Closing Date: 5:30pm, Thursday 25 April 2019
Maximum Awarded: €20,000
The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht’s new bursary scheme named the Markievicz Award will open for on-line applications via the Arts Council’s website on Tuesday 26 March 2019 and will close at 17:30 on Thursday 25 April 2019.
In advance of the opening date for applications Guidance to Applicants for the bursary scheme was published on the website today: Guidelines Markievicz_14Feb19
About the Markievicz Award
By Photography: Getty / Hulton – Digital image from: historytoday.com ‘Soldiers Are We’: Women in the Irish Rising, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5211147
In November 2018 Minister Josepha Madigan announced the awards to commemorate the role of women in the historical period covered by the Decade of Centenaries and beyond.
The award honours Countess Constance de Markievicz — herself an artist and the first woman to be elected to parliament.
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