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Beyond the Belltable: How will Limerick make art without an arts centre?

Article by Peter Crawley on 28 March 2013

As the Belltable company went into liquidation this month, the full extent of the beleaguered organisation’s debts were finally revealed at a creditors meeting on March 12. The company owes more than €2.3m to its various creditors, most of whom are arts companies and staff. But the most significant...

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The Gift of Giving

Article by Peter Crawley on 07 January 2013

If you are preparing for the worst, it’s easy to believe the worst. When one newspaper reported what seemed like another cruel detail of a punishing National Budget for 2013, it caught much attention and criticism: “Philanthropic donations will now be subject to a new 31 per cent tax of what...

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Trees Company: Forest Fringe explored

Article by Peter Crawley on 14 December 2012

In recent years, following the separation of the Dublin Fringe Festival and the Dublin Theatre Festival as concurrent events, some people began to speak longingly of redesigning the performance calendar. “What would be really helpful, and I’m sure everybody hassaid it for years, would be...

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The Revolution will be Digitised

Article by Peter Crawley on 25 October 2012

On the launch day of the Abbey’s joint undertaking with NUI Galway to digitise its expansive archive, everybody seemed capable of making unusual associations. Some of these sounded like earnest topics for a PhD thesis, others sounded borderline facetious, but - with the theatre’s historical...

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Downtown Abbey

Article by Peter Crawley on 10 October 2012

Normal 0 false false false EN-IE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Abbey Theatre has made several journeys over the last decade – on paper and feasibility studies at least – but with the €1.5m acquisition...

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Raising our game

Article by Peter Crawley on 10 October 2012

Minister Deenihan has been furthering an agenda to promote a new culture of private fundraising, most recently with the launch of the Arts Council’s RAISE: Building Fundraising Capacity. A pilot scheme that provides professional support from the consultancy companies 2into3 and Networking Matters...

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Critics' Panel at Dublin Theatre Festival

Article by Caroline Williams on 08 October 2012

Irish Theatre Magazine hosts its annual Critics' Forum, at which leading theatre critics from home and abroad offer lively discussion and analysis of the highlights of the Festival programme. The panel will be chaired by academic and critic, Patrick Lonergan. The panel includes Peter Crawley (chief...

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The NCI merger debate is brought out in the open

Article by Peter Crawley on 03 July 2012

A debate in Dáil Eireann and the Seanad on the implications of the Public Service Reform Plan had been a long time coming. The plan’s proposals to merge the National Archives, the Irish Manuscripts Commission and the National Library, and to combine the “backroom” administration of...

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Terms and conditions may apply

Article by Peter Crawley on 07 April 2012

Nobody has come out of this year's Arts Council funding decisions well. In the fourth straight year of declining State subsidy for the arts, two regional theatre companies have lost recurring funding from the Arts Council completely while two others (neither based in Dublin) have incurred significant...

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The Arts Council gets this show on the road

Article by Peter Crawley on 27 January 2012

Touring, report after report shows, is an expensive business which can lead to punitive losses if undertaken unwisely but is an effective way of growing audiences, prestige and even box-office if done well. It is also one of the only ways an abundance of regional venues can fill their under populated...

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