Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Supporting and Facilitating the Arts: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. John Crumlish:

To be brutally honest, there is the rest of the world and then there is a love affair between Galway city and the Galway International Arts Festival that has been ongoing for 41 years and will continue. It is also with the people of Galway. It has been our stage and, thankfully, the people of Galway have given us permission to play on that stage for an awfully long time and, we hope, for a lot longer.

We received a small amount of money from Creative Ireland last year that went to fund the discussion platform entitled First Thought, which we mentioned earlier. That has been our interaction with Creative Ireland to date. I understand that it is coming back on stream and we hope to engage with it, mainly under its international pillar.

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