Ms Katherine Licken:

I might ask Mr. Falvey to come in in more detail on this. Obviously, the Decade of Centenaries is a really important programme that we lead on in this Department. We had a comprehensive programme of events and initiatives in 2020 across 31 local authorities. We increased the funding to the local authorities in 2021 to €50,000 per local authority - €2 million in funding for the local authorities in general. To date, we have had key exhibitions, outreach programmes and digitisation programmes in our national cultural institutions, including a recent partnership with the National Archives of Ireland and the embassy in London on the Anglo-Irish Treaty. We have a new artist in residence programme in a number of the cultural institutions, the Military Archives and, of course, there is the Beyond 2022 project, which is the records that were burned 100 years ago. We have a new national poetry project, which has been launched in partnership with UCD and Poetry Ireland. We have the well-established Mná 100 new online platform and we have a range of partnerships with rich online content, which has been really important over the past two years, in partnership with both Boston College and RTÉ.

Given the importance of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, a range of activities will be rolled out in the coming weeks, including the current production of "The Treaty", at the National Concert Hall, a ground-breaking production, with ANU and Theo Dorgan, on the Treaty debates, which will go live at the end of this year and into 2023, a new concert at the concert hall featuring contemporary-----