2025 dlr Arts Grant Scheme

Closing Date: Friday 25 October 2024 at 1pm

Grants are available to provide financial assistance to individual artists, arts groups and arts organisations engaged in arts projects or events at local or county level and to support the professional development and arts practice of individual artists.

If you have any questions regarding the grant process please contact cbrown@dlrcoco.ie or arts@dlrcoco.ie

 

We also fund Community Arts Grants and Arts Access Grants for Older People. These are available to support local arts activities and projects with services and community groups throughout the County. For help or advice on these two grants please contact Máire in the Arts Office. Email: mdavey@dlrcoco.ie or by phone (01) 236 2756.

 

There will be an online briefing session on Thurs 17th October at 10.30am. Please email cbrown@dlrcoco.ie to register. 

To Apply click on the following links: 

Arts Grant 2025: Event, Project & Collaboration 

Arts Grant 2025: Professional Development

Arts Grant 2025: Community Arts Grant

Arts Grant 2025: Arts Access for Older People

dlr Arts Grants briefing 2024-25

2023 dlr Arts Grants Awarded

2023 Arts Grants Awarded

General Arts Grant

Aisling Smith

Ana Canals Ni Eigeartaigh (LipZinc Theatre)

Caimin Gilmore

Caroline Bracken

Cathal McGuire

Cian Malin

Ciana Fitzgerald

Ciara McMahon

Dalkey Players

DLR Creativity in the Classroom

Dublin Youth Dance Company

Dun Laoghaire Musical & Dramatic Society

Freya Gillespie

Grace Banks

Grace Morgan

Ian Nyquist

Laoise Murray

Lee Welch

Linda Quinlan

Michelle Walshe

Molly O'Shea (Improvised Landscapes)

Natalie Pullen

Olga Vnukova (Art Hill)

Pearse Stokes (Aduantas)

Rachel Enright Murphy

Roisin Lowry - Lawli

Rónán Mac Dubhghaill - (Luke Cassidy)

Sandyford Youth Band

Sara Keating

Sharon Murphy

Shauna Carrick (Aon Sceal Theatre)

Spero String Quartet

Susan Early Artist

Tzarini Meyler

Tzarini Meyler

Community Small Arts Grant

Blackrock Community Mens Shed

Balally Players

Blackrock College Adult Choir

Drama League of Ireland

Eamon Sweeney

Sandyford Little Theatre Company

Dundrum One Act Drama Festival

Ballybrack Climate Action

Hanna Isseyegh workshops

Flossie and the Beach Cleaners

The Dublin School of Drama & Communication

Kilmacud Musical Society

Glencullen Community Hall

Mary Brighid Mc Donagh

St. Patricks Park Residents Association

Artivisim

Yvonne Reddin

Arts Access Grant - Older persons groups

Brendan Supple - Elders Theatre Group

Jennifer O'Neill Vintage Youth Dance Ensemble

Margaret Hendley - Ballinteer Active Retirement Association (BARA)

Rosemary Fox - Mount Merrion Active Retirement Association

Sheila Grace - Shankill Day Care Centre

Siobhan Grant - Saint John of God Hospital 

2022 Arts Grants Awarded

2022 Arts Grants Awarded

Grace Morgan Arts Professional Development €2,500

Niamh Lawlor Arts Professional Development €2,500

Cian Malin Arts Professional Development €1,500

Chris Cole Arts Professional Development €2,000

Naoise Dack Arts Professional Development €2,000

Mark Clare Arts Professional Development €2,000

Michelle Walshe Arts Professional Development €300

Heather O'Sullivan Arts Professional Development €1,600

Caroline Bracken Arts Professional Development €800

Aoife MacAtamney Arts Professional Development €1,800

Janet Moran Arts Professional Development €1,800

Mary Burke Arts Professional Development €875

Kathy Tynan Arts Professional Development €1,500

Ruairi O'Shea Arts Professional Development €1,000

Aingeala de Burca Arts Professional Development €1,300

MiriamSweeney Arts Professional Development €1,300

Beatrix Herriott O'Gorman Arts Professional Development €1,300

Cara Dunne Arts Professional Development €1,300

Aran Sheehy Arts Professional Development €800

Siobhan O'Callaghan Arts Professional Development €1,300

Rebecca Collis Arts Professional Development €650

William Dunleavy Arts Professional Development €1,000

Karen Ebbs Arts Professional Development €385

Leo Cullen Arts Professional Development €490

Martin Meegan (Sandyford Youth Band) Art Participation & Learning €1,600

Carole O'Connor Arts Project & Event €2,500

Claire Halpin Arts Project & Event €4,000

Colin Murphy Arts Project & Event €3,700

Hugh Farrell Arts Project & Event €3,500

Irish Comics Arts Project & Event €2,000

Mariam Ribon (Youth Dance) Arts Project & Event €4,000

Oona Hyland Arts Project & Event €1,200

Monica Munoz Marin Arts Project & Event €2,000

Gina Hogan Arts Access for Older Persons €1,000

Jennifer O'Neill Arts Access for Older Persons €1,800

Sheila Grace (Shankill Day Centre) Arts Access for Older Persons €1,700

Siobhan Grant (St. Joseph's) Arts Access for Older Persons €1,900
 
St. Patricks Res Assoc Community Small Arts Grant €300

Brighid Mary Mc Donagh Community Small Arts Grant €1,300

Carmel Quinn (Blackrock College Choir) Community Small Arts Grant €650

Hailey Kierse (Ballybrack Climate Action) Community Small Arts Grant €750

Peter O’Brien (GMDS) Community Small Arts Grant €1,300

Dalkey Players Community Small Arts Grant €650

Rachel Fallon (Harold School) Community Small Arts Grant €1,300

Grace Tallon (Newpark Music) Community Small Arts Grant €1,300

Kirk St. Lewis (HSE) Community Small Arts Grant €1,200

Thomas Joseph (Social Space) Community Small Arts Grant €650

Steven Slusarski - Bike Hub Community Small Arts Grant €1,300

Denise O'Beirne (Dizzyfeet) Community Small Arts Grant €300

2021 Arts Grants Awarded

2021 Arts Grants Awarded

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is delighted to announce that it has awarded the Arts Grants through the 2020 grants scheme. These grants will encourage and enable the creation of new projects, events or educational opportunities such as exhibitions, performances and school workshops; all of which will be showcased or celebrated in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. The grants will also support artists’ career development.

Additionally grants were awarded under Arts Access Grants. These grants support areas of greatest need where a gap has been identified in the provision of artistic expression within communities, for example our local retirement groups. Arts Access Grants are supported by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

General Arts Grants

Susan Early

Graphic Studio Dublin 

Julie Shanley

Jason Dunne

Smashing Times Theatre Project

Jonathan Cummins

Andrea Kavanagh

Laura Dowdell

Aura Stone

Norma Sheehan

Bryan Pepper

Hugh Delap

Doreen Kennedy

Aine O'Brien - 5K Histories

Shauna Carrick

Lee Welch

Laoise Murray

Janet Moran

Arts Access for Older People

Beaufort Day Care Centre Arts Classes

Vintage Youth Dance Ensemble

Brendan Supple - Elder Theatre Group

Community Small Arts Grants

Imagine Dundrum

Sandyford Little Theatre Company

Blackrock College Adult Choir

Dundrum One Act Theatre Festival

Balally Players

Women4Women

Dance Theatre of Ireland

St Patricks Park Residents

Dalkey Players

2020 Arts Grants

2020 Arts Grants Awarded

Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is delighted to announce that it has awarded the Arts Grants through the 2020 grants scheme. These grants will encourage and enable the creation of new projects, events or educational opportunities such as exhibitions, performances and school workshops; all of which will be showcased or celebrated in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. The grants will also support artists’ career development.

Additionally grants were awarded under Arts Access Grants. These grants support areas of greatest need where a gap has been identified in the provision of artistic expression within communities, for example our local retirement groups. Arts Access Grants are supported by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Arts Grants:

Graphic Studio Dublin

 Andrea Kavanagh

 Annmarie Greevy

Christopher Guilfoyle

Derek Fitzpatrick

 Heather MacLeod

Hugh Hick

Jason Dunne

 Laura Connolly

 Leah HIlliard

Floating World Productions

 Bex Shelford

Colin Murphy & Conall Morrisson

Conor Linehan

Dún Laoghaire Summer Organ Concerts

Joyce Duffy

Dun Laoghaire Musical & Dramatic Society

Púca Puppets

Scream for Ireland

 

Arts Access grants:

The Mill Theatre over 65s Group

Kilmacud Musical Society

Balally Players

Glencullen Dundrum Musical & Dramatic Society

Dalkey Players

Dublin County Choir

Dundrum One Act Drama Festival

Dance Theatre of Ireland CLG

Creative Adventures

 

We are also delighted to announce the following recipients of Community Arts Grants:

 

DLR Creativity in the Classroom

NCCWN SWAN - Southside Women's Action Network

Vintage Youth Dance Ensemble

Young at Art

Rosemount Community Development Group

Shankill Day Care Centre

Saint John of God Hospital clg; Saint Joseph's Shankill

Saint John of God Hospital clg; Saint Joseph's Shankill

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