Culture Ireland and TradFest are offering a Showcase opportunity for emerging Irish music artists as part of the annual Festival in Dublin 20-24 January 2027. This Showcase is aimed at giving emerging artists a key platform to perform in front of an invited audience of international delegates, industry professionals, agents, and festival and venue programmers with a view to achieving international touring offers. Culture Ireland now invites applications from artists at the early stages of their careers...

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Call for participation by Irish independent publishers & resource organisations Through grant funding to Children’s Books Ireland, Culture Ireland has supported an Ireland presence at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair over many years. As part of this, Culture Ireland offers a number of travel bursaries to the Irish independent publishing sector to assist with the costs of attendance at the event. This includes resource organisations who support Irish writers and illustrators whose work is aimed...

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Culture Ireland, in partnership with Dublin Theatre Festival and Irish Theatre Institute, invites submissions from Irish artists and companies who wish to present recent productions to international delegates as part of this year’s International Theatre eXchange (ITX), taking place on Friday 2 October during Dublin Theatre Festival. International Theatre eXchange (ITX) brings together leading national and international programmers, presenters, producers and festival directors attending Dublin Theatre Festival. It provides a unique opportunity for Irish artists and...

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The Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan T.D., has announced the selection of Emmet Humphreys and Nathalie Weadick, on behalf of Galway City Council, as the curators to represent Ireland at the 20th International Architecture Exhibition at Venice, La Biennale di Venezia. Their project, RESIDUUM, was selected following an open call by Culture Ireland, in partnership with the Arts Council. Speaking recently, Minister O’Donovan said: “I would like to congratulate the RESIDUUM team...

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Culture Ireland, Irish Theatre Institute and Dublin Fringe Festival invite submissions from Irish artists/companies who wish to participate in Show and Tell, an opportunity to meet and discuss your work with national and international programmers and presenters, as part of this year’s Information Toolbox at Dublin Fringe Festival (11 September 2026). The purpose of this session is to enable artists to introduce projects in development and ready to tour work to delegates with the intention...

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Culture Ireland’s Edinburgh Showcase Programme continues to offer an important and unique platform for Irish theatre and dance artists to gain international media and audience recognition for their work and to develop their networks. Since its establishment in 2005, Culture Ireland’s support of Irish artists presenting at the Edinburgh Fringe (5 - 31 August) have enabled subsequent international touring and the development of strong networks for Irish dance and theatre artists. The eight productions in...

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Ireland at the Frankfurt Book Fair (7 - 11 October 2026) Culture Ireland - Call for participation by Irish independent publishers Through its annual grant to Literature Ireland, Culture Ireland has supported the presence of an Ireland stand and delegation at the Frankfurt Book Fair over many years. Culture Ireland is now offering a limited number of travel bursaries to the Irish independent publishing sector to assist with the costs of attendance at the event....

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