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Clout 9 by GodKnows

Commissioned by Clare County Council through the Gaining Ground Public Art Programme, God Knows was invited to revisit his…
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Culture Night

Culture Night is a national initiative each September which normally sees approximately 50 cultural events take place in over 15…
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Cruinniú na nÓg

An annual national event aimed at children, young people and families.
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Duala – Creator in Residence Scheme

Duala is an initiative, run in conjunction with the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA), which financially supports the development of new work by artists of all disciplines, that is relevant to Clare and inspired by, or created with, the content from ITMA.
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Reflections Symposium

A symposium on the Gaining Ground public art programme in glór Friday September 4th, 2020 Moderator : Helen Carroll broadcaster,…
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Riches of Clare

For over 20 years, Clare Arts Office has proudly produced the Riches of Clare free lunchtime concerts in Ennis. Originally…
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Dial a Seanchaí 2023

The Dial a Seanchaí service will be available to access from Tuesday 31st October to Thursday 30th November, 2023 Curated and…
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Expressions of Hope is ‘The Point’

Clare County Council has commissioned a new song, written, produced and performed by Shannon musician David Hope. The talented artist…
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Glaoch! A Schools Recording Project by artist John Lillis

Glaoch! is a commissioned recording project that aims at amplifying the voices of national school children in Clare - a transmission of young thoughts and opinions as recorded waves.
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Decade of Centenaries Commissions 2021

Decade of Centenaries Arts Project Awards 2021 In 2021 and 2022 Clare County Council commissioned a number of artists to…
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Vision Symphony

A major musical composition by Dave Flynn, performed by the Irish Memory Orchestra.
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The Art of Place

The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare offers tantalising glimpses into the personal lives and creative processes of…
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Embrace Residency Award Programme

The Embrace Residency Award Programme The Embrace Residency Programme has been designed to create the following opportunities for artists with…
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Riches of Clare Gallery (2018)

Photo credit: Peter Laban.
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Musicians on Call Project

The Musicians-on-Call project (MOC), is delivered by professionally trained healthcare musicians from the Kids’ Classics organisation. It facilitates music-making opportunities…
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First Music Contact for Clare Musicians

In 2023 Clare Arts Office presented a series of professional development webinars for those working in the music industry in…
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Decade of Centenaries Commissions 2022

In 2021 and 2022 Clare County Council commissioned a number of artists to commemorate the Decade of Centenaries Funded by…
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Dial a Seanchaí 2021

Dial A Seanchaí is a unique audio experience celebrating Irish folklore, storytelling, and song.
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Light Ballet

Created by Irish Light Artist Mick Murray and Lighting Designer Matthew Cregan, Light Ballet will transform the skies and surrounding…
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Local Live Performance Scheme

The Local Live Performance Scheme was initiated by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media, in the…
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Adaptation

Adaptation was a commission awarded to composer Ian Wilson through our Gaining Ground Public Art Programme. The World Premieres took…

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Síomha

Bilingual Irish singer and guitarist Síomha (pronounced She-vah) dances the line between folk, jazz and neo-soul effortlessly taking audiences on…
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Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian is a songwriter, guitar, bass and synth player originally from Ennis but living in Lahinch Co. Clare. He has…
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Anneteresa Quinn

I am a visual artist and qualified art teacher. My practice is evolving as a multidisciplinary one where I am…
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Jyoshna La Trobe

Jyoshna La Trobe is a NZ singer/songwriter, ethnomusicologist and co-parent. Jyoshna’s music communicates to others her life’s journey, written from…
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Ronan Summerly

Ronan Summerly has been playing music for 30 years and is currently the bassist with an original Clare band, Apprentices…
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Marianne Potterton

Marianne Potterton is a multidisciplinary artist based in Doolin, North Clare. She has a 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine…

1 Project
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Nuala Kennedy

“Nuala Kennedy is a critically acclaimed and award-winning touring and recording artist. She sings, plays flute and whistle and writes…

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Chris Wood

Chris Wood is an artist based in Ennistymon, Co. Clare. He works primarily with music and composes mainly for guitar.…
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John Lillis

John Lillis is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Liscannor in Co.Clare. He works primarily in the areas of recording, music,…
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Philip Fogarty

Philip Fogarty is a composer, musician and sound artist originally from Crusheen, Co. Clare. He has toured his work with…

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Avia Gurman Murphy

Avia Gurman Murphy is an interdisciplinary performance and visual artist living in East Clare. She is a singer, director, producer,…

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Svitlana Savelieva

Svitlana Savelieva is a Ukrainian fashion designer and hatmaker, traditional Ukrainian textiles souvenirs kraftmaker, fashion and photo style-consultant and adult…
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Clíodhna Donnellan

Clíodhna (Cli) Donnellan, native of Mountshannon, Co. Clare is an Irish traditional musician, creative arts facilitator, producer and broadcaster. Clíodhna released…

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Max Gotham

Max Gotham a Singer-Songwriter/Producer/Composer brings a rich tapestry of influences to his craft and is a figure to watch closely…
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Roisín McMullin

Roisín is a violinist, violist and composer based in Ennis, Co. Clare. She has an MA in Classical String Performance…
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Brian Fleming

Brian Fleming is a percussionist, cultural producer and theatre maker. A refugee from Dublin, he quarantined for years in Bell…
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Therese McInerney

Therese McInerney is a traditional Irish fiddle player and singer from West Clare, currently based in Ennis. She holds an…

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Youen Horner

Youen Horner is a musician originally from County Clare known for his distinctive guitar playing style, blending atmospheric textures with…
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Oscar Blue

Oscar Blue is a singer-songwriter hailing from East Co. Clare with a passion for storytelling and transporting the listener to…
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Skazz

Skazz are a Clare based band, formed in 2007 who are well established, playing festivals such as Cork Jazz since…

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Ursula Meany

I’m a multidisciplinary artist based in North Clare. I make cyanotypes, inspired by nature or abstract, sometimes from photographs with…
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Pádraig Rynne

Pádraig Rynne is an accomplished Irish musician whose passion for traditional music has left an undelible mark on the contemporary…
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Jaskane

Experience the exhilarating sounds of Jaskane, a captivating chamber folk trio based in Clare. Etain McCooey (oboe, cor anglais), Karen…

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Simon O’Reilly

Simon O’Reilly is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, visual artist and cofounder of Hedge School Festival. His is based near…
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Aisling Lyons

Described as ‘..the finest young Irish harpist at work today..’ (Songlines Magazine) & ‘one of traditional music’s finest musicians’ (Hot…
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Rosaleen Marion

Artist working in multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, film, and music. Studio and residence in Fanore.
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Fiona Linnane

Fiona Linnane is a composer, originally from Cratloe, specialising in opera and vocal music. She holds a MA in Music…
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Deirdre Devally

Deirdre Devally writes prose, poetry and songs. She was short-listed in The Fish Poetry Prize, longlisted in The Fish Short…
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Neil Fitzgibbon

Neil Fitzgibbon is a musician, composer and educator that has toured and shared stages with many musicians at home in…
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The Davies Brothers

“Every now and then I hear something really special, that moves me with the raw honesty of it. I love…
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Ciara Malone

Ciara is a a multi-disciplinary artist for over 25 years and has had numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her work…

4 Projects
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David Hope

Clare singer-songwriter, David Hope kicked 2022 off with the two new singles, ‘Moon and back’ and ‘Whiskey Mornings’. Both singles…

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Bríd Kivneen

Bríd is based in North Clare and has worked with several community music and community art projects with intercultural, women’s…
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Tara Breen

Tara Breen, a highly talented multi-instrumentalist from Ruan Co. Clare, has achieved All-Ireland titles on fiddle in every age category…
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Aoibheann Boyle

From Wicklow but frequently caught saying her heart is from Clare, the home of traditional Irish music, in the West…
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Neil Ó Lochlainn

“Neil has an instinct and a feel for different strands of music that allow him to create uncompromised musical worlds…
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Genie Ensemble

Genie Ensemble is a newly founded strings+ ensemble based in Co Clare. Active from 2022, it is comprised of recent…
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Finbarr Dillon

Finbarr Dillon (b 1962) is a Sound Designer and Composer living in Lisdoonvarna Co Clare, Ireland, working in the areas…
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Kevin Shortall

Kevin Shortall is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, recognised for his work in jazz, Brazilian music, and Irish traditional music. He…
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Cadhla Brock

Cadhla Brock is a singer and pianist based in Co. Clare with a passion for preserving and innovating within the…
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Jeremy Strozer

A neurodiverse lateral thinking Fulbright scholar, OCTOVIST (Open-minded, Creative Thinker, Optimistic, Versatile, Intelligent, Supportive, Talented), improvisational actor, coach, and teacher…
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Niamh O Donnell

I am a passionate music facilitator and educator. I provide an enjoyable and comfortable environment for musical performance for all…
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Astrid Adler

Astrid Adler is based in Monmore, Kilrush, Co.Clare. She has a third level degree in Art and Philosophy from St.…
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Barry Mullins

I am a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking. I graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in…
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Zara Starr Madden

Drama, Mindfulness and Movement. A co-founder of The Unlimited Dream Machine Theatre Company, Zara is an actor, singer, dancer, filmmaker,…
- Curator
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Éanna Byrt

Éanna Byrt, a Clare-based visual artist and educator, who holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Printmaking from the Limerick…
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Michael Kreft

Michael Kreft is a musician, theatre performer, writer and composer. He grew up in an family of thuringian artists in…
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Katie Cogan

My name is Katie Cogan and I am an artist and astrologer living in North Clare since 2021. I am…
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Charles Monod

Coming from Switzerland originally, Charles Monod moved to Doolin, Co. Clare in 2006 to pursue his passion for Irish Traditional…
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Emer O’Flaherty

Emer is a bilingual (Gaeilge/English) singer, songwriter, composer and musician (piano, organ, flute, whistles) based in Ennis, Co. Clare. She…
- Producer
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Caitríona Sheedy

Caitríona Sheedy is a multimedia artist, creating paintings, songs, sculpture & writing on the subject of humanity, ecology & evolution.…

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Astrid Adler

Astrid Adler was born in Germany, lived 14 years in Holland and since 1999 in Monmore, Kilrush, Co.Clare. She has…
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Nina Halmos

Nina Philips is a songwriter/musician and creator from Haarlem, NL. She comes from a family with immigrant backgrounds on both…
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Amanda Jane Shannon

Amanda’s love of song and music and the written word is a long sublime love affair. Singing bilingually since primary…
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Jacinta Sheerin

Jacinta Sheerin graduated from the University of Ulster in Coleraine with a BA Honours Degree in Theatre in 2001 and…
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Johnnie T. Tynan

Johnnie T. is an experienced creative professional based in Clare, close to the Galway border in sunny Crusheen. He has…
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Kathleen Malone

Kathleen Malone, residing in Doolin, Co. Clare, is the daughter of the late tenor Jerry Lynch and has deep roots…
- Curator
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Andrew Craig Waterhouse

Andrew C. Waterhouse (b.1971) is an experienced visual artist and curator at The Burren Art Gallery in Tubber. He has…
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Joan McNamara

Joan is a passionate and creative multi-instrumentalist with classical and traditional music training. She is an accomplished pianist, both directing…
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Svitlana Savelieva

Hello. My name is Svitlana. I’m a designer and artist from Ukraine(Kyiv). A big part of my life has been…
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Aindrias Stack

Storyteller & fiddle player and cultural producer/programmer based in Clare. Artist in the community with Doolin folklore project. Munster champion…
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Alan Doyle

Alan Doyle is a 20-year-old electronic music producer from County Clare, Ireland, known for his experimental, game-inspired sound. Drawing influence…
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Trish Flanagan

Trish Flanagan is a singer songwriter based in North Clare. She released her debut EP, Songs From County Clare, in…
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Kate Daly

Kate is a singer and community group singing facilitator from Doolin, Co. Clare. She offers workshops with the aim of…

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Valerie Gunning

Classical Violinist, Pianist, and Instrumental Teacher. Currently co-leader with The University of Limerick Orchestra, and fiddle player with Clare Adult…

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