Arts Council Grantees

Who got an Arts Council Grant this year? Interesting they tell you the names of the panel.

Bursary, Round 2, 2010

Panel: Aoife O'Sullivan, Kathleen Tynan, Fergus Sheil, Catherine Nunes, Deirdre Mulrooney, David Bolger, John Duncan, Mike Fitzpatrick, peter Cody, Sarah Pierce, Liam Ó Maoladha, Ellen Cranitch, Caoimhin MacAoidh, Tessa Hadley, Kevin Barry, Gerald Dawe, Marie Lo

The Arts Council received a total of 275 applications for this award and has offered a total 59 awards in response

Armstrong, Aileen Galway County Council €6,000

Baxter, Greg Dublin City Council €8,000

Brady, Jennifer Dublin City Council €5,720

Graham, Kevin Dublin City Council €2,880

Harpur, James Cork County Council €8,000

Logue, Antonia Dublin City Council €7,190

Maguire, Jim Wexford County Council €3,000

McCarrick, Jacqueline Louth County Council €750

Murray, Kathleen Dublin City Council €6,460

O Ceallaigh, Philip International €12,000

O'Callaghan, Billy Cork County Council €8,000

Quinn, Leeanne Dublin City Council €3,000

Regan, Nell Dublin City Council €8,000

St John, Philip Wicklow County Council €8,000

Whitney, Karl South Dublin County Council €3,000

Bursary, Round 1, 2010

Panel: Louis de Paor, Sinéad Mac Aodhan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaíll, Hugo Hamilton, Vona Groarke, James Ryan, Enda Wyley, Maoliosa Boyle, Nicky Gogan, John Hutchinson, Niall Mc Cullough, Grace Weir, Laurie Uprichard, John Scott, Marina Rafter, Kirsten Sheridan, Lesley McKimm, Neil Connolly, Philip Hammond, Ian Wilson, Deirdre Gribbin, Jessica Fuller, Róise Goan, Tríona Ní Dhuibhir, Conall Morrison, Justine Foster, Mark O'Brien, Eina McHugh, Zoe Conway, Nicholas Carolan, Máire Breatnach, T.V. Honan

The Arts Council received a total of 650 applications for this award and has offered a total of 111 awards in response

Auge, Celeste Galway County Council €3,000

Barrett, Colin Dublin City Council €3,000

Casby, Aoife Galway County Council €3,000

Casey, Eileen South Dublin County Council €650

Close, Helena Clare County Council €5,000

D'Arcy Collins, Stephen Cork County Council €3,000

Dyar, Martin Mayo County Council €3,000

Fanning, Gerard Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €15,000

Hayes, Katy Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €8,000

Healy, Alan Dublin City Council €7,000

Higgins, Orla Galway City Council €5,000

Kehoe, Denis Dublin City Council €6,000

Kelly, Ronan Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council €3,000

McCloskey, Molly Multi-annual bursary. €22,000 awarded over 2 years: €11,000 in 2010, and €11,000 2011 Dublin City Council €11,000

McKinley, Barry Kilkenny County Council €5,000

O'Loughlin, Ed Multi-annual bursary. €22,000 awarded over 2 years: €12,000 in 2010 and €10,000 in 2011 Dublin City Council €12,000

O'Malley, Mary Galway County Council €5,000

O'Sullivan, Leanne Cork County Council €10,000

Quinn, Justin International €12,000

Roper, Mark Kilkenny County Council €5,000

Stairs, Susan ublin City Council €5,000

Whyte, Pádraic Louth County Council €3,000

Put this on your Christmas List

You know someone who would love to find this under the tree. Yes, a calendar of photos of beer cans of Birmingham! For sale on lulu here.

Rolling Sun Book Festival

Have you heard about the inaugural Rolling Sun Book Festival, to be held in Westport over the weekend of November 12 to 14 next?

The quirky boutique festival aims to evoke the deep layers of our Celtic traditions – bardic and poetic, musical and carnival, cultural and spiritual peppered with a cocktail of craic and a soupcon of daftness.

And where better to do that than in the shadow of the ancient spiritual mountain, Croagh Patrick.

Fancy gaining a deeper understanding of the lyricism and shadowed layers of award-winning writer, Claire Keegan’s works.

“The feel for the form of the Wicklow-born writer Claire Keegan is as unwavering as if she had first begun to sing opera in the mountains without ever having a music lesson. Her subversive stories are written with the sureness of touch possessed by only the most natural of musicians,” Eileen Battersby in the Irish Times.

Longford-born critic and writer, Belinda McKeon interviews Ms Keegan after she has read from her work in the Plaza Hotel on Saturday morning, November 13.

Later that evening, Belinda will read from her own work at the Sea, Sky and Shore Gallery on James Street.

Put poet Paul Durcan and Cór Mhaigh Eo together in Holy Trinity Church on Saturday night with a recital of songs and poetry by this innovative mingling of song and poetry.

The Rolling Sun Book Festival will be opened by Harry Hughes at 9.30pm, at the Clew Bay Hotel, on Friday, November 12.

The full programme is on Facebook (search for Rolling Sun Festival), or, for further information, contact 098 28088.

Salt launches new Irish imprint

Chris Agee, the Editor of Irish Pages, has joined Salt as the editor for Ireland, opening a new office of the literary business in Belfast. He will be responsible for developing a new programme of four to six Irish titles a year from April 2011. The business will operate under the imprint, Salt Ireland.

“I am delighted and honoured to be invited by Salt to undertake this role,” says Agee. “The Salt Ireland imprint will, uniquely, combine Irish editorial control with large British distribution. Like all other Salt titles, the imprint will produce books of the highest standard, on a par with the production values of The Gallery Press or Faber. In effect, Salt Ireland will become the island’s fifth major poetry press.”

Chris Agee’s third collection, (Salt, 2009), was short-listed for the 2010 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in poetry, funded by the Poet Laureate and organized by the Poetry Society in London. His anthology, The New North: Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland, will be published in Britain by Salt in January 2011. Irish Pages

The appointment was welcomed by Chris Hamilton-Emery, “Chris Agee is a gifted editor and poet, this new appointment marks our long term commitment to new Irish writing and we all look forward to developing a significant list of the highest quality.”

Submissions from Irish poets (North and South, published and unpublished), or non-Irish poets permanently resident in Ireland, are welcome and should be sent to Salt Ireland, Irish Pages Ltd, 129 Ormeau Road, Belfast BT7 ISH.

They have quite a few Irish poets on their list already. I hope they are looking for new names.

The Moth Magazine

The Moth Magazine has its own website now.

It's a new arts and literature magazine launched last June. Great list of writers and wonderful artists.
And now they're on to issues 2 and 3 and are asking for submissions.

The website is finally up and running. If you'd like to sample a few poems and stories, or to purchase copies of the magazine, then please visit www.themothmagazine.com.

Dermot Bolger for National Novel Writing Month

The lovely Dermot Bolger will be at the Irish Writers’ Centre on Friday 29th October at 2pm to kick-start National Novel Writing Month 2010. 12 contestants will be awarded the opportunity to participate in a free 2 hour Novel Writing workshop with him. They will then be opening up the centre to the 12 individuals Monday to Friday for the month of November, offering a writing space and facilities.

If you're interested, send an email or letter to the Irish Writers’ Centre with 100 words stating why they believe you should be chosen . They're looking for aspiring and established writers to partake. The winning candidates will be chosen by a panel of judges made up of staff members and tutors of the Irish Writers’ Centre.

Submissions should be sent with contact emails and telephone numbers to info@writerscentre.ie
Closing date: 26th October 2010

For more information about National Novel Writing Month visit:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano

Office Haiku for the Poetry Bus

Some of these Office Haiku were published in the Night and Day Anthology (New Island 2008) available here.

Here are no seasons –
we wear the same clothes year round,
watch weather through glass

Connor wants Mark’s job,
Mark’s more than a match for Niamh
Niamh’s soft on Connor

Health and Safety bleat -
walk don’t run, hold the hand rail
don’t fall and sue us

Maria comes in -
we stop googling cheap breaks
change screens to spreadsheets

Warm, stuffy meeting
broken air conditioning
blasts chill as a fridge

Cathal winks at me
chats up the girls in QA
we’ll do all he asks

There’s no clock in here
shadows crawl by my notepad
motes in sunlight shaft

Sunshine at lunchtime
we slip from shadowed buildings
winter pale faces

What a wasted day -
the afternoon spent fixing
the broken morning

Evening’s clock hand crawls
minute to dawdled minute
time treacles to five

The sun shines all day -
clouds roll in from Dublin Hills
by five it’s raining

Luke waits in the rain
dreaming of his driving test
until the bus comes

More bloddy links to bloody meetings here.