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annual report 2000

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Annual Report 2000

Forty-ninth Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st December 2000.Presented to the Government and laid beforeeach House of the Oireachtas, pursuant toSections 6 (3) and 7 (1) of the Arts Act, 1951.

ISBN 0 906627 96 6ISSN 0790 – 1593

70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.Tel: +353 1 6180200CallSave 1850 392492Fax: +353 1 6761302 / 6610349email: [email protected]://www.artscouncil.ie

contents

Preface, Chairman 02

Introduction, Director 04

1 Supporting the artists 06

2 Funding for quality 08

3 The arts in Irish 10

4 Documenting the arts 12

5 Taking part 14

6 Young people 16

7 Growing the audience 18

8 The international dimension 20

9 Advice to government 22

10 Building the arts locally 24

11 Managing the arts 26

12 Better financial supports 28

13 Improving our own systems 30

Finance 32

Members & Staff 35

Awards 36

Projects & Schemes 40

Annual Grants 44

Capital grants 48

Financial Statments 50

This 49th Annual Report gives anaccount of the key achievementsof the Arts Council in 2000. In avery busy year, we took some timeto plan for the celebration of the50th anniversary of our foundation.I look forward to reporting onthat in a year’s time.

I re-joined the Arts Council as itsChairman in the early months ofthe year, having served for 2 termsas a member between 1982 and1988. I was struck by some notablechanges, and some notableconsistencies.

There has been a remarkable growthand development in the arts sectorover the period. The Arts Council isstill an exceptionally hard-workingand dedicated body, taking anactive role in the work of policydevelopment and implementationacross a wide breadth of artformsand policy topics. We met 11 timesduring the year in full plenary session,and members participated in afurther 38 meetings of committees,15 meetings of working groups and13 panels for expert assessment ofawards. In addition, we publishedthe outcome of a Council workinggroup on provision for the individualartist at the beginning of the year; aworking group on communicationsdelivered a strategy in the spring,and we presented a position paperon the international dimension ofthe arts to Minister Síle de Valerajust before Christmas.

Unhappily, the year began with theresignations of my predecessor asChairman, Professor Brian Farrell, andof two members, Paul McGuinnessand Jane Gogan. All cited pressureof work in offering their resignationsto the Minister, an indication of thestrain under which both Councilmembers and executive had beenlabouring over the preceding months.I would like to pay tribute to each ofthese able and talented individualsfor their unique contributions tothe work of the Council.

Changes in the Arts Council that Ihave remarked since the 1980sinclude the greater national andinternational reach of our work,and the far greater extent of ournon-grant or developmental work.This includes close partnershipswith local authorities, with Údarásna Gaeltachta and with healthauthorities. It includes detailedresearch into venues for theperforming arts, in cooperation withour colleagues in the Arts Councilof Northern Ireland, with whomwe have a productive workingrelationship on a range of fronts.

Patrick J. MurphyChairman

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Photo: Fearghus O’Conchuir, a recipient of a Choreographer’s Bursary in 2000

2000 was the second year of theArts Council’s second Arts Plan.Some of the fruits of the newapproach to providing for the artsbecame evident in the course ofthe year and they are highlighted in this report.

Some of the highlights of the yearwere the production of a majorstudy into better means of servingartists’ needs, the roll-out of newmedium-term funding structures,and the strides we made towardstransforming our operations as adevelopment agency.

This report has changed in styletoo, reflecting the desire tocommunicate more effectively witha broad audience. It describes thework of the Arts Council during2000 in achieving our threefundamental objectives: to promoteartistic excellence and innovation,to develop participation in andaudiences for the arts, and tobuild capacity in the arts sector.

Patricia QuinnDirector

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Photo: A workshop at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare.

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Awards to individual artists in 2000accounted for (991,000 - thisprovided direct financial support toindividuals in the form of bursaries,travel and training awards.

We provided direct supports tomore than 440 artists, in the formof 105 cnuais to members ofAosdána, and 338 awards andbursaries for professionaldevelopment or artists’ projects.

Indirect supports were providedthrough funding for studios, work-spaces and residencies, and for artists’resource organisations: funding forthese was €7.05m in 2000.

New research, criticism andexhibition awards were introducedfor architects; special bursaries andpostgraduate study awards wereintroduced for choreographers anddancers; and for creative artistswith disabilities - together with theArts Council of Northern Ireland -we established the first Arts andDisability Awards.

We provided more than €997,617in capital funding to studios andother artists’ resources.

Photo: the Callino String Quartet having a masterclass with Valentin Berlinsky (cellist of the BorodinString Quartet) at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in June this year. Aldo Belmonte

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Awards to individual artists in 2000accounted for €991,000 - thisprovided direct financial support toindividuals in the form of bursaries,travel and training awards.

We provided direct supports tomore than 440 artists, in the formof 105 cnuais to members ofAosdána, and 338 awards andbursaries for professionaldevelopment or artists’ projects.

Indirect supports were providedthrough funding for studios, work-spaces and residencies, and for artists’resource organisations: funding forthese was €7.05m in 2000.

New research, criticism andexhibition awards were introducedfor architects; special bursaries andpostgraduate study awards wereintroduced for choreographers anddancers; and for creative artistswith disabilities - together with theArts Council of Northern Ireland -we established the first Arts andDisability Awards.

We provided more than €997,617in capital funding to studios andother artists’ resources.

Photo: the Callino String Quartet having a masterclass with Valentin Berlinsky (cellist of the BorodinString Quartet) at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Aldo Belmonte

06 We aim to improve the professional formation, practice

to achieve their full artistic potential, and to improve

07and career development of artists, to support artists

the viability of the arts as a career, in Ireland and abroad

We published an important reportcommissioned jointly with the ArtsCouncil of Northern Ireland, TheCreative Imperative, with recomm-endations for a comprehensivereview of our grant and non-grantartists’ programmes.

We established a working groupwith artists and local authority artsofficers to examine and documentthe role of local authorities insupporting the individual artist.

We made a detailed submission toGovernment, calling for the copyrightlegislation to be amended so thatartists can benefit from resale oftheir work between third parties.

Aosdána, which is funded andadministered by the Council,welcomed filmmaker Cathal Black,visual artists Alfonso Lopez Monreal,Janet Pierce and Nigel Rolfe, poetTony Curtis, poet and translatorGabriel Rosenstock, and playwrightVincent Woods to its ranks, bringingthe total number of members to182. Together with the wider creativecommunity, Aosdána mourned theloss of Francis Stuart, Michael Farrell,James McKenna, and Brian Boydell,who was also for many years amuch-respected and influentialmember of the Arts Council.

91.5% of our spending on the arts wasdirected towards arts organisationsthroughout Ireland - an increase of39% over funding in 1999.

We provided increased funding tokey arts production companiesbased in a range of urban centres,including Limerick-based DaghdhaDance Company, Waterford-basedRed Kettle and Clonmel-basedGalloglass theatre companies, andto companies that tour widelythroughout Ireland, and internat-ionally, like Opera Theatre Companyand Barabbas...the Company andthe Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Festivals concentrating on a single

artform provide very specialopportunities for artistic experimentand fusion: we provided increasedsupport to Cúirt, the Galwayinternational festival of poetry, to theWest Cork Chamber Music Festival,to the Exhibition of Visual Art EV+Ain Limerick and the Cape ClearStorytellers’ Festival.

Project funding helped many smallor artistically innovative companiesand events to develop their work,including the Fabulous Beast andRex Levitates Dance Companies, theDarklight Film Festival and the Poet’sHouse, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, whichran poetry seminars and readingsduring the summer months.

Photo: David Bolger and Sean Jeremy Palmer in Boxes, by CoisCéim Dance Theatre, at the Player’s Theatre, TCD.

08We direct funding towards excellence and innovat

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Armed for the first time in our historywith a Ministerial commitment tothree-year funding, we developed anew multi-annual basis for fundingbased on artistic service agreementsthat would enable us to direct ourfunds more accurately towards statedpriorities, and provide a more secure planning environment for the arts in Ireland.

With help from working groupsdrawn from the sector, we developeda model of artistic criteria for helpingto make our grant decisions moretransparent.

ion in the promotion of the arts in Ireland and abroad

We provided support for a number ofimportant journals and anthologiesof poetry in Irish including a newone - Blianiris - and an anthology of20th century Irish language poetry,published by Cló Iar Chonnachta.

To provide for the needs of artistsworking in all music genres,including traditional ones, weintroduced a new scheme to fundmusic publications and recordings.

We co-funded the final year of asuccessful three-year partnershipwith Údarás na Gaeltachta todevelop arts activity in threeGaeltacht areas through áistheoirí,or community arts coordinators.

An evaluation of the programmeled to a joint decision by the ArtsCouncil and Údarás na Gaeltachta todevelop it further for a second term.

We maintained our support for keyresource organisations working tosupport the traditional arts in alltheir diversity including Na PiobairíUileann, Cumann Ceol Tíre/theTraditional Music Archive, ClóCeardlann na gCnoc and Cairdeas nabhFidléirí. We provided funding for6 Irish language publishers, for thejoint Irish language documentaryfund with TG4, and for the Irishlanguage theatre company,Amharclann de hÍde. We alsofunded a number of festivals

Photo: Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Riverstown Branch - from the James Morrison Traditional Music Festival 2000 -featuring Aodhaghán Lynch, Gerry Harrington, Mattie Joe Shéamais O Fatharta and Johnny Connolly.

10 We support artists working through Irish and in indigeno

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highlighting the traditional arts, suchas Féile na Bealtaine, Daingean andevents such as the Scoil SamhraidhWillie Clancy in Clare.

With help from a forum ofpractitioners, we began a review of the development needs oftraditional music. Topics discussedincluded definitions of traditionalarts, and the range of funding andnon-funding supports needed.

We set up a working group withthe Arts Council of NorthernIreland to discuss the developmentneeds of Irish language drama.

We are discussing with Donegal andClare County Councils how best tosupport the unique local quality oftraditional repertoire, as part of theircultural planning processes.

us arts to achieve their full potential and increase audiences

We provided funding for two newpublications, The Dublin Review (aliterary journal of essays, poetryand fiction by established Irish andinternational writers), and the Journalof Music in Ireland - welcome additionsto the slate of regular publicationsabout the arts in Ireland for Irishand international dissemination.

We supported essential work indocumenting the arts in Irelandthrough grants to Theatre Shop, theFilm Institute of Ireland, theContemporary Music Centre, theIrish Writers Centre, Poetry Ireland,among others, and through initiativesof Project Arts Centre, Temple BarGallery & Studios, Galway Film Fleadh,

and others involved in promotingpublic debate about the arts.

The remarkable flowering ofcontemporary dance in Ireland wascelebrated in two documentation/publication projects - Writing Dance/Righting Dance by Diana Theodores,published by the Institute forChoreography and Dance at FirkinCrane, and Fine Lines on ShiftingGround, an account of achoreographic residency at Projectby dance artist Paul Johnson.

Through grants to the TraditionalMusic Archive and the Irish FilmArchive at the Film Institute of Ireland,we supported the documenting of

Image: Part of the score of Frank Corcoran’s Sweeney’s Smithereens (2000), commissioned by The Crash Ensemble with funding from the Arts Council.

12We work to foster more recognition, acknowledgem

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traditional Irish music andcontemporary Irish film: resourcesthat are extensively used by artists,researchers, producers and othersin Ireland and overseas.

In a new partnership with the IrishCouncil for Science, Technology andInnovation, we jointly organised aseminar, entitled Art and Science, toexplore the boundary of definitionsof innovation and creativity in art andscience (and subsequently publishedthe proceedings). We will explorefurther areas for cooperation withthe Science Council.

In our series of resource documentsstudying particular issues within thearts, we produced A ComparativeStudy of Arts Expenditure in SelectedCountries and Regions and TheCreative Imperative: A Report onSupport for the Individual Artist.

ent, critical assessment and documentation of the arts

We provided project funding forartists’ residencies in libraries,schools, prisons, universities andother communities of interest; thisaugmented the many artisticresidencies promoted by county artsofficers throughout the country,such as Emma Cooke’s writers’residency in Tipperary North Riding.

Through funding to 58 festivalslarge and small, we supportedthousands of artistic events andactivities, many of them free, andpromoted by companies like Spraoíin Waterford or SamhlaíochtChiarraí in public places.

While maintaining funding to some16 organisations offering practicalsupports to people involved in abroad range of amateur orcommunity arts, we looked afreshat our policy for supporting thisimportant aspect of the arts, askingin particular questions about therelationship between amateur artistsand the wider arts sector and aboutthe range of supports needed tohelp amateur artists to fulfill theirpotential

Photo: Patients at the Day Care Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital, Mountmellick, whotook part in Music Network’s Music in Healthcare 2000 programme.

14 We support more public participation in the arts so as to ena

creativity to the maximum of their talent and aspirations and

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We welcome the acceleratingdevelopment of arts planning atlocal authority level - in practicalterms, it is the best means of ensuringthat the needs of the widest numbersof people are met, within their localarea. We have given technical oradvisory support to many specificprojects, for example in Wicklowand Kerry County Councils.

In a developmental relationshipwith the Eastern Regional HealthAuthorities, we had a joint initiativeto produce recommendations fora code of good practice as well asa policy on the arts in healthcareenvironments for the ERHA. Wehope this will stimulate others toexplore the value of arts planningin healthcare.

In cooperation with theInternational Yehudi MenuhinFoundation, we established anIrish pilot project for the MUS-Einitiative – a programme designedto help artists interact moreeffectively with young children innursery and primary schools.

ble people to explore, develop and express their own artistic

to increase the range of people who participate in the arts

We supported Artist in Residenceprogrammes in 39 primary schools- an increase of 14% over 1999,and we increased our grant toPoetry Ireland to €64,000 foroperating the popular Writers inSchools Scheme, which brought 71writers on nearly 400 visits toschools around Ireland, involvingmore than 30,000 children ininteractions with Irish writers.

Two particular initiatives involvednew initiatives for adolescents asaudiences for the arts. One was toinitiate with the Library Council /An Chomhairle Leabharlanna aprogramme to encourage teenagersto read literature. The other was an

exhibition of architecture entitled ARoom Of One’s Own. Six architectswere asked to design a room fortheir teenage selves, reflecting theirconcerns and preoccupations at thatstage of their lives. At its launch inMonaghan, the show was augmentedby workshops with three of theschools hosting the exhibition.These workshops helped to developa teaching resource for other schools.

We maintained or increased supportfor some of the key bodies involvedin promoting the arts for children andyoung people - notably the GalwayChildren’s festival Baboro, theNational Youth Council and the Arkin Dublin. We also provided funding

Photo: A child at a workshop at St Caimin’s Church, Mountshannon, Co. Clare, where an exhibition ofartwork and sculpture was on show as part of the Iniscealtra Festival of the Arts.

16 We aim to increase children’s and young people’s engagement

people artistically and aesthetically and to recognise children and

17 with the arts, so as to enrich the lives of children and young

young people as arts participants and audiences in their own right

for the National Youth Theatre of theDeaf, which launched its programmeof activities in November 2000.

With the Arts Council of NorthernIreland, we held the third and finalYouth Dance Colloquium andpublished Moving On, a resourcedocument on youth dance. Throughthese meetings, the dance sectorhas reached broad agreement onthe need for a new association tosupport the development of youthdance in Ireland in the future.

Building on an excellent pilot projectin five Wexford schools, we begandiscussions with the CurriculumDevelopment Unit of the Departmentof Education and Science, to exploreways for primary teachers to accessthe arts infrastructure as a resourcefor delivering the new visual artscurriculum. More widely, our hopefor a structured common approachto the arts in education has yet tobe realised.

Funding to arts centres in 25urban centres was increased by43% reflecting the enormousvalue of these local centres asresources for the arts.

Funding of €2.8m to 58 eventsand festivals, small and largethroughout Ireland provided anopportunity for people toexperience the arts in cities, townsand rural communities fromEaragail in Donegal to Cape Clearin West Cork, and from Iniscealtrain Clare to Boyle in Roscommon.

Through funding to IrelandLiterature Exchange, jointly withthe Cultural Relations Committeeof the Department of ForeignAffairs, we helped more than 75Irish writers, working in Irish orEnglish, to reach internationalreaders, through translation of theirworks into 25 world languages,including Mexican, Spanish,Finnish, Japanese and Turkish.

Photo: A child with the work of artist Janet Mullarney in a Presbyterianchurch as part of the Iniscealtra Festival of the Arts in Clare.

18 We encourage arts organisations and promoters to devel

build opportunities for points of access to the arts and de

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We funded companies like theImprovised Music Company andthe Architectural Association ofIreland to undertake specialprojects designed to build newaudiences for artforms that havetraditionally lacked broadrecognition in Ireland.

Funding for an experimentalcentralised box-office system hasbeen provided to a Cork-basedarts consortium, as a means ofimproving services to audiencesfor the arts in Cork

op audiences, so as to raise awareness of the arts, to

epen the relationship between artists and audiences

Through mobility grants of variouskinds, we helped over 1,000 artistsand arts managers to traveloverseas to build contacts or careeropportunities, or to perform orshow work.

Through new multi-annual fundingrelationships, we provided foroverseas touring by dance, opera,music and theatre companiesCoiscéim, Daghdha DanceCompany, Opera Theatre Company,The Irish Chamber Orchestra, MusicNetwork and Barabbas. Three-yearfunding allows productioncompanies to plan ahead, and inparticular to take advantage ofinvitations to perform at major arts

festivals overseas. This buildsaudiences but also markets for theirwork, with real financial benefitsfor the companies concerned.

In cooperation with theDepartment of Foreign Affairs’Cultural Relations Committee, wefunded the Irish pavilion at the 7thArchitecture Biennale in Venice.

Funding to resource companies likeTheatre Shop, the ContemporaryMusic Centre and Galway FilmResource Centre provided for thework of contemporary Irish artiststo be promoted to overseasproducers, agents and curators.

The Council supported Irish architect Tom de Paor at the 7th International Architectural Biennale in Venice - thefirst time that Ireland had taken part in the official section of the Biennale. Denis Mortell

20 We support the arts in a dynamic international conte overseas, and supporting visiting arts

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Grants to the Douglas Hyde, RHAGallagher and the Butler Galleryand visual arts events like theExhibition of Visual Art in Limerickprovided opportunities for Irishartists and audiences to experiencethe work of a wide range of Irishand non-Irish artists.

We published 6 issues of Via, ourroute to concrete opportunities forIrish artists and arts organisationsproduced jointly with the ArtsCouncil of Northern Ireland. Ourinternational information and adviceservice handled 5,400 queries, and80% of the 7,000 daily hits on ourwebsite originated overseas.

We were active participants in thecreation of a new InternationalFederation of Arts Councils andCultural Agencies, created at aworld summit in Ottawa inDecember. This new organisationwill provide us with a means ofimproving our own knowledge ofbest practice standards, and ofproviding new information andadvisory services to artists and artsorganisations.

A Council working group produced aposition paper on the internationaldimension of the arts, which wepresented to Minister Síle de Valerabefore the end of the year.

xt, helping Irish artists and arts companies to tour

We made a submission on thePlanning Development Bill to theDepartment of Environment andLocal Government, stressing thatarchitectural quality needed to be amandatory requirement for approvalto build, and making suggestionson how this could be achieved.

With a working group of the Cityand County Managers Association,we pursued an agenda of local artsdevelopment, in particular concernedwith the design of an evaluationframework for local authorities’work in the arts; exploring thefeasibility of more decision-makingfor small grants schemes being takenat local authority level; considering

the most effective ways to providespecialist arts expertise to supportthe work of local authorities;involving local authorities in areas ofpolicy development in the areas ofarts infrastructure, urban planningand support of the individual artist;developing more effectivecommunications between the ArtsCouncil and local authorities.

We urged Government throughour parent Department torecognise the need for a coherentapproach to address the needs ofthe arts for and by young peoplewithin and without the formaleducation system.

Photo: The Arts Council promoted discussion about thefuture shape of arts legislation through its website

22We advise Government regularly about arts policy needs

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We welcomed the launch by theMinister for Arts, Heritage, Gaeltachtand the Islands of a process of reviewof arts legislation and disseminatedan extensive web-based resource asa means of informing public debate.Our own submission to the review,also published on our website,included the following points:

The principle of an autonomousagency operating at arms’ lengthfrom government was precious andshould be retained.

A central place for the arts withineducation should be underpinnedby legislative guarantees, backedup by a formal mechanism forconsultation on the curriculum.

Local Government involvement in thearts should be further strengthenedby provision in arts as well as localgovernment legislation.

The Arts Council should play a greaterrole in providing developmentalsupports for international activity byIrish artists and arts organisations.

We provided more than €1.3m indirect funding towards the artsprogrammes of 31 local authorityareas, and welcomed thepreparation of local strategies forthe arts by Counties Clare, Laois,Wexford, Sligo and Donegal. In aninitiative to promote betterprovision for the visual arts, wehelped Counties Kerry, Cavan,Limerick, Kildare and Meath todevelop visual arts strategy plans.

Capital grants helped local authoritiesin Cork, Donegal, Dun LaoghaireRathdown, Ennis, Kerry, Kilkennyand Roscommon to purchase pianos.

Funding to the National SculptureFactory helped them to mount animportant conference on Public Art.Participants were drawn widely fromamong the artistic and public policycommunities, and in particular, localauthorities. The conclusions includeda call for better professional supportfor the processes of commissioningand promoting art in public spaces,and for documenting public art.

In cooperation with the Irish FilmBoard/ Bord Scannán na hÉireann,the Arts Council of Northern Irelandand the Northern Ireland FilmCommission, we commissioned areport on better distribution forcultural cinema in Ireland.

Photo: The Council provided funding to help the Contemporary MusicCentre to move to new offices during the year.

24We help to improve local provision for the arts

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We were grateful to Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council forreleasing their Arts Officer on atwo-year placement, as a meansof enhancing the quality of ourservices to local arts developmentpersonnel, and of improving ourunderstanding of local artsdevelopment issues.

Together with the Arts Council ofNorthern Ireland, we establishedAuditoria, a review of the performingarts infrastructure on the island ofIreland. We also initiated Exhibita,a study of the exhibition needs ofthe visual arts.

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For the last 49 years, the arts havebeen supported on a year-by-yearbasis, with grants decided uponweeks or even months after thebeginning of the year in which thearts activity being funded was totake place. The signal from ArtsMinister Síle de Valera thatgovernment was committed tofunding the second Arts Plan in fullgave us the means to transformthis hand-to-mouth existence.Based on pilot work begun in1999, we initiated multi-annualfunding for those major artsorganisations whose work representsthe backbone of the arts in Ireland.

In the course of the year, wemoved more than 30% of ourrecurring supports to artsorganisations from one-year tothree-year funding.

Recognising that the success of amore strategic multi-annualapproach lay in active cooperationfrom the sector, we held a publicseminar at the University ofLimerick in May, and developed ourthinking in discussion with morethan 200 participants from thewider arts community.

Photo:The Green Children, an event as part of the Summer Fun 2000 Festival of Cultural Events for Young People, organised by WexfordCounty Council’s Arts Office. During 2000, the arts officer began an Arts Council-funded management training programme.

26We promote better management of the arts

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Arts companies cite a variety ofbenefits from the new security tomake forward artistic and businessplans. They include deeperengagements with artists, theopportunity to exploit internationaltouring invitations, more maturerelationships with commercialsponsors, and the confidence thatcame from a clear agreement aboutartistic value from the Arts Council.

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In 2000, we received applicationsfrom more than 1,000 organisationsand 4,000 individuals. The total levelof financial demand was more than€90m, over twice the level ofavailable funds.

We restructured the categoriesunder which we organise grantprogrammes, and published for thefirst time the specific criteria weuse for making funding decisions.

We introduced a variety ofmechanisms for increasing thetransparency of our work, includingan upgrade of our website as ameans of disseminating informationand advice. We also piloted a

system for making it possible tomake grant applications online.

Under the provisions of theFreedom of Information Act, whichcame into effect on October 21st,we introduced procedures to giveaccess to our records, to provide(where necessary) for inaccurateinformation to be corrected and toexplain the reasons for our decisions.Before the end of the year, weprocessed 12 FOI applications.

Photo: An image from Cloghjordan Now, a publication of photographs capturing the essence of a Tipperary Community, whichwas organised by Tipperary County Arts Office, with support from the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community scheme.

28 We have made it easier for artists and arts organis rationalising financial supports and improving the

29 ations to understand how we work, byapplication process

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During the year, with help fromthe Institute of PublicAdministration and others, wereviewed comprehensively ourinternal systems and structures,and began reforming them in linewith a more developmental role.

The Council itself restructured itscommittees, forming one forawards, projects and initiatives,one for grants and one forbusiness and finance.

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We have improved our systems and structures

Photo: Council Members‘ discussion in the board room of Merrion Square, Dublin. Left to right: Carlo Gébler, Siobhán Ní Éanaigh, Maud Cotter, Emer O’Kelly, Mary Brady, Patricia Quinn (Director) Patrick J. Murphy (Chairman), Jane O’Leary, Séamus Ó Cinnéide, Una Ó Murchú and Brendan Flynn.

Not shown are: Noel Crowley, Clare Duignan, T.V. Honan, Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, Dr Thomas Mitchell, Máire Ní Riain and Patrick Sutton

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The Council received State fundingfor 2000 totalling €45.1m (£IR35.5m)voted by Dáil Éireann (1999: €35.5m/ IR£28m) of which €14m originatedfrom the National Lottery Fund.However, when making allocations,the Council does not differentiatebetween the original sources.

Other income in 2000 amountedto €275,200 (IR£216,700).

During 2000 grants were paid to478 organisations (1999: 504) and482 individuals (1998: 467). 213organisations, which each receivedgrants exceeding €25,000 (total€37.9m), accounted for 87% ofthe Council’s arts expenditure.

Direct support for the individualartist during 2000 amounted to€2.835m, almost 7% of total artsexpenditure, including a provisionof €1.404m for Cnuais to membersof Aosdána. Many more individualsreceived indirect support andemployment through the Council’sgrants to organisations.

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Finance

An Chomhairle Ealaíon State Funding, 1996 - 2001

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

€23.4m €26.5m €33.1m €35.6m €45.1m €46.4m IR£18.4m IR£20.8m IR£26.1m IR£28.0m IR£35.5m IR£36.5m

f i n a n c em e m b e r s h i p & s t a f f

( a t 2 9 J u n e 2 0 0 1

Five Year Financial Summary

2000 1999 1998 1997 1996

€ € € € €

Income State Funding 45,107,000 35,553,000 33,140,000 26,454,000 23,375,000 Other Income 276,000 383,000 475,000 378,000 1,380,000

45,383,000 35,936,000 33,615,000 26,832,000 24,755,000

ExpenditureLiterature 1,650,000 3.5% 1,412,000 1,385,000 1,215,000 1,586,000 Visual Arts 3,275,000 7.1% 2,712,000 2,554,000 2,108,000 2,060,000 Architecture 147,000 0.3% 147,000 76,000 44,000 - Film 1,431,000 3.1% 1,242,000 1,213,000 1,008,000 968,000 International Arts 290,000 0.6% 347,000 310,000 250,000 - Drama 12,186,000 26.3% 10,455,000 9,931,000 8,660,000 7,856,000 Dance 1,843,000 3.9% 1,096,000 1,025,000 796,000 722,000 Opera 2,417,000 5.3% 1,733,000 1,734,000 1,408,000 1,281,000 Music 3,331,000 7.3% 2,650,000 2,550,000 1,967,000 1,844,000 Multi-Disciplinary Arts/Combined Arts 7,694,000 16.8% 4,539,000 4,235,000 3,668,000 3,040,000 Local Authorities, 2,216,000 4.8% 1,123,000 1,125,000 - - Development & Partnerships - - 994,000 674,000 North South 71,000 124,000 - - Aosdána 1,404,000 3.0% 1,176,000 1,101,000 999,000 894,000 Capital 5,022,000 11.0% 4,398,000 3,210,000 1,643,000 1,304,000 Sundry 523,000 1.1% 557,000 526,000 268,000 884,000 Administration 2,858,000 6.2% 2,383,000 2,197,000 1,818,000 1,613,000

46,287,000 100% 36,041,000 33,296,000 26,846,000 24,726,000

Capital Account (1,000) 140,000 93,000 38,000 34,000 46,286,000 36,181,000 33,389,000 26,884,000 24,760,000

Outurn for the year (903,000) (245,000) 190,000 (53,000) (5,000)Opening Balance (58,000) 187,000 (3,000) 50,000 55,000

Closing Balance (961,000) (58,000) 187,000 (3,000) 50,000

Trust Funds 370,000 345,000 315,000 270,000 262,000 Fixed Assets 888,000 890,000 750,000 658,000 620,000

Net Assets at 31 December 297,000 1,177,000 1,252,000 925,000 932,000

Previous years' figures have been re-stated for purposes of comparison.

Full financial statements will be found on pages 50 to 63.

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National Lottery2000 1999

IR£/000 IR£/000

Total National Lottery Fund Expenditure 128,200 120,834

of which

An Chomhairle Ealaíon received: 11,000 11,000Other arts, culture and national heritage projects received: 14,358 12,799

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’sAnnual Accounts) under vote 42 (Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands) and other votes.

Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands

The following payments to organisations involved in the arts were made by theDepartment of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.

Crawford Gallery, Cork £797,273.96Micho Russell Centre, Doolin £72,847.12Dean Crowe, Athlone £225,000.00International Folk Music Centre £1,162,542.57Kildare Library & Cultural Centre £300,000.00Kerry Literary & Cultural Centre £274,017.97Clare Country Museum £59,889.38Tipperary Excel £481,844.47Tipperary County Museum £180,000.00Oxmantown Hall, Offaly £186,874.50An Grianán, Letterkenny £75,000.00Michael Davitt Museum £97,729.69Cork Public Museum £156,278.00Black Box Theatre, Galway £172.40Galway Arts Centre £12,500.00Model Arts Centre/Niland Gallery £900,000.00Ionad Cultúrtha Inis Oírr £75,000

The Department also provides the main sources of funding for the running costs and developments in our National Cultural Institutions.

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Membership and Staff

Arts Council

Staff during 2000

Establishment Staff:Principal Officer

Patricia Quinn, Director

Assistant Principal Officers

Mary Cloake, Development Director

Dermot McLaughlin, Artform Director

Nessa O’Mahony, Head of Public Affairs

Phelim Donlon, Auditoria, Head of Auditoria, personal

promotion to Assistant Principal Officer

David McConnell, Head of Finance, personal promotion to

Assistant Principal Officer

Higher Executive Officers:Susan Coughlan, Local Arts Development Officer/Arts

Centres, Community Arts & Festivals (until September)

Oliver Dowling, Visual Arts Officer

Drama Officer, (vacant),

Maura Eaton, Music Officer

Education Officer, (half-time post) (vacant)

Marian Flanagan, Local Arts Development Officer/Local

Authority Arts Officers (until September)

Mary Hyland, Film Officer (half-time post) (until September)

Lisa Moran, Combined Arts Officer (from October)

Sinéad MacAodha, Literature and Irish Language Arts OfficerGaye Tanham, Dance and Opera Officer

Executive Officers Catherine Boothman, International Arts Executive

Tara Byrne, Artists’ Support Executive

Jackie Casey, IT and Building Executive

Theresa Cullen, Premises Executive, (job share)

Sheila Gorman, Human Resources Executive

Mary Ellen Green, Information Executive

Kevin Healy, Grant Management Executive

Audrey Keane, FOI Executive + Website Manager

Stephanie O’Callaghan, Local Arts Development Executive

Bernie O’Leary, Director’s Personal Assistant

Ellen Pugh, Finance Executive

Clerical OfficersAoife Corbett, Literature, Irish language, Education

Maeve Giles, Dance, Opera and Music

Mary Hickey, Drama

Adrienne Martin, Film and Visual Arts (jobshare)

Sharon McGrane, PA to the Senior Management Group

Paula O’Meara, Film and Visual Arts (jobshare)

Karen Whelan, Administration (jobshare)

Cleaning StaffEvelyn Greene and Anne Behan

Non establishment staff – consultant/ contract/temporaryAntoinette O’Neill, Architectural Advisor

Enid Reid Whyte, Drama Advisor (from September)

Jennifer Traynor, Project Manager, Auditoria

Sian Cunningham, Administrative Assistant, Auditoria

Helena Gorey Collection Executive, (half-time)

Emma Kelly, International Arts Information Executive

Ciara Branagan, Accounts Assistant

Gillian Drew, Receptionist

Carrie Griffin, Clerical Officer

Aine Kelly, Capital, Architecture and Arts Centres Clerical Officer

Anne Morgan, Clerical Officer

Regina O’Shea, Clerical Officer

Dominica Sandys, Local Arts Development/festivals Clerical Officer

Cormac Walsh, Records Management Assistant (part-time)

Noel Thomas, Maintenance Person (part-time)

Aosdána Mary Hyland, Press Officer, part time (until September)

Theresa Cullen, Executive Officer, part time

Patrick J. Murphy (Chairman)Mary BradyMaud CotterNoel CrowleyBrendan FlynnCarlo Gébler

Clare DuignanT.V. HonanProinsias Mac AonghusaDr Thomas MitchellSiobhán Ní ÉanaighMáire Ní Riain

Séamus Ó CinnéideEmer O’KellyJane O’LearyUna Ó MurchúPatrick Sutton

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36 awards

Awards/Duaiseanna

Revenue Total

€ €

Architecture/AiltireachtResearch Bursaries/Spárnachtaí TaighdeRoyal Institute of Architecture of Ireland 6,500

6,500

Postgraduate Scholarship/Scoláireacht ÍarchéimeAlan Furlong 6,500

6,500

Dance/DamhsaPost Graduate Scholarship/Scoláireacht ÍarchéimeDonna Daly-Blyth 5,500 5,500Victoria O'Brien 5,350 5,350Jennifer Roche 6,350 6,350

17,200

Joan Denise Moriarty Scholarship/Scoláireacht Joan Denise Moriarty

1,000 1,000

1,000

Professional Dance Teachers/Múinteoirí Damhsa GairmiúlaAdrienne Brown 2,539 2,539Fiona Campbell 191 191Catherine Curtin 4,440 4,440Marisa Fragolini 1,079 1,079Phyllis Hayes 1,720 1,720Linda Higgins 889 889Margaret Hunter 1,080 1,080Mariam Ribon 2,413 2,413Diana Richardson 2,413 2,413Esperanza Santander 1,778 1,778

18,542

Professional Dancers/Damhsóirí GairmiúlaNiamh Condron 2,100 2,100Deirdre Grant 1,600 1,600Lucy Hickey 3,200 3,200Rionach Ni Neill 2,100 2,100

9,000

Travel Awards/Duaiseanna TaistilStephen Batts 2,000 2,000Anne Campbell-Crawford 635 635Cindy Cummings 1,143 1,143Alexandra Diana 953 953Ursula Laeubli 1,525 1,525Regina Rogers 508 508

6,764

Awards to Undergraduates/Duaiseanna d’FhochéimitheJonathan Fitzgerald 6,500 6,500Tracy Jones 6,500 6,500Timothy Matley 6,500 6,500Nicola Murphy 6,500 6,500Darragh O'Leary 6,500 6,500Sarah Reynolds 9,100 9,100Therese Schweppe 6,500 6,500Emma Thompson 1,905 1,905Karen Williams 6,500 6,500

56,505

Choreographers Bursary/Sparánacht do ChóragrafaitheCindy Cummings 10,200 10,200Fearghus O Conchuir 10,200 10,200John Scott 5,080 5,080

25,480

Choreographers Awards/Duaiseanna do ChóragrafaitheAdrienne Brown 3,300 3,300

3,300

Revenue Total

€ €

Drama/DrámaíochtDesigners/DearthóiríSharon Dipity Barker 1,000 1,000Irene Hegarty 1,500 1,500

2,500

Training in Acting/Oiliúnt san AisteoireachtGinerva Benedetti 2,200 2,200Vicky Burke 1,000 1,000Jonathan Byrne 2,000 2,000Hilary Cotter 3,000 3,000Laragh Cullen 2,500 2,500Padraig Delaney 2,000 2,000Ewan Downie 1,500 1,500Joanne Claire Duffy 1,200 1,200Matthew Dunphy 2,000 2,000Aisling Farrell 3,000 3,000Catherine Farrell 2,000 2,000Anne Marie Fitzpatrick 1,300 1,300P.J. Gallagher 3,000 3,000Colm Gormley 3,000 3,000Caoimhe Harvey 3,500 3,500Amy Hastings 1,000 1,000Andrew Holden 1,000 1,000Charles Hughes 4,000 4,000Shereen Ibrahim 1,000 1,000Stephen Kelly 1,000 1,000Vanessa Keogh 2,500 2,500Louise Kiely 2,500 2,500Simone Kirby 2,500 2,500Susie Lamb 95 95Aonghus Óg McAnally 1,200 1,200Michael A. McCabe 3,000 3,000Sean Pol McGreevy 3,000 3,000Clare McKenna 1,200 1,200Laura McLaughlin 1,600 1,600Marie McNamara 2,000 2,000Brian Melarkey 1,200 1,200Aaron Monaghan 2,800 2,800Jill Murphy 1,000 1,000Colm O'Grady 1,835 1,835Ronan O'Leary 2,000 2,000Anna C Olson 1,000 1,000Bryan Quinn 2,000 2,000Douglas Rankine 3,000 3,000Naomh Scullin 1,200 1,200Norma Sheahan 3,000 3,000Vincent Patrick Smith 952 952Elaine Symons 1,270 1,270Sarah Thunder 1,000 1,000Marco van Belle 4,500 4,500Tom Vaughan Lawlor 4,500 4,500Adam Webb 2,000 2,000Edward Richard Wilson 3,500 3,500

97,552

Travel Awards/Duaiseanna TaistilElaine Bastible 2,500 2,500Martin Boroson 1,900 1,900Stephen Brown 1,650 1,650Sorcha Carroll 1,500 1,500Kate Duignan 800 800Clare Ewing 500 500Halina Froudist 1,500 1,500Elizabeth Garrihy 1,175 1,175Oonagh Kearney 2,540 2,540Paul McCauley 1,900 1,900Grace O'Malley 1,000 1,000Conor O'Neill 1,900 1,900Jarlath Rice 1,900 1,900

20,765

Studio Rental Assistance/Cúnamh do Chíos StiúideoAgnes Murray 2,500 2,500

2,500

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Revenue Total

€ €

Play Director in Residency/Stiurthóir Drámaíochta CónaitheAudrey Devereux 4,289 4,289Helen Gregg 3,400 3,400Anne Marie Horan 2,000 2,000David Horan 1,524 1,524Noelin Kavanagh 2,000 2,000Clare Neylon 2,482 2,482

15,695

Arts Educators Awards/Duaiseanna d’Oidí EalaíonOrla Flanagan 3,000 3,000Rosaleen Molloy 500 500Anet Moore 1,500 1,500Mairead Ní Chonduin 318 318Patrick Ruane 1,500 1,500

6,818

Arts Management Awards/Duaiseanna i mBainistíocht EalaíonDebbie Behan 3,800 3,800Aisling Breen 2,540 2,540Deirdre Enright 3,420 3,420Susan Exshaw 3,936 3,936Kate McCarthy 2,793 2,793Mary McCarthy 3,800 3,800Sharon Sheehan 2,666 2,666Kerry West 3,047 3,047

26,002

Artflight/Eitilt Ealaíne(Arts Council Expenditure) 145,964

145,964

Go See Awards/Duaiseanna Téigh agus Breathnaigh(Provided in co-operation with the British Council)

Adam Burthom 450 450Robert Connor 254 254Aileen Corkery 254 254Susan Coughlan 497 497Mark Cullen 254 254Brian Duggan 254 254Eleanor Feely 950 950Gemma Gallagher 380 380Fiona Galvin 419 419Ciara Garvey 445 445Mary Grehan 317 317Theresia Guschlbauer 330 330Frieda Hand 380 380Nuala Hayes 380 380Lorraine Hughes 279 279Emma Johnston 317 317Joanne Jones 760 760Raymond Keane 380 380Annie King 572 572Niamh Lawlor 253 253Patricia McBride 444 444Catherine McCarthy 700 700Danny McCarthy 254 254Angela McLaughlin 444 444Helen McMahon 475 475Brian McManus 445 445Grainne Millar 254 254Eilis Mullen 311 311Michael Nangle 760 760Geraldine Nichol 152 152Marina Rafter 640 640Emma Richardson 508 508Breda Ruane 700 700Tom Ryan 305 305Frank Taylor 444 444Antoinette Uhlar 445 445Dahlia Vitez 450 450Sean Whelan 444 444Suzanne Woods 260 260

16,560

Revenue Total

€ €

Bursaries in Literature Scheme/Scéim do Sparánacht sa LitríochtDave Bourke 5,100 5,100Rosemary Canavan 6,348 6,348Evelyn Conlon 6,348 6,348Mary Dorcey 6,349 6,349John F. Deane 5,100 5,100Patrick Deeley 5,100 5,100Anne Enright 5,078 5,078Michael Harding 6,349 6,349Trudy Hayes 6,348 6,348Claire Keegan 6,349 6,349Phillip Kelly 2,550 2,550John MacKenna 4,444 4,444Martin Malone 5,100 5,100Cormac McCarthy 5,078 5,078John McDonald 5,100 5,100Sarah McQuaid 6,350 6,350Sean O'Reilly 5,100 5,100Valerie Sirr 6,348 6,348Vincent Woods 3,809 3,809

102,348

Literature/LitríochtTravel Awards/Duaiseanna TaistilLouise Couper 600 600Adrian Kenny 1,900 1,900Anne le Marquand Hartigan 635 635Liam Mac Coil 6,349 6,349Oscar McLennan 410 410Colm O Snodaigh 3,810 3,810Siofra O' Donovan 1,900 1,900John O'Leary 1,900 1,900Catriona O'Reilly 6,349 6,349Michael West 1,820 1,820

25,673

Music/CeolAdvanced Instrumental & Singing/Ardoiliúnt nUirlisí agus san AmhránaíochtSuzanne Duffy 1,270 1,270Claire Duff 3,250 3,250Owen Gilhooley 3,176 3,176Simon Jermyn 1,270 1,270Gwendolyn Masin 3,810 3,810Rosalind McGrane 3,250 3,250Eimear McNally 1,905 1,905Isobelle O'Connell 6,500 6,500Jonathan O'Donovan 1,588 1,588Michael O'Toole 1,905 1,905Gerald Peregrine 2,540 2,540Ailish Tynan 6,500 6,500Nyle Wolfe 1,270 1,270

38,234

Composers' Bursary/Sparánacht ChumadóraBernadette Comac 6,300 6,300Andrew Hamilton 14,158 14,158Grainne Mulvey 2,000 2,000

22,458

Travel Awards/Duaiseanna TaistilMargo Barrow 888 888Nico Brown 1,270 1,270Rhona Clarke 720 720Siobhan Cleary 1,905 1,905Briana Corrigan 2,000 2,000Fergal Dowling 762 762Thomas Dunne 1,000 1,000Geraldine Gilsenen 1,000 1,000Gregory Harrington 760 760Petrina McAleer 330 330Barry McGrath 950 950John McLachlan 635 635Deirdre Nolan 870 870Jonathan O'Donovan 1,905 1,905Aoife O'Sullivan 2,000 2,000Michael Quinn 1,205 1,205Barry Summers 870 870

19,070

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Revenue Total

€ €

Visual Arts BursariesSparánachtaí DearcealaíonRachel Ballagh 2,500 2,500Gerard Byrne 2,500 2,500John Byrne 9,000 9,000Ian Charlesworth 1,000 1,000Simon Cocking 2,000 2,000Jeanette Doyle 5,000 5,000Kevin Francis Gray 2,150 2,150Darragh Hogan 2,300 2,300Katie Holten 9,000 9,000Daniel Jewesbury 7,350 7,350Mary Kelly 6,350 6,350Clare Langan 9,000 9,000John Langan 5,100 5,100Stephen Langan 2,400 2,400Elizabeth Magill 137 137Fergus Martin 889 889Danny McCarthy 3,700 3,700Mark McLoughlin 4,500 4,500Eoghan McTigue 2,400 2,400Aisling O'Beirn 2,500 2,500Abigail O'Brien 9,000 9,000Mick O'Kelly 2,500 2,500Garrett Phelan 4,500 4,500Susan Philipsz 3,000 3,000Amanda Ralph 3,500 3,500Ben Reilly 2,400 2,400Tom Ryan 4,200 4,200John Noel Smith 9,000 9,000Bernard Smyth 5,700 5,700Susan Tiger 4,350 4,350Martin Wedge 2,500 2,500

130,426

Visual Arts/DearcealaíonaPostgraduate/ÍarchéimDeclan Clarke 5,000 5,000John Donnelly 1,145 1,145Stephen Quinn 5,000 5,000Ruth Rogers 5,000 5,000Cliodhna Ryan 3,175 3,175Eric Sweeney 1,270 1,270Shane Synnott 5,000 5,000

25,590

Travel Awards/Duaiseanna TaistilOrla Clarke 1,000 1,000Carmel Cleary 1,000 1,000Aoife Desmond 1,500 1,500Damian Doyle 1,905 1,905Tim Durham 1,000 1,000Saoirse Higgins 1,500 1,500Katie Holten 1,500 1,500Elaine Leader 2,000 2,000Nick Miller 2,000 2,000Sinead Ni Chionaola 2,000 2,000Helen O'Hare 1,000 1,000Inge van Doorslaer 1,500 1,500

17,905

Criticism/Léirmheastóireacht Brian Hand 2,857 2,857Paul O'Neill 3,850 3,850

6,707

The Arts Council andThe Arts Council of Northern IrelandAlice B. Hammerschlad Award 2,200 2,200

2,200

Material and Equipment Grant/Deontas Ábhar agus TrealaimhTerry Blake 1,000 1,000Laura Buckley 1,000 1,000Ian Charlesworth 1,000 1,000Phil Collins 1,000 1,000Patrick Corcoran 1,000 1,000Joyce Duffy 1,000 1,000Brigid Flannery 1,000 1,000

Revenue Total

€ €

Michael Fortune 952 952Paul Gregg 1,000 1,000Diane Henshaw 1,000 1,000Kristina Huxley 1,000 1,000Alexandra Karrasch 1,000 1,000Fergus Kelly 1,000 1,000Neven Lahart 1,000 1,000Susan MacWilliam 1,000 1,000Katrina Maguire 1,000 1,000Caroline McCarthy 1,000 1,000Ronan McCrea 1,000 1,000Eoghan McTigue 1,000 1,000Veronica Nicholson 1,000 1,000Margaret O'Brien 450 450Liam O'Callaghan 500 500Augustine O'Donogue 1,000 1,000Seamus O'Rourke 1,000 1,000Aine Phillips 1,000 1,000Una Quigley 1,000 1,000Paul Regan 1,000 1,000Ben Reilly 1,000 1,000Anne Seagrave 1,000 1,000Carly Shirreffs 1,000 1,000Brian Walsh 1,000 1,000

29,902

PS1 Scholarship/Scoláireacht PS1Irish American Cultural Institute 41,300 41,300

41,300

Studio Rental/Cíos StúideoJacqueline Askew 1,000 1,000Kate Byrne 1,000 1,000Michelle Byrne 1,000 1,000Anthony Collins 1,000 1,000Janine Davidson 1,000 1,000Brendan Grant 2,500 2,500Angie Grimes 1,000 1,000Paul Guven 1,000 1,000Vivian Hansbury 1,000 1,000Brian Hegarty 1,000 1,000Maurice Henderson 1,000 1,000Gail Johnstone 1,000 1,000Rachel Kierans 1,000 1,000Hugh Lorrigan 1,000 1,000Deirdre Lyons 1,000 1,000Fergal McCarthy 1,000 1,000Philip McFadden 2,500 2,500Louise Neiland 1,000 1,000Christopher Neumann 1,000 1,000Rebecca Peart 1,000 1,000Colin Rush 1,000 1,000Joe Stanley 1,000 1,000David Timmons 2,500 2,500Brian Walsh 1,000 1,000Olwen Weekes 1,000 1,000Orla Whelan 1,000 1,000Fiona Woods 1,000 1,000

31,500

George Campbell Award/Duais George CampbellRachel Ballagh 3,420 3,420

3,420Douglas Hyde Award/Duais Dhúglas de hÍdeAn t-Oireachtas 300 300

300Macaulay Foundation/Funduireacht Mhacaulay 4,500 4,500

4,500Minimum Income Guarantee/Rathaíocht Iosioncaim 11,072

11,072

992,527Previous years grants not required (1,519)

Total for Awards/Iomlán do Dhuaiseanna, € 991,008(per note 3)

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40 projects & schemes

Revenue Capital Total€ € €

Bristlebird, A Green T/A 5,000 8,000 13,000Brown Penny Theatre 5,000Calipo Theatre Company 57,700 47,870 105,570Corn Exchange 51,349 22,000 73,349Iomha Ildanach Theatre 10,000 12,783 22,783Loose Cannon Theatre 58,400Machine, the Scott Foundation 43,000Operating Theatre 15,000 3,056 18,056Pan Pan Theatre Company 70,000Puca Puppets Theatre Company 14,729Quare Hawks 13,388Tall Tales Theatre Company 10,000 6,679 16,679Theatreworks Company 32,000 2,217 34,217Upstate Theatre Project 88,897 5,845 94,742Vesuvius Theatre Company 12,700 15,682 28,382Yew Theatre Productions 68,000 7,000 75,000

821,802

Prodroduction Companies / ActivityCompántais Léirithe / GníomhaíochtCalypso Productions 4,000 4,000Gaiety School of Acting 15,000 15,000

19,000

Workshops/CeardlannaDroichead Arts Centre 2,809 2,809Read Theatre Company 1,270 1,270

4,079

Playwrights Commission Scheme/Scéim Choimisiúin do DhramadóiriBarabbas…The Company 2,540 2,540Bare Bodkin Theatre 1,910 1,910Calypso Productions 1,910 1,910Corca dorca Theatre 1,900 1,900Corn Exchange 3,000 3,000Dublin Theatre Festival 3,000 3,000Dublin Youth Theatre 1,270 1,270Fishamble Theatre Company 3,810 3,810Island Theatre Company 635 635National Association for Youth Drama 1,900 1,900Noggin Theatre 1,200 1,200Storytellers Theatre 2,200 2,200Tall Tales Theate Company 1,270 1,270Upstate Theatre Project 1,270 1,270Vesuvius Theatre 5,050 5,050Yew Theatre Productions 2,200 2,200

35,065

Mise en Scène Awards/Duaiseanna Mise en ScèneArtslab (Ireland) 2,000 2,000Blockbone Theatre 3,000 3,000Calypso Productions 11,000 11,000Civic Theatre Company 10,000 10,000Dha Ean Theatre Company 5,000 5,000Minc Theatre 5,040 4,346 9,386Read Company 7,000 7,000Sheaswhore 4,000 4,000St John's Mill Theatre 3,500 3,500Tall Tales Theatre 6,000 6,000Theatre of Joy 7,620 7,620Tricksters Theatre Company 3,000 3,000

71,506

North-South Touring/Camchuairteanna Thuaidh-TheasArts Council of Northern Ireland 70,107 70,107Galloglass Theatre Company 4,400 4,400

74,507

Youth Theatre/Amharclann ÓigeBalbriggan Youth Development 3,174 3,174Barnstorm Theatre Company 5,079 5,079Boomerang Theatre Company 3,809 3,809Dry Rain Performing Arts 3,809 3,809DyDx Youth Theatre 2,000 2,000Graffiti Theatre Company 5,078 5,078Leitrim County Partnership 2,539 2,539Makonde Youth Theatre 2,000 2,000Mayo County Council 4,444 4,444Shakespeare Theatre 5,078 5,078Tinahely Courthouse 1,904 1,904Wicklow Youth Theatre 5,079 5,079Youtopia Youth Theatre 3,174 3,174

47,167

Projects and Schemes/Tionscadail agus Scéimeanna


Architecture/AiltireachtaProjects/Tionscadail Martin Henchion 6,500 6,500Stephen Hackett 4,000 4,000NUI Dublin 18,174 18,174

28,674

Community/PobalProjects/TionscadailBerara Community Arts Society 5,535Cashel Heritage & Development Trust 6,350Common Ground 2,857 19,000 21,857Mid Summer Nights Dream 3,174

36,916

Community Development Fund/Ciste Forbatha PobailArtslab (Ireland) 2,539 2,539Joanne Breen 1,400 1,400Cathal Carroll 2,267 2,267Jessica Carson 1,142 1,142Simon Cocking 2,850 2,850Donahue/Lib Dance 3,810 3,810Martin Folan 2,540 2,540Ailbhe Murphy 3,175 3,175Niall O'Baoill 1,270 1,270Smashing Times Theatre 2,721 2,721

23,714

Artist-in-Community/Ealaíontóir sa PhobalBoolavogue Community Tapestry Group 635 635Boyle Neighbourhood Youth Project 6,712 6,712Cork County Council 3,250 3,250DTWO4 Dance Works 2,539 2,539Fettercairn Residents trust 1,950 1,950Galway Mental Health Assocation 1,950 1,950Galway Youth Federation 2,600 2,600Hook Tourist Development Assocation 1,270 1,270Kildare County Council 8,888 8,888Kilflyn Photography Project 1,950 1,950Leitrim County Council 2,860 2,860Mayo County Council 3,174 3,174Mayo VEC 2,857 2,857Newbury Arts Centre 1,910 1,910North Leitrim Mens Group 2,286 2,286Pléaraca Teoranta 2,857 2,857Smithfield Heritage and Arts 952 952Waterford Music City 2,857 2,857

51,497

Dance/DamhsaArtist-in-Residence/Ealaíontóir CónaitheDunamaise Theatre 4,300 4,300Kildare County Council 6,500 6,500NUI Dublin Drama Studies 6,485 6,485Waterford Youth Drama 3,300 3,300

20,585

Projects/Tionscadail Cork City Ballet, Alan Foley 9,500 9,500Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre 51,000 51,000Fluxus 15,000 15,000Institute for Choregraphy and Dance at Firkin Crane 45,800 45,800Myriad Dance Company 6,500 6,500Project Arts Centre 45,000 45,000Rex Levitates Dance Company 15,000 15,000

187,800

Commissions/CoimisiúinDublin Fringe Festival 12,700 12,700Kildare Library & Art Centrez` 10,000 10,000Pléaraca 4,300 4,300Temple Bar Properties 12,700 12,700

39,700

Drama/DrámaíochtProduction Company / Development/Compántas Léirithe / ForbairtArtslab (Ireland) 5,080 5,080Bare Bodkin Theatre 15,000 31,000 46,000Bedrock Productions 75,000 2,427 77,427Black Box Theatre 7,000

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Education/OideachasArtist-in-Residence/Ealaíontóir CónaitheArd Scoil la Salle 572 572Blanchardstown Youth Service 1,905 1,905Boyle Neighbourhood Youth project 952 952Castlecomer Community School 1,905 1,905Collinstown Park Community College 571 571Denominational Primary School 1,400 1,400Donacarney Girls National School 1,905 1,905Dublin Youth Theatre 2,000 2,000Ennis Educate Together National School 2,000 2,000Gaelscoil an Ghoirt Alainn 1,905 1,905Gaelscoil Cluain Meala 1,333 1,333Grainstore Youth Arts Centre 1,905 1,905Holy Family Girls National school 2,000 2,000Kilkenny Youthreach 1,905 1,905Killea National School 571 571Killusty National School 1,905 1,905Laurel Hill Secondary School 1,905 1,905Loerto College Cavan 1,400 1,400Lucan Educate Together National School 1,905 1,905National Training & Development Institute 2,000 2,000North Dublin School Project, Ballymun 1,905 1,905Our Lady of Fatima National School 1,400 1,400Padraig Naofa Frenchport National School 572 572Ranelagh Multi Dnmntnl School 2,000 2,000Rathangan National School 1,905 1,905Rusnacahara National School 1,400 1,400Scoil An Cheathrair Alainn 1,335 1,335Scoil Chriost Rí, Clare 572 572Scoil Mhuire Tullamore 1,905 1,905SN. Brid Naofa, Ballinamore 1,400 1,400SN Cnoc na Manach 1,400 1,400St Francis School, Port Laoise 1,335 1,335St Michael's Boys National School 1,905 1,905St Oliver Plunkett National School 1,400 1,400St Patrick's Girls National School 1,400 1,400Stanhope Street Primary School 1,400 1,400Togher National School 1,400 1,400Togra Bhalor an Atha 1,800 1,800Villiers School 1,400 1,400

59,778

Film Exhibition School/Scoil Thaispeántais ScannáinDarlkight Film Festival 6,350 6,350Dublin Lesbian & Gay Festival 6,350 6,350Fresh Film Festival 7,000 7,000ION Entertainment 8,888 8,888Irish Animation Festival 2,540 2,540Temple Bar Properties 2,540 2,540

33,668

Film and Video Awards/Duaiseanna Scannáin agus FiseáinBord Scannán na hÉireann 38,100 38,100Donnycarney Community Forum 2,540 2,540Amanda Kay Dunsmore 8,254 8,254Brendan Earley 965 965Fairview Productions 9,525 9,525Michael Fortune 939 939Brendan Goss 1,270 1,270Great Western Film Company 9,525 9,525Jacki Irvine 6,454 6,454Patrick Jolley 2,540 2,540Aideen Kane 5,680 5,680Clare Langan 11,111 11,111Fiach Mac Conghail 2,600 2,600Thomas Reddy 300 300Edel Robbins 2,540 2,540Paul Rowley 6,349 6,349Samson Films 12,700 12,700TG4 57,139 57,139Chryssy Tintner 3,809 3,809Grace Weir 3,100 3,100

185,440

Festivals/FéilteAfoxe 1,000 1,000Cathal Buí Summer School 635 635Comhaltas C.E. Ballintogher 1,270 1,270Cork Fringe Festival 3,200 3,200Culture Gap 1,270 1,270Drogheda Youth Arts Project 1,600 1,600Drumshambo Percussion Weekender 1,905 1,905East Cork Youth Reach 2,540 2,540Festival of the Arts, Balbriggan 2,600 2,600Greystones Summer Arts Festival 3,900 3,900Hopkins, Gerard Manly 1,270 1,270


Inishbofin Development Company 2,000 2,000Kildare Youth Services 1,270 1,270Kinsale Arts Festival 2,000 2,000Louisburgh Community Project 1,950 1,950Newcastlewest & Area Arts Committee 1,270 1,270Roundstone Open Arts Festival 1,300 1,300Seachtain Ealaíon Ghaeltacht Chiarraí 1,300 1,300Skerries Development & Community Assocation 6,349 6,349Tallaght Festival/Tallafest 6,349 6,349Youghal Arts Festival 700 700

45,678

Literature/LitríochtProjects/TionscadailAchill Heinrich Boll Committee 10,000 10,000Comhar na Muinteoirí Gaeilge 7,500 7,500Conradh na Gaeilge 5,000 5,000Daonscoil na Mumhan 1,900 1,900Dedalus Press, John Deane 12,697 12,697Fourcourts Press 2,540 2,540Anne Haverty 7,620 7,620IBBY Ireland 2,500 2,500Joyce Centre, Dublin 5,000 5,000Mike McCormack 6,349 6,349Poets House, The 7,000 7,000

68,106

Writers/Scríbhneoiri CónaitheChurch of Ireland 6,340 6,340Dublin City University 7,618 7,618Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council 6,340 6,340Longford County Council 6,340 6,340NUI Dublin 6,340 6,340NUI Maynooth 6,349 6,349Siobhan Parkinson 3,809 3,809Scriobhneoiri Arainn 5,714 5,714Tipperary (NR) Co Council 3,170 3,170Trinity College Dublin 8,253 8,253Verbal Arts Centre 7,500 7,500Dermot Bolger 127 127Yvonne Cullen 815 815Katie Donovan 135 135Roddy Doyle 243 243Maeve Friel 229 229Patrick Galvin 165 165Mark Granier 169 169Michael Harding 337 337Jack Harte 116 116Rita Ann Higgins 166 166Rita Kelly 1,620 1,620Edmund Lenihan 801 801Martin Malone 127 127Greagoir O Dúill 445 445Mary O'Malley 1,539 1,539Patrick Speight 135 135Kate Thompson 1,202 1,202Liz Weir 292 292Gabriel Fitzmaurice 142 142Maire Holmes 258 258Liam O Murchu 257 257

77,093

Music/CeolProjects/TionscadailBannow Folk & Traditional Society 1,300Cairde na Cruite 1,300Ceol na Locha 1,300Chamber Music in Retreat Lodges 3,200 1,027 4,227Clare Music Makers 3,800 3,800Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Craobh Naithi 1,270 1,270Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Lixnaw 1,200 1,200Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Riverstown 1,270 1,270Cumar 3,500 3,500Drogheda Samba Festival 6,500 6,500Dublin Master classes 19,000 19,000Ennis IMRO composition 8,000 8,000Feile Caomhan 1,300 1,300Feile Lorras 2,500 2,500Galway School of Irish Traditional Music 3,800 3,800Goethe Institute 6,350 6,350Inishowen Traditional Singers Circle 3,200 3,200Ionad na nAmhran 1,905 1,905Irish Youth Wind Ensemble 3,800 3,800Newpark Music Centre 2,550 2,550O'Carolan Harp & Cultural Festival, Nobber 1,270 1,270O'Carolan Harp Festival Committee, Keadue 1,300 1,300Oideas Gael 1,500 1,500

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Scoil Acla 3,810 3,810Scoil Samhna Seamus Ennis 3,200 3,200Scoil Samhraidh Laitroma 3,500 3,500Sean Nois Cois Life 760 760Share Music 2,540 2,540Slieve Gullion Festival 1,270 1,270Sligo Co Council 44,500 44,500South Sligo Summer School 3,810 3,810Young European Strings 2,500 2,500Zeroparallel 2,540 2,540

150,572

CDs and Publications/CDanna agus FoilseacháinRoger Doyle 3,200 3,200Four Courts Press 1,270 1,270Bernard Geary 2,500 2,500Barry Guy 3,200 3,200Una Hune 3,175 3,175Livia Records 4,800 4,800Regina Nathan 3,800 3,800Maire Ni Cheallachair 3,200 3,200Mark O'Leary 1,020 1,020Melanie O'Reilly 1,000 1,000Siobhan Pettit 3,200 3,200Toner Quinn 2,540 2,540Serge St Avila 2,500 2,500Mary Stokes 2,500 2,500Pierce Turner 1,600 1,600

39,505

Piano Purchase/Ceannach PianóCork County Council 26,800 26,800DunLaoghaire Rathdown County Council 99,992 99,992Ennis Urban District Council 53,139 53,139

179,931

New Music Commission Scheme/Scéim Choimisiúin do Cheol NuaElaine Agnew 3,800 3,800Michael Alcorn 1,000 1,000Melanie Brown 2,160 2,160John Buckley 3,175 3,175Rob Canning 2,030 2,030Rhona Clarke 2,405 2,405Siobhan Cleary 1,715 1,715Frank Corcoran 4,032 4,032Raymond Deane 4,720 4,720Donnacha Dennehy 3,473 3,473Roger Doyle 2,540 2,540David Fennessy 1,270 1,270Stephen Gardner 2,338 2,338John Godfrey 1,710 1,710Ronal Guilfoyle 1,750 1,750Paul Hayes 1,525 1,525Michael Holohan 760 760Ciaran Hope 635 635Fergus Johnson 3,304 3,304John Kinsella 1,900 1,900Trevor Knight 1,600 1,600Grainne Mulvey 7,000 7,000Ailis Ni Riain 1,270 1,270Micheal O Suilleabhain 860 860Kevin O'Connell 1,270 1,270Connor O'Reilly 1,780 1,780Kevin Volans 7,000 7,000Ian Wilson 7,335 7,335

74,357

Opera/CeoldrámaíochtProjects/TionscadailOpera Summer School 12,424 12,424

12,424

Visual Arts/DearcealaíonaProjects/TionscadailNational Sculpture Factory 12,697 12,697RHA 2,500 2,500Sculpture in Woodland 12,700 12,700

27,897Exhibition Assistance Schemes/Scéimeanna Cúnaimh do ThaispeántaisAn t-Oireachtas 2,500 2,500Ardara Artists Resource Centre 3,000 3,000Artspace Studios 2,500 2,500Artworking 30,500 30,500


Assoc. Internationale des Critiques d'Art 6,350Ceardlann na gCroisbhealach 2,690 4,000 6,690Cork Artists Society 2,985Cork Womens Poetry Circle 8,000Court house Studios 4,000Crawford Municipal Art Gallery 5,713 11,000 16,713Pauline Cummins 7,500 7,500Danlann, An, Teach an Leinn 1,980 1,980Ennis Arts Initiative 1,905 1,905Irish Contemporary Ceramics 3,000 3,000Veronica Larsson 770 770National Sculpture Factory 7,619 7,619Mick O'Kelly 3,900 3,900OPP-ART Cork 178 178Pallas Studios 2,000 5,758 7,758Real Art Project 14,727 14,727Sculpture at Kells 6,300 6,300Sirius Arts Centre 3,810 3,810Temple Bar Properties 3,810 3,810Tinahely Court House 1,270 1,270Tyrone Guthrie Centre 1,905 1,905

149,670

Visual Arts Publications/Foilseacháin DearcealaíonBroardstone Studios 2,000 2,000Cork Artist Collective 3,420 3,420Liam O'Callaghan 770 770OUTART 3,800 3,800Photoworks 5,714 5,714Sligo County Council 6,000 6,000Stunned Artzine 4,000 4,000

25,704

Artists-in-Prisons/Ealaíontóiri inGeibheannAndrew Boyle 2,000 2,000Patricia Burns 1,600 1,600Malachy Costello 1,600 1,600Tony Crosbie 2,000 2,000Mary Duffy 952 952Angela Duignan 800 800Margaret Fitzgibbon 762 762Eoin Llewellyn 1,600 1,600Brian Maguire 76 76Dave McCormick 2,000 2,000Simon Moller 2,000 2,000Clare O'Reilly 2,000 2,000Jacques Piraprez 2,000 2,000

19,390

Joint Purchases/ComhcheannachMonaghan VEC 2,200Sligo County Council 2,225

4,425

Interdisciplinary Collaboration/Comhoibriú IdirdhisiplíneachGalway Arts Festival 12,697 12,697Quare Hawks 6,349 6,349

19,046

Ireland - US Residencies/Cónaitheachtaí Eire-SAAnne Farrell 1,860 1,860Brian Kelly 2,832 2,832

4,692

Partnerships/PáirtiochtaíArts Research 635

635

2,640,022

Previous years grants not required (2,348)

Total for Projects and Schemes/Iomlán do Thionscadail agus Scéimeanna (per note 3) €2,637,674

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Annual Grants/Cistiú Reatha

Revenue Capital Total

€ € €

Professional, service and representatives organisations/Eagraíochtaí gairmiúla, seirbhíse agus ionadaitheAlternative Entertainments 60,000 27,700 87,700Architectural Association of Ireland 60,000 1,238 61,238Artlink, Buncrana 62,000 32,695 94,695Artworking 27,000Association of Irish Composers 13,000Association of Professional Dancers 92,000 4,943 96,943Association of Artists in Ireland 110,000 10,262 120,262C.A.F.E. 272,000Cairdeas na bhFidleirí 5,700CLE Teoranta/ Irish Bookpublishers Association 29,000Contemporary Music Centre 458,602Cork Film Centre/ C.A.V.E.R.N 46,000 162,487 208,487Cumann Naisiunta na gCor 127,000Drake Music Project 13,000 20,000 33,000Drama League of Ireland 25,000Drogheda Samba School 6,400Federation of Music Collectives 68,000 2,927 70,927Film Base 95,300 56,504 151,804Galway Film Resource Centre 157,000 36,045 193,045Grassy Knoll Productions 5,700 4,800 10,500Improvised Music Company 133,300 7,250 140,550Ireland Literature Exchange 118,000Irish Assoc. of Brass & Con. Bands 6,500 3,202 9,702Irish Pipe Band Assocation 8,000Irish Writers' Centre 189,000 10,751 199,751Moving on Music 32,400Music Association of Ireland 6,500Music Network 455,970 24,000 479,970Piobairi Uilleann Teoranta, 51,000Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann 182,000 15,000 197,000Real Art Project, Limerick 6,000 6,730 12,730Sculptors' Society of Ireland 80,000Sound People 6,500 1,229 7,729Stewart Parker Trust, 9,369Theatre Shop, 63,000 6,035 69,035

3,514,039

Facility-based resource organisations/Eagraíochtaí acmhainne áisbhunaitheArchway Studios 12,700 14,800 27,500Ark, The / Children's Cultural Centre 593,586 16,372 609,958Arthouse 220,000 135,950 355,950Artspace Studios 21,300 5,652 26,952Backwater Artists 25,000 20,300 45,300Ballinglen Arts Foundation 45,000Black Church Print Studio 55,000 39,201 94,201Broadstone Studios 15,000 15,762 30,762Cill Rialaig Project 12,700Clo Ceardlann na gCnoc 29,000 19,924 48,924Cork Artists' Collective 19,000 9,235 28,235Cork Printmakers 61,600 15,302 76,902Film Institute of Ireland 539,060 118,544 657,604Fire Station Artists Studios 170,000Graphic Studio, Dublin 77,450Institute for Choreography & Dance/Firkin Crane 255,000 13,442 268,442Irish Traditional Music Archive 280,000 8,200 288,200Leitrim Sculpture Centre/Anaglyph 31,700National College of Art & Design 20,000National Sculpture Factory Cork 170,200 31,673 201,873New Art Studios 15,000 4,700 19,700Shawbrook / L.D.Dance Trust 21,500 6,400 27,900Tyrone Guthrie Centre 262,256 39,362 301,618Visual Arts Centre 12,700Wexford Sculpture Workshops 3,450

3,483,021

Youth ensembles and resources/Ensembles óige agus acmhainníChildren's Books Ireland 59,500 6,736 66,236Cork Academy of Music 15,000Dublin Youth Theatre 35,000Galway Arts Centre 33,000


€ € €

Irish Association of Youth Drama 32,000 19,511 51,511Irish National Youth Ballet 44,400 1,300 45,700Jeunesses Musicales Ireland 12,750Kids' Own Publishing Partnership 20,500 10,200 30,700National Association for Youth Drama 123,000 8,070 131,070National Youth Council of Ireland 39,000National Youth Orchestra Of Ireland 17,800 31,038 48,838National Youth Theatre of the Deaf 10,160 10,160Waterford Youth Drama 39,400Young Irish Film Makers 45,800

604,165

Theatre based production companiesComhlachtaí Léirithe bunaithe in amharclannBickerstaffe Theatre 3,200Blue Raincoat Theatre 127,000 68,566 195,566Druid Theatre Company 485,000Focus Theatre 69,850Gate Theatre 255,000National Theatre Society 4,575,310 413,626 4,988,936Wexford Festival Opera 663,500 60,000 723,500

6,721,052

Galleries/GailearaitheButler Gallery 103,500Douglas Hyde Gallery 268,000Gallery of Photography 147,000 26,991 173,991Green On Red Gallery 9,550Kerlin Gallery /On the Wall 12,700 8,900 21,600Limerick Corporation 31,700Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts 272,300 65,112 337,412Sligo Art Gallery 96,500 5,488 101,988Temple Bar Gallery & Studios 213,000 11,000 224,000Wandesford Gallery 63,500

1,335,241

Non Venue-based Production Companies/Compántais Léirithe gan láthair SheastaAmharclann de híde Teoranta 150,000Ballet Ireland 106,800 44,000 150,800Barabbas .. The Company 221,000Barnstorm Theatre Company 193,000 19,046 212,046Bickerstaffe Theatre 105,000Buí Bolg 70,000 15,604 85,604Calypso Productions 95,000Christ Church Baroque 40,000Co Opera 68,000 3,000 71,000Coiscéim Dance Theatre 250,000 13,182 263,182Concorde 27,000 564 27,564Corcadorca Theatre Company 85,000Crash Ensemble, The 44,000 12,698 56,698Daghdha Dance Company 400,000Dance Theatre of Ireland 305,043 10,623 315,666Fishamble Theatre Company 156,811 1,500 158,311Galloglass Theatre Company 220,000 6,270 226,270Graffiti Theatre Company 202,000Irish Chamber Orchestra 967,000 7,535 974,535Irish Modern Dance Theatre 189,036 2,539 191,575Island Theatre Company 169,500 10,000 179,500Macnas 323,174 47,734 370,908Meridian Productions 127,166 22,000 149,166National Chamber Choir 95,700 3,500 99,200Opera Ireland 1,092,700 3,400 1,096,100Opera Theatre Company 608,000Passion Machine Theatre 127,000Red Kettle Theatre Company 544,500 19,284 563,784Rough Magic Theatre 267,000Second Age Theatre Company 157,000Storytellers Theatre 179,000 1,270 180,270TEAM Educational 233,000Temenos Project 20,000 6,000 26,000Umbrella Project 40,000 7,000 47,000Very Special Arts Ireland 76,185

8,211,364

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€ € €

Arts Centres/Ionaid EalaíonBelltable Arts Centre 330,000 22,400 352,400Briery Gap Cultural Centre 13,000City Arts Centre 293,000 20,811 313,811Civic Theatre 101,500Cork Women's Poetry Circle 3,800Donegal County Council 92,000Droichead Arts Centre 197,000Duchas Inis Oirr 25,400Dunamaise Theatre & Centre for the Arts 44,500Galway Arts Centre 222,000 29,920 251,920Galway Arts Centre / Cúirt 38,092Garter Lane Arts Centre 230,000 2,820 232,820Letterkenny Arts Centre 762Linenhall Arts Centre 229,000Model Arts Niland Gallery 291,700Mullingar Integrated Arts Centre 25,400North Leitrim Glens Development Company 3,213Project Arts Centre 660,000 71,423 731,423Siamsa Tire Teoranta 273,093 84,836 357,929Sirius Arts Centre 7,032South Tipperary Arts 85,100 12,700 97,800St John's Listowel Square 90,000Tallaght Community Arts Centre 108,000 19,265 127,265Triskel Arts Centre 305,000West Cork Arts Centre 124,435 5,079 129,514Wexford Arts Centre 159,000 12,650 171,650

4,233,931

Regional Theatres/Amharclanna ReigiúnachaBackstage Theatre 216,000 17,187 233,187Civic Theatre Coompany 3,876Cork Opera House 216,000 36,532 252,532Crowe Theatre Trust, Dean 31,200Everyman Palace 216,000 43,760 259,760Friars Gate Theatre 7,654Garage Theatre, Monaghan 76,000 28,001 104,001Grianan Theatre, An, Letterkenny 101,500Hawk's Well Theatre 216,000 114,223 330,223Irish Stage & Screen 51,000 51,000 102,000Pavilion Theatre Management Company 63,500St Michael's Theatre 25,400Town Hall Theatre, Galway 95,000 38,000 133,000Watergate Theatre Company 127,000 39,000 166,000

1,813,833

Grants to New Venues/Deontais d’Ionaid NuaBallina Arts Events 19,000 19,000Birr Stage Guild 51,404Briery Gap Cultural Centre 19,000Cork Women's Poetry Circle 6,500 6,500Comhar Caomhan Teoranta 55,976Dunamaise Theatre & Centre for the Arts 29,000Friars Gate Theatre 25,400Kildare County Arts Centre 14,793North Leitrim Glens Development Company 8,255 8,255Sirius Arts Centre 31,750 31,750Tinahely Courthouse 19,000 19,000

280,078

Publishers and Publications/Foilsitheoirí agis FoilseacháinBliainiris 15,230Books Ireland, J.Addis 14,600Carysfort Press 15,190Circa Publications 63,500 24,916 88,416Clo Iar-Chonnachta Teo 43,714Cois Life Teoranta 18,400 3,410 21,810Coiscéim / Cosanic Teoranta 25,000Comhar Teoranta 7,600Cork University Press 25,272Cyphers Magazine 6,349Dedalus Press, John Deane 42,000Dublin Review, The 12,000 4,900 16,900Farmar, A & A Ltd 2,250Feasta 6,340Fish Publishing 2,540Gallery Press, The 118,000


€ € €

Gandon Editions, John O'Regan 135,928Irish Arts Review 12,700Irish Theatre Magazine 12,697 2,829 15,526Lilliput Press 65,000Marino Books 26,500Mermaid Turbulence, Mari-Aymone 5,000Metre Magazine 3,490Mount Eagle Publications 30,000Munster Literature Centre 38,000 6,000 44,000New Island Books 70,158O'Brien Press 38,090Photo Works North /Source Magazine 18,462Proiseact Nan Ealan 6,348Salmon Publishing 38,000 6,050 44,050Shop, The - A Magazine 6,340Wolfhound Press 50,000

1,022,803

Events and Festivals/Imeachtaí agus FéilteAlliance Francaise 5,714Aonach Paddy O'Brien 5,000 1,500 6,500Art Trail 6,000 3,000 9,000Aspects Literature Festival 3,312Baboro International Children's Festival 95,000 2,500 97,500Boyle Arts Festival 19,000 3,167 22,167Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival 4,444Clare Festival of Traditional Singing 4,000Claremorris Arts Committee 29,205Clifden Arts Society 2,500Clifden Community Arts Week 25,400Cootehill Arts Festival 3,810Cork Film Festival 88,900Cork Institute of Technology 28,523Cork International Choral Festival 38,000 6,350 44,350Cork Orchestral Society 19,050Dublin 15 Community Arts festival 12,700 2,000 14,700Dublin Film Festival 57,149Dublin Fringe Festival 154,000 8,604 162,604Dublin International Organ & Choral Festival 11,400Dublin Theatre Festival 450,000 24,441 474,441Dublin Writers Festival 38,093 6,349 44,442Duiske Concerts 1,300Earagail Arts Festival 50,000Edgeworthstown Co-op Society 1,524Eigse Carlow 42,000 22,000 64,000EV+A 171,415 5,263 176,678Federation of Irish Film Societies 91,400 6,400 97,800Feile na Bealtaine, An Daingean 6,500Feilte Dhuibh Linn Teoranta 18,000Galway Arts Festival 338,200 4,400 342,600Galway Cathedral Recitals 1,270Galway Early Music 9,500 3,809 13,309Galway Film Fleadh 53,400 10,200 63,600Iniscealtra Festival of Arts 6,500International Dance Festival of Ireland 32,000Junior Dublin Film Festival 33,000 3,200 36,200Junior Galway Film Festival 20,540 6,145 26,685Kilkenny Arts Festival 201,000 8,092 209,092Lambert Puppet Theatre 50,000Limerick Jazz Society 5,700 640 6,340Limerick Music Association 13,500Mostly Modern 38,100 2,689 40,789Music for Galway 44,400 635 45,035Music for Wexford 5,700Samhlaiocht Chiarrai Teoranta 57,000 18,000 75,000Scoil Samhraidh W. Clancy 22,855Sense of Cork Midsummer Arts Festival 15,000Sligo Community Arts Group 2,053Sligo International Choral Festival 12,700Sundays at Noon / Gallery Music 15,237Tionscnamh Lugh 5,700Two Chairs Company / Scéalta Shamhna 8,254 2,540 10,794Waterford Music Club 5,700Waterford Spraoi 141,000 18,000 159,000West Cork Music 57,150 6,350 63,500Westport Arts Festival 11,000 2,000 13,000Writers' Week Listowel 11,430

2,879,502

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€ € €

Local Authority Paycosts/Costais Phá na nÚdarás ÁitiúilCarlow County Council 16,038 16,038Cavan County Council 28,078 28,078Clare County Council 16,039 16,039Cork County Council 16,038 16,038Donegal County Council 18,130 18,130Galway County Council 16,038 16,038Kerry County Council 18,131 18,131Kildare County Council 16,160 16,160Kilkenny County Council 17,651 17,651Laois County Council 17,651 17,651Leitrim County Council 16,160 16,160Limerick Corporation 16,160 16,160Limerick County Council 18,131 18,131Longford County Council 16,038 16,038Mayo County Council 15,080 15,080Meath County Council 16,038 16,038Monaghan County Council 16,038 16,038Offaly County Council 16,038 16,038Roscommon County Council 4,650 4,650Sligo County Council 16,038 16,038Tipperary (NR) County Council 16,038 16,038Waterford Corporation 14,725 14,725Waterford County Council 16,160 16,160Wexford County Council 31,511 31,511Wicklow County Council 12,000 12,000

420,759

Local Authority Programming/Clárú na nÚdarás ÁitiúilCarlow County Council 21,585 21,585Cavan County Council 76,184 76,184Clare County Council 19,047 19,047Cork Corporation 31,743 31,743Cork County Council 38,092 38,092Dublin Corporation 50,790 50,790Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 56,982 56,982Fingal County Council 38,092 38,092Galway County Council 1,000 1,000Kerry County Council 16,506 16,506Kildare County Council 31,743 31,743Kilkenny County Council 34,285 34,285Laois County Council 38,092 38,092Leitrim County Council 38,095 38,095Limerick Corporation 25,394 25,394Limerick County Council 42,520 42,520Longford County Council 34,917 34,917Mayo County Council 50,790 50,790Meath County Council 27,300 27,300Offaly County Council 25,400 25,400Sligo County Council 50,790 50,790South Dublin County Council 31,750 31,750Tipperary (NR) County Council 25,400 25,400Waterford Corporation 31,743 31,743Waterford County Council 28,569 28,569Wicklow County Council 19,680 19,680

886,489

Local Authority Grants to Arts Organisations/Camchuairteanna nÚdarás ÁitiúilLeitrim County Council 507 507Meath County Council 3,218 3,218Tipperary (NR) County Council 760 760Wexford County Council 1,400 1,400

5,885

Local Authority Arts Strategy Planning/Pleanáil nÚdarás ÁitiúilCarlow County Council 3,175 3,175Cavan County Council 2,380 2,380Clare County Council 4,763 4,763Cork Corporation 10,158 10,158Cork County Council 6,349 6,349Donegal County Council 100,000 100,000Dublin Corporation 76,210 76,210Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 5,556 25,394 30,950Fingal County Council 4,000 4,000Galway County Council 6,349 6,349Kildare County Council 7,618 7,618


€ € €

Kilkenny County Council 4,445 4,445Leitrim County Council 3,175 3,175Limerick Corporation 6,349 6,349Limerick County Council 6,350 6,350Mayo County Council 6,349 6,349Meath County Council 6,350 6,350Sligo County Council 127,000 127,000South Dublin County Council 3,175 3,175Tipperary (NR) County Council 3,175 3,175Waterford Corporation 3,175 3,175Wexford County Council 215,856 215,856Wicklow County Council 6,350 6,350

643,701

Policy Development/Forbairt BheartaisAge and Opportunity 9,525 9,525Common Ground 19,998 19,998Ealaín na Gaeltachta Teoranta 95,230 95,230Údarás na Gaeltachta 3,809 3,809

128,562

Arts&Health/Na hEalaíona agus SláinteAdapt NI 3,175 3,175Calypso Productions 16,000 16,000Crann Mor Resource Centre 7,620 7,620Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown 7,500 7,500Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent 19,050 19,050Linenhall Arts Centre 2,540 2,540Macnas 6,350 6,350Northern Ireland Arts & Disability 6,350 6,350Pathways Theatre Training Course 6,350 6,350Temple Bar Gallery & Studios 5,080 5,080Waterford Healing Arts Trust 19,040 19,040

99,055

36,283,479

Previous years grants not required (93,916)

Total for Revenue Funded Organisations € 36,189,563/An tIomlán d’Eagraíochtaí a fhaigheanna Cistiú Reatha (per note 3)

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Capital/Chaipiteal

€ €

Droichead Arts Centre 349,599Fis na Milaoise Teoranta 127,000Mayo County Council 444,409

921,008

Total for Major Capital, (per note 3) €921,008Iomían do Mhórchaipiteal (per nóta 3)

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An Chomhairle EalaÌon

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General

I have audited the financialstatements on pages 50 to 63.

Responsibilities of the Council andof the Comptroller and AuditorGeneral

The accounting responsibilities of theCouncil are set out in the Statementof Responsibilities of the Council onpage 52. It is my responsibility underSection 6 of the Arts Act, 1951 toaudit the financial statementspresented to me by the Council andto report on them. As the result ofmy audit I form an independentopinion on the financial statements.

Basis of OpinionIn the exercise of my function asComptroller and Auditor General, Iplan and perform my audit in a waywhich takes account of the specialconsiderations which attach to Statebodies in relation to theirmanagement and operation.

An audit includes examination, on atest basis, of evidence relevant to theamounts and disclosures in thefinancial statements. It also includes anassessment of the significant estimatesand judgements made in the preparationof the financial statements, and ofwhether the accounting policies areappropriate, consistently applied andadequately disclosed.

My audit was conducted inaccordance with auditing standardswhich embrace the standards issued

by the Auditing Practices Board andin order to provide sufficient evidenceto give reasonable assurance that thefinancial statements are free frommaterial misstatement whethercaused by fraud or other irregularityor error. I obtained all theinformation and explanations that Irequired to enable me to fulfil myfunction as Comptroller and AuditorGeneral and, in forming my opinion, Ialso evaluated the overall adequacyof the presentation of information inthe financial statements.

OpinionIn my opinion, proper books ofaccount have been kept by theCouncil and the financial statements,which are in agreement with them,give a true and fair view of the stateof the affairs of An ChomhairleEalaíon at 31 December 2000 and ofits income and expenditure and cashflow for the year then ended.

John BuckleyFor and on behalf of theComptroller and Auditor General9 July 2001

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Prompt Payments of Accounts, 1997An Chomhairle EalaÌon is included as alisted publisher of goods in the scheduleto the Prompt Payments of AccountsAct, 1997. Since 2 January 1998 theAct has come into operation and theCouncil has complied with the provisionsof the Act. In accordance with the Actand guidelines issued by the Dept. ofEnterprise, Trade and Employment, thefollowing information is provided.

Procedures established to ensurecompliance with the Act.The Council has procedures in placeto ensure that all invoices received arepaid within the time limits specifiedon the invoices or the statutory timelimit if no period is specified. Whilethe procedures are designed to ensurecompliance with the Act, they can onlyprovide reasonable and not absoluteassurances against material non-compliance with the Act. These proceduresoperated in the financial period underreview and in the case of latepayments, the relevant suppliers werenotified and interest was paid to them.

In accordance with the Prompt Paymentsof Accounts Act, 1997, the followinginformation is provided for the financialperiod ended 31 December 2000.

Payment PracticesAn Chomhairle EalaÌon makes paymentsto suppliers in accordance with the termsstated on invoices or terms specified inindividual contracts if appropriate. The standard terms are 45 days.

Late Payments in excess of €317/£250Number of Invoices: 16Average Period of Delay: 12

Overall percentage of late paymentsof total payments and total interest paidThe overall percentage of late paymentsto total payments was 0.0035%The total amount of interest paid was€99/£78

Statement of Responsibilities ofthe CouncilSection 6 (1) of the Arts Act, 1951,requires the Council to keep accountsin such form as may be approved bythe Minister for Finance. In keepingsuch accounts and preparing financialstatements, the Council is required:

to select suitable accounting policies andthen apply them consistently to make judgements and estimatesthat are reasonable and prudent to prepare the financial statements onthe going concern basis unless it isinappropriate that An ChomhairleEalaíon should continue in operationto state whether applicableaccounting standards have beenfollowed subject to any materialdepartures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.

The Council is responsible for keepingproper books of account which disclosewith reasonable accuracy at any timethe financial position of An ChomhairleEalaíon and which enable it to ensurethat the financial statements complywith Section 6 (1) of the Act.

The Council also is responsible forsafeguarding the assets of AnChomhairle Ealaíon and for takingreasonable steps for the preventionand detection of fraud and otherirregularities.

Patrick J. MurphyChairperson

Emer O’KellyCouncil Member

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Statement of Accounting Policies

1. GeneralAn Chomhairle Ealaíon is an independentbody set up pursuant to the Arts Acts,1951 and 1973, to promote and assistthe arts.

2. Basis of AccountingThe financial statements are preparedunder the accruels method ofaccounting, except as indicatedbelow and in accordance withgenerally accepted accountingprinciples under the historical costconvention. Financial Reportingstandards recommended by therecognised accounting bodies areadopted as they become operative.The 2000 figures are presented inEuro and Ir£. The exchange rate usedfor conversion was €1=Ir£0.787564

3. Oireachtas GrantIncome shown as Oireachtas Grant-in-Aid of £24,525,000/€31,140,326 (1999:£17,000,000/€21,585,547) is the actualcash received in the year from theVote for An Chomhairle Ealaíon.Income from the National Lottery of£11,000,000/€13,967,119 (1999:£11,000,000/€13,967,119) is alsothe cash received in the year.

4. Expenditure on the ArtsGrants are charged to the Income andExpenditure account on an accruals basisin the year in which funded activitiestake place, if this is not determinablethey are charged to the year in whichthe activities begin.

5. Fixed AssetsFixed assets are stated at cost lessaccumulated depreciation which ischarged at rates calculated to write-offthe cost of each asset over its expecteduseful life on a straight line basis, asfollows:

Furniture and Equipment - over 5 years.

Computer Equipment & Software -over 5 years

There is no depreciation charge in theyear of disposal of fixed assets.

Works of art are stated at cost andare not depreciated.

6. Capital AccountThe Capital Account represents theunamortised amount of income usedto acquire fixed assets. The transfer toor from the Income and ExpenditureAccount represents the net change inthe book value of fixed assets.

7. SuperannuationThe Council's contributions tosuperannuation costs are charged tothe Income and Expenditure Accountin the period to which they relate andover the length of an employee'sservice or of membership of Aosdána.

8. Trust FundsTrust fund investments are stated atcost and are held in trust by An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

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AN CHOMHAIRLE EALAÍON

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT for the year ended 31 December 2000.

2000 2000 1999Notes € IR£ IR£

Income

Oireachtas Grant-in-aid 31,140,326 24,525,000 17,000,000 National Lottery (1) 13,967,119 11,000,000 11,000,000 Other Grants (2) 237,329 186,912 278,050 Other Income 37,867 29,823 24,125

45,382,641 35,741,735 28,302,175

Current ExpenditureExpenditure on the Arts (3) 43,429,297 34,203,351 26,508,863Administration (4) 2,857,555 2,250,508 1,876,765

46,286,852 36,453,859 28,385,628

(Deficit) (904,211) (712,124) (83,453)

Transfer from / (to) Capital Account (6) 1,154 909 (109,670)

Net (Deficit) for the year (903,057) (711,215) (193,123)

Accumulated (deficit)/surplus at 1 January (57,912) (45,609) 147,514

Accumulated (deficit)/surplus at 31 December (960,969) (756,824) (45,609)

The Council has no gains or losses in the financial year or the preceding financial year other than thosedealt with in the Income and Expenditure Account.

The results for the year relate to continuing operations.

The Statement of Accounting Policies and Notes 1 to 14 form part of these financial statements.

Patrick Murphy Patricia QuinnChairperson Director

August 2001.

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BALANCE SHEETat 31 December 2000

2000 2000 1999Notes € IR£ IR£

Fixed Assets (5) 888,488 699,741 700,650

Financial AssetsTrust Fund Assets (7) 369,818 291,255 272,328 Loans (8) 103,405 81,438 164,761

Current AssetsGrants paid in advance 132,550 104,392 132,401Debtors and prepayments 159,799 125,852 108,884Bank 205,135 161,557 710,528

497,484 391,801 951,813

Current LiabilitiesCreditors and accruals 496,529 391,049 361,225Grants outstanding 1,065,329 839,014 800,958

1,561,858 1,230,063 1,162,183

Net Current Liabilities (1,064,374) (838,262) (210,370)

Total Assets less Liabilities 297,337 234,172 927,369

Represented byCapital Account (6) 888,488 699,741 700,650Income and Expenditure Account:(Deficit)/Surplus (960,969) (756,824) (45,609)Trust Funds 369,818 291,255 272,328

297,337 234,172 927,369

The Statement of Accounting Policies and Notes 1 to 14 form part of these financial statements


August 2001.

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CASH FLOW STATEMENTfor the year ended 31 December 2000

2000 2000 1999

Reconciliation of (deficit)/to net cash (outflow) /inflow € IR£ IR£from operating activities

Notes(Deficit)/for year (903,057) (711,215) (193,123)Other income (37,867) (29,823) (24,125)Depreciation (5) 188,546 148,492 148,714 Transfer to Capital Account (1,154) (909) 109,670 (Increase) / decrease in debtors (21,545) (16,968) 34,050 Decrease in grants paid in advance 35,565 28,009 625,814Increase / (decrease) in creditors 42,142 33,190 (82,455)Increase in grants outstanding 48,322 38,056 89,284 Net movement in loans (8) 105,798 83,323 (31,773)

Net cash (outflow) /inflow fromoperating activities (543,250) (427,845) 676,056

Cash Flow StatementNet cash (outflow) / inflow from operating activities (543,250) (427,845) 676,056

Return on investments and servicing of finance Interest Received 45,458 35,801 60,767 Interest Paid (8,140) (6,410) (19,299)

Capital Expenditure Payments to acquire tangible fixed assets (193,862) (152,679) (236,290)Proceeds from disposal of tangible fixed assets 2,745 2,162 -

Management of Liquid ResourcesShort-term deposits - - (7,894)

(Decrease) / increase in Cash (697,049) (548,971) 473,340

Reconciliation of net cash flow to movement in net funds

(Decrease) / increase in cash in year (697,049) (548,971) 473,340 Cash used to increase liquid resources - - 7,894

Change in net funds (697,049) (548,971) 481,234 Net funds at 1 January 902,184 710,528 229,294

Net funds at 31 December 205,135 161,557 710,528


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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE 1: NATIONAL LOTTERY Pursuant to Section 5(1)(a) of the National Lottery Act, 1986, a sum of £11,000,000/€13,967,119 (1999: £11,000,000/€13,967,119) was paid to the Council on the determination of the Government andwas expended in accordance with Section 5(2) of the Arts Act, 1951, as part of the Council's programmeof support for the arts.

NOTE 2: OTHER GRANTS [The project or scheme for which each grant was designated is given in parentheses]

€

Awards Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Artflight) 24,616 British Council (Go-See Awards) 7,000Spanish Embassy 800 Arts Council of Northern Ireland 1,000

33,416

Projects and Schemes Local Authorities (Refunds Re: Piano Purchase Scheme) 19,186 Department of Justice (Artists in Prisons) 10,095 Department of Justice (Writers in Prisons) 3,544

32,825

Suppport Grants Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Music Grants) 1,262 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Tyrone Guthrie Centre) 72,658 Tyrone Guthrie Centre Trust 31,000

104,920

Sundry European Commission (EU Contact Point) 15,751IR£ 186,912

€237,329

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NOTE 3: EXPENDITURE ON THE ARTS

Revenue Capital 2000 Total 1999 Total

£ £ £ £

Awards:Aosdána 1,105,826 - 1,105,826 858,288 Other 780,482 - 780,482 809,086

Projects and Schemes 1,700,267 377,070 2,077,337 1,129,174Support Grants 25,994,392 2,507,205 28,501,597 21,315,664 Major Capital Grants - 725,353 725,353 1,440,000 Public Affairs, Research andDirect Promotions 667,145 345,611 1,012,756 956,651

IR£30,248,112 IR£3,955,239 IR£34,203,351 IR£26,508,863

€38,407,180 €5,022,117 €43,429,297 €33,659,313

In 2000, the Council changed its method of analysing Arts expenditure. Consequently, previous yearsfigures have been correspondingly adjusted for purposes of comparison.

NOTE 4: ADMINISTRATION2000 1999

£ £

Staff Remuneration, PRSI and Superannuation 1,006,291 1,018,604 Council and Staff Expenses 200,938 189,135 Consultants' Fees and Expenses 245,442 73,514Audit Fee 4,160 3,960Rent, Light, Heat, Insurances, Cleaning, Repairs and Other House Expenses 340,993 209,332Printing, Stationery, Postage, Telephoneand Sundry Expenses 304,192 233,506 Depreciation 148,492 148,714

IR£2,250,508 IR£1,876,765

The average number of employees during the year was as follows: 2000 1999

Full-Time 35 31 Part-time 6 6

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NOTE 5: FIXED ASSETS

Furniture and ComputerWorks of Art Equipment Equipment Total

£ £ £ £

CostBalance at 1 January 2000 338,461 337,878 729,786 1,406,125Additions at cost 9,850 34,423 105,040 149,313Disposals at cost - - (2,162) (2,162)

Balance at 31 December 2000 348,311 372,301 832,664 1,553,276

DepreciationBalance at 1 January 2000 270,886 434,589 705,475Charge for the year - 33,897 114,595 148,492 Disposals - - (432) (432)

Balance at 31 December 2000 - 304,783 548,752 853,535

Net Book ValueAt 31 December 2000 IR£348,311 IR£67,518 IR£283,912 IR£699,741

€442,264 €85,730 €360,494 €888,488

At 31 December 1999 £338,461 £66,992 £295,197 £700,650

NOTE 6: CAPITAL ACCOUNT

2000 1999£ £

Balance at 1 January 700,650 590,980

Funds allocated to acquire fixed assets 149,313 258,384Assets Disposed (2,162) - Amortised in line with depreciation (148,492) (148,714)Depreciation eliminated on disposals 432 -

(909) 109,670

Balance at 31 December IR£699,741 IR£700,650

€888,488 €889,642

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NOTE 7: TRUST FUNDSAssets at 31 December 2000

£President Douglas Hyde Award

415 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £0.50 Units 2,756[Market Value of Investment £3,448]

2,756Cash at Bank 123

2,879W.J.B.Macaulay Award

14,648 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £0.50 Units 25,527930 CRH Ordinary £0.25 shares 13,961

[Market Value of Investments £136,22439,488

Debtor 11Creditor (298)Cash at Bank 912

40,113Denis Devlin Award

4,581 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £0.50 Units 7,875[Market Value of Investments £38,063]

7,875Cash at Bank 2,175 10,050

Ciste Cholmcille16,260 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £0.50 Units 18,47312,011 Allied Irish Banks plc £0.25 shares 15,855

885 CRH Ordinary £0.25 shares 15,574[Market Value of Investments £265,740]

49,902Debtor 199Cash at Bank 23,323 73,424

Marten Toonder Award22,250 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £0.50 Units 16,16920,961 Allied Irish Banks plc £0.25 shares 16,939

870 Kerry Group Ordinary £0.10 shares 10,198670 CRH Ordinary £0.25 shares 10,075

[Market Value of Investments £408,626]53,381

Debtor 212Cash at Bank 8,996 62,589

Doris Keogh Award4,717 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £0.50 Units 7,462


Cash at Bank 1,338 8,800

Michael Byrne Award3,617 Allied Irish Banks plc £0.25 shares 9,063


Debtor 271Cash at Bank 704 10,038

Carried Forward £207,893

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Note 7 Trust Funds / Assets (continued)

Brought forward £207,893

Mary Farl Powers Award1,410 Allied Irish Banks plc £0.25 shares 5,0991,173 Irish Life & Permanent Ordinary £0.25 shares 5,000


Debtor 86Cash at Bank 1,929 12,114

Margaret Arnold Scholarship4,042 Bank of Ireland Ordinary Stock £0.50 Units 9,6742,519 Allied Irish Banks plc £0.50 shares 9,2972,312 Irish Life & Permanent Ordinary £0.25 shares 9,216

780 CRH Ordinary £0.25 shares 11,718[Market Value of Investments £94,296]

39,905Debtor 103Cash at Bank 1,716 41,724

Joan Denise Moriarty Scholarship425 Irish Life Ordinary £0.25 shares 4,752488 Allied Irish Bank plc £0.25 shares 4,973

2,300 Fyffes Ordinary £0.50 shares 4,967470 CRH Ordinary £0.25 shares 4,941

1,770 Smurfit Ordinary £0.25 shares 4,8253,600 Golden Vale Ordinary £0.10 shares 4,636


Debtor 18Cash at Bank 412 29,524

IR£291,255

Note: Investments are shown at cost and are €369,818held in trust by An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Movement of Trust Funds31 Dec 1999 Income Expenditure 31 Dec 2000

£ £ £ £President Douglas Hyde Award 2,836 43 2,879W.J.B.Macaulay Award 40,530 6,628 (7,045) 40,113Denis Devlin Award 9,183 867 10,050Ciste Cholmcille 61,184 16,808 (4,568) 73,424Marten Toonder Award 59,254 10,425 (7,090) 62,589Doris Keogh Award 8,666 885 (751) 8,800Michael Byrne Award 10,239 803 (1,004) 10,038Mary Farl Powers Award 11,368 746 12,114Margaret Arnold Scholarship 38,993 2,731 41,724Joan Denise Moriarty Scholarship 30,074 630 (1,180) 29,524

IR£272,327 IR£40,566 (IR£21,638) IR£291,255

€345,784 €51,508 (€27,474) €369,818

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NOTE 8: INTEREST-FREE LOANS

£Balance at 1 January 2000 164,761

Additional Loans 0 Repayments (89,606)Adjustments re. previous year 6,283

(83,323)

Balance at 31 December 2000 £81,438

€103,405

Interest free loans are made available, occasionally, subject to conditions.

NOTE 9: PREMISESThe Council occupies premises at 69 and 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, under leases which expire in 2016and 2014 respectively. The annualised rent at 31st December 2000 was £145,531/€184,786 (1999:£145,452/€184,686). This is subject to review every five years. The next reviews fall due in 2001 and 2004.

NOTE 10: FUTURE COMMITMENTSAt 31 December the Council had entered into commitments in connection with activities due to take placeafter that date. The amount involved, £35m(€44m), is not reflected in these financial statements.

NOTE 11: SUPERANNUATION SCHEMES(a) A Staff Superannuation Scheme under the Arts Act, 1973, Section 10, is in operation. Benefits aredefined and the scheme provides for equal contributions to be made by Council and staff. The assets ofthe Scheme comprise a combination 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 carriedout every three years. The last review, carried out as at 1 January 1998, showed that, while the assetswere more than sufficient to cover accrued liabilities based on current salary levels, they were not sufficientto cover accrued liabilities in respect of service taking into account projected future salary increases. Inview of this, the Actuary strongly recommended a funding increase. A provision at current premium ratesis maintained in respect of the extra liability arising out of future salary adjustments but moneys have notbeen paid to the fund to meet this liability. At 31 December 2000 the provision was £212,404/€269,698(1999: £216,870/€275,368). The next actuarial review will be undertaken as at 1 January 2001. Total staffsuperannuation costs charged to the Income and Expenditure Account for the current year are£69,256/€87,937 (1999: £62,050/€78,787).

(b) A Superannuation Scheme is in operation for members of Aosdána on the basis of insured annuity contractsand defined contributions. The cost of the annual premiums is shared equally by the Council and the members.The charge to the Income and Expenditure Account for the current year is £34,700/€44,060(1999: £38,836/€49,312).

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NOTE 12: TYRONE GUTHRIE CENTREThe Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan, is a company limited by guaranteeestablished to provide a workplace for artists. The board of the company is appointed byAn Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. During 2000 the two Councils providedrevenue funding totalling £206,543/€262,256 (1999: £216,660/€275,101) to the Centre; and An ChomhairleEalaíon provided funding totalling £31,000/€39,362 (1999: £35,901/€45,585) for capital purposes.

NOTE 13: COUNCIL MEMBERS' DISCLOSURE OF INTERESTSIn the normal course of business the Board may approve financial assistance to undertakings in whichBoard Members are employed or otherwise have an interest. The Board adopted procedures in accordancewith guidelines issued by the department of Finance in relation to the disclosure of interests by BoardMembers and these procedures have been adhered to during the year. The Council has fulfilled therequirements of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995, in relation to the disclosure of interests by CouncilMembers and Director. During the year the aggregate amount of grants offered where a Council Memberdeclared an interest amounted to £5,643,972/€7,166,367 (1999: £1,483,835/€1,884,082).

NOTE 14: APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTSThe Financial Statements were approved by the Council on 12 June 2001.

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