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Kilkenny Arts Festival Kicks Off Today

By Ryan Harmon
The Kilkenny Arts Festival is taking place from the 5th to the 15th of August.  There is a mixture of live performances, installations, screenings, and exhibitions. There are free and paid events. Since it started in 1974, Kilkenny Arts Festival has gathered many of the world’s finest musicians, performers, writers and artists in Ireland’s medieval city. […]
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Chairperson and Vice Chair Elected at Inaugural Meeting of Women’s Caucus

By Ryan Harmon
The inaugural meeting of Fingal County Council’s Women’s Caucus took place in Newbridge house last week. At the meeting, Cllr Karen Power and Cllr Joan Hopkins were elected as Chairperson and Vice-Chair respectively. After chairing the inaugural meeting of the women’s caucus, the Mayor of Fingal, Councillor Seána Ó Rodaigh, said, “the number of women councillors […]
Culture News

€560,000 Funding for Global Promotion of Irish Arts

By Ryan Harmon
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D., announced funding of €560,000 through Culture Ireland for the global promotion of Irish arts in 2021 and early 2022. The funding is to support 56 projects presenting Irish dance, film, literature, music, theatre and the visual arts worldwide. Announcing the awards Minister […]
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Career Change is Strong Trend in New Female-Led Businesses Being Established in Rural Ireland

By Ryan Harmon
Career change is a strong trend that is taking hold in rural Ireland as new female-led businesses have started to emerge with help from the Accelerating the Creation Of Rural Nascent Start-ups (ACORNS) programme. ACORNS is a highly-successful development initiative to support early-stage female entrepreneurs living in rural Ireland. Among the 50 new female led […]
Culture Education News

Personal Creativity Competition for Disability Service Users Launched

By Ryan Harmon
Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman TD, and Minister of State for Disabilities, Anne Rabbitte TD, have launched a ‘Personal Creativity Competition’ for disability service users. As part of the supports provided to adults with disabilities through the health and personal social service, people with disabilities are offered
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DLR Wins Architectual RIAI Award

By Ryan Harmon
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (DLR) Architectual Department have been announced as the joint winner alongside King John’s Castle in Carlingford, Co. Louth in the Public Space Category the 2021 RIAI Award. The award recognized excellence in their COVID-19 placemaking projects in Blackrock, Glasthule, Dundrum, Dalkey and along the new Coastal Mobility Cycle
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Plans for Renewed Grand Parade Quarter in Cork

By Ryan Harmon
Cork city centre’s historic grand parade quarter will be at the heart of one of the most transformative and ambitious public realm renewal programmes ever undertaken in the city, beginning next year. Cork City Council has released details of the first phase of the €46.05 million “Grand Parade Quarter” project which will see a complete […]
Culture Education News

Trinity Names Artists to Create First Sculptures of Women for Old Library

By Ryan Harmon
Trinity College Dublin has awarded commissions to four artists to create four new sculptures bust portraits representing women scholars for display in the Long Room of the Old Library. The sculptures will represent the scientist Rosalind Franklin, the folklorist, dramatist and theatre-founder Augusta Gregory, the mathematician Ada Lovelace and the pioneering women’s rights