Culture of Ireland - Cultural Institutions, Organisations and Events

Cultural Institutions, Organisations and Events

See also: List of Irish learned societies

Ireland is well supplied with museums and art galleries and offers, especially during the summer months, a wide range of cultural events. These range from arts festivals to farming events. The most popular of these are the annual Dublin Saint Patrick's Day Festival which attracts on average 500,000 people and the National Ploughing Championships with an attendance in the region of 400,000. There are also a number of Summer Schools on topics from traditional music to literature and the arts.

Major organisations responsible for funding and promoting Irish culture are:

• Arts Council of Ireland
• Arts Council of Northern Ireland
• Culture Ireland
• Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Republic of Ireland)
• Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (Northern Ireland)

List of institutions and organisations

• Abbey Theatre
• Ambassador Theatre
• Aosdána
• Arts Council of Ireland
• Art Projects Network
• Boardmatch Ireland
• Business2Arts
• Chester Beatty Library
• Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann COBÁC
• Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann
• Conradh na Gaeilge
• Cork Opera House
• Culture Ireland

• Druid Theatre, Galway
• Dublin Writers Museum
• Gate Theatre
• Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
• Heritage Council
• Irish Architecture Foundation
• Irish Georgian Society
• Ireland Literature Exchange (ILE)
• Irish Museum of Modern Art at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham
• Irish Museums Association
• James Joyce Centre
• Macnas, performance arts company, Galway
• National Archives of Ireland
• National Concert Hall
• National Folklore Collection UCD
• National Gallery of Ireland
• National Library of Ireland
• National Museum of Ireland

• National Photographic Archive
• National Transport Museum of Ireland
• National Wax Museum
• Northern Ireland Screen
• National Trust (UK)
• Office of Public Works
• Poetry Ireland
• Royal Dublin Society (RDS)
• Royal Irish Academy
• Royal Irish Academy of Music
• Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
• Royal Ulster Academy of Arts
• SFX City Theatre
• State Heraldic Museum
• Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe, Irish language theatre, Galway
• Temple Bar Cultural Trust
• The Helix, performing arts centre, Dublin
• The Hunt Museum, Limerick
• The Point Theatre
• Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh
• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Co. Down
• Ulster Museum, Belfast
• University Concert Hall, Limerick
• Visual Artists Ireland/Ealaíontóiri Radharcacha Éire
• W5, Belfast

Events

• Bloomsday

• Saint Patrick's Day
• St. Patrick's Festival and Skyfest
• National Ploughing Championships
• Puck Fair, Killorglin
• Cork Jazz Festival
• Bray Jazz Festival
• Dublin Theatre Festival
• Fleadh Cheoil
• Harvest Time Blues
• Heritage Week
• Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival
• City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival
• TULCA: contemporary visual art festival in Galway
• Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures
• Open House Dublin, an annual architecture festival
• Open House Galway, an annual architecture festival