On 24 January 2025, Culture Ireland will support six music artists to perform at the 2025 edition of Showcase Scotland, as part of Celtic Connections. Established in 1994, Celtic Connections is one of the leading annual festivals of world, folk and roots music with more than 2,100 musicians from across the globe taking part in 300 events at 25 Glasgow venues over 18 days. Each year, during Celtic Connections, Showcase Scotland partners with a country...
EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL 2025: CALL FOR THEATRE AND DANCE COMPANIES Applications are invited for inclusion in Culture Ireland’s 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival Showcase (1 – 25 August 2025) Culture Ireland invites applications to support the presentation of work in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of Culture Ireland’s 2025 Showcase Programme. The Edinburgh Fringe continues to offer an important and unique platform for Irish theatre and dance artists to gain international recognition for their...
Culture Ireland Call for participation by Irish independent publishers Through its annual grant to Literature Ireland, Culture Ireland has supported the presence of an Ireland stand and delegation at the London Book Fair over many years. Following a review of these supports, Culture Ireland is now offering a limited number of travel bursaries to the Irish independent publishing sector to assist with the costs of attendance at the event. This is being offered...
Culture Ireland, in association with the Irish Arts Center in New York, presented the third edition of the Meet the Irish showcase on 13 January 2025, offering six Irish theatre companies the opportunity to pitch their work to an auditorium of international programmers, presenters and festivals in New York City. The six productions selected for this year’s showcase are: Brokentalkers - Bellow Once Off Productions/Graffiti Theatre Company – Grace Gina Moxley with The Everyman and...
With a year-long programme of over 400 events in over 100 towns and cities across Germany, Zeitgeist Irland 24 – an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany – was a landmark year of Irish arts and culture, presenting a new generation of Irish artists, representing the richness and diversity of Irish culture, and capturing the spirit of a changing nation. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all...
The Irish Writers’ Weekend at the British Library, supported by Culture Ireland and featuring over thirty of Ireland’s most exciting writers in a festival of literary talent, takes place this weekend at the British Library Knowledge Centre in London. For those outside of London, many of sessions will be made available to view online. The programme includes a wide range of Ireland’s most accomplished and popular authors and poets. Included on the line-up for the...
As the 2024 edition of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) gets underway, Culture Ireland is pleased to announce that the partnership between the two organisations will be extended for another two years (2025 and 2026 editions). hcmf// is the UK’s largest international festival of new and experimental music and brings a host of Irish talent to its programme, supported by Culture Ireland. Currently in its third year, the international partnership between Culture Ireland and hcmf//...
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. has announced the selection of artist, Isabel Nolan, with Georgina Jackson and The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art as the curator, to represent Ireland at the 61st Venice Art Biennale in 2026. The Venice Biennale is one of the most important international platforms for visual arts, attracting over half a million visitors, including global curators, gallerists, art critics, and artists. The...
***List of grant offers available here*** Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin has announced funding of over €1.3m for the promotion of Irish arts globally through Culture Ireland’s Regular Grants Programme. The funding will benefit 140 projects taking place in over 20 countries, covering architecture, circus, dance, film, literature, music, theatre and visual arts. Announcing the grants, Minister Martin said: “It gives me great pleasure to announce this round of Culture...
Culture Ireland at WOMEX 2024 Culture Ireland is supporting two Showcase Artists and five delegates to attend WOMEX, the Worldwide Music Expo taking place in Manchester, GB, from 23 – 27 October 2024. Now in its 30th year, WOMEX is one of the biggest conferences on the global music scene, featuring a trade fair, talks, films and showcase concerts. Over 2,600 professionals come together every October from 90 countries, making WOMEX one of the leading...
