Culture 2025 – A National Cultural Policy Framework to 2025
The policies and programmes under Culture 2025 are supported through cross-Departmental Government funding and are set out in more detail in individual measures below.
The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has responsibility for developing and implementing culture and arts policy in Ireland. The Department works closely with its stakeholders on the development of policy and programmes, including the National Cultural Institutions and the Arts Council of Ireland, the Irish government agency with primary responsibility for the promotion and development of the arts in Ireland (http://www.artscouncil.ie).
The preparation of this report included consultation with the following stakeholders:
– Arts Council, the national agency for funding, developing and promoting the arts in Ireland;
- Culture Ireland, who work to promote Irish arts worldwide;
– Ireland's Creative Europe Desks – Culture & Media, who promote and support the EU Creative Europe programme at local, regional and national level;
– Creative Ireland, an Irish governmental culture-based initiative to mainstream creativity in the life of the nation.
-Culture Ireland, the Government entity charged with promoting Irish artists internationally.
--Department of Communications Climate Action and Environment
-Department of Foreign Affairs
All the stakeholders listed above were involved in the preparation of this report, which was coordinated by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
The four goals of the UNESCO 2005 Convention are intrinsically reflected in cultural policy development in Ireland. In the past four years, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media has published Culture 2025 – A National Cultural Policy Framework to 2025. This is the first such framework for culture in Ireland and sets out the key policies and programmes for the cultural and creative sector up to 2025. Under the Framework, the Government of Ireland has developed and is implementing an all of Government programme – Creative Ireland – tasked with making creativity part of the life of the nation and giving everyone the opportunity to access and experience culture and creativity.
At the same time, Global Ireland 2025 aims to double Ireland’s cultural footprint and double funding for the cultural and creative sector between 2018 and 2025. Under this all of Government programme, culture is recognized for its part in reaching out to Ireland’s diaspora and connecting with and forging deeper relations with other cultures. Cutural measures include the appointment of several high-profile ambassadors for culture and increased support for Irish cultural centres in a number of countries.
There have already been notable successes from the introduction of the aforementioned programmes, including the development of a Creative Youth Plan for children and young people as well as the development of Creative Communities plans for each local government authority area in Ireland, bringing opportunities for artists to work in diverse and often rural locations and simultaneously bringing diverse cultural experiences to new audiences. These policies and programmes support the growth of the cultural and creative sectors, emphasise the growing recognition of culture as a contributor to the sustainable development of Ireland’s regions and its role in fostering the creative potential of the child, as well as underpinning the development and mobility of artists and cultural operators. They are supported by an almost 15% increase in overall public finding for culture in the period 2016 to 2020.
2020 has been a year of disruption, however, due to the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cultural and creative sectors. While opportunities to perform live and travel have been severely curtailed, the sectors are using every opportunity to bring their art and talents to the public, primarily through online performance. Government and the various state agencies are working with the sector to support it through this time of crisis and help it to rebuild from the heavy toll of the pandemic.
Organization type | Organization | Website | |
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Public Sector
| Arts Council
| andrew.mcsharry@artscouncil.ie
| http://www.artscouncil.ie/home/
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Public Sector
| Creative Europe Desks Ireland
| orla@creativeeuropeireland.eu
| https://www.creativeeuropeireland.eu/
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Public Sector
| Creative Ireland
| creativeireland@chg.gov.ie
| http://www.creativeireland.gov.ie
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Public Sector
| Culture Ireland
| info@cultureireland.gov.ie
| http://www.cultureireland.ie
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Public Sector
| Department of Communications Climate Action and Environment
| customer.service@dccae.gov.ie
| http://www.dccae.gov.ie
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Public Sector
| Department of Foreign Affairs
| http://www.dfa.ie
| |
Public Sector
| Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
| julie.flanagan@tscagsm.gov.ie
| https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-tourism-culture-arts-gaeltacht-sport-and-media/
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The policies and programmes under Culture 2025 are supported through cross-Departmental Government funding and are set out in more detail in individual measures below.
Between 2017 and 2020, the Creative Youth and Creative Communities segments of the Creative Ireland Programmes were allocated over EU24m ($27.12m) in funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media with additional funding from the Departments of Education and Children and Youth Affairs.
Creative Ireland has produced an annual report for each of the years 2017 and 2018 and a progress report for 2019 and up to April 2020. The reports set out the projects funded, the achievements of the programme to date and the full breakdown of expenditure each year. In this regard, the reports demonstrate that the programme is meeting the annual objectives set.
Full cost of Global Ireland by 2025 is costed at EU300 million ($338m).
A one-year progress report was published in July 2019 measuring progress to date against objectives. The report noted that while the focus at this early stage of the strategy has been on laying the foundation stones for future success, implementation is well on track. As data becomes available, future progress reports will quantify the impact of Global Ireland on key performance metrics.
EU1.2bn ($1,36bn) in capital funding for culture, heritage and our language over a ten year period.
Funding for the Arts Council in 2020 totals EU105m ($123m). This will increase to EU130m ($152m) in 2021. The significant year on year increase in funding reflects, in part, the key role that the Arts Council plays in supporting artists both during and in the eventual aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic environment.
This includes funding to Screen Ireland which is the development agency for the Irish film, television and animation industry; funding to the BAI (Broadcasting Authority of Ireland), the section 481 tax credit. The initiative Investing in our Culture, Language and Heritage 2018 - 2027 incorporates an amount of EU200m ($234m) for investment in Media Production and the Audiovisual Industry through Screen Ireland over the period of that initiative.
EU1.8m ($2.1m)
Screen Ireland funding in 2020 is EU21m ($24.5m)
2019-2020 funding EU3.2m ($3.74m)
ln the last quarter of 2016, the BAI undertook a review of the Scheme, which encompassed the following:
I. Examination of the operation, effectiveness and impact of the Scheme in the context of its objectives, both internally and externally;
The findings show that the impact of the Scheme has been positive and in particular, the cultural benefit is noteworthy in that the Scheme has facilitated the safeguarding of material of historical and cultural value that would otherwise have been lost
II. Identification of recommendations for revisions to the Scheme;
The findings also show that the Scheme has been effective in achieving its objectives. This includes safeguarding broadcast material of heritage value and also, importantly, encouraging and promoting archiving activities within the wider broadcasting sector including amongst the independent community and commercial broadcasters and the independent production sector. The access to the archived broadcast material was viewed as critical and a positive aspect of the Scheme.
III. Identification of proposed operational improvements in the context of the current Scheme
The overall findings reveal that stakeholders who engaged with the Scheme had a positive experience. However, there were four common opinions across the feedback for actions that could improve the operation of the Scheme:
a) More supporting information about the Scheme should be provided;
b) The application process should be streamlined;
c) More detailed feedback should be provided in the BAI's assessment reports of applications; and
d) The grant agreement process should be streamlined.
2020 funding EU14.5m ($17m)
EU4.1m ($4.85m)
Yes, ongoing internal and external evaluation proves that the funding provided is very beneficial to the artists and arts organisations in the promotion and presentation of Irish arts worldwide.
Central Government funding: EU15m ($17.5m)
Local Government funding: EU9.5m ($11m)
c EU175,000