorca, Lille, Paris, Tours, Antwerp, Rees, Berlin, Brussels12,000
Irish musicians performing at the 15th Anniversary Irish Festival of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 12 - 16 October 2022FinlandOulu10,000
The Irish Youth Baroque Orchestra presenting ‘Dublin Gaieties’ with Irish dancers Steve Player and Mary Collins as part of the Varazdin Baroque Evenings, Varazdin Cathedral, Croatia, 30 September 2022.CroatiaVaraždin10,000
JigJam undertaking a tour of the USA and Europe, 15 April - 21 June 2022.United States, GermanyOrlando, Tallahassee, Boothbay Harbor, Haverhill, Saratoga Springs, Old Saybrook, Columbus, Kansas City, Munster, Bad Doberan, Neuruppin, Hamburg, Marburg, Wermerlskirchen, Zwickau, Westpalz10,000
Irish Baroque Orchestra presenting Dublin Connections with Tom Foster at Varazdin Baroque Evenings, Varazdin, Croatia, 23 September 2022.CroatiaVarazdin9,000
Hermitage Green undertaking tour of Canada, 16 - 28 August 2023CanadaOwen Sound, Meaford, Kingston, London, Waterloo, Toronto8,000
Camerata Ireland performing at the Teatre Principal, Vitoria Spain, 1 June 2022.SpainVitoria8,000
JyellowL, Thumper, and Tebi Rex performing at the United Islands Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, 10 - 11 June 2022.

JyellowL (IRL)Thumper (IRL)Tebi Rex (IRL)
Czech RepublicPrague 8,000
Aoife Scott undertaking a tour of the US, USA, 13 - 27 May 2022.United States City Rochester, Whitehall, Kansas, Syracuse , Detroit, Boothbay Harbor7,500
Somebody's Child undertaking a tour of Britain, Scotland, The Netherlands, France, Belgium and Germany, 1 - 13 February 2023Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, IrelandAmsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle, Sheffield, Birmingham, London, Bristol, Southampton, Cork, Galway, Dublin, Belfast6,000
Kynsy performing at Neighbourhood Weekender Festival, Warrington; Live At Leeds In The Park, Leeds; Tramlines Festival, Sheffield; Truck Festival, Steventon and Y Not Festival, Derbyshire, Britain, 28 May - 30 July 2022. United KingdomWarrington, Sheffield, Steventon, Derbyshire, Leeds6,000
Lisa Canny undertaking a tour of Austria and Germany, 14 October - 12 November 2022. Germany, AustriaMetzingen, Bonndorf, Haiming, Rankweil, stuggart, Kassel, Oldenburg, Hemmingen, Fritlar, Coburg, Schwabmünchen, Mandelbactal, Bad Bergzabern, Elmhorn, Bad Doberan , Hamburg, Achim, Weilburg-Hasselbach , Garbsen, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Munich6,000
Tolü Makay performing at Ireland Connects as part of irelandweek, USA, May 2022.United StatesLos angeles5,000
Kíla performing at Faerieworlds Festival, Cuthbert Theatre, Alton Baker Park, Oregon, Portland and Seattle, USA, 17 - 19 June 2022.United StatesEugene5,000
The Outside Track undertaking a tour of England and Wales, 1 - 15 May 2022.United KingdomCrail, Saltaire, Chidham, Llantrisant, Whitchurch, Walton on Thames, Sheffield, Belper, Westcliff-on-Sea5,000
Sharon Shannon undertaking a tour of Germany, 11 - 23 May 2022.GermanyOberhausen, Mainz, Coswig, Selters/Westerwald, Berlin, Wunstorf, Wolfenbüttel, Ravensburg , Mühldorf, Esslingen 5,000
Catherine McEvoy, Edel Fox and Eamon O'Leary in concert at The Boxwood Festival in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, 24 - 30 July 2022. CanadaLunenburg, Shelburne, Tatamagouche, Iona, Pictou, Port Williams, Margaretsville5,000
Socks in the Frying Pan undertaking a tour of Germany and Switzerland, 22 April - 26 June 2022.GermanyDelbruck, Metzingen, Schorndorf, Kirchheim, Herrenberg, Rheinau, Heidelberg, Nürtingen, Bürgerbahnhof, , Göttingen, Saarbrucken, Hockenheim, Frans Pictures, , Wermelskirchen, Corbeyrier5,000
The Alt undertaking a tour of the USA, including shows in Portland, Philadelphia, Pitsburgh and New York, USA, 1 - 19 September 2022.United StatesBooth Harbour, POrtland, Randolph, Old Saybrook, Saratoga Springs, Philadelphia, New York , bethesda, Pitsburgh, Erie4,000
Irish musicians performing at the 11th Annual Feile Seamus Creagh in Newfoundland, Canada, 7 - 11 September 2022.CanadaSt. John's, Freshwater, Bay Bulls, Ferryland4,000
Gerry O'Connor undertaking a tour of the USA, including San Francisco, Lincoln, Seattle, and San Diego, USA, 22 April - 16 May 2022.United StatesChico, San Francisco, Lincoln, Portland, Port Townsend, Mount Vernon, Seattle, Whidbey Island, Vashon , Ashland, Mount Shasta, Davis, Santa Rosa, Oakland, Salinas, Santa Monica, San Diego, Ventura4,000
Ian Bermingham, a.k.a. Old Sea Legs, undertaking a tour of Britain, 1 May - 4 June 2022.United KingdomExeter, Guildford, Nuneaton, Barton Upon Humber, Doncaster, Bury, London, Brighton, Cricklade, Malmesbury, Bideford, Bath, Glastonbury, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle, Hull, BeCider Seaside Festival3,000
John Blek undertaking a tour of Germany, 19 - 23 July 2022. Germany Pforzheim, Lorrach, Langenberg, Dresden, Chemnitz, Krefeld3,000
CelloVision multimedia project presenting performances by Adrian Mantu, Dermot Dunne, Anastasia Grigore, Iulian Pusca and Mihai Cucu at Eglise Notre Dame de Bruges, Belgium, 8 - 9 May 2022.BelgiumBruges3,000
Fidelio Trio performing with composer David Fennessy at the 13th International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival, Cyprus, 7 October 2022.CyprusNicosia3,000
Myles Manley and band performing in Lesquin, Rennes, Dijon, and Colmar, France, 28 May - 5 June 2022.FranceLesquin (outside Lille), Rennes, Dijon, Colmar3,000
Denise Chaila, Saoirse and KETTAMA performing at CRAVE, Prague, Czech Republic, 10 September 2022.Czech RepublicPrague2,500
Robocobra Quartet performing at the Maifeld Derby Fesitival, Germany, and the MENT Festival, Slovenia, 8 - 13 June 2022.Slovenia, GermanyLjubljana, Mannheim2,000
Mhaol undertaking a tour of Britain, including venues at between Brighton, London, Liverpool and Blandford, Britain, 26 August - 3 September 2022.United KingdomLiverpool, London, Brighton , Blandford2,000
Cormac Begley undertaking a tour of Switzerland and Germany, 19 - 26 May 2022.Switzerland, GermanyBern, Obermettlen, Brienz, Berlin1,350
Inni-K performing at the Girvan Traditional Folk Festival, Scotland, 30 April - 1 May 2022United KingdomGirvan1,300
Frankie Gavin performing at Yn Chruinnaght Celtic Gathering Festival, at the Peel Centenary Centre, Isle of Man, Britain, 28 July 2022
United KingdomIsle of Man800

Theatre

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 128,300
Gare St Lazare presenting 'The Realistic Joneses' by Will Eno at the Rubicon Theatre, Ventura California, USA, 20 July - 10 August 2022.United StatesLos Angeles30,000
Pan Pan presenting 'The Patient Gloria' by Gina Moxley at Theatre Royal as part of Brighton Festival, Britain, 11 - 14 May 2022.United KingdomBrighton20,000
The Abbey Theatre presenting 'The Girl on an Altar', by Mariana Carr, in partnership with the Kiln Theatre London, Britain, 19 May - 25 June 2022.United KingdomLondon 20,000
Pan Pan presenting 'Cascando', by Samuel Beckett at NYU Skirball Center, New York, USA, 21 June - 3 July 2022.

United StatesNew York15,000
Unreal Cities performing 'The Waste Land' as part of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Summer Festival in Alexandria, Egypt, 13 August, 2022.EgyptAlexandria8,000
Brokentalkers presenting 'The Examination' and 'MASTERCLASS', as part of Festspillene i Nord-Norge/Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad Cultual House, Harstad, Norway, 29 - 30 June 2022.NorwayHarstad8,000
Brokentalkers presenting 'The Examination' at the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France, 11 - 13 May 2022.

FranceParis, Paris 7,000
Unreal Cities Theatre Company and the Institute of Irish Studies of the University of Liverpool presenting a series of Beckett Plays at the Beckett: Confined Festival, Liverpool, 6 - 8 May 2022.United KingdomLiverpool6,000
Brú Theatre presenting 'The Libravian' at Ottawa Children's Festival, Ottawa, Canada, 19 - 23 May 2022.CanadaOttawa5,000
Once Off Productions presenting 'Looking for América' by Janet Moran and Federico Julián González online with Teatrix MX, Mexico, 1 August 2022 - 28 February 2023.MexicoMexico City4,000
Shanna May Breen, Luke Casserly, Wayne Jordan and Fiona Breen presenting 'Root' at the UPAD Festival in SKCNS Fabrika, Novi Sad, Serbia, 12 May 2022.SerbiaNovi Sad3,300
Irish Society of Stage and Screen Designers (ISSSD) participating in the Symposium for Countries Exhibitors for the Prague Quadrennial 2023, Czech Republic, 4 - 6 May 2022.Czech RepublicPrague2,000

Visual Art

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 111,900
Exhibition of works by Ailbhe Ni Bhriain at the 16th Lyon Biennale curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath in Lyon, France, 14 August - 31 December 2022.FranceLyon25,000
Exhibition of 'What was never ours to keep' by Maud Cotter at the Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville, Florida, USA, 15 July - 13 November 2022. United StatesJacksonville20,000
Exhibition of '...days go by...' by Jane Fogarty at the Orleans Gallery in Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada, 2 October - 19 November 2022. CanadaOttawa10,000
Exhibition of 'Material Stories', featuring Irish artists Cecilia Bullo, Elaine Byrne, Marie Farrington at the Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria, 7 April - 28 May 2022.AustriaVienna10,000
Green on Red Gallery presenting Screentime II for transmediale Festival of Digital Art 2021-22, Berlin, Germany, 30 June - 23 July 2022.GermanyBerlin7,500
Presentation by Kerlin Gallery of Irish artists at the Dallas Art Fair, Texas, USA, 21 - 24 April 2022.United StatesDallas6,000
Stoney Road Press participating in the Paris Print Fair 2022, France, 18 - 22 May 2022.
IrelandParis5,000
Graphic Studio Gallery participating in the London Original Print Fair, London, UK, 26 - 29 May 2022.United KingdomLondon5,000
Stoney Road Press participating in the London Original Print Fair , Somerset House, London, Britain, 19 - 22 May 2022.
United KingdomLondon5,000
Exhibition of 'Trace Elements' by Pascal Ungerer at the relaunch of Galerie Burgerstockersenger in Zurich, Switzerland, 5 - 15 May 2022.SwitzerlandZurich3,000
Exhibition of 'Cape Sacred' by Irish artists, at the Aberjazz Festival, hosted by West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard, Wales, 25 - 29 August 2022. United KingdomFishguard3,000
Presentation of Aideen Barry's "Listen. Liquid, the syllables; the echo, luminous" at the Mem Festival of Experimental Art, Bilbao, Spain, 5 - 10 November 2022.SpainBilbao2,500
Presentation of Eoghan Ryan's 'We, On The Rising Wave' at the Busan Biennale 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Bunsan City, South Korea, 1 September 2022 - 11 June 2023.Korea, Republic ofBusan2,000
Yuri Pattison participating in the 'Anywhere in the Universe' exhibition project, curated by The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland, 20 October 2022 - 30 April 2023United KingdomGlasgow2,000
Poster-exchange exhibition of 'Family Lines', organised by Cypher BILLBOARD, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, and the Éireann and I Archive, at Cypher BILLBOARD, MayDay Rooms and flat 70, London, Britain, 1 August- 31 October 2022. United KingdomLondon2,000
Presentation of 'Defiance (Roof Without Walls)' by Ella de Burca at the Harlan Levy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 14 April - 15 June 2022.
BelgiumBrussels1,900
Group exhibition of ‘Materials for Virtue / Incandescent Flare ’ by artists including Laura Ní Fhlaibhín at the Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich, Germany, 5 May - 9 June 2022.GermanyMunich 1,200
Mark Cullen participating in Stone and Wood, hosted by next – association for contemporary art (ACA), in Grafenbergalm, Styria, Austria, 10 – 17 July 2022.AustriaGraz800

Multidisciplinary

Summary DescriptionCountriesCitiesAmount Approved (€)
   Total: 23,000
Presentation of the Irish Cultural Centre's spring/ summer programme, Hammersmith, Britain, 15 April - 15 June 2022.United KingdomLondon10,000
Irish artists performing at the Creative Connexions Ireland: Sitges Live' festival, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 27 - 30 October 2022

SpainSitges, Barcelona10,000
Neil O'Connor and Eoghan Kidney presenting 'Teicníc: Seminal Irish Art Works Reimagined' at the Afrika Burn Festival, South Africa, 24 April - 2 May 2022. South AfricaCape Town, Tankwa Karoo3,000

Total for February 2022: €520,650