An Chomhairle Ealaíon The Arts Council Annual Report 1989

An Chomhairle Ealaíon

An t-Ochtú Tuarascail Bhiiantúil is Tríocha maille le Cuntais don bliain dar chríoch 31ú Nollag 1989. Tíolacadh don Rialtas agus leagadh faoi bhráid gach Tí den Oireachtas de bhun Altanna 6 (3) agus 7 (1) den Acht Ealaíon, 1951. Thirty-eighth Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st December 1989. Presented to the Government and laid before each House of the Oireachtas pursuant to Sections 6 (3) and 7 (1) of the Arts Acts, 1951. ISBN 0906627 41 9 ISSN 0790-1593

Members Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman Dermot Bolger Michael Colgan Maire de Paor Brid Dukes Arthur Gibney Patrick Hall Charles Hennessy Ted Hickey Richard Kearney Proinsias Mac Aonghusa Larry McCluskey Paul McGuinness Micheal O'Siadhail Donal Potter Eric Sweeney Kathleen Watkins Staff (at December 1990)

Director Adrian Munnelly

Literature, Community Arts and Arts Festivals Laurence Cassidy

Visual Arts Medb Ruane (until April 1990) Sarah Finlay (from September 1990)

Film Paul Freaney (from September 1989)

Drama and Personnel Phelim Donlon Opera and Development Patricia Quinn

Music and Traditional Music Dermot McLaughlin Popular Music Keith Donald

Regions Marian Fitzgibbon (until October 1989) Emer McNamara (from July 1990)

Education and Dance Martin Drury (until June 1990)

Finance and Administration David McConnell Executive Assistants Kevin Healy

Nuala O’Byrne Bernadette O'Leary Jennifer Traynor

Secretarial Assistants Patricia Moore Mary Hickey Paula Harold Sharon Monahan

Receptionist Kathryn Cahille 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Telephone: (01) 611840 Fax: (01) 761302

An Chomhairle Ealaíon An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council is an independent body set up in 1951 to promote and assist the arts. The Council operates under the Arts Acts 1951 and 1973 and provides a wide-ranging programme of financial assistance and special services. Support of the individual arts practitioner is a fundamental part of the Council's mission and grant-aid is given to organisations and groups. The Council also acts as an adviser on artistic matters to Government and has a statutory right to make representations to planning authorities in certain instances where artistic or architectural considerations apply. The Council consists of a board of not more than seventeen members appointed by An Taoiseach. The present Council was appointed in 1988 and its term of office expires in 1993. The Council meets about ten times a year to set Council policies and make decisions within the terms of the Arts Acts. These policies and decisions are implemented by a staff headed by a Director, appointed by the Council. The Arts Council, as a publicly accountable body, publishes an annual report and accounts to provide the Oireachtas and the general public with an overview of the year's work. Annual grants from the Oireachtas and from the nett proceeds of the National Lottery are the Council's principal sources of income. These grants are supplemented by income from local authorities and other bodies, usually designated for specific schemes or projects. The Council also administers a number of trust funds. The arts are defined in the Arts Acts and include: painting, sculpture, architecture, cinema, print-making, design, theatre, dance, music, opera, literature and 'the fine arts and applied arts generally'.

Contents Page Chairman's Introduction 7 Finance 8 National Lottery 9 Membership of Council 10 Arts Council Publications 10 Aosdána 12 Literature 14 Visual Arts 18 Film 24 Drama 26 Dance 28 Traditional Music 29 Popular Music 31 Opera 32 Music 33 Arts Centres 35 Arts Development in the Regions 37 Education 38 Community Arts and Arts Festivals 40 A.C.E. 42 Capital 43 Sundry 43 Accounts 45

Chairman's Introduction A report of this size and nature could not hope to encompass the vast amount of activity and the vitality that is the arts in Ireland today. The Arts Council's long established role in providing access to and supporting excellence in the arts, was continued in 1989. It was the first year in office for the present Council. It was a year of adjustment and of coming to terms with the great responsibility we faced. The seventeen members, from different artistic disciplines, from different areas of expertise and interest, would have to speak with one voice, to move from the cacophony of difference to the harmony of consensus. It was from this harmony that the new Council began to consider the huge and ever-growing demands of the artistic community - demands that will have to be addressed over the next five years. Although it is early days in the developing individuality of the new Council, a particular emphasis is emerging: that the Arts Council's role in Irish society cannot be seen in isolation, that it is only with the support of Local Authorities and the private sector that our objectives can be properly achieved. 1989 was, for the Council, a year of adjustment, of continuation of the Arts Council's role, of development and finally, of many successes. For this I am grateful to the Government for their generosity, to the Council members for their support, to the Director and to the Council staff for their dedicated service. Anois, níl aon amhras ná go bhfuil staid na n-ealaíon in Éirinn anois i bhfad níos folláine ná ariamh. Agus muid ag gluaiseacht i dtreo na hEorpa comhaontaithe, is féidir linn uilig a bheith bródúil agus cinnte go bhfuil an-saibhreas éirim agus samhiaíochta in Éirinn agus, cé gur tír beag sinn ar imeall na Mór-Roinne, go bhfuil feabhas na n-ealaíon sa tír seo inchurtha Ie haon tír eile. Tá dúchas láidir ealaíon againn, idir cheol, litríocht, dramaíocht agus ealaíona rose. Tá sé de dhualgas orainn mar Chomhairle Ealaíon an dúchas seo a chaomhnú agus a fhorbairt agus tacaíocht chuí a thabhairt don aos ealaíon s'againne.

Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman

Finance The Council's state funding in 1989 came from two sources: a grant-in-aid voted by Dáil Éireann, £4.201 million and £2.948 million from the National Lottery Fund: a total of £7.149 million compared with £6.804 million in 1988. Other Council income for 1989 amounted to £274,000, largely arising from grants designated for specific purposes received from other organisations. Full details of these grants will be found at the end of the section reports and in Note 2 to the Council's accounts. Direct support for the individual artist during 1989 amounted to £771,000, over 10% of total expenditure, including a provision of £449,000 for Aosdána. Many more individuals received indirect support and employment through the Council's grants to organisations. By the end of 1989, the provision for the Council had improved considerably following the announcement in November of a special allocation of £1 million (referred to later) which resulted in the Council being able to look forward to a measure of easement in its budgetary difficulties from January 1990. This improvement is demonstrated by the following comparison 1988 to 1990:

[£m]

1988 1989 1990

Oireachtas Grant-in-aid 4.924 4.201 4.530 National Lottery 1.880 2.948 4.948 Total State funding 6.804 7.149 9.478 Summary of 1989 Accounts (to nearest '000) Income £ State Funding 7,149,000 Other Income 274,000 7,423,000 Expenditure Literature 450,000 6.0% Visual Arts 787,000 10.7% Film 211,000 2.8% Drama 3,013,000 40.8% Dance 214,000 2.9% Traditional Arts 175,000 2.4% Opera 393,000 5.3% Music 320,000 4.3% Arts Centres 422,000 5.7% Arts in Education 109,000 1.5% Community Arts and Festivals 108,000 1.5% Arts/Community/Education 64,000 0.9% Regions 161,000 2.2% Capital 249,000 3.4% Sundry 117,000 1.6% Administration 591,000 8.0% 7,384,000 100.0% Capital Account 28,000 7,412,000 Outturn for 1989 11,000 Opening Balance -79,000 Closing Balance -68,000 Trust Funds 119,000 Fixed Assets 229,000 Net Assets at 31 December 1989 280,000 Detailed lists of grants, etc., are given at the end of each section of the report. Full financial statements will be found on pages 45 to 54.

National Lottery During 1989 the Department of the Taoiseach made payments to arts organisations in respect of allocations from the National Lottery Fund that had been announced in 1987 and 1988. On 29th November 1988 the Taoiseach informed Dáil Éireann that it was unsatisfactory that his Department and the Council should each allocate grant-aid and that it would be his intention in future to allocate all moneys for the (contemporary) arts to the Arts Council and give it full jurisdiction over their distribution; and that, except for certain national institutions, his Department would withdraw totally from funding this area. Arising from this statement, in November 1989 an additional grant of £1 million was allocated to the Council to address a very large number of applications for assistance for National Lottery funding. At its December 1989 meeting, the Council allocated over £1 million to a wide range of projects, mainly for the provision of buildings for the arts and the purchase of equipment. The additional grant of £1 million and expenditure on related capital projects will be reflected in the 1990 accounts. Continuing the practice started in the Council's 1987 Report, what follows is a list of payments made by the Department of the Taoiseach during 1988 and 1989 from the National Lottery Fund. They are not reflected in the Council's accounts and are listed below for information purposes. More detailed information will be found in the Oireachtas Appropriation Accounts (the Government's annual accounts) for the years in question under Vote 3 (Taoiseach). 1989 1988 £ £ An Chomhairle Ealaíon (see page 46) 2,948,000 1,880,000

The City Centre, Dublin 85,500 64,500 Dublin Theatre Festival 90,000 Olympia Theatre, Dublin 150,000 Dublin Film Festival 15,000 Gate Theatre, Dublin 20,000 30,000 Project Arts Centre 25,000 RHA Gallagher Gallery 50,000 Sculptors' Society of Ireland 30,000 Cork Film Festival 15,000 Crawford Municipal

Art Gallery, Cork 5,000 15,000 Graffiti Theatre

Company, Cork 15,000 Irish National Ballet 120,000 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 40,000 Proposed Letterkenny

Arts Centre 27,393 Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 10,000 Proposed Galway

Municipal Theatre 95,000 Belltable Arts Centre,

Limerick 9.574 Limerick City Gallery of Art 10,000 Garter Lane Arts Centre,

Waterford 20,000 Waterford Theatre Royal 10,000 Louis le Brocquy Exhibition

in Australia 12,003 36,251 National Concert Hall 214,413 *30,587 Other Arts, Culture and

Heritage projects 1,698,104 1,876,862

4,983,020 4,665,167

*In 1988 the National Concert Hall also received a grant of £170,000 provided by the Oireachtas.

Obituary We record with deep regret the death on 24th January 1989 of the distinguished architect, Michael Scott, who was a member of the Council from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1978 until 1983; and the death on 22nd December in Paris of Samuel Beckett, The Nobel Prize-winning playwright, poet and novelist, and Saoi of Aosdána, who was born in Dublin in 1906. Membership of Council 1989 was the first year of office of the Council appointed by the Taoiseach in December 1988. During the year the Council met thirteen times in plenary session. The Members met on very many other occasions in sub-committee to deal with specific areas of the Council's work. Staff Marian Fitzgibbon, Regions Officer, who had joined the staff in 1985, resigned in October 1989 and Emer McNamara was appointed in July 1990 to succeed her. Paul Freaney, Film Officer, joined the staff in September 1989. Employment Policy The Arts Council is committed to a policy of equality of opportunity in its employment practices. In particular the Council aims to ensure that no potential or actual employee receives more or less favourable treatment on the ground of race, colour, ethnic or national origins, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, disability or religious beliefs. History of the Arts Council In 1990 the Council published "Dreams and Responsibilities - The State and the arts in independent Ireland" by Brian P. Kennedy. This is a study commissioned by the Council, which traces the development of official arts policy since 1922 and the progress of the Arts Council from 1951 to 1990. Available from bookshops £8 (paperback) and from the Council £17 (hardback). Arts Council Publications, 1989-1990 1989: "Annual Report 1987"

48 pp ISBN 0 906627 23 0 "About the Arts Council"

ISBN 0 906627 24 9 "Bursaries, Scholarships, Awards 1989" "Art Matters, No. 10, May 1989"

An Arts Council information bulletin ISSN 0790 746X "A Special Place" Catalogue of an Arts Council touring exhibition for schools ISBN 0906627 25 7

"The First Fifty" Brochure describing the first artist-in-residence programmes ISBN 0906627 281

"The Arts Council and Education, 1979-1989" Report to mark ten years of the Council's involvement in Education ISBN 0906627 27 3

"Art and the Ordinary - the ACE Report", edited by Ciaran Benson Report on a four-year education and community arts project 110 pp ISBN 09515451 08

"Writers-in-Schools Directory" Updated edition 1989

"What's on in Mayo?" Information pack on local authorities and the arts ISBN 0 906627 26 5

"Birds" Catalogue of a Council touring exhibition

1990: "Bursaries, Scholarships, Awards, 1990"

ISBN 0 906627 39 7 "Annual Report 1988"

52 pp ISBN O 906627 29 X "Arts Council Exhibition Schemes 1990-92"

ISBN 0906627 38 9 "Irish Art: The European Dimension"

Catalogue of an exhibition to celebrate the Ireland's Presidency of the European Community 120 pp ISBN 0 906627 30 3

"Zoom on Europe: Photography" Catalogue of a photographic exhibition to celebrate Ireland's Presidency of the European Community 28 pp ISBN 0906627 311

"Dreams and Responsibilities: The State and the Arts in Independent Ireland" by Brian Kennedy 292 pp ISBN 0 906627 32 X Price: £8 paperback, from bookshops;

£17 hardback from the Council.

Aosdána The Toscaírí during 1989 were Anthony Cronin, Conleth O'Connor, Hugh Maxton, Mary Farl Powers, Theo McNab, Imogen Stuart, Ulick O'Connor, John Buckley, John Kinsella and Seoirse Bodley. They were elected in December 1988 for the two-year period 1989-1990. The tenth general assembly of Aosdána was held on 20 April at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, where nine new members were elected: Sebastian Barry, Bernard Farrell, Medbh McGuckian, Julia O Faolain, Brian Moore, James Simmons, Michael Biggs, Kathy Prendergast, Barbara Warren. The Assembly noted with regret the death of Michael Byrne, Liam Lynch and Samuel Beckett during the year. The education sub-committee established in 1988 under the chairmanship of Jane O'Leary met three times during the year. They met with the Director of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to advise him of the views of the members on the arts in education, and a delegation led by Aloys Fleischmann met with the Secretary of the Department of Education to press upon the Department the need to focus on the creative aspect of music in the syllabus. As a result of representations made to the Departments of the Taoiseach and of Education by the Toscairi, Aosdána was invited to make nominations to a National Jury for the selection of work to be submitted for EC Literary Prizes. In 1989 Conleth O'Connor and Ulick O'Connor were members nominated by Aosdána. In keeping with the desire that all cultural institutions should have representation from Aosdána, the Toscairi also secured the nomination of Seoirse Bodley to the Board of Dublin Promotions Organisation Ltd., established by Dublin Corporation to co-ordinate and promote events during 1991, European City of Culture. At the end of the year, there were 134 members of Aosdána: 61 in Visual Arts, 57 in Literature and 16 in Music. 80 were in receipt of a Cnuas, whose value stood at £5,552 at 31st December. The Cnuas is an annual subsidy awarded for five year periods by the Arts Council to those members of Aosdána who wish to devote themselves full-time to their art. £ Cnuais to Writers (35) 184,841 Cnuais to Visual Artists (39) 215,144 Cnuais to Composers (6)

34,428

Pension Scheme 14,296

Administration 3,616

452,325

Members of Aosdána at 31st December 1989 Visual Arts Literature Music Arthur Armstrong Theo McNab John Banville John Montague Gerald Barry Robert Ballagh Sean McSweeney Leland Bardwell Brian Moore Walter Beckett John Behan Helen Moloney Sebastian Barry Paul Muldoon Seóirse Bodley Pauline Bewick Michael Mulcahy Samuel Beckett Val Mulkerns Brian Boydell Michael Biggs Eilís O'Connell Anthony Cronin Richard Murphy John Buckley Basil Blackshaw Tony O'Malley Margaretta D'Arcy Thomas Murphy Frank Corcoran Brian Bourke Patrick O'Sullivan Terence de Vere White Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Raymond Deane Fergus Bourke Kathy Prendergast Eilís Dillon Seán O Coistealbha Jerome de Bromhead Charles Brady Patrick Pye Paul Durcan Conleth O'Connor Roger Doyle Michael Bulfin Bob Quinn Bernard Farrell Ulick O'Connor Aloys Fleischmann John Burke Yann Renard Goulet Pádraic Fiacc Julia O Faoláin John Kinsella Patrick Carey Patrick Scott Brian Friel Seán O Faoláin Philip Martin James Coleman David Shaw-Smith Patrick Galvin Desmond O'Grady Jane O'Leary Patrick Collins Noel Sheridan Ernest Gebler Micheal O'Siadhail Eric Sweeney Barrie Cooke Maria Simonds-

Gooding Robert Greacen James Plunkett Gerard Victory

Michael Cullen Camille Souter Gerard Hanley James Simmons James Wilson Edward Delaney Imogen Stuart Michael Hartnett Sydney Bernard

Smith

Felim Egan Rod Tuach Dermot Healy Francis Stuart Conor Fallen Charles Tyrrell Seamus Heaney MervynWall Mary Farl Powers Barbara Warren Aiden Higgins Macdara Woods Micheal Farrell Michael Warren Pearse Hutchinson Martin Gale Alexandra Wejchert Jennifer Johnston Tim Goulding Anne Yeats Neil Jordan Patrick Graham John B. Keane Patrick Hall Molly Keane Charles Harper Benedict Kiely Kieran Hickey Tom Kilroy Patrick Hickey Mary Lavin Michael Kane James Liddy Brian King Brian Lynch Gene Lambert Tom Maclntyre Sonja Landweer Bernard MacLaverty Louis le Brocquy Bryan MacMahon Melanie le Brocquy

Derek Mahon

Anne Madden Hugh Maxton Brian Maguire John McGahern Louis Marcus Medbh McGucldan James McKenna M. J. Molloy

Literature Implementation of the Pick Report In August 1988, the report entitled 'Developing Publishing in Ireland: Cothu na Foilsitheoireachta in Eirinn' was published. It had been commissioned by the four public agencies with a role in the publishing industry, namely The Arts Council, Bord na Gaeilge, Coras Trachtala and the Industrial Development Authority. The report was written principally by Charles Pick. The major conclusions of the Pick Report were that Irish publishing houses can grow and develop and that Irish publishing houses must become more committed to a strategy of export, particularly to Britain. The first opportunity to implement the Pick Report arrived for the Arts Council in March 1989, when the Council decided to increase its financial allocation to publishing by 50%. Irish Publishing in the European Context - Seminar The Arts Council joined with Coras Trachtala and the Industrial Development Authority to host a siminar entitled 'Irish Publishing in the European Context' in September. Charles Pick spoke on the vital role which small firms play and how they can develop. Rosemary Sexton of the I.D.A. addressed the Seminar on the manner in which the I.D.A. assists publishing. A paper on the subject of free prices versus fixed prices and the future of the European Community's policy, written by Jean Gattegno, was read to the seminar by M. Gattegno, head of the Direction de Livre of the French Ministry for Culture. Gwerfyl Pierce Jones, Director of the Welsh Books Council, delivered a paper on the ways in which support for Welsh-language publishing operates. The evident success of Welsh-language publishing and its infrastructure was seen to have many lessons for our own Irish-language publishing. Alex Miller, President of C.L.E. (the Irish Book Publishers' Association) gave a trenchant analysis of our own publishing and the need to increase exports. European Dimension In 1989, the European Commission circulated a document entitled "Books and Reading: A Cultural Challenge for Europe" which is the specific policy document in relation to literature and the book world. From "Books and Reading: A cultural Challenge for Europe" the E.C. has developed two action programmes. The first, a Pilot Scheme for the assistance of Literary Translations, launched on 1st September, and the second, the European Community Literary and Translation Prizes which will be launched in 1990. The Arts Council was invited by the Department of the Taoiseach to administer these prizes. Under the E.C. Literary Translations Scheme, the E.C. offered grant-aid to a translation of "Der Vorm van Een Mens" a collection of poetry from the Flemish of the Belgian poet, Willem Roggeman, into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. It will be published by Coisceim in 1990. In 1989 the Co-Ordinating Group for Poetry of the Council of Europe decided to establish a European Poetry Foundation. In order to draw attention to this initiative, a Consultative Conference will held at Zaragosa, Spain, in November 1990. One of the most encouraging aspects of E.C. policy in this respect is its positive discrimination towards lesser-used languages and the Council is anxious that our Irish-language writers and publishers will seize the opportunity of wider horizons offered in the European context. Administration Grant to Irish-Language Houses The Arts Council's bilingual policy in literature and publishing remains a bedrock of the Council's approach. The Council is mindful of the need to support the professionalisation of Irish-language publishing houses. Accordingly Coisceim was awarded an administration grant of £13,000 in recognition of its exemplary role in the area and discussions were opened with the dynamic

Gaeltacht-based house of Clo Iar-Chonnachta Teo. It was also during 1989 that a publishing house in the Soviet Union decided to publish, in Russian, the first novel of the imaginative trilogy by Seamas MacAnnaigh, the Enniskillen-based writer, entitled "Cuaifeach Mo Lon-Dubh But" (Coisceim, 1983). Among the titles published by Coisceim was 'Conlan', selected poems by Seamus Heaney, translated into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. The literary journal Translation' (New York) included an excellent selection of contemporary literature in Irish, both poetry and prose, edited by the Cork poet and critic. Scan O Tuama. The selection gives the reader an idea of the extent of Irish literature in the Irish language since 1945. Prizes Among the most welcome developments of the year was the new literary prizes sponsored by the commercial sector. There is already a range of prizes and awards, including the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Book Awards, the various prizes offered by an tOireachtas of Conradh na Gaeilge, the Rooney Prize and the Irish Schools Creative Writing Awards. In 1989, the GPA Literary Award and the Irish Times - Aer Lingus Awards for Literature were added to the list. The first GPA Literary Award was given to John Banville for The Book of Evidence' and a special First Fiction Award was given to Vincent McDonnell for "The Broken Commandment". The Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Award was given to the American, Don de Lillo, for "Libra". The Irish Times-Aer Lingus Irish Literature Award was given to Frank Ronan for 'The Men who Loved Evelyn Cotton". The Arts Council welcomed these new awards as they will help to promote our literature and publishing abroad and at home. Public Encounters at Home and Abroad The contemporary English poet Tony Harrison, visited and read at the Cuirt International Poetry Festival in Galway in April and at the fringe of Wexford Festival Opera, in October. Bella Akhmadulina is a Russian poet whose career has blossomed since the advent of 'glasnost' in the Soviet Union and she appeared at the Kavanagh's Yearly festival in Co. Monaghan in November. An exciting bilingual reading marked the publication of "Wildish Things - An Anthology of New Irish Women's Writing" which was edited by Ailbhe Smyth and published by Attic Press. The Ministry of Culture in France runs an imaginative programme of visits by writers from outside France called Les Belles Etrangeres. In November and December, the Ministry invited ten Irish writers who gave readings in Paris and later in the regions. The visiting writers were John Banville, Sebastian Barry, Jennifer Johnston, Thomas Kilroy, John McGahern, Derek Mahon, John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Breandan O hEithir and Francis Stuart. The tour was well received by the French news media. One of the valuable publications, which was timed to coincide with Les Belles Etrangeres, was an edition of 1'Oeil de la lettre, entitled Les Ecrivains Irlandais, carrying a wealth of information on books in print in French by Irish authors. At the close of the year, Irish literature lost one of its greatest exponents when Samuel Beckett died in Paris. In his long incomparable career he helped revolutionise the novel and the sphere of drama. He was a Saoi of Aosdána and he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.

Aosdána £ Cnuais to 35 writers 184,841 Awards Sara Berkeley 500 Eavan Boland 3,000 Ken Bourke 2,000 Catherine Brophy 400 Michael Coady 3,500 Michael Harding 300 Rita Ann Higgins 2,400 Kevin Kiely 3,000 Shevawn Lynam 465 Thomas McCarthy 5,000 Paul Merrier 2,500 Frances Molloy 150 Ciaran O'Driscoll 2,000 Breandán Ó hEithir 4,000 Michael O'Loughlin 2,750 Donal O'Kelly 2,000 Gabriel Rosenstock 2,000 Matthew Sweeney 2,000 Maura Treacy 2,000 Less: Previous year's award not required (40) Total/Aosdána and Awards 224,766 Grants The Writer Alliance Francaise 500 Irish Audio Arts 189 John Hewitt Summer School 500 Kavanagh's Yearly, Co. Monaghan 1,750 Killybegs Writers Workshop 300 National Writers' Workshop, Galway 4,000 No. 47 & Nun's Island Arts Centre/

Cuirt Filiochta (see also Arts Centres) 1,000 Scoil Acla 300 Trinity College, Dublin/writer-in-residence

Eavan Boland 4,000 Yeats Society, Sligo 500 Literary Organisations Association of Irish Composers/Society of

Irish Playwrights: Joint Administrative Centre 10,300

CLÉ/Irish Bookpublishers' Association 5,979 CLÉ/Irish Bookpublishers' Association

(Arts Council of Northern Ireland/ ACNI grant) 4,021

Irish Children's Book Trust 500 Poetry Ireland 19,360 Poetry Ireland (ACNI grant) 4,140

Publishers Attic Press 10,016 Attic Press (ACNI grant) 1,157 Brandon Book Publishers 6,000 Brophy Educational Books 2,600 Clo Iar-Chonnachta 1,000 Coisceim 13,000 Dedalus Press 18,000 Gallery Press 25,800 Gallery Press (ACNI grant) 4,200 Lilliput Press 8,500 O'Brien Press 10,500 Odell & Adair 3,000 Poolbeg Press 5,000 Raven Arts Press 13,000 Raven Arts Press (ACNI grant) 579 Salmon Publishing 3,500 Wolfhound Press 7,500 Magazines Books Ireland 6,678 Books Ireland (ACNI grant) 5,322 Comhar 1,000 Graph 2,000 Cyphers 1,581 Cyphers (ACNI grant) 1,419 The Irish Review 2,043 The Irish Review (ACNI grant) 2,957 Krino 4,000 Krino (ACNI grant) 2,365 Passages 500 Riverine 750

Total/Aosdána, Awards and Grants 446,072 Arts Council Promotions Authors' Royalty Scheme: Receipts (1,913) Publishing Seminar 3,856 Writers-in-the-Community 628 Writers' Workshops for Prisoners 799 Sundry 786

Total/Direct Promotions 4,156 Total as Note 5 (page 50) 450,228 Marten Toonder Award (Trust Fund)

(see Note 9, page 52) John Banville (writer) 3,000 Grants received Arts Council of Northern Ireland/

9 grants 26,160 Department of Justice (re Writers'

Workshops for Prisoners) 2,241 Córas Trachtála (re Publishing Seminar) 1,000 Industrial Development Authority

(re Publishing Seminar) 1,000

Total as Note 3 (page 49) 30,401

Visual Arts Public Art In Sneem, the Arts Council commission to James Scanlon was developed as a massive undertaking on a 2-acre site, involving local craftsmen with the help of FAS, Kerry County Council and Sneem Tidy Towns Committee. Grants were provided to Boyle Arts Committee who commissioned work from Japanese artist Kikahi Hiroshi, and to New Ross UDC whose commitment to art in public places was evident in the commission of a quayside sculpture by Michael Warren. Advice and management services were provided to a range of public and private sector organisations throughout the country. Advice provided to Meath and Mayo in 1990 led to the establishment of artists panels specialising in the development of public art projects for these areas. Meath County Council immediately commissioned four artists for sites in Navan and Trim. Mayo County Council began a workshop series and hopes to commission early in 1990. One of the more dramatic events of '89 was the dispute over the Arts Council-commissioned sculpture at Kinsale. Eilis O'Connell's sculpture and the siting of it, were cause for much public debate as well as negotiations between the Arts Council, the Urban District Council and the County Council. Finally the Urban District Council voted to retain the sculpture. The debate confirmed the Councils commitment to public art and to encourage continuous review of its procedures. The Council's collection of contemporary Irish art was enhanced with many works purchased in 1989.0ver sixty schools, libraries and other public agencies availed of the loan scheme and direct grants were given under the Joint Purchase Scheme to many organisations. Major works from the collection were specially displayed at the National Concert Hall; works were also displayed at the EC parliament offices in Brussels, including Graham, Cullen, Mulcahy, Brennan and others. An extensive exhibition of Irish art from the Collection was mounted at the end of the year in Dublin Castle where the works of le Brocquy, Madden, Tyrrell, Cooke, Aiken, Scott, Roife, Doris and a collection of etchings and lithographs, were displayed. In addition, the Council mounted a series of small shows entitled 'At the Arts Council' which showed work by Dorothy Cross, Des Dillon, Neil McCullough and Valerie Mulvin to visitors to the Council's offices. Exhibitions policy was reviewed late in the year and the Council decided to express its commitment through new exhibition assistance shows, encouraging higher production values and better quality catalogues. Special capital assistance was provided to Gandon Editions; a young publishing house specialising in art and architectural publications. Support mechanisms to artists' studios were considered and a detailed review was undertaken about how the studios could be better equipped and more securely established. Major revenue and capital assistance was provided to the new National Sculpture Factory, Cork, and a capital fund put aside for local studios. Direct assistance to artists through various grants and bursaries were provided to nearly sixty individuals. With the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Council decided to double its support for the Irish studio at PS1 Studios, New York. This meant that the 90/91 artists, were provided with studio accommodation and funding for a full year each, in New York.

Aosdána £ Cnuais to 39 visual artists 215,144 Awards Ireland-American Arts Exchange/ PS1 Studios, New York/

Residency by Dorothy Cross 6,554 Arts Council of Northern Ireland

(re George Campbell Memorial Travel Award) 400 Maree Bannon 250 Oisín Breathnach 300 Declan Breen 1,200 Mary Burke 300 Gerry Caffrey 350 Cathy Carman and Tim Morris 2,000 Eamon Coleman 300 Peter Cosgrave 750 Gerard Cox 500 Maud Cotter 650 Pauline Cummins 1,000 Michael Dempsey 1,250 Desmond Dillon 700 Chris Doris 1,000 Mary Duffy 500 Sean Fingleton 500 Tom Fitzgerald 500 Mags Fitzgibbon 750 Martin Folan 350 Romy Gray 275 Ken Hardy 1,000 Michael Hegarty 200 Peter Jones 500 Andrew Kearney 500 Fergus Kelly 425 Bernadette Kiely 300 Richard Enda King 500 Catherine McCormack 300 Niall McCormack 300 John McHugh 750 Ruth McHugh 350 Seán McSweeney 100 Alice Maher 500 T. J. Maher 300 Kieran Melody 300 Janet Mullarney 500 Lorrayne Murphy 500 John Philip Murray 350 Enda O'Brien 2,000 Gwen O'Dowd 500 Noreen O’Dwyer 2,500 Padraic Ó Flaithearta 1,000 Alanna O’Kelly 1,000 Catherine Ó Léanacháin 250 Patrick O'Sullivan 450 Helen O'Toole 350 Vivienne Roche 500 Simon Reilly 250

Edel Robinson (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 1,500

Tom Ryan 300 James Scanlon 3,500 Noel Scullion 750 Dermot Seymour 750 Michelle Souter 250 Amelia Stein 500 Tina Whelan 250

Total/Aosdána and Awards 259,798

Commissions

Brú Boru, Cashel 7,000 Kinsale Urban District Council/

Sculpture by Eilis O’Connell 12,000 New Ross Urban District Council/

Sculpture by Michael Warren 2,000 Sneem, Co. Kerry/Sculpture by

James Scanlon 6,000 (total grant, 1988-90 £17,500)

Grants All + 10 Sorts Studio, Limerick 4,500 Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght 200

(see also Community Arts and Traditional Arts)

Architectural Association of Ireland 2,500 Artspace Studios, Galway 4,250 Association of Artists in Ireland 13,500 Black Church Print Studio, Dublin 20,000 Boyle Arts Festival 1,500 Butler Gallery/Kilkenny Art Gallery Society 30,500

(see also Education) CIRCA magazine, Belfast 4,500 Claremorris Arts Committee 5,000 Feile Caomhan, Inis Oirr 1,000 Contemporary Irish Photography 3,000 Cork Arts Collective 4,000 Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork 1,025 Donegal County Council (see also Regions) 125 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 115,000 Dundalk Urban District Council 190

(see also Regions) Gallery of Photography, Dublin 23,000 Gandon Editions, Dublin 7,500 Garter Lane Arts Centre (see also Arts Centres) 440 Glebe Gallery, Churchill, Co. Donegal 175 Graphic Studio, Dublin 31,250 Brian Henderson/exhibition 1,750 Irish Architectural Archive 2,100 Irish Exhibition of Living Art 5,000 Irish Visual Arts Foundation 1,100 Laois County Council (see also Regions) 680 Limerick City Gallery of Art 2,800 Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art 11,500 Mixed Media Arts 500

National Sculpture Factory, Cork 10,000 New Art Studio, Dublin 6,000 No. 47 & Nun's Island Arts Centre, Galway

(see also Literature and Arts Centres) 1,527 An tOireachtas exhibition 2,000 Project Arts Centre (see also Arts Centres) 2,115 Nigel Rolfe/exhibition 3,000 ROSC88 31,000

(total grant, 1987-1989 £126,000) Royal Hospital Kilmainham 625 Sculptors' Society of Ireland 30,000 Sculpture in Context 600 Sligo Art Gallery Society 10,642 Sligo Community Arts Festival

(see also Community Arts) 300 Spanish Arch Print Gallery 500 Temple Bar Gallery and Studios 43,260 Triskel Arts Centre (see also Arts Centres) 5,825 Visual Arts Centre, Dublin 5,500 West Aware 1,000 West Cork Arts Centre 2,400 The Western Artists 3,500 Wexford Arts Centre (see also Arts Centres) 145 Wexford Sculpture Workshops 2,300 Women Artists Action Group 500

Less: Previous year's grants not required (2,800)

Joint Purchase Grants

Athlone Regional Technical College 320 Butler Gallery/Kilkenny Art Gallery Society 700 Carnegie Intermediate School, Killorglin 325 Contemporary Irish Art Society 1,000 County Tipperary Joint Library Committee 150 Dublin City University 473 Limerick Contemporary Art 1,000 Mount Temple Comprehensive School 205 Offaly County Library 48 Plassey Management and Technical Centre 1,250 Presentation College, Galway 175 Sligo Regional Technical College 650 St Andrews College, Booterstown 500 St Patrick's College, Drumcondra 650 Trinity College, Dublin 313 University of Limerick 775

Refund of Council contributions (1,655)

Total/Aosdána, Awards and Grants 752,201

Arts Council Exhibitions £ German-Irish Exchange Exhibitions 4,983 Fergus Lyons 4,727 Biedemier 2,750 Louis le Brocquy 645 Living Landscape 425 Estella Solomons 340 Sundry 207

14,077

Other Council Schemes and Promotions

Architectural Advice 3,555 Artists in Prisons 800 Council's Collection - Storage, repair, insurance, transport 14,720 Sundry 1,494

Total/Exhibitions, Schemes and

Promotions 34,646

Total as Note 5 (page 50) 786,847 Purchase of Works of Art Visual Arts budget (14 works) 18,530 Education budget (12 works) 6,000

Total per Capital Account (page 51)

and list on pages 22-23 24,530

Grants Received Arts Council of Northern Ireland

(re German-Irish Exchange Exhibitions) 591 Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 Dublin Country Council

(re Estella Solomons Exhibition) 300 Institut für Ausland Beziehungen

(re German-Irish Exchange Exhibitions) 1,231 Spanish Cultural Institute (Awards) 400

Total as Note 3 (page 49) 4,022

Purchases of Works of Art in 1989 Artist Title Medium Vendor £

Malcolm Bennett Bogland Gateway Mixed Media on Paper

Penny's Gallery Galway

420

Jackie Cooney Strata 11/23 Lithograph Graphic Studio

Dublin 292

Chris Doris Christ Flogged Oil on Canvas Royal Hospital,

Kilmainham 800

Mary Fitzgerald The Space Between Mixed Media

on Canvas ROSC'88 3,000

Marie Foley Release of the Spirit

of the Dead Porcelain Project Arts Centre 890

Brian Henderson Black Enamel Mixed Media Artist 750

Fergus Lyons The Stations of the Cross

Oil on Canvas Artist 7,000

Seán McSweeney Evening Bogland 13/15 Lithograph Graphic Studio, Dublin 293

T. J. Maher In the Quiet 5 Mixed Media Oliver Dowling Gallery 650

Mick O’Dea Brian Maguire 9/10 Lithograph Graphic Studio, Dublin 292

Mick O’Dea Winter Landscape 15/22

Lithograph Graphic Studio, Dublin 293

Gwen O'Dowd Glor na Mara Encaustic on Canvas Butler Gallery 1,200

Vivienne Roche Pendate Painted Steel Riverrun Gallery 1,800

Sam Walsh Arena VII Oil on Canvas Project Arts Centre 850

c/fwd 18,530

Purchases for Schools Show “A Special Place” Artist Title Medium Vendor £ b/fwd 18,530 Cecily Brennan Namaskard Oil on Paper Artist 500 Carey Clarke An Aspect of Donegal Watercolour Artist 500 Patrick Collins Oak Tree Oil on Canvas Artist 500 Barrie Cooke Burren Night Oil on Canvas Artist 500 Willie Doherty Echoing Unique Photograph

with text Artist 500

Julie Kelleher The Earth Oil on Perspex Artist 500 John Minihan Poet in a Medieval

Churchyard Photograph Artist 500

Gwen O'Dowd Along the Shore Oil on hardboard Artist 500 Mick O’Kelly Griff was Here Photograph Artist 500 Tony O'Malley Spanish Place - Acrylic and Artist 500 Orzola, Lanzarote Martin Parr The First and Last

Photographs 1963-1989 Photographs Artist 500

Chris Wilson Church Interior -

Kylemore Mixed Media Artist 500

Total as Note 7 (page 51) 24,530

Film 1989 was a hugely important year for film. It saw the appointment of the first Film Officer to the Arts Council as well as a very substantial capital grant allocation for the development of an Irish Film Centre. The appointment of Paul Freaney to the Arts Council staff, in September 1989, highlighted both the Council's firm commitment to film as an artform and the growing number of artists in Ireland who have chosen film as their career, and preferred medium for their artistic expression. This growth has also had its impact on the regions; towards the end of the year the Film Resource Centre, Galway, was allocated, for the first time, a capital grant of £7,000 to purchase much needed equipment for the Centre. The Film and Video Awards were continued again in 1989. £50,000 was allocated to five projects: £20,000 went to Yellow Asylum Pictures for Alan Gilsensan's reworking of Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Goal, £15,000 went to Ocean Films for their film 'Requiem for a Civilisation', £10,000 was awarded to Hilary Dully for her drama The Virgin Miscarriage' and £2,000 and £3,000 went to Peter Butler and Ted Sheehy respectively. In all 58 applications were received. In order to help create a greater public awareness of film culture, the Council offered £20,000, to both Cork and Dublin film festivals. However, the Dublin festival was postponed to 1990 and their grant was carried over. The Cork festival was a great success, screening films from all around the world with a special focus on the work of Irish director, John T. Davies. The first Galway Film Fleadh was also held in 1989 and the Council provided assistance. The rapid development of Film Base and their growing expertise in the areas of training and information was recognised and their annual grant-aid dramatically increased from £11,000 to £24,000. The Irish Film Institute continued to develop their activities, expanding their archive, they ran two FAS courses; one in film production and one in video production, with the highlight of the year being a rare screening of The Battleship Potemkin, with orchestral accompaniment, at the National Concert Hall. The IFI's exciting plans for an Irish Film Centre started to come to their long awaited fruition with a capital grant of £350,000 being allocated to the project from the National Lottery. The Arts Council set up a new company called the Irish Film Centre Building Ltd. and appointed a board, chaired by Richard Kearney, to oversee the project. The Centre will have two cinemas, a restaurant, and will house and centralise the major film organisations in Ireland. The Council continued support for the Federation of Film Societies which continued it's vital role in film culture today. In 1989 the Film Officer attended meetings in Paris representing Ireland in discussions about the European audio-visual industry. Opportunities for co-production, co-financing and European subsidy for the Irish Film Industry were examined in the context of 1992 when smaller industries such as Ireland's could benefit greatly from strong commitment to and involvement in European developments. All in all, 1989 can be seen as a turning point in the Arts Council's involvement in film. The Council's commitment to the art of film, when other state agencies have been reticent, has been enthusiastically welcomed by the film community and is beginning to make major inroads into the development of both a healthy film industry and a healthy film culture.

Film and Video Project Awards £ Peter Butler 2,000 Deny Film and Video Workshop 5,000 Miriam Gallagher 4,000 Jane Gogan 5,000 Johnny Gogan 2,000 Joe Lee 7,000 Tommy & John McArdle 8,000 Hilary McLoughlin 4,000 Orlagh Mulcahy 2,000 Aeon Films/Pat Murphy 8,000 Ocean Film Productions/Frank Stapleton 7,500 Martha O'Neill 4,000 Ted Sheehy 1,000 Mark Staunton 1,000 Yellow Asylum Films/Alan Gilsenan 10,000 Grants Irish Film Institute 44,000 Federation of Irish Film Societies 38,000 Film Base, Dublin 24,000 Irish Film Centre, Dublin 2,600 Dublin Film Festival 10,000 Cork Film Festival 20,000 Galway Film Fleadh 2,500

Total as Note 5 (page 50) 211,600

Drama A relatively modest but significant increase in the allocation to Drama in the Council's budgets in 1989 enabled the Council to continue its policy of consolidation of a number of mature organisations all of which are centres of significance in Drama in Ireland. The Council was also able to advance its policies with regards to achieving improved access to professional theatre for people in the regions by allocating increased funding for its theatre touring scheme which had the effect of generating a significantly increased and successful level of touring. One of the most promising characteristics of the year was the growing confidence of professional companies based in the regions. Another very encouraging factor was the steady increase in support for, and achievements by, companies whose work is focussed upon young people and audiences who are only beginning to develop their understanding of, and appreciation for, professional theatre. The consolidation of established organisations was achieved by maintaining the Council's level of support for the Dublin Theatre Festival, and by increasing grant-aid to the National Theatre Society Limited (Abbey and Peacock theatres), the Gate Theatre and the Druid Theatre. The extraordinary achievements of all of these key organisations in producing extensive and varied programmes of work is graphic evidence of the underlying strength and vitality of the theatre in Ireland at the present time. Under the Council's theatre touring scheme seven companies were grant-aided to enable them to bring their productions on tour, amongst them the Red Kettle Theatre Company from Waterford which undertook a national tour for the first time. Other companies with an established record of successful touring who received grants in 1989 include Druid Theatre Company, Field Day Theatre Company, Charabanc Theatre Company, Playwrights and Actors Theatre Company, and Kite Productions. A tour was mounted by Groundwork Stage Productions which is the first time that this company received a touring grant. TEAM Theatre Company undertook a short but nevertheless very successful exchange with Replay Theatre Company in Belfast. Details of the touring undertaken are set-out in the attached schedule. In order to encourage a greater degree of autonomy for the venue managers in their choice of touring shows, the Council decided to replace the venue rental guarantees with programming funds for a number of these venues and this initiative will take effect in 1990. The Council is confident that this mechanism will be successful and it is gratifying to note that the venue managers have welcomed this approach. The Council has been particularly pleased to note the emergence of a number of indigenous theatre companies in regional centres following the route well laid down by Druid Theatre Company, Field Day Theatre Company and Red Kettle Theatre Company. It is the Council's earnest hope that it will be possible for a number of these companies to grow in strength and confidence, and that the Council will have resources available to it to enable these companies to achieve their full potential. The availability of two new performance spaces at the Andrews Lane Theatre in Dublin, together with the more general availability of the Tivoli Theatre, have had the welcome effect of enabling many Dublin-based theatre companies to bring their work to audiences. These venues have filled a long felt gap between the large theatres and the small flexible spaces and a number of the Council's client organisations both Dublin-based and from outside Dublin have benefitted from having these facilities available. TEAM Theatre Company, based in Dublin, and Graffiti Theatre Company, based in Cork, both maintained their very valuable theatre-in-education work. Both of these companies have been extremely successful in raising much needed sponsorship for this work. The Council remains seriously concerned at the reticence on the part of the Department of Education to enter into meaningful partnership with the Council in providing a theatre-in-education service for every school-going child in Ireland. The special difficulties which beset professional theatre people in Cork led the Council to approach Cork Corporation with a proposal that a Joint Advisory Committee be set up to review the difficulties for all the arts in Cork and to present a report and recommendations. The Council was delighted that Cork Corporation responded so positively to this proposal. The Council hopes that the work of the Committee, which is being undertaken early in 1990, will identify an approach to the difficulties which will achieve an effective and efficient application of the limited resources available in a way which will commend itself not only to the Council and Cork Corporation but to all of those in the arts in Cork and to the citizens of Cork city and the Munster region. The Council regretted that it was not possible to respond positively to the many applications from individuals in Drama who sought financial assistance. This area is one which the Council will earnestly address in 1990 particularly travel grants for persons already working professionally in drama who seek specialised training which is not generally available in Ireland and bursaries for trainee directors. The Council also hopes that it will prove possible in 1990 to provide significant additional funds in support of its Playwrights Commissioning Scheme.

Grants £

Abbey Theatre 1,632,000 Gate Theatre 400,000 Co-Motion Theatre Company 5,000 Druid Theatre Company, Galway 192,500 Dublin Theatre Festival 115,000 Everyman Palace, Cork 30,000 Focus Theatre, Dublin 25,000 Gemini Productions 2,000 Graffiti Theatre-in-Education, Cork 30,000 The Passion Machine 25,000 Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford 21,500 Rough Magic Theatre Company 76,800 Seven Woods Theatre Company, Sligo 3,000 Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe 1,500 TEAM Theatre Company 95,000 Theatre of Open Secrets 2,000 Wet Paint Theatre Company 25,000

Agnes Bernelle 462

Gate Theatre Trust 3,000 "Theatre Ireland" 3,176

Less:Previous year's grants not required (700)

2,687,238

Theatre Touring/Grants to Production Companies

Charabanc Theatre Company, Belfast 6,000 Druid Theatre Company, Galway 45,000 Na Fanaithe, Gaillimh 500 Field Day Theatre Company, Deny

(1988-1989)

103,174

Groundwork Stage Productions 65,000 Kite Productions 24,000 Playwrights and Actors Company 40,000 Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford 30,000 TEAM Theatre Company 1,500

Theatre Touring/Grants to Venues

Cork Opera House 8,500 Donegal County Council 126 Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 1,500

325,300

Total as Note 5 (page 50) 3,012,538

Dance In December 1989, the Arts Council published details of the new structures it was putting in place for the funding of dance performance. After much deliberation, the Arts Council decided to refuse financial assistance to Irish National Ballet and to Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre. The Council cited the performance by both companies in artistic, financial and audience terms as being the reason for its non-renewal of grant-aid. In the case of Irish National Ballet, the Council was confirming the 1988 decision to refuse funds taken by the preceding Council. There were however, many manifestations of dance activity during 1989 that gave reason for optimism. In particular the first appearance of the Irish Youth Dance Company and the first New Music/New Dance Festival. Both projects were organised by the Dance Council with significant Arts Council funding and were events of real promise. Particularly welcome was further evidence of the developing tradition of collaboration between Irish choreographers and composers. The source of this tradition lies in the National Choreography Course, also organised by the Dance Council, which in its fifth year, took place at Stranmillis College, Belfast. Education and Training are crucial elements of the infrastructure necessary to the development of a rich dance culture in this country. The Arts Council doubled the amount of money available for dance training scholarships in 1989 and also introduced grants for dance professionals travelling abroad and for the visits by international teachers and choreographers. In education the development of Daghdha as a dance-in-education service was another welcome feature of the year. As a representative body of dance in Ireland, the Dance Council had a critical role to play during 1989 when it nominated representatives to sit with members of the Arts Council to consider the future of theatre dance performance. It is greatly hoped that the deliberations of that group will provide a framework for the development of high quality dance in Ireland in the years to come. Awards £ Victoria Brady 2,000 Jean Buckley 2,000 Michael Francis Dolan 4,000 Michael Martin Dolan 4,000 Roger Doyle 500 Orla McFeely 4,000 Clodagh Molloy (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 1,500 Snaggy O'Sullivan 500 Jennifer Roche 4,000

22,500 Grants

Barefoot Dance Company, Welford 20,800 Dance Council of Ireland 48,500 Dance Theatre of Ireland 21,000 Donegal County Council 400 Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre 47,748 Irish National Ballet 20,000

(plus £25,000 in 1990) Royal Academy of Dancing (Irish Region) 1,000 Thomond College of Education:

Daghdha Dance Company 25,000 Dancer-in-Residence 6,200

Less: Previous year's grant not required (500) 212,648 Directly Promoted Activities Dance Development Schemes 1,959

Total as Note 5 (page 50) 214,607 Grant Received Dublin Corporation 1,500

Traditional Music During 1989, the Council encouraged developments in a number of areas in traditional music. Perhaps the most important of these was the continuation of support for the valuable national resource which is being developed by Taisce Cheol Duchais Eireann/The Traditional Music Archive. Since its foundation in 1987, the Archive has responded to the needs of musicians, the general public, broadcasters, students and academics and represents Ireland at international level through its active participation in the International Association of Sound Archives and RILM (Repertoire International de Literature Musical) an organisation based in New York which maintains an international bibliography and information service on high-quality writings on music throughout the world. The Council recognised that the Archive is at an important stage in its development and accordingly provided a special capital grant to assist with the costs of establishing sound processing, studio and access facilities. The Council greatly appreciates the co-operation of ACNI in funding the Archive and acknowledges the assistance of the National Lottery. The Council managed to provide marginally increased funding for a range of traditional music summer schools throughout the country ranging from large events such as Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy (Co. Clare) which cater for most aspects of the tradition to small specialist schools such as those organised by Cairdeas na bhFidleiri (Co. Donegal) or Cairde na Cruite (Co. Louth). The impact that a good quality summer school can have on its community is well illustrated by Scoil Ada (Co. Mayo) which has been the major force behind the growth in interest and participation in traditional music in Achill. Ar ndóigh tá tábhacht nach beag ag baint le réimse fiontar atá á reachtáil in iarthar na tíre, go háirithe i gceantair Ghaeltachta, le tamall de bhlianta anuas agus ina mease siúd tá na scéimeanna oiliúna faoi stiúradh Choláiste Chonacht i gConamara agus ar Oiléain Árainn agus imeachtaí eile a bhíonn á n-eagrú ag Oideas Geal agus Oidhreacht Chorea Dhuibhne. Tá clár imeachtaí agus tionscnamh an-suimiúil curtha chun dnn ag Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne agus tá obair fhiúntach idir lámha acu le hamhránaíocht ar an sean-nós a chur os comhar phobal an cheantair sin. The Council continued its support for the extremely successful series of traditional music tours organised by The Music Network. During the year four touring groups gave a total of 37 concerts in a wide range of venues including Cork, Portlaoise, Newport, Gaoth, Dobhair, Buncrana, Tralee, Cavan, Limerick, Clifden, Spanish Point, and Ballyshannon. Audiences were offered a rare opportunity to hear unaccompanied solo performances by many of the country's leading traditional musidans and singers including Mairtin O Connor, Davy Spillane, Seán Keane, Edel McWeeney, Liam O'Floinn, Dermot Byrne and Pip Murphy. The Council maintained its close working links with the ACNI and a number of events and initiatives (in addition to the Irish Traditional Music Archive mentioned above) were funded by both Councils in 1989. Among those were the Slieve Gullion Festival of Traditional Singing in Forkhill, Co. Armagh, the Dublin Traditional Music Festival, the Inishowen Traditional Singers Circle in Co. Donegal and a special project involving the harmonica music of Phil, John and Pip Murphy from Co. Wexford, mentioned above. In June 1989 the Council announced the launch of a new scheme for masterclasses in traditional music. The purpose of this scheme is to facilitate dose contact over a period of a few days between small groups of young players who are at an advanced stage of playing and an established performer of the highest quality. The need for the provision of such a scheme was dear from the huge demand for assistance under the scheme from groups throughout the country. The masterclasses of 1989 received widespread publicity and praise. Among the musicians who have directed classes under the scheme were Seán McGuire, Cathal McConnell, Robbie Hannon, Tommy Peoples, Ronan Browne, Seán Potts and Máire Ní Chaoimh. Undoubtedly this scheme will complement the Council's other programmes for encouraging the appreciation of both the solo performer and local or regional styles and repertoires in maintaining that diversity and development which are essential in the best traditional music.

Grants £ Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght 4,450

(see also Community Arts and Visual Arts) Arts Council of Northern Ireland/

recording project 200 Cairde na Cruite 500 Cairdeas na bhFidléirí 3,500 Craobh Bhaile Uí Thaidg,

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann 425 Cumann Cheol Tíre Éireann 1,500 Cumann Cheol Tíre Inis Oirr 500 Dublin Irish Music Festival 1,500 Féile na hInse 350 Fleadh na mBan, Gort a' Choirce 200 An Gaelacadamh, Conamara 1,500 Inishowen Traditional Singers Circle 500 Irish Pipe Band Association 3,000 Irish Traditional Music Archive

56,537

Seamus MacManus Society, Donegal 400 The Music Network (see also Music) 16,500 Oideas Gael, Dun nanGall 500 Oidhreacht Chorea Dhuibhne 500 Na Píobairí Uilleann 14,850 Na Píobairí Uilleann/Cumann Cheol

Tíre Éireann: Joint Secretariat 13,500 Scoil Ada 1,500 Scoil Ceoil Inis Meáin 600 Scoil Rince agus Ceoil, Inis Mór 600 Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy 10,000 Siamse Tíre, Trá Lí 36,500 Slieve Gullion Festival of

Traditional Singers 700 South Sligo Summer School 3,000 Less: Previous year's grants not required (675)

173,137 Directly Promoted Activities Master Classes 1,588

Total as Note 5 (page 50) 174,725 Grant Received

Arts Council of Northern Ireland (re Irish Traditional Music Archive) 11,037

Popular Music The partnership of the Arts Council and the Popular Music Industry Association (PMIA) continued to sponsor the appointment of the Popular Music Officer for a second year. The PMIA is meeting the costs associated with this appointment. A special advisory committee of Arts Council and PMIA members meets regularly on popular music matters. During 1989, seminars have been organised, assisted or initiated in Tallaght, Monaghan, Kilkenny, Derry, Carrick-on-Shannon and the City Centre in Dublin. The Popular Music Officer also initiated and assisted the process which led to the First Irish International Seminar on popular music held in the RDS in September. The Popular Music Officer is one of three people who oversee the RPM (Rock, Performance, Management) Course in the Senior College, Ballyfermot. This course has three chief components-performance and composition of music, production on stage and in studio, and the business within which music operates. The Officer assisted in the evaluation of the pupils in the class of 88-89. In September 1989, this course was restructured in order to accommodate forty eight students. A similar course with sixteen students started in September in Scoil Stiofain Naofa, Cork, which the Officer also assists with advice and information on a regular basis. In consultation with the Popular Music Officer, the City Centre, Dublin, started a pilot project in the City Quay National School. The objective of this project is to involve children between the ages of eight and eleven in music, in a way which is meaningful for them. This project will be documented in mid-1990, with a view to extending it to other schools. During 1989, the Popular Music Officer had several meetings with four potential sponsors of music projects; of the four, two (7-Up and Tennents) have spent substantial funds in the area of popular music, which has, in turn, benefited many young musicians and groups. The Officer prepared a memorandum on popular music which was presented to the Arts Council at its December meeting. This led to the later establishment of a budget for seed funding projects. The Officer met with numerous young bands and musicians on a wide variety of topics which could be summarised under the headings of career guidance and information. The Popular Music Officer compiled a position paper on a home recording Royalty (previously known as Blank Tape Levy). Discussions and correspondence on this subject have continued throughout the year and it is hoped that draft legislation which is being prepared for the music industry will be ready to present to Government in the spring of 1990. The Popular Music Officer has appeared (as spokesperson) on behalf of the Popular Music Industry Association and the Arts Council on RTE's Arts Show, Liveline, Market Place, Night Hawks, Jo Maxi and Check It Out. Interviews have also been given to Capital Radio, CBS News (USA), Associated Press, Billboard Magazine, the International Herald Tribune, Fresh Magazine, Insight (Washington,D.C.), the Irish Times, The Guardian and many regional newspapers.

Opera In Spring, as a result of the non-availability of the Gaiety Theatre, its traditional venue, the Dublin Grand Opera Society cancelled its planned season of three operas, and transferred to the National Concert Hall, where it presented three performances of Bellini's 'Norma' with Suzanne Murphy in the title role. The company's first Artistic Director, Michael McCaffrey, resigned his position with the company after three years in which the artistic quality of the DGOS productions had substantially improved. He was replaced on a short-term basis by Elaine Padmore, Artistic Director of Wexford Festival Opera, who was responsible for productions of Carmen (performances) and La Traviata (performances) in December. At the end of the year, the company appointed Kenneth Richardson as the new Artistic Director, to take effect from May 1990. The three operas presented in Wexford were Marschner's Der Templer und die Jueden, Prokoviefs Re de Ponto, The Duenna, and Mitridaterde Ponte, Mozart. The festival succeeded in maintaining high attendances, despite the extension to 15 days. The additional three performances over a third weekend, added to the extra seats added to the theatre in 1988, meant that there are now a total of 8,250 seats available each year in the festival, compared to 6,600 in 1987. The economic impact of the festival was analysed in a study published during the year by John O'Hagan, Professor of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin. At the beginning of the year Opera Theatre Company appointed Barry McGovem as Artistic Director. In Spring, Opera Theatre Company produced Country Matters, an english translation by Gerry McNamara of Haydn's opera . Country Matters toured to regional venues and finished the tour at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The opera was directed by Colm O'Briain and designed by Wendy Shea with an all Irish cast. In September, the company presented Stravinsky's 'The Soldier's Tale' in the original version: the production toured to Belfast for a performance at the Queens Festival. Grants

£

Dublin Grand Opera Society

200,000

Opera Theatre Company

91,333

Wexford Festival Opera

101,000

392,333

Directly Promoted Activities

266

Total as Note 5 (page 50) 392,599 Grant Received

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (re Opera Theatre Company) 3,333

Music The Contemporary Music Centre was asked by the Council at the beginning of the year to clarify and prioritize its objectives. The Company, which was established by the Arts Council in 1986 as Ireland's Music Information Centre has engaged in a range of publishing and promotional activities. A substantially new board, under the chairmanship of Jane O'Leary reported to the Council at the end of the year. Changes in the membership of the Irish Chamber Orchestra which involved a reduced reliance on members of the RTE Orchestras enabled that body to engage in more regional and international touring in 1989. The Orchestra, which has been 19 years in existence performed in various venues in Dublin and the regions and undertook a highly successful tour of Italy. The I. C. O. also recorded for Virgin Records in 1989. The Music Network promoted 32 recitals in regional centres during the year, and added 8 venues to its existing venues. Music for Galway celebrated its 9th year, and promoted a total of 28 events in Galway, including visits to the West by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, RTE Symphony Orchestra and the Halle Orchestra. Bursaries totalling 71,007 were offered to young musicians: singers, instrumentalists, and composers. The recipient of the Macaulay Fellowship in Composition was Fergus Johnson. The Council reconsidered its policy in relation to choral music, which it will continue to assist by means of a grant to the Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór/National Association of Choirs, for its publishing, educational and development work, and to the Cork International Choral Festival. Aosdána £ Cnuais to 6 composers 34,428 Awards Gerald Barry 225 Pauline Bourke 500 Geraldine Cassidy 1,000 Brona Colfer 500 Dearbhla Collins 500 Mary Collins 500 Seamus Conway 1,000 Neil Cooney 1,000 Adrian Daly 1,000 Declan Daly 1,000 Claire Doody 750 Jamie Evans 250 Gerard Grennell 750 Ronan Guilfoyle 250 Aedin Halpin (Dublin Corporation Scholarship) 1,500 Regina Hanley 1,500 Oonagh Keogh 1,250 Margaret Lynch 200 Paul McCann 2,000 Sara McGuiness 500 John McLachlan 300 Ann Millea 1,000 Niall Morris 550 Karen Murray 750 Niamh Murray 750 Regina Nathan 1,000 Ann O'Byrne 300 Aoileann O'Carroll 550 Jane O'Leary 400 Rachel Quinn 300 Caitriona Ryan 500 Ethna Tinney 750 Anita Vedres 1,500 Gillian Williams 1,250

c/fwd 60,503

£

b/fwd 60,503 Composers Commission Scheme

Composer Commissioned By Gerald Barry Dublin Orchestral Players 788 Seoirse Bodley Douglas Hyde Gallery 788 Brian Boydell Teresa Lawlor, harp 787 John Buckley Irish Youth Wind Ensemble 1,170 Seamus de Barra St Peter's Male Voice Choir 275 Seamus de Barra Classical Graffiti 613 Philip Martin GPA Music in Great Houses 413 Gerard Victory Ulysses Ensemble 3,420 James Wilson Rifka Golani, viola 2,250 71,007 Grants Association of Irish Composers 1,000 Clifden Arts Society 550 Concorde 2,500 Contemporary Music Centre 41,200 Cork Choral Festival 18,000 Cork Orchestral Society 4,000 Cumann Náisiúnta na gCór 32,000 Donegal County Council 300 Dublin International Organ Festival (balance) 2,500 Dublin Master Classes 2,000 Early Music Organisation of Ireland 1,500 Ennis Composition Summer School 2,000 Irish Chamber Orchestra 49,000 Irish Youth Wind Ensemble 1,000 Limerick Music Association 7,000 Macnas, Galway (see also Community Arts) 2,250 Music for Galway 9,500 Music Ireland 16,501 Music Ireland (ACNI grant) 3,432 The Music Network (see also Traditional Arts) 49,500 Newpark Music Centre 500 Louis Stewart - A Celebration (plus £50 in 1990) 450 Waterford Music Club 2.400

Total as Note 5 (page 50) 320,090 Macaulay Fellowship (Trust Fund) £ (see Note 9, page 52) Fergus Johnston, composer 3,500

Grants Received

Dublin Corporation (Awards) 1,500 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (re Music Ireland) 3,432 Total as Note 3 (page 49) 4,932

Arts Centres The period since 1980 had seen a great expansion in the number of arts centres and the scope of their work. In 1989 the Council decided to build on the achievements of the last ten years, and to consolidate existing centres in preference to developing new ones. The Council is currently grant-aiding arts centres or regional theatres in Dublin (2), Cork, Limerick, Sligo, Waterford, Wexford, Galway and Tralee; in the course of the year, funding of the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar was transferred from the Department of the Taoiseach to the Arts Council. In August, the Council took the opportunity of meeting representatives of all of its arts centre clients when it invited the executive directors and a representative of the board of each centre to meet the chairman and members of the Council in Dublin. Topics covered included staffing, funding, touring and development. The meeting provided a very useful opportunity for the exchange of information and views. Having achieved the reduction of its accumulated deficits to acceptable levels in 1988, Project Arts Centre in Dublin directed its energies in 1989 towards developing and consolidating its artistic programme. The New Music/New Dance Festival, Youth Dance Week, a series of rehearsed play readings and an improved gallery programme all reflected this policy. An initiative of Triskel Arts Centre in Cork and the ACE programme in 1989 was the employment of an Education Officer, with particular responsibility for the visual arts and film. Kieran Walsh, formerly of Cork Teacher's Centre, was appointed during the year, and his work includes the organisation of workshops, school visits, and other programmes for young people. Triskel also supported the development of an indigenous theatre company, Meridian, during the year. A new Administrator/Director was appointed to the Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford. Phase two of the complex, which is the home of Red Kettle Theatre Company, was refurbished with the assistance of £10,000 capital funding from the Council. Modest capital funding was also offered to Wexford Arts Centre, for refurbishment purposes. The extensive four-year purchase and conversion programme which was funded by a combination of public and private finance, was well underway at the City Centre in Dublin. The facilities of the centre include four fully-equipped sound studios, to provide rehearsal facilities for young bands. A further capital grant of £200,000 was offered by the Council in 1989 towards the reduction of borrowings and the completion of Phase one of the building. Emer McNamara, Executive Director of the Belltable, in Limerick, resigned her position at the end of 1989. She was replaced by Mairead Byrne, formerly manager of the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Early in 1989, the board of the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo, advertised for a Chief Executive Officer, chiefly with a view to developing audiences for the theatre. By the end of the year, however, the post had still not been filled, and the staff level remained at two, of which one position, that of stage manager, was vacant. In Galway, Nun's Island Arts Centre developed its second venue, a large townhouse (the property of Galway Corporation), in the centre of the city. The additional space has been used to expand the programme of classes and workshops by 65%, to show large touring exhibitions, and to extend existing film, drama, dance and community arts programmes. The Centre had a particularly strong programme in literature, with 18 readings throughout the year, specialist workshops, the poetry festival Cuirt, and a Weekend of Fiction Writers in the Autumn. Grants £ Project Arts Centre, Dublin 100,000 The City Centre, Dublin 50,000 Wexford Arts Centre 55,500 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford 50,000 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 56,000 Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick 53,000 No. 47 and Nun's Island Arts Centre,

Galway

15,000 The Hawk's Well Theatre, Sligo 40,000 Less: Previous Year's grant not required (250) 419,250 Directly Promoted Activities Marketing Course 2,878 Total as Note 5 (page 50) 422,128 Note: Most arts centres also receive financial assistance for specific schemes and projects from other Arts Council budgets (q.v.)

Arts development in the Regions 1989 saw the strengthening of the partnership between Local Authorities and The Arts Council with continued support for the existing arts organisers in Clare, Donegal, Kerry, Limerick and new appointments in Cavan, Dundalk, Kilkenny, Laois and Mayo. The Arts Officers continued their work in promoting and assisting a broad range of arts activities including Exhibitions, Readings, Theatre performances. Music Network concerts. Residencies, as well as consolidating their role in assisting Local Authorities to adopt an integrated approach to arts planning for the region. The existing network of Arts Officers now numbers 9 with a hoped expansion to 11 in 1990. The work of the officers have yielded significant increases in audience returns in areas where arts activities were severely limited in the past. The Arts Council looks forward to continuing and expanding its successful partnership with Local Authorities in the future. Other initiatives with Local Authorities included the agreement between The Arts Council and Cork Corporation to draw up an Arts Development Plan for the city with the establishment of a Working Party for this purpose. The Working Party for the Cork Arts Development Plan will begin its work in 1990 and the results of their deliberations will be published mid 1990. Directly promoted activities by The Arts Council in the regions included the continuation of the Arts Council touring exhibition scheme with exhibitions provided in a broad range of venues including schools, colleges and libraries. As well as revenue provision, both the Arts Council and Local Authorities increased their provision for capital purposes during 1989; a further indication of the commitment towards adequately housing the arts on the part of both funding agencies. Grants £ Cavan County Council: administration 1,000 Clare County Council: administration 7,651 arts programme 2,000 Donegal County Council: administration 7,805 arts programme 4,000 Dundalk Urban District Council

administration 4,729 arts programme 1,150

Kerry County Council: administration 3,392 arts programme 5,200 Kilkenny County Council: administration 2,300 Laois County Council: administration 8,013 arts programme 4,000 Limerick Corporation: administration 2.889 arts programme 300 Mayo County Coundl: administration 5,092

arts programme 3,250 Wexford Corporation 1,500 Tyrone Guthrie Centre 57,134 Tyrone Guthrie Centre (ACNI grant) 28,566 Less: Previous year's grant not required (3,999) Total/Grants 145,972 Directly Promoted Activities Regions Information pack 8.542 Regions exhibitions:

"Birds" 2,347 Tom Mathews 1.800 Muiris Moynihan 845 Tain Prints 900

Sundry 586 Total as Note 5 (page 50) 160,992 Grants Received Arts Council of Northern Ireland/ Tyrone Guthrie Centre 28,566

Education 1989 marked ten years of Arts Council policy and programme in Education. Towards the end of the year the Council organised a major exhibition in the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin to celebrate the considerable achievements of the past decade. Dialogue: Artists and Schools ran for nearly four weeks and was visited by over 10,000 people. A complementary programme of readings, concerts, talks, seminars, workshops and publications was organised in conjunction with the exhibition. In January 1989 the Writers-in-Schools scheme was re-launched with a new directory and new administrative arrangements. The scheme now operates as part of the Council's Education programme where before it had been part of the Literature programme. The scheme has also been extended to include 5th and 6th classes in primary schools. In 1989 some one hundred and sixty five (165) visits by fifty eight (58) writers in nineteen (19) counties took place. A Special Place became the fourth in the series of specially commissioned exhibitions for second-level schools. It contained the works of twelve Irish artists, each making a piece which celebrates touring life in the schools of Co. Monaghan, following in the wake of HEADS, HEROES, and The School Show. Counties Westmeath, Kerry, Longford are the other counties now served by this programme of exhibitions. The Artist-In-Residence programme for schools and colleges of education continues to produce work of remarkable quality. Some of the best of this work was included in the Dialogue exhibition and a brochure of the first fifty residencies in this scheme (1986-89) was published during the year. It is gratifying to note the increased interest displayed by Colleges of Education in the residency scheme. Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick had a dancer-in-residence during 1989 and St. Patrick's College of Education participated in the programme for the first time when the writer Cathal O Searcaigh undertook a pilot residency in November/December. In 1985 the Arts Council reviewed its education policy and as part of the revised policy undertook to support, directly or indirectly, four pilot curriculum development projects in arts education. One was a Council initiative in literature at second-level and this project. Poets Live, took place in 1987. In 1989 two other projects completed and reported. One was in the area of primary-level music education, organised by Cumann Naisiunta na gCór and the second was the design of an introductory dance syllabus for junior-cycle second-level. This was funded by the Arts Council and the Department of Education and was organised under the auspices of the Dance Council with considerable support from Thomond College of Education. It is disappointing to record that the fourth project which was to have been a joint initiative of the Arts Council and the Department of Education in the area of primary-level visual arts has, in the Arts Council's view, been largely unsuccessful. This is in no way due to any lack of time, effort or resources invested by the Arts Council nor indeed are the teachers involves in any way to blame. In fact they displayed a singularly committed and responsive attitude to the project and its (relatively unrealized) potential. Awards £ Marie Askin 300 Philip Edmondson 150 Patricia Gray 100 Yvonne Higgins 300 Sharon Hogan 600 Muireann Joy 600 Siobhan Keane 600 Anne-Marie Kenny 150 Cathy Kenny 150 Teresa Leahy 400 Paul McGettrick 300 Marie Mannion 300 Mary Nugent 600 Wendy Stephens 600

5,150

Grants (* = also funded from other budgets) *Belltable Arts Centre 500 *Butler Gallery 1,300 Ceol Chumann na nÓg 5,000 Children's Music Hour, Cork 500 *Donegal County Council 800 *Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 1,050 *Dundalk Urban District Council 350 Irish Creative Writing Awards 1,500 *Kerry County Council 900 *Laois County Council 270 *Limerick Corporation 1,500 Music Association of Ireland 14,000 National Association for Youth Drama 10,000 Prelude Brass Ensemble 1,200 *Thomond College of Education 500 *Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 200 Ardscoil Lorgan, Castleblayney 1,000 Beech Hill College, Monaghan 1,000 Castleknock College 1,000 Dalkey School Project 1,000 Holy Cross College, Kenmare 1,000 Kennedy Park National School, Wexford 1,000 Kilkenny Technical School 1,000 Mary Immaculate Training College, Limerick 3,600 Moyne College, Ballina (balance) 100 Mount Temple Comprehensive School (balance) 500 Nagle Community College, Blackrock, Cork 1,000 Nano Nagle Special School, Lixnaw 1,000 Rosses Community School, Dungloe 1,000 St Annin's National School, Moycullen 1,000 St Caimins Community School, Shannon 1,000 St John's College, Ballyfermot 1,000 St John's National School, Ballinacubby 1,000 St Joseph's National School, Newcastle West 1,000 St Kieran's College, Kilkenny 1,000 St Odhran's National School, Buncrana 1,000 St Oliver's Community College, Drogheda 1,000 St Patrick's College of Education, Dublin 1,250 Sligo School Project (balance) 500 Less: Previous year's grants not required (250) Total/Awards and Grants 68,420 Arts Council Promotions "Education 1979-89" project 18,664 School travelling exhibitions:

"A Special Place" 9,236 "Heads", "Heroes", "The School Show" (301)

Writers-in-schools scheme: Payments 17,052 Receipts (4,857) 12,195

"Artworks"/ Co. Wexford Primary School Art Project 281 Sundry 379 Total/Direct Promotions 40,454 Total as Note 5 (page 50) 108,874

The cost of 12 works of art for "A Special Place" exhibition, £6,000, has been capitalised: see page 23 and Note 7 to the Accounts.

Community Arts In the area of community arts, 1989 was a most significant year, with many events, at national level, signalling the important role of the practice of community arts in the cultural life of Ireland today. On the first of June 1989 the Taoiseach, Mr. Charles J. Haughey TD declared the new City Centre Arts Centre officially open. The Taoiseach highlighted the vital importance of community arts and his aspiration that cultural activities of all kinds would play a role in the regeneration of Dublin. The Arts Council, through its encouragement of art in the regions, the arts centre network, arts education and community arts, has done much to break down the barriers and broaden the access" said the Taoiseach. Later in June the Centre administered the successful Dublin Street Carnival. In '89 the City Centre appointed a manager to run its music project, a fully equipped rehearsal rooms in the basement of the Centre. In December the Arts Council offered a further £200,000 capital funds to the City Centre Arts Centre. This brings the State capital expenditure to date on the City Centre Arts Centre to £410,844. Also in December, "Art and the Ordinary - the ACE Report" ed. by Ciaran Benson (cf. full details under ACE) was published. The Arts Council and the Gulbenkian Foundation welcomed the report and the Council committed itself to acting on its recommendations. To date, the Arts Council's Community Arts Section has made grants available to resource arts organisations (e.g. Theatre Omnibus and Macnas) and to arts festivals (e.g. Galway Arts Festival and Sligo Arts Festival). Two new initiatives are: the Artist in the Community scheme and the Development Committee for Community Arts (DCCA). The DCCA has representatives from the Arts Council, the Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch), FAS, Combat Poverty Agency, the Ireland Funds, CAFE and Aontas an adult education national body. The brief of the DCCA will be to specialise in co-ordination and, most importantly training for people in the community arts area. The Arts Council is hopeful that these new initiatives will be of value to those working in the community arts area. An exhibition of photographs depicting the wealth of activity in community arts in Ireland today was presented by Creative Activity for Everyone (CAFE) in the Central Public Library, Dublin in the ILAC Centre. The photographs demonstrated the work of organisations such as: Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght; Dandelion Puppets, Co. Clare; Manor St. John Youth Resource Centre, Waterford; North West Musicians Collective, Deny; Play Resource Centre, Belfast; Travellers' Resource Warehouse, Dublin; The Works, Wexford; and Wet Paint Arts, Dublin. Community Spectacle Macnas (Galway) created a major new work, Tir Faoi Thonn which was shown at Galway Arts Festival in July and warmly appredated by a huge crowd of spectators. The music for this parade was composed and conducted by John Dunne. Sligo Community Arts Group created another major spectacle entitled "The Stolen Child" at the Sligo Arts Festival at end September-beginning October. The piece was based on the poem by Yeats and was directed by Kilian Rogers and Imelda Peppard with the Administrator Gill Bell. Theatre Omnibus (Ennis, Co. Clare) created a special work for children entitled "The Johnny Patterson Show" based on the life of the great clown and songwriter form the last century. This recounting of Johnny Patterson's life was played by giant puppets and it toured, with the help of SFADCO, in a circus tent throughout the Mid-West. Arts Festivals For the Galway Arts Festival 1989 was another great success. This years festival was distinguished by the visit of El Gran Circo Teatro of Santiago, Chile who performed Roberto Parra's "La Negra Ester". Also at the festival the Cuban salsa band Orquesta Reve performed at the Seapoint Ballroom. Micheal Ó Suileabhain and the Irish Chamber Orchestra gave performances of "The Dolphin's Way" and "Oilean". The festival continued to expand it's programme and to increase ifs audience. Kilkenny Arts Week had a special performance by the mezzo-soprano Bernadette Greevy with the Ulster Orchestra. At the Butler Gallery, Ian Hamilton Finlay, the distinguished Scottish artist presented an exhibition based upon the French Revolution. This remarkable show represented a questioning of the ideas of the Revolution in its Bicentennial year.

Organisations £ Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght 2,000

(see also Traditional Arts) CAFE/Creative Activity for Everyone

(see also ACE) 9,100 Dublin Youth Theatre 8,000 Seamus MacManus Society 500 Macnas, Galway (see also Music) 6,000 Theatre Omnibus, Limerick 14,500 Festivals Ballyfermot Arts Group 1,000 Boyle Arts Festival 300 Cape Clear Island Arts Festival 250 Cibeal Cincise, Kenmare 2,000 Clifden Community Arts Week 3,000 Cootehill Arts Festival 500 Eigse Carlow 500 Galway Arts Festival (see also Literature) 28,000 James Joyce Cultural Centre, Dublin 500 Kilkenny Arts Week 18,000 Meath Arts Group 500 Monaghan County Arts Festival 2,000 Sligo Community Arts Group 11,000 Westport Arts Festival 600 Writers' Week, Listowel 1,000 Less: Previous year's grants not required (1,750) Total as Note 5 (page 50)

107,500

Grant Received

Arts Council of Northern Ireland (re CAFE) 3,548

A.C.E. In December, the Arts Community Education (ACE) Committee published its final report which is entitled "Art and the Ordinary: The ACE Report". It is written in four sections and is edited by Ciaran Benson, who was the Chairperson of ACE. In the title essay "Art and the Ordinary" Ciaran Benson examines the social and aesthetic concepts which have surrounded the emergence of the modem practices of arts education and community arts. The section "ACE in Context", is an account of recent policy developments in Ireland regarding the arts as participation practices. Section Three, "The Projects" gives a "nuts-and-bolts", blow-by-blow account of the six main action projects of the four year ACE experiment. The ACE Committee funded three community arts projects namely those of Macnas, Creative Activity for Everyone and Fatima Development Group. The Committee funded three projects in arts education, namely the Cork Arts Education Workshop, City Vision (Dublin) and the Poetry Project. These practical projects provided research experiences upon which ACE based its recommendations. The final section - "A Future" consists of the recommendations for future funding structures in Ireland to assist the growth of the arts education and community arts practices. At the publication of "Arts and the Ordinary", the ACE Committee was dissolved. The Chairman of the Arts Council, Colm O hEocha, speaking at the launch said "I must thank the members of the ACE Committee for their public service but above all Ciaran Benson for his articulate and brave leadership of this project. The Arts Council will be informed by the ACE Report in future years in the development of its policies in community arts and the arts in education". It was decided in 1989 to set up the Artist-in-the-Community scheme, the Development Committee for Community Arts and the National Youth Arts Committee. The Arts Council wishes to record its appreciation and gratitude to the Members of the ACE Committee and to those persons who co-operated in the particular ACE projects from CAFE, Macnas, Fatima Development Group, Arts Education Workshop (Triskel Arts Centre), the Poetry Project and City Vision. In particular the Arts Council wishes to record its deep appreciation of the contribution to the ACE project by its partner, the Gulbenkian Foundation and its executives: Ben Whittaker (Director), lain Reid (Assistant Director, Arts to August 1989), Fiona Ellis (Assistant Director, Arts) and Simon Richey (Assistant Director, Education). "The most encouraging thing about community-oriented and community-situated arts activity in Ireland is that it is led by demand. There is no centralised programme dictating what should happen and when, no dogmatic idea of what 'community arts' is or should be. Many diverse activities such as festivals and classes, arts centres and renovations, community theatre workshops and local publishing ventures, heritage parks and video projects, skills exchange workshops and artists' residencies, are calling out for encouragement and support. Thinkers on matters cultural may be struggling to make sense of them, but what they need is for flexible policymakers to make more and better room for them'. "Art and the Ordinary - The ACE Report" edited by Ciaran Benson (I.S.B.N. 0 9515451 0 8) is available from the Arts Council. Arts Community/Education (ACE) £ CAFE/Creative Activity for Everyone

(see also Community Arts) 13,400 Cork Teachers Centre 6,000 Triskel Arts Centre

(see also Arts Centres) 7,000

Reports and Feasibility Studies 28,026

Administration 10,042

Total as Note 5 (page 50) 64,468

Capital Grants The additional £1 million allocated to the Council in November 1989 (see page 8) represented a significant improvement in the Government provision for the Council. Belltable Arts Centre, The City Centre and Triskel Arts Centre benefitted immediately (see below) but the greater portion of the commitments entered into by the Council at its December meeting will be reflected in future years' reports and financial statements. Total capital commitments at 31st December amounted to £977,000. Grants £ BeUtable Arts Centre, Limerick 24,000 The City Centre, Dublin 111,000 Gate Theatre, Dublin 50,000 Kilkenny Corporation/Watergate Theatre Project 6,500 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 30,000 Tyrone Guthrie Centre 27,000 Total as Note 5 (page 50)

248,500

Grant Received

Tyrone Guthrie Trust 21,074

Sundry Grants £ Arts Act, 1973, Section 12 2,400 Ciste Cholmcille 10,000 Minimum Income Guarantees 11,500 COTHU/Business Council for the Arts

and Heritage 500 24,400 Directly Promoted Activities Aosdána: Administration 3,616 Pension Scheme 14,296 17,912 East-West Conference 15,227 Popular Music Project 31,414 "Art Matters" 2,446 "Dreams and Responsibilities" -

a history of An Chomhairle Ealaíon 3,976 Research programmes 3,102 Information programmes 13,118 Awards programmes: sundry expenditure 5,142 Total as Note 5 (page 50) 116,737 Grants Received Dundalk UDC (Arts Act, 1973, Section 12) 400 Wexford Corporation

(Arts Act, 1973, Section 12) 2,000 Popular Music Industry Association 26,592 Council of Europe (East-West Conference) 5,495 UNESCO (East-West Conference) 5,080 Total as Note 3 (page 49) 39,567

An Chomhairle Ealaíon ACCOUNTS for the year ended 31st December 1989 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General I have examined in accordance with Auditing Standards the Accounts set out on pages 45 to 53 which are in the form approved under the provisions of the Arts Act, 1951.1 have obtained all the information and explanations which I considered necessary for the purpose of my audit. In my opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by An Chomhairle and the Accounts, which are in agreement with them, give a true and fair view of the state of its affairs at 31st December 1989 and of its transactions and source and application of funds for the year then ended.

P. L. McDonnell, Comptroller and Auditor General 28th November 1990 STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES General 1. An Chomhairle Ealaíon is an independent body set up pursuant to the Arts Acts 1951 and 1973 to promote and assist

the arts. 2. The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention. 3. Oireachtas Grant

Income shown as Oireachtas Grant-in-Aid is the actual cash received in the year from the Vote for An Chomhairle Ealaíon (£4,169,000) and the Vote for Increases in Remuneration (£32,000). Income from the National Lottery and the Funds of Suitors is also the cash received in the year.

4. Fixed Assets

Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depredation which is charged at rates calculated to write off the cost of each asset over its expected useful life on a straight line basis, as follows:

Furniture and equipment over 5 years Motor vehicle over 4 years Works of art are stated at cost and are not depreciated.

5. Capital Account

The Capital Account represents the unamortised value of income used to acquire fixed assets. The transfer to or from the Income and Expenditure Account represents the net change in the book value of fixed assets.

6. Bad Debts

No provision is made in these accounts for bad debts. Debts and Loans are written-off as necessary in the year in which it is recognised that they have become irrecoverable.

An Chomhairle Ealaíon INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT for the year ended 31st December 1989 1989 1988

Notes IR£ IR£

Income Oireachtas Grant-in-aid 4,201,000 4,924,000 National Lottery (1) 2,948,000 1,880,000 Funds of Suitors (2) 100,000 - Other grants (3) 147,980 275,085 Other Income (4) 25,995 17,131 7,422,975 7,096,216

Current Expenditure General Expenditure on the arts (5) 6,792,433 6,472,160 Administration (6) 591,085 580,594 7,383,518 7,052,754

Surplus 39,457 43,462 Transfer to Capital Account (8) 28,142 26,057

Net Surplus for the year 11,315 17,405

Accumulated deficit brought forward (79,586) (96,991)

Accumulated deficit carried forward (68,271) (79,586)

The Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles and Notes 1 to 13 form part of these accounts. Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman. Adrian Munnelly, Director. 26th November 1990

An Chomhairle Ealaíon BALANCE SHEET AT 31st DECEMBER 1989 1989 1988 Notes IR£ IR£ Fixed Assets (7) 229,063 200,921 Trust Funds (9) 119,380 116,522 Loans (10) 148,641 82,965 Prize Bonds 505 505 Current Assets Grants paid in advance 110,976 - Debtors and prepayments 68,930 51,296 Cash at bank 126,278 35,309 306,184 86,605 Current Liabilities Creditors and accruals 63,789 56,920 Grants and guarantees outstanding 459,812 192,741 523,601 249,661 Net Current Liabilities (217,417) (163,056) Total Assets less Current Liabilities

280,172

237,857

Represented by:

Capital Account (8) 229,063 200,921 Income and Expenditure Account: Deficit (68,271) (79,586) Trust Funds (9) 119,380 116,522 280,172 237,857 The Statement of Accounting Policies and Principles and Notes 1 to 13 form part of these accounts. Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman. Adrian Munnelly, Director. 26th November 1990

An Chomhairle Ealaíon STATEMENT OF SOURCE AND USE OF FUNDS for the year ended 31st December 1989 1989 1988 IR£ IR£ Source of funds: Surplus for the year 11,315 17,405 Proceeds on the disposal of fixed assets 11,095 - Loans repaid 46,985 64,401 Adjustments for items not involving the movement of funds: Depreciation 17,374 15,239 Surplus on disposal of fixed assets (3,145) - Transfer to Capital Account 28,142 26,057 Loans converted to grants 189 8,000 111,955 131,102 Use of funds: Loans advanced 112,850 34,125 Purchase of fixed assets 53,466 41,296 Total uses of funds 166,316 75,421 Net increase (decrease) in funds (54,361) 55,681 Increase (Decrease) in working capital: Grants paid in advance 110,976 - Debtors and prepayments 17,634 17,929 Creditors and accruals (6,869) 14,453 Grants and guarantees outstanding (267,071) 97,073 Movement in net liquid funds Cash at bank 90,969 (73,774) (54,361) 55,681 Colm Ó hEocha, Chairman. Adrian Munnelly, Director. 26th November 1990

Note 1: National Lottery Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 (1) (a) of the National Lottery Act, 1986, a sum of £2,948,000 was paid to the Council on the determination of the Government and was expended in accordance with Section 5 (2) of the Arts Act, 1951 as part of the Council's general programme of support for the arts. Note 2: Funds of Suitors Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (2) (a) of the Funds of Suitors Act, 1984, a sum of £100,000 was paid to the Council on the determination of the Taoiseach and will be expended in accordance with Section 5 (2) of the Arts Act, 1951 as part of the Council's programme of grant-aid for capital projects. Note 3: Other Grants (The project or scheme for which each grant was designated is given in parentheses) 1989 £ £ Literature: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grants) 26,160 Coras Tráchtála (Publishing Seminar) 1,000 Department of Justice (Writers Workshops for Prisoners) 2,241 Industrial Development Authority (Publishing Seminar) 1,000 30,401 Visual Arts: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (German-Irish exchange exhibitions) 591 Spanish Cultural Institute (Award) 400 Dublin Corporation (Award) 1,500 Dublin County Council (Estella Solomons Exhibition) 300 Institut fur Auslands Beziehungen (German-Irish exchange exhibitions) 1,231 4,022 Opera: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Opera Theatre Company) 3,333

Dance: Dublin Corporation (Award) 1,500

Traditional Arts: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grant) 11,037

Music: Dublin Corporation (Award) 1,500 Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grant) 3,432 4,932 Community Arts: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grant) 3,548 Regions: Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Grant) 28,566

Capital: Tyrone Guthrie Trust 21,074

Sundry: Council of Europe (East-West Conference) 5,495 Dundalk Urban District Council (Scholarships) 400 Popular Music Industry Association 26,592 UNESCO (East-West Conference) 5,080 Wexford Corporation (Scholarships) 2,000 39,567

147,980

Note 4: Other Income 1989 1988 Sundry income 22,850 17,131 Surplus on disposal of fixed assets 3,145 -

25,995 17,131

Note 5: General Expenditure on the Arts Grants Directly

Promoted Activities

1989 Total

1988 Total

£ £ £ £

Literature 446,072 4,156 450,228 462,387

*Visual Arts 752,201 34,646 786,847 822,973

Film 211,600 - 211,600 123,975

Drama 3,012,538 - 3,012,538 2,850,633

Dance 212,648 1,959 214,607 417,114

Traditional Arts 173,137 1,588 174,725 162,805

Opera 392,333 266 392,599 328,500

Music 320,090 - 320,090 323,723

Arts Centres 419,250 2,878 422,128 359,050

Education 68,420 40,454 108,874 72,437

Community Arts and Festivals 107,500 - 107,500 96,450

Arts/Community/Education 26,400 38,068 64,468 85,441

Arts development in the regions 145,972 15,020 160,992 137,732

Capital 248,500 - 248,500 109,844

Sundry 24,400 92,337 116,737 119,096

TOTALS 6,561,061 231,372 6,792,433 6,472,160

*Visual Arts expenditure includes grants towards the cost of works of art acquired by approved bodies under the Council's Joint Purchase Scheme. The works of art may not be resold without the prior agreement of the Council and, in the event of such agreement, they shall not be resold for less than their original price, and half the sum realised shall be refunded to the Council. Note 6: Administration 1989 1988 £ £ Salaries, PRSI and Superannuation 365,387 347,486

Council and Staff Expenses 79,757 86,536 Consultants' Fees and Expenses 9,282 8,293 Rent, Light, Heat Insurances, Cleaning, Repairs and other House Expenses 55,057 58,452 Printing Stationery, Postage, Telephone and Sundry Expenses 64,228 64,588

Depreciation 17,374 15,239

591,085 580,594

Note 7: Fixed Assets Furniture Works of Motor and Art Vechicle Equipment TOTAL Cost £ £ £ £ Balance at 31st December 1988 164,536 15,900 66,927 247,363 Additions at cost 24,530 15,670 13,266 53,466 Disposals at cost - (15,900) - (15,900) Balance at 31st December 1989 189,066 15,670 80,193 284,929 Depreciation Balance at 31st December 1988 - 7,950 38,492 46,442 Charge for the year - 3,918 13,456 17,374 Disposals - (7,950) - (7,950) Balance at 31st December 1989 - 3,918 51,948 55,866 Net Book Value At 31st December 1989 189,066 11,752 28,245 229,063 At 31st December 1988 164,536 7,950 28,435 200,921 Note 8: Capital Account 1989 1988 £ £ Balance at 1st January 200,921 174,864 Purchase of Fixed Assets 53,466 41,296 Disposal of Fixed Assets (15,900) - 37,566 41,296 Depredation 17,374 15,239 Depredation on disposals (7,950) - 9,424 15,239 Transfer from Income and Expenditure Account 28,142 26,057 Balance at 31st December 229,063 200,921

Note 9: Trust Funds Assets at 31st December 1989 £ £ President Douglas Hyde Award £1,342 11.50% Finance Stock, 1991-93 1,307 (Market Value of Securities £1,347) Cash at Bank 700 2,007 W. J. B. Macaulay Foundation £31,337 13% Exchequer Stock, 1994 31,249 £ 1,000 9% Capital Loan, 1996 1,020 (Market Value of Securities £35,200) Cash at Bank 5,428 37,697 New York Irish Institute Fund £ 1,736 11.50% Finance Stock, 1991-93 1,691 (Market Value of Securities £1,743) 1,691 Denis Devlin Foundation £ 3,761 13% Exchequer Stock, 1994 3,766 £ 1,000 9% Capital Loan, 1996 1,020 (Market Value of Securities £5,060) Cash at Bank 1,689 6,475 Ciste Cholmcille £ 1,200 7% National Loan, 1987-92 1,030 £ 1,020 9.75% National Development Loan, 1992-97 1,005 £ 2,000 11 % National Loan, 1993-98 1,840 £ 4,467 Bank of Ireland Capital Stock 9,999 7,390 Allied Irish Banks pie 25p shares 7,926 (Market Value of Securities £41,487) 21,800 Debtor 1,151 Cash at Bank 13,707 36,658 Marten Toonder Foundation £ 6,000 11 % National Loan, 1993-98 5,583 £ 6,600 12% Conversion Stock, 1995 6,711 £ 4,370 13% Exchequer Stock, 1994 4,373 £ 7,028 Bank of Ireland Capital Stock 6,291 19,804 Allied Irish Banks pie 25p shares 11.998 (Market Value of Securities £104,415) 34,956 Creditor (5,000) Debtor 1,217 Cash at Bank 2,332 33,505 Reg Cant Memorial Fund Cash at Bank 990 Concannon Arts Award Cash at Bank 357 119,380 Securities are shown at cost and are held in trust by An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Note 9: (Continued) Movements of Trust Funds: 31st Income Expen- Loss on 31st December diture exchange December 1988 of invest- 1989 ments £ £ £ £ £ President Douglas Hyde Award 1,812 195 - - 2,007 W. J. B. Macaulay Foundation 36,718 4,479 (3,500) - 37,697 New York Irish Institute Fund 1,691 200 (200) - 1,691 Denis Devlin Foundation 5,808 667 - - 6,475 Ciste Cholmcile 37,955 13,954 (15,162) (89) 36,658 Marten Toonder Foundation 31,659 4,846 (3,000) - 33,505 Reg Cant Memorial Fund 879 111 - - 990 Concannon Arts Award - 357 - - 357 116,522 24,809 (21,862) (89) 119,380

Note 10: Interest Free Loans During 1989 seven additional interest-free loans were made: £ Balance at 31st December 1988 82,965 Additional Loans 112,850 Repayments (46,985) Loan written off (189) Balance at 31st December 1989 148,641

Note 11: Premises The Council occupies premises at 70 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 under a lease which expires in 2014. The annual rent is £53,000 subject to a review every five years. The next review falls due in 1994. Note 12: Future Commitments At 31st December 1989 the Council had entered into commitments in connection with various activities due to take place after that date. The amount involved, £5,176,000, is not reflected in these accounts. Note 13: Superannuation Schemes (a) A Staff Superannuation Scheme under Section 10 of the Arts Act, 1973, is in operation. The Scheme provides for equal contributions to be made by the Council and staff and for the insurance of retirement benefits, which are defined. An actuarial review of the Scheme undertaken as at 1st January 1989, disclosed a deficiency and strongly recommended a funding increase. A provision at current premium rates is maintained in respect of the expected liabilities but funds have not been provided to meet these liabilities. (b) A Superannuation Scheme is in operation for members of Aosdána on the basis of insured annuity contracts and defined contributions. The cost of the annual premiums is shared equally by the Council and the members.