Heritage Council

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2009 Publication Grant Offers

Application No.	Applicant Name	Project	Project Description	Approved Amount
17320	Micheál Briody	The Road to Avondale	This volume tells the story of his origins and youth in rural cavan and the circuitous and arduous route he took to Forestry, his training and formation as a forester, and his first challenge, the Emergency Fuel Scheme during the War years.	€2,000
16767	Duchas na Sionna	Bealoideas Traoraithe- Stonehall National School Folklore Project 1937-1938	Folklore publication aimed at researching, collecting and collating data from 1937-1938 scheme for bread dissemination to the general public and local schools	€1,000
17327	East Clare Heritage	Sliabh Aughty Miscellanea	Rich History, culture and traditional associated with the Sliabh Aughty mountains. It is in dairy format for easy reading and understanding. A piece of local history, folklore or poetry is highlighted on each day.	€2,000
17387	Lakyle NS	Lakyle School ,The Old the New,A Centenary Celebration	A book on Lakyle National School which celebrates its centennial birthday in October 2009	€2,000
17468	St Josephs Secondary School	Bealoideas 70- The Spanish Point Project	To publish a book on the The Spanish Point project which compiled an index to the folklore material of 21 clare schools 1937/1938 as part of a transition year project. A dvd will accompany the book	€4,000
16765	Irish Academic Press	The church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783-1864	The church architecture of Patrick Byrne 1783 - 1864 by Brendan Grimes	€2,500
16786	Wordwell Limited	A book around the Irish sea	A book about the Heritage that links the landscape associated with the Irish sea	€3,000
16763	The Collins Press	In search of Islands	Biography of Conor O Brien a neglected contributor to Irelands Cultural Heritage	€1,700
16769	The Collins Press	Trees of Inspiration	This book with 150 photographs and drawings, explores the stories and legends of Ireland's sacred trees, of fairy thorns and rag trees, of mass bushes and monument trees and reveals their spiritual, social and historical function from pagan times to present	€2,000
16770	The Collins Press	A Photographers Journey	A Distinctive collection of striking images of the West of Ireland from Kerry to Sligo.	€2,200
16831	Cork Bird Report Editorial Team	Cork Bird Report 2005&2006	Single Cork bird report to cover the period from 2005 to 2006	€700
16834	Cork University Press	Going to the well for water: The Seamus Ennis field diary 1942-1946 Edited by Rionach Ui Ogain	Translation of the diaries of Seamus Ennis fulltime collector of music and song with the Irish Folklore Commission describing his day to day work and communication with the head office of the commission in Dublin	€2,000
16839	Cork University Press	The Irish and the Olympic games 1896-1920 by Kevin McCarthy	The publication focuses on the involvement of Irish and Irish Diaspora in the Olympic games prior to Irish independence	€2,000
17334	Mercier Press	Roise Rua	Authentic record of life on a Donegal island at the turen of the twentieth century	€1,000
17381	Six Degree Productions	An Inspired Gathering, with Jeremy Irons.	The production of a high quality DVD that will give the public a greater understanding and appreciation of the process of the making of a variety of the Irish Crafts.,	€1,200
16760	An Cumann le Bealoideas Eireann	Irish Religious Tales	The tales in the collection are drawn from Irish speaking districts of Ireland, recorded in 1930s and 1940s by field collectors of the Irish Folklore Commission.	€2,000
16762	Irish Seal Sanctuary	Saoirse Seal's First Journey	A children's storybook as part of the Irish Seal Sanctuary's Education Programme "Seals and Sea life". Depicting the life of a young seal's journey around ireland. Aimed for children 4-8 years.	€2,000
16764	Four Courts Press	Plantation Ireland- Settlement and Material Culture C.1550-c.1700	This collection uses architecture, artefacts and landscape as well as poetry and maps to explore plantation as a means for explaining change in cultural and economic behaviour.	€2,000
16768	Representative Church Body Library	The Churchwarden's Accounts of the Parish of St Werburgh, Dublin 1481-1597	The Churchwarden's Accounts of the Parish of St Werburgh, Dublin 1481-1597	€1,000
16837	Ashfield Press	Rambling down the Suir	A travelogue of one of Irelands most important watercourses an account of Michael Fewers exploration of the Suir by aircraft, boat, car and on foot	€2,000
17316	Liberties Press	Written in Stone	A book cataloguing and describing the graffiti left in Kilmainham Jail by Political Prisoners and ordinary inmates. Photographs of the most prominent graffiti will also be included	€2,000
17339	Raheny Heritage Society	Raheny Footprints	Publication of an illustrated book comprising of twenty short biographies of distinguished men and women who lived in Raheny at various times	€1,000
17346	Loiuis O Flaherty	DRUMCONDRA AND ITS ENVIRONS	Historical and social evolution of the Dublin suburb of Drumcondra	€3,000
17415	Nonsuch Ltd	Ag Bun na Cruaiche- Folklore and Filklife from the foot of the Rock	The Schools Scheme of 1937-1938, a collaboration between the commission and the INTO which gathered a huge body of traditional knowledge from pupils in 9 schools in the parish of Aughavale, in Co Mayo.	€2,000
17446	Macro Senior Citizens Project	Folklore Project	History of the markets area of Dublin 7	€2,500
17461	Steven Smyrl	Dictionary of Dublin Dissent: Dublin's Protestant Dissenting Congregations 1660-1922	A history of the various denominations of Protestant dissenters established from the Cromwellian period to 1922.	€2,000
17464	South Dublin County Council	Pre-norman graveslabs and cross-inscribed stones in the Dublin region	A guide to the pre-norman graveslabs and cross-inscribed stones of the Dublin area	€2,000
16830	Gordon Darcy	Narture	Publication of Nature/Art resource manual for primary school teachers entitled Nature	€4,000
17328	Joseph Fenwick	Lost and Found Again: discovering more of Ireland's past	The second of what will be 3 edited volumes on the theme of discovering Ireland's past. An eclectic mix of 28 essays embracing aspects of the world of Irish archaeology, history, anthropology, geography and related sciences	€500
17343	Melinda Swann	Dogs Bay and Gurteen Bay, Connemara- Formation, habitats and Conservation	This booklet introduces the habitats of Dogs, Bay, Gurteen Bay, Connemara, Co Galway. It introduces the area and describes the formation.	€3,000
17400	Ger Mulkerrins	Telling Tales	An audiovisual heritage storytelling DVD that will also be accessible for deaf people through sign language translation	€1,000
17445	Irish Historic Towns Atlas	Irish Historic Towns Atlas no 20 Tuam by Tony Claffey	Fascicle tracing the topographical development of Tuam through maps and text.	€2,000
17457	Clontuskert Heritage Group	The Parish of Clontuskert- Glimpses into its Past	A record of how historic events moulded the development of the people from the Bronze Age to the present	€3,000
17317	Liberties Press	Lake Lore: The Monsters, Wonders and Mysteries of Irish Lakes	A book collecting legends and tales relating to Ireland's inland lakes, covering the entire island. A follow up to Lakeshore Loops: A Guide to the Cycling trails of Ireland's Lakes	€1,500
17318	Chris Corlett	Inscribing the Landscape- The Rock Art of South Leinster	A detailed examination and discussion of the rock art of South Leinster- the first ever in book form in Ireland. To be generously illustrated with high quality photographs of the rock art of South Leinster	€3,000
17322	Seamus Moylan	Southern Irish English	A perspective on hibernicized english, including some remarks about its current status and direction.	€1,000
17337	Irish Print Group SIPTU	200 years of Trade Union History	200 years of Trade Union History The Irish Print Group (SIPTU) 1809-2009	€1,000
17341	Miguel Dearce	Darwin and Ireland	The publication identifies and describes the activities of Irish "scientific men" that were in a productive stage of their careers at the time of publication of the seminal work of Charles Darwin "The origin of species", and who reacted to it according to their professional training and interests.	€2,000
17349	The Ak Ilen Company	The Big Boat Build Website	Website to promote and record our wooden boatbuilding workshops,its primary focus will be to reveal the design and craft of traditional Irish carved wooden boatbuilding through its theme Tree to Sea	€3,200
17355	Michael O Rourke	History of the Wexford Catholic Young Mens Society Vol 2 1855-2008	The sporting exploits of Wexfords CYMS Sportsmen in Ireland and Internationally, Received funding for Vol 1 2008	€1,500
17360	Anthony Begley	Ballyshannon ;Its History ,heritage and folklore	Research and publish a history of Ballyshannon from earliest to modern times	€1,000
17365	Waxwing Wildlife Publications Ltd	Birds Of The Cliffs of Moher	Book about the Bird Life living around the Cliffs Of Moher	€1,400
17371	Gabriel Cooney	Festschrift for Professor Barry Raftery	The Project is a Fest schrift for Professor Barry Raftery ,marking his retirement in 2007 as Professor of Celtic Archaelogy,University College Dublin and recognising his major contribution to archaeological research and the regard in which he is held by colleagues.	€4,500
17379	John Kirwan	Reminiscences of Marianne-Caroline Hamilton	The book should be of interest to people all over Ireland and Britain,but particularly to inhabitants of counties Meath ,Wicklow,Wexford and Kilkenny.	€1,500
17386	Bill Power	Another side of Mitchelstown	A street by street and townland by townland history of people,events & places associated with one of Irelands best planned historic towns.	€2,300
17467	Brendan McGowan	Taking the Boat: The Irish in Leeds 1931-81	An oral history examining the Emigrant experience through he words of 33 men and women who left Ireland for Britain (1931-1981)	€4,000
17471	Limerick Writers Centre	Kemmys Limerick Miscellany	Anthology of writings from Limerick City and County	€1,200
16840	Cork University Press	The Iveragh Peninsula a cultural atlas of the Ring of Kerry	A cultural atlas comprising over fifty individual chapters and case studies on the peninsula and the human interactions with it since prehistoric times to the present day	€5,000
17357	Ciaran Dalton	Ardferty by the Sea	Memoir using photographs, songs, stories and folklore of the village of Ardfert, Co Kerry. It includes a Cd of all the music and many pen-pictures of the various musicians and dance teachers	€1,200
17374	Mount Eagle Publications	Inisvickillane	This is a substantial 320 page book which offers a unique account of the physical,oral & Literary heritage of the Blasket Islands	€3,000
16829	Graiguenamanagh Historical Society	Graiguenamanagh A Varied Heritage	Publish a book with a variety of unpublished articles relating to long forgotten aspects of the towns history and be made available to the public	€2,000
16826	Creagh House Environmental Ltd	Historical and architectural assessment of Ardare village	The publication of an introduction to the history and architecture of Adare village Co Limerick	€2,500
17392	Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group	Ireland and Britain in the Atlantic World	Publication of a volume that examines the place of post-medieval Ireland within the broader Atlantic World of the 16th through 19th Centuries from an archaeological perspective.	€2,000
17460	Ballyhoura Development Ltd	Griston Bog-Outdoor Classroom	National Schools Activity Pack containing activities for national school children on habitats and biodiversity of the site	€4,500
17462	William Nolan	Limerick History and Society	Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county	€4,000
17469	Trinity Weekend Committee	Dromin Local History and Traditions	Unpublished Manuscript written in 1932 by Major Larry Roche	€1,500
16801	Addergoole Titanic Society	Addergoole Titanic website programme 2009-2014	The website would make the Addergoole and Mayo issues if this unique historic event available to the virtual world.	€2,500
17329	Peter Flannery	Oil Lamps and Whites-washed Walls- "Life in the Est of Ireland 1940- 1960"	A unique piece of personal research on the lives and times of rural communities in county Mayo prior to rural electrification.	€2,000
17423	Westport Civic Trust	Pocket Guide to The Old Railway Line Walk	An A6 pocket-sized book of up to 100 pages, detailing the history and wildlife of the old railway line walk in West Co Mayo	€2,500
17528	Comhar Dun Chaochain	Bi-lingual publication (irish/english) on the heritage of "An Teampall"	Publication on the cemetery An Teampall- grave inscriptions, photographs of the people interred there with a plan for the cemetery set out showing the positions of the headstones.	€1,500
17458	Ballybay Welands Centre	Website ballybaywetlands.ie	Website to communicate on-going activities at the Wetlands Centre such as schools education programmes, eco-training and public awareness and participation events.	€4,000
16828	Joe McGowan	On the Pigs Back	A social history and will comprise about 250 pages of text and 8 pages of photographs	€2,000
17330	Seamus McCormack	Ballintogher and surroundings	The history, archaeology and folklore of an area in Co Sligo south of Lough Gill	€2,500
17470	Sligo Active Retirement Assoc Writers Group	Turf Smoke	Told in story form ,the way people lived ,ate,dressed,house work(town ,country),socialised for the 20s/30s/40s of the last century	€1,500
17463	Mount Saint Joseph Abbey	The Stained Glass Windows of Mount St Joseph	Exploring and documenting the heritage of the Stained Glass in Mount St Joseph Abbey, using historical and anecdotal evidence, photographs and images, together with a thoroughly researched narrative	€4,000
17380	Dermot Powe	The street where you live.	The origin and meaning of Waterford Street Names from the Viking period to the present ,including maps,sites and history of Ancient Waterford Churches.	€2,000
17451	Rowe Creavin Medical Practice	Presentation Convent Waterford, its History	DVD on the history of the Presentation Convent, Waterford	€2,000
16832	Lucy Costigan & Mr Michael Cullen	Harry Clarke Stained Glass Website	To create a website of the entire stained glass work of the renowned Irish stained glass artist and illustrator Harry Clarke	€5,000
17456	Hook Heritage Ltd	Towering Light- Virtual tour of hook Lighthouse	A dvd which will give viewers a virtual tour of Hook Lighthouse	€4,000
Total				€156,600

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