dlr Arts Grants Scheme

Grants are available annually 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.

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.

 

dlr Grant Scheme timeline

(dates may change)

Applications open mid-September
Applications close mid-October
Selection panels meet November
First Council meeting for approval early December
Notification sent to applicants late December early January
Accepting and processing finance paperwork from applicants January to March
Payments complete February to April (depending on paperwork received)

This timeline does not include second rounds of funding which might occur. 

 

Application online portal

All grants are now processed through an online portal called Submit. To use the portal you will need to set up a profile before applying for a grant. This profile will be used for all your future applications with dlr. If you are applying as a group please make sure that the email address being used is accessible to more than one member. This ensures that if there are any changes to staffing or members leaving, the profile/account can still be accessed by the group.

dlrcoco.submit.com

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

 

dlr Arts Grants briefing 2024-25

Grants awarded by year

2025 Arts Grants Awarded

2025 Arts Grants Awarded

 

Project, Event and Collaboration

 

Floating World Productions €2,300

Sandyford Youth Band €3,600

Dún Laoghaire Summer Organ Concerts €2,400

Creativity in the Classroom  €3,500

Kaleidescope €2,100

Game Theory €3,400

Aisling Smith (Independent Theatre Maker) €3,300

Happenings €3,500

Dublin Youth Dance Company €2,500

Dublin Animation Film Festival €2,500

Taste in Your Mouth Theatre Company €2,000

Dalkey Players €3,000

Dun Laoghaire Choral Society €2,000

Churchtown School of Music €2,300

Hibernian Orchestra €2,500

Siobhan O'Callaghan (Independent Visual Artist) €2,500

Kevin Burns (Independent Playwright) €2,000

Glencullen Dundrum Musical Society €2,500

Teach Ceoil €1,400

Roseanne Lynch (Independent theatre maker) €2,000

Samuel Julian Grace (Independent Visual Artist) €2,500

Edward O'Mahony (Independent Musician) €1,200

 

Professional Development 

Eoghan Ryan €2,900

Luke Van Gelderen €2,300

Trudie Gorman €2,300

Martina Rosaria O'Connell €2,300

Chris Cole €1,800

Eoin Rogers €2,300

Emily Johnston €1,500

Julie Anne O'Connell Kent €1,000

Daniel Holfeld €1,500

Mary Madeleine McConnell €1,000

Roisin Lowry €1,000

Lavinia de Vito €1,000

Evie Kelly €1,500

Casey Walshe €1,000

Lara Gallagher €1,000

Ahmed Tamu €1,000

Leon Nevill Gallagher €1,000

Dianne Whyte €1,000

Naoise Dunbar €1,000

Lauren O'Leary €1,000

Conall Morrison €1,000

Mia Doring €1,000

Banbha McCann €1,000

Yvanna Greene €1,000

Anne Mullee €600

Daniel McAuley €1,000

 

Community Arts Grant

Balally Players €1,000

Blackrock College Adult Choir €400

Kilamacud Musical Society €1,000

Social Space €400

Newpark Youth Orchestra €1,000

Mount Merrion Active Retirement Association €1,000

High Loft Painting €1,000

St Patricks Park Residents Association €300

Belarmine Centre €500

Choir Club €1,000

Crafty Hands €1,000

Dundrum One Act Festival €1,000

 

Arts Access for Older People

The Hawthorns €1,900

SWAN €2,000

St Michaels Hospital €2,000

Dublin County Choir €900

Patrician Community Centre €1,400

Shankill Day Care Centre €1,900

LBS Men's Shed €2,000

Ailt an Oir Day Service €2,000

The Elders €1,900

Vintage Youth  €2,000

2024 Arts Grants Awarded

2024 Arts Grants Awarded

Arts Access Grants

Shankill Day Care Centre €2,000.00

Elders Theatre Group €1,880.00

Vintage Youth Dance Ensemble €2,000.00

Mount Merrion Active Retirement €500.00

 

Community Small Arts grant

Dublin County Choir €1,300.00

Choirclub €300.00

Kilmacud Drama Society €1,300.00

Social Space €1,300.00

Blackrock College Adult Choir €650.00

Sandyford Little Theatre Company €1,300.00

Balally Players €1,000.00

Kilcross Estate management €1,300.00

Crafty Hands €850.00

Coolevin Art Group €750.00

St Patricks Park Residents Association €300.00

 

Arts Grant Professional Development

Abieyuwa Ighodaro - Photography €900.00

Trudie Gorman - Literature €2,850.00

Vera Ryklova - Visual Art €1,550.00

Orlando Molina - Music €1,200.00

Tzarini Meyler - Film €800.00

Julie Merriman - Visual Art €2,500.00

Trisha McKinney - Literature €1,400.00

Leah Hilliard - Visual Art €2,500.00

Brigid Leman - Music €1,250.00

Roisin Lowry - Visual Art €1,150.00

Doreen Kennedy - Visual Art €1,000.00

Chris Cole - Music €1,100.00

Luke Van Gelderen - Visual Art €1,000.00

Mia Doring - Literature €800.00

 

 

Arts Event, Project & Collaboration

STAGLiterature Workshops €1,000.00

Mary Moynihan  - Poetry Project €1,500.00

Laura DowdellDance Project  €3,200.00

Taste in Your Mouth Theatre Company Theatre Film €3,200.00

Andrew MurrayClassical Music Concert €3,000.00

Irish ComicsAnimation Publication  €1,000.00

Puca PuppetsPuppetry Project €3,000.00

Arthill Art workshops for Ukranian refugees €2,200.00

Lesley Conroy Theatre Play Development €1,000.00

Dublin Youth Dance CompanyYouth Dance Project €1,700.00

Dublin Animation Film Festival Animation Festival  €3,000.00

Sandyford Youth band Youth Band €1,700.00

Creativity in the Classroom Artists in Schools workshops €3,500.00

Dalkey Players  - Community Theatre Production €3,500.00

Joyce Tower Museum  - Bloomsday Event  €2,000.00

Aon Sceal Theatre Company Bilingual Musical Theatre  €1,000.00

Barry DelaneyPhotography Project €1,500.00

Dundrum One Act Festival Theatre Festival €1,500.00

2023 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

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 Awarded

2020 Arts Grants Awarded

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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