The Arts Council Ireland

Maximum awarded: Unlimited

Artform and practice(s): Architecture, Artists Retreats, Arts Centres, Arts participation, Children and Young People’s Arts, Circus, Dance, Festivals, Film, Literature, Music, Opera, Spectacle, Street Performance, Theatre, Traditional arts, Visual arts

Applicant type: All

Collaborative application possible?: Yes

Applications can be made to cover the costs of activities taking place from either January - December 2026, or January 2026 - December 2027.

Arts Grant Funding is available across all artforms and arts practice areas, and is open to organisations and individuals.

Note: Individuals applying must demonstrate that their proposal involves collaboration and/or partnership that include the delivery of public outcomes or outcomes that benefit other artists.

The purpose of Arts Grants Funding is to ensure that there is a breadth of high-quality arts activity and programmes throughout the country. It offers flexible support for a fixed period of time, and in so doing responds to the needs of those who are making, presenting and supporting work.

Arts Grant Funding is intended to:

- Support more than one distinct arts activity taking place within a fixed period of time, or

- Provide supports or facilities to artists over a fixed period of time.

The focus of Arts Grant Funding is to deliver outcomes that develop the arts, either through:

- Generating high-quality experiences for the public to engage with the arts, or

- Providing excellent services, resources or facilities that support the work of artists or the arts sector and

- Contributing to the ecology of the arts within your area of practice.

Further information: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Arts-Grant-Funding/

Application portal: https://onlineservices.artscouncil.ie/Secure/Login.aspx?lang=en-ie