Culture Ireland

The Covid-19 crisis has put millions of independent artists and small companies around the world under existential threat

Arts Council to release €1m to support artists suffering due to ongoing Covid-19 crisis

As funding for the arts continues to erode, here are the questions to ask on the doorstep

NCFA says 72% of artists earn less than the minimum wage, 72% don’t have pension

Cultural institutions need board members, and it can be rewarding (just not financially)

DCU communications head succeeds Sheila Pratschke at Government arts agency

Susan Kirby, CEO of St Patrick’s Festival, wants to expand the celebrations

Premises in Camden to be redeveloped to better serve ‘diverse needs’ of Irish community

The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle

How much of cultural funding is now devoted to the State’s own bureaucratic processes and functions in this area?

Actor named as cultural ambassador for Ireland says ‘we can’t take art for granted’

The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America

Irish Film Festival London returns next week for eighth year

President said pioneering musician, composer and academic 'fearless sense of exploration'

Minister announces Markievicz bursaries for women artists and writers, to mark women’s suffrage, and hopes Galway 2020 appoints new artistic director soon

President says €317,000 allowance is used to cater for events at Áras attended by 20,000

After a multimillion-euro renovation, the arts institute is ready to spearhead a renaissance

As the international and fringe festivals close, Irish teams reflect on a good month

Eileen Gray and Eilís O’Connell in an artistic dialogue across a century at villa E1027

GB18 sees Irish theatre, art, dance and music on show all year long in Britain

Campaigners compare Taoiseach’s promise unfavourably with Justin Trudeau’s actions

Angela Dorgan of First Music Contact and Hard Working Class Heroes on how they help bands progress

‘It’s one of our most basic instincts; to listen to a song, listen to a poem – even in this era when people have their noses stuck in their tablets, it still works’, says the poet Paul Muldoon

Jones’s idea for Ireland’s entry into the Venice Biennale was to create a fictional lost past where women held power

Minister Heather Humphreys is asking cultural institutions to step up to the plate on gender

A love of flying through the air, clowning and juggling is taken to new levels

Strategy will place creative and cultural infrastructure ‘at the centre of Irish life’

Enda Kenny says €48m cost of Easter Rising commemorations was money well spent

In the How Music Works series, Niall Byrne talks to people about their work in music. This week, Ken Allen, label owner and manager with Faction Records on building James Vincent McMorrow’s career, and the problems facing the Irish music industry

The Government’s framework national cultural policy is low on specifics. Here are our suggestions to help the arts sector now

The UK’s decision to leave the European Union is already having an effect in Ireland. Some fear it could soon decide where bands can go on tour

Working Abroad: Gary Dunne, director of arts and culture at the London Irish Centre

As the art market becomes increasingly polarised, Art $ummit looks at the changing relationship between art and money

The ‘Jerusalem of Europe’ has endured two world wars and a horrendous civil war. Even so, a generosity of spirit endures among the people

A healthy mix of business and creativity makes South By SouthWest Interactive 2016 a success for ‘Ireland Inc’

This week provides Ireland with the perfect opportunity to showcase itself to US investors

Plus, Panti Bliss to speak at South by Southwest (SXSW) media and technology conference

IDA and Irish start-ups heading for prestigious event in Austin, Texas

Free tin whistles, education changes and plenty of funding are just some of the arts promises in the various political parties' manifestos – but is there any substance to the pre-election proposals? And how do these compare to the National Campaign for the Arts' vision?

Minister discusses EU referendum during meeting with British foreign secretary