Funding Decisions 2025 — Public Purse

Spending records

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2025	Pallas Projects/Studios	Arts Grant Funding — Visual Arts — Dublin City Council	Grant	€204,640.00
31 Dec 2025	Outlandish Theatre Platform	Arts Grant Funding — Arts Participation — Dublin City Council	Grant	€110,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Ormston House	Arts Grant Funding — Visual Arts — Limerick City Council	Grant	€160,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Opera Collective Ireland	Arts Grant Funding — Opera — Louth County Council	Grant	€208,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Ó Bhéal	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (English language) — Cork City Council	Grant	€13,200.00
31 Dec 2025	Now And Then Media Ltd.	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Tipperary County Council	Grant	€12,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Newell, Anna	Arts Grant Funding — Children and Young People's Arts — Wicklow County Council	Grant	€220,000.00
31 Dec 2025	New Island Books DAC	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (English language) — Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council	Grant	€112,200.00
31 Dec 2025	National String Quartet Foundation	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Cork County Council	Grant	€68,432.00
31 Dec 2025	National Circus Festival of Ireland	Arts Grant Funding — Circus — Kerry County Council	Grant	€94,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Musici Ireland	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Wexford County Council	Grant	€43,430.00
31 Dec 2025	Music in Kilkenny	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Kilkenny County Council	Grant	€29,328.00
31 Dec 2025	Music for Wexford	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Wexford County Council	Grant	€24,440.00
31 Dec 2025	Music for Galway	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Galway City Council	Grant	€93,253.00
31 Dec 2025	Museum Of Literature Ireland	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (English language) — Dublin City Council	Grant	€53,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Motion Chapel	Arts Grant Funding — Circus — Roscommon County Council	Grant	€40,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Mother Tongues	Arts Grant Funding — Children and Young People's Arts — South Dublin County Council	Grant	€64,300.00
31 Dec 2025	Mc Cague, Elaine	Arts Grant Funding — Circus — Dublin City Council	Grant	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2025	MART	Arts Grant Funding — Visual Arts — Dublin City Council	Grant	€77,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Luminosa Music	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Galway County Council	Grant	€53,768.00
31 Dec 2025	Louth Contemporary Music Ltd	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Louth County Council	Grant	€89,939.00
31 Dec 2025	Lords of Strut	Arts Grant Funding — Circus — Cork City Council	Grant	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Little Island	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (English language) — South Dublin County Council	Grant	€125,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Lismore Music Festival	Arts Grant Funding — Opera — Waterford City and County Council	Grant	€227,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Lismore Castle Arts	Arts Grant Funding — Visual Arts — Waterford City and County Council	Grant	€55,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Lilliput Press	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (English language) — Dublin City Council	Grant	€120,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Light Moves Festival Of Screendance	Arts Grant Funding — Dance — Limerick City and County Council	Grant	€60,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Leabhar Breac	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (Irish language) — Galway County Council	Grant	€25,179.00
31 Dec 2025	Leabhaircomhar	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (Irish language) — Dublin City Council	Grant	€24,585.00
31 Dec 2025	Landmark Productions	Arts Grant Funding — Theatre — Dublin City Council	Grant	€158,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Kirkos	Arts Grant Funding — Music — South Dublin County Council	Grant	€59,634.00
31 Dec 2025	Keigher, Anthony	Arts Grant Funding — Theatre — Roscommon County Council	Grant	€204,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Kaleidoscope Night	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council	Grant	€38,126.00
31 Dec 2025	Junk Ensemble	Arts Grant Funding — Dance — Dublin City Council	Grant	€145,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Jazz Ireland	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Dublin City Council	Grant	€28,350.00
31 Dec 2025	Irish Women In Jazz	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Dublin City Council	Grant	€9,028.00
31 Dec 2025	Irish Pages	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (English language) — Donegal County Council	Grant	€30,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Irish Composition Summer School	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Donegal County Council	Grant	€8,200.00
31 Dec 2025	Irish Composers’ Collective	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Dublin City Council	Grant	€14,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Irish Arts Review	Arts Grant Funding — Visual Arts — Dublin City Council	Grant	€60,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Ionad Cultúrtha	Arts Grant Funding — Traditional Arts — Cork County Council	Grant	€48,000.00
31 Dec 2025	International Literature Festival Dublin	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (English language) — Dublin City Council	Grant	€140,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Interface	Arts Grant Funding — Visual Arts — Galway County Council	Grant	€62,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle	Arts Grant Funding — Traditional Arts — Donegal County Council	Grant	€30,500.00
31 Dec 2025	Inishowen Carnival Group	Arts Grant Funding — Spectacle — Donegal County Council	Grant	€50,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Holy Show	Arts Grant Funding — Literature (English language) — South Dublin County Council	Grant	€22,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Historical Harp Society of Ireland	Arts Grant Funding — Traditional Arts — Kilkenny County Council	Grant	€67,500.00
31 Dec 2025	HATCH Theatre Company	Arts Grant Funding — Theatre — Dublin City Council	Grant	€211,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Greywood Arts	Arts Grant Funding — Arts Participation — Cork County Council	Grant	€23,000.00
31 Dec 2025	Great Music in Irish Houses	Arts Grant Funding — Music — Dublin City Council	Grant	€39,104.00

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

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