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Kilkenny to benefit as Arts Council invests in high-quality events

People in Kilkenny will experience a wide range of high-quality arts events in the months ahead, the Arts Council said today, with funding for a number of local organisations and artists through two grants programmes. Music in Kilkenny, Historical ...

01 Oct 2019 at 10:53

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Gifted Kilkenny violinist to share stage with Russian genius on Friday

Internationally acclaimed Kilkenny violinist, Patrick Rafter will play the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Friday with the celebrated Russian violinist, Maxim Vengerov in Bach’s double violin concerto. The musical genius from just outside the ...

25 Mar 2019 at 15:15

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Four schools in Kilkenny to join Arts Council Creative Schools initiative

The Arts Council announced today that offers have been made to 186 schools and centres across Ireland who applied to be part of the Creative Schools initiative. The very high level of applications to be part of this 2-year process reflects the ...

03 Oct 2022 at 17:00

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L̶e̶s̶s̶ Stress M̶o̶r̶e̶ Success at Kilkenny Arts Office Gallery

The first exhibition of the Kilkenny County Council Arts Office’s ‘Emerging Curator in Residence Programme 2020’ has now opened at the Arts Office Gallery on Dean Street in Kilkenny, and will be in situ until October 24. The ‘L̶e̶s̶s̶ Stress ...

16 Sept 2020 at 16:55

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More supports for Kilkenny artists as The Arts Council release their Three-Year Plan

The Arts Council has announced the release of their new Three-Year Plan 2023 – 2025. The Plan which focuses on supporting more people to make art and to participate in art, no matter where they live or who they are. The Council’s Strategy ...

10 Jul 2023 at 13:03

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Kilkenny writers selected for National Mentoring Programme

Local writers, Nuala Roche and Caoileann O’Mahony, have been selected by the Irish Writers Centre to receive professional literary mentoring over the next eight months from an acclaimed Irish writer of their choice. After a national call ...

12 Aug 2022 at 13:54

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Arts Council chief warns ‘pandemic habits may lead to arts losing a generation’

The director of the Arts Council has expressed concern that young people are not attending plays, art exhibitions and other cultural performances as often as before the pandemic. Maureen Kennelly said that although attendance across all ...

23 Jul 2023 at 11:00

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Millions spent on Arts Council failed IT scheme ‘absolutely alarming’ – Tanaiste

The millions of euro spent by the Arts Council on an abandoned IT project has been described by Tanaiste Simon Harris as “absolutely alarming”. It emerged that the Arts Council had spent 6.6675 million euro on a failed IT project that ...

13 Feb 2025 at 14:52

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Arts Council put under governance review after wasting millions on IT project

All activities of the Arts Council are to be subjected to an external review after it accrued millions of euros in losses in pursuit of an unsuccessful IT project. Arts Minister Patrick O’Donovan announced the governance review after ...

12 Feb 2025 at 13:58

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Kilkenny to benefit as Arts Council invests in high-quality events

30 Sept 2019 at 18:07

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Work of artists in Belfast collective goes on display in Dublin

A new exhibition in Dublin will feature an eclectic range of work from members of a Belfast-based community arts collective. The Now That’s What I Call Vault exhibition at The Mart Gallery in Rathmines, Dublin, will show the ...

19 Feb 2023 at 12:02

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Creative Schools programme now open for applications

The Arts Council have this week announced that applications have opened for schools to apply for the Creative Schools 2022/2023 programme. Designed to provide opportunities for children and young people to build their ...

07 Apr 2022 at 12:34

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