Funding Decisions 2023 — Public Purse

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2023	Highlanes Gallery	Strategic Funding - Touring — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€57,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Gate Theatre, The	Strategic Funding - Touring — Theatre — Ireland	Grant	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Fishamble Theatre Company	Strategic Funding - Touring — Theatre — Ireland	Grant	€50,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Fidget Feet	Strategic Funding - Touring — Circus — Ireland	Grant	€100,000.00
31 Dec 2023	CoisCeim Dance Theatre	Strategic Funding - Touring — Dance — Ireland	Grant	€15,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Cairdeas na bhFidiléirí	Strategic Funding - Touring — Traditional Arts — Ireland	Grant	€1,500.00
31 Dec 2023	Blue Raincoat Theatre Company	Strategic Funding - Touring — Theatre — Ireland	Grant	€40,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Ballet Ireland	Strategic Funding - Touring — Dance — Ireland	Grant	€40,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Age and Opportunity	Strategic Funding - Touring — Arts Participation — Ireland	Grant	€5,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Access Cinema	Strategic Funding - Touring — Film — Ireland	Grant	€20,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Youth Theatre Ireland	Strategic Funding — Children and Young People's Arts — Ireland	Grant	€300,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Young Irish Film Makers	Strategic Funding — Children and Young People's Arts — Ireland	Grant	€90,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Writers’ Week	Strategic Funding — Literature (English language) — Ireland	Grant	€70,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Wexford Festival Opera	Strategic Funding — Opera — Ireland	Grant	€1,680,000.00
31 Dec 2023	West Cork Music	Strategic Funding — Music — Ireland	Grant	€445,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Waterford Spraoi	Strategic Funding — Spectacle — Ireland	Grant	€400,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Waterford Healing Arts Trust	Strategic Funding — Arts Participation — Ireland	Grant	€200,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Visual Artists Ireland	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€300,000.00
31 Dec 2023	United Fall	Strategic Funding — Dance — Ireland	Grant	€210,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Tyrone Guthrie Centre	Strategic Funding — Artists support — Ireland	Grant	€377,000.00
31 Dec 2023	The Stinging Fly	Strategic Funding — Literature (English language) — Ireland	Grant	€200,000.00
31 Dec 2023	The Gallery Press	Strategic Funding — Literature (English language) — Ireland	Grant	€180,000.00
31 Dec 2023	The Gallery of Photography	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€277,150.00
31 Dec 2023	The Douglas Hyde Gallery	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€357,000.00
31 Dec 2023	The Contemporary Music Centre	Strategic Funding — Music — Ireland	Grant	€415,000.00
31 Dec 2023	The Ark	Strategic Funding — Children and Young People's Arts — Ireland	Grant	€711,900.00
31 Dec 2023	Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Ltd	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€490,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Teac Damsa	Strategic Funding — Dance — Ireland	Grant	€320,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Sing Ireland	Strategic Funding — Music — Ireland	Grant	€315,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy	Strategic Funding — Traditional Arts — Ireland	Grant	€125,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Salmon Poetry	Strategic Funding — Literature (English language) — Ireland	Grant	€115,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€487,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Rough Magic Theatre Company	Strategic Funding — Theatre — Ireland	Grant	€333,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann	Strategic Funding — Literature (English language) — Ireland	Grant	€450,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Píobairí Uilleann Teoranta, Na	Strategic Funding — Traditional Arts — Ireland	Grant	€520,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Pan Pan Theatre Company	Strategic Funding — Theatre — Ireland	Grant	€375,000.00
31 Dec 2023	New Theatre, The	Strategic Funding — Theatre — Ireland	Grant	€102,000.00
31 Dec 2023	New Music Dublin	Strategic Funding — Music — Ireland	Grant	€260,000.00
31 Dec 2023	National Youth Orchestra of Ireland	Strategic Funding — Children and Young People's Arts — Ireland	Grant	€65,000.00
31 Dec 2023	National Youth Council of Ireland	Strategic Funding — Children and Young People's Arts — Ireland	Grant	€116,000.00
31 Dec 2023	National Sculpture Factory Cork	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€333,200.00
31 Dec 2023	National Irish Visual Arts Library	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€83,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Music Network	Strategic Funding — Music — Ireland	Grant	€670,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Munster Literature Centre	Strategic Funding — Literature (English language) — Ireland	Grant	€206,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Macnas	Strategic Funding — Street Performance — Ireland	Grant	€361,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Liz Roche Company	Strategic Funding — Dance — Ireland	Grant	€270,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Little Island	Strategic Funding — Literature (English language) — Ireland	Grant	€125,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Literature Ireland	Strategic Funding — Literature (English language) — Ireland	Grant	€350,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Limerick Printmakers	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€75,000.00
31 Dec 2023	Limerick City Gallery of Art	Strategic Funding — Visual Arts — Ireland	Grant	€171,000.00

^* Payment date may be the end of the reporting quarter when the entity does not publish an exact date.

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