Sinead O'Reilly

Congratulations to Irish composer Michael Gallen, who has won the €100,000 Fedora Prize, the world’s largest award for new opera. We're proud to have supported his career through our Bursary, Agility Award and Next Generation Artist Award schemes. 📷: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern

This month's Arts Council newsletter is out now, with updates on funding deadlines and news from the arts sector: mailchi.mp/artscouncil/ap…

Applying for EU Cooperation Projects funding from Creative Europe? Join @CEDCultureIE 27 Feb for a Capacity Building Webinar on Sustainability & Climate Action with our very own Climate Action Officer; Elaine Doyle. Register: tinyurl.com/49czns2b

REMINDER! We are currently inviting tenders for the provision of multidisciplinary arts advisory and assessment services. Deadline: 31 Jan - THIS FRIDAY info: artscouncil.ie/tenders/

As this year comes to a close, we celebrate all of the work done this year and look towards the new beginnings of 2025. Thank you to everyone in the arts sector for bringing audiences all over Ireland wonderful experiences, reflections and joy.

We’re currently accepting applications for an exciting role: 🔹Head of Children and Young People’s Arts Deadline: 13 January - 12 noon More info: artscouncil.ie/about/Head-of-…

The arts should thrive at night! This year we held our Night Time Culture Forum in Cork City. There was a great discussion and exploration on how to make our cities, towns and places more culturally vibrant at night. #NightTimeIsOurTime artscouncil.ie/Night-Time-Cul…

Don't forget! We’re currently accepting applications for an exciting role: 🔹 Public Policy and Advocacy Manager Deadline: 2 December - 12 noon More info: bit.ly/3UVhMa1 #JobFairy #PublicJobs

This year, we are proud to partner with @IrishPrisons for #ReadMór. We're bringing our book-gifting initiative to 13 Irish prisons and hosting a number of author events for prisoners as part of @CultureNight on Fri 20 Sep. More: bit.ly/4dPN2Pa 📷: Julien Behal

Arts Council to gift books to inmates in 13 prisons across country on Culture Night irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via @IrishTimesCultr

We are thrilled to announce €3.8m funding to 805 artist through our Agility Award, including 493 artists receiving funding for the first time. The award aims to support individual artists and arts practitioners to develop their practice, work or skills. bit.ly/3SZJYaM

"Public art responds to & adds value to how we connect as people to each other & to our places & public spaces" - Sinéad O'Reilly, Director of Combined Arts We are thrilled to see @Postvox celebrating the importance of Public Art with their new stamps! anpost.com/Shop/Products/…

How will you Culture Night? With over 1,700 events taking place nationwide on September 20th, Culture Night is truly #OneNightForAll ✨ 👉 culturenight.ie independent.ie/irish-news/kee…

@LilliputPress @naoisedunbar @westmeathcoco @ArtsWestmeath Huge congratulations to writer @eithneshortall, who has been announced as the 2024 John Broderick Writer in Residence! #JohnBroderick100

We warmly welcome today's announcement by @cathmartingreen @DeptCultureIRL of €6 million funding to deliver artist workspaces across the country. Supporting local authorities to identify & develop workspace opportunities is a key priority for us, so this is hugely encouraging.

Do you work in Arts Participation or with Young People, Children and Education? If you're applying for the Project award make sure you head along to our info clinic on 10 July! Submit Qs in advance to Caroline.Magnani@artscouncil.ie by 05 July Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The Basic Income scheme for those working in the arts has had a positive effect so far, according to a new report. Since October 2022, payments of €325 per week have been made to up to 2,000 artists and creative arts workers | Read more: rte.ie/b/1451357

Just published: research on the impact of the Basic Income for the Arts pilot one year on. The results are positive which is welcome news. Artists too often struggle for the income to meet even their basic needs. This initiative changes that. gov.ie/en/press-relea…

"I hope people stop saying to artists, 'it'll be great exposure for ya' - people die of exposure" Tom Meskell #TheStatusOfTheArtist Conference @DeptCultureIRL #PayTheArtist @artsc

"Freedom of expression for artists is fundamental for a functioning democracy" @cathmartingreen at #TheStatusOfTheArtist @Dept conference