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Guidelines for Applicants 2013-2014 Irish artists may apply for residencies at the Centre Culturel Irlandais/Irish College in Paris. Artists in residence have been appointed on an annual basis since the Centre Culturel Irlandais opened in the Irish College in October 2002. Residency gives the recipient the chance to spend time in Paris and engage with one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. Through the residencies and its own cultural programme, the Centre Culturel Irlandais showcases Ireland's dynamic contemporary culture and strong historical traditions on an international stage. Guidelines for Applicants for Residency Bursary The Centre Culturel Irlandais is a resource for Irish artists and the artist in residence can tap into all that the Centre and Paris has to offer. The combination of living and working in these historic and atmospheric surroundings, in one of the most cultured cities in the world, helps to channel a rich influence towards Ireland and its artistic community, as well as providing a benefit to each individual who resides in the Centre. Eligibility Applicants must be either: 1. Irish citizens or normally resident in Ireland, with full-time professional involvement in creative practice. 2. French professional artists whose work demonstrates an Irish dimension, who are resident in Ireland or have another clear link. How to apply Please send a short biography or curriculum vitae, with a clear indication of the focus of the residency, by letter or e-mail, to the Director. A clear record of professional achievement must be demonstrated. Details of publications, exhibitions, performances, compositions, prizes, awards and related aspects of practice should be attached, as well as experience of other residencies. Visual artists must have had at least one solo exhibition. Any familiarity with French culture and language should be indicated. When to apply For a residency between September 2013 and July 2014, the deadline for receipt of application is 17h on Friday 25 January 2013. Applicants will be notified of the outcome in March. Terms and Conditions 1. The residency is open to practitioners in all art forms, within the limits of the facilities available in the Centre. 2. Preference will be given to those who can avail of three-month residencies, although shorter periods may be considered. 3. The bursary covers travel and accommodation in the Centre Culturel Irlandais. The artist is expected to spend the period agreed in the Irish College. 4. Each resident artist will receive a stipend of €700 per month. 5. The artist in residence may be asked to participate in the cultural programme of the Centre.   Sheila Pratschke Director Centre Culturel Irlandais 5, rue des Irlandais 75005 Paris

Résidents Avr – Juin 2013   April - June 2013
	Ciaran Hope  Durant sa résidence, le compositeur et musicien Ciaran Hope travaillera sur plusieurs pièces, parmi lesquelles une suite pour orchestres d’enfants inspirée par un tour de Paris. A la manière de Mussorgsky et ses « Tableaux d’une exposition », il rendra l’atmosphère sonore et la texture de ces monuments culturels, tels le Louvre ou la Tour Eiffel. Parallèlement, Ciaran souhaite écrire un opéra sur Robert Emmet et son exil auprès des révolutionnaires français.
	Jaki McCarrick Diplômée de Trinity College Dublin et de Middlesex University, Jaki McCarrick est dramaturge, romancière et poétesse. En 2010, sa pièce Leopoldville et sa nouvelle The Visit ont respectivement remporté le Papatango Award for New Writing et le Wasafiri Short Fiction Prize. Jaki vient de publier son premier recueil intitulé The Scattering. Elle écrit actuellement son premier roman.
	Margaret O’Brien Pour l’artiste visuelle Margaret O’Brien, cette résidence constitue l’opportunité de poursuivre sa création d’œuvres répondant à un site précis, en l’occurrence des lieux historiques d’exécution publique : places de marché, cours intérieures de prison… Symbole de profonde discorde entre un régime et son peuple, cette tradition, qui s’est développée à la fin du 18ème siècle, trouve un écho dans le climat européen actuel.
	Geraldine O’Reilly Lors de sa résidence, l’artiste Geraldine O’Reilly travaillera sur le concept de ville en tant que lieu dépositaire de l’Histoire. Elle explorera Paris, son architecture, ses musées, collections, archives et bibliothèques. Geraldine rendra compte de ses expériences dans un journal de bord visuel et réalisera dessins, peintures et photographies inspirées par la ville lumière.
	Gerard Smyth L’écriture du poète Gerard Smyth est empreinte de passion contrôlée et d’intensité lyrique. Une langue sobre et une connaissance sensible mais exigeante de la vie contemporaine, alliées à une foi discrète en l’humain, confèrent aux derniers poèmes de Gerard pertinence, musicalité et profondeur unique. The Fullness of Time: New and Selected Poems (1969-2009) a paru en 2010 chez Dedalus.

January - April 2013
	Trevor Byrne  Après l’immense succès critique de son premier roman, Ghosts & Lightning, le dublinois Trevor Byrne s’apprête aujourd’hui à publier son deuxième ouvrage, ainsi qu’un recueil de nouvelles. Lors de sa résidence au CCI, il commencera à travailler sur son troisième roman. En grande partie situé dans le Paris des années 1980, celui-ci sera une version romancée des dix dernières années de la vie de Samuel Beckett, du point de vue d’un acteur irlandais.
	Nancy Harris Pendant sa résidence au CCI à l'automne 2012, la dramaturge Nancy Harris a remporté le prestigieux Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. A son sujet, le président du jury a déclaré que « la critique et le public [avaient] été impressionnés par sa perspicacité psychologique et sa vivacité d’esprit ». Après quelques mois d'intense activité artistique à Dublin et Londres, nous sommes ravis de retrouver Nancy pour la fin de son séjour parisien.
	Catherine Phil MacCarthy Lauréate du Fish International Poetry Prize en 2010, Catherine Phil MacCarthy a publié plusieurs recueils de poésie, parmi lesquels The Invisible Threshold (2012). Pendant sa résidence, elle écrira de nouveaux poèmes sur le thème de la migration. L'une des préoccupations de la poétesse est l'influence que Paris et la culture française ont pu avoir sur les artistes irlandais qui sont venus vivre dans cette ville entre 1860 et 1914.
	Vivienne Roche Les sculptures publiques de Vivienne Roche sont visibles à travers toute l’Irlande, de Dublin à Cork, ville natale de l’artiste. A Paris, elle réalisera une série de dessins à grande échelle représentant les détails des bâtiments sur lesquels a travaillé le grand ingénieur irlandais Peter Rice, comme par exemple les gerberettes du Centre Pompidou. Rice fera d’ailleurs l'objet d'une exposition et d’un colloque international en mai prochain au CCI, au cours desquels seront exposées les œuvres de Vivienne.
	Carmel Winters Tant pour sa pièce B for Baby que pour son film Snap, l’auteure et metteuse en scène Carmel Winters a été louée par la critique et récompensée à maintes reprises. Elle consacrera son séjour aux expériences personnelles, culturelles et politiques de Maud Gonne durant ses nombreuses et longues périodes de résidence à Paris. Ses recherches permettront de documenter et d'inspirer l’écriture d’un film et d’une pièce de théâtre sur la vie de cette icône révolutionnaire.

Artists in Residence in 2012   September - December 2012
	Andrew Hamilton The major focus of award-winning musician and composer Andrew Hamilton’s time at the Centre will be on writing a one-hour opera which has been commissioned by the Ives Ensemble from the Netherlands based on the life of Roger Casement. He will assemble the text himself from Casement’s diaries and the writings of his contemporaries.
	Linda Quinlan Linda Quinlan's work investigates language and more specifically how we understand physical material through language. She is interested in the possible space that may exist between thinking, making and viewing an art work. She has recently exhibited at Art Geneve, the Bloomberg SPACE in London, in Koln Kunstverin and at the Smart Project Space, Amsterdam.
	Tim Robinson Tim Robinson is nearing the completion of a forty-year project of mapping and writing about the three celebrated landscapes grouped around Galway Bay: the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara. Through art and literature, he now intends to pursue ideas concerning our relationship to the physical universe symbolised by the centre of gravity.

April- June 2012
	Veronica Bolay Veronica Bolay was born in Germany and moved to Ireland in 1971. She has participated in major group shows in Ireland, Italy and France and had eighteen solo shows in Ireland in recent years. Veronica has received the Fergus O'Ryan Memorial Award from the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Keating McLoughlin Medal and ESB Award as well as the prestigious Liam Walsh Award in 2006. Her work forms part of the major Irish collections. She is a member of the RHA and of Aosdána. During her residency Veronica concentrated on the theme of 'Shelter' and its many-faceted aspects. This is an ongoing concern in her work. The courtyard of the Centre Culturel Irlandais added a new insight due to the social and cultural interactions (past and present) within its space. She worked with oil on canvas and pencil/charcoal on paper.

January - April 2012
	Manchán Magan Manchán Magan is a writer and travel documentary-maker. During his residency he will focus on the first draft of a novel. He will also work on the final draft of a bilingual play commissioned by the Abbey Theatre and finish a film script for a modern-day adaption of Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire which goes into production in June 2012. He has written six books in English and Irish as well as two bilingual plays. He writes the Magan’s World column for the Irish Times.
	Mary O’Donnell Mary O’Donnell is a novelist and poet. She has published six collections of poetry and her fiction includes Strong Pagans, The Light-Makers, Virgin and the Boy and The Elysium Testament. She co-edited a 2010 anthology of women’s poetry from Galicia: To the Winds Our Sails: Irish Writers Translate Galician Poetry. Her short fiction has appeared in many anthologies of note and she has won numerous literary awards. She is a regular contributor to RTE Radio and is a member of Aosdána.
	Judith Ring Judith Ring is a composer working mainly in the electro-acoustic domain. She is a co-director of Sensorium which creates diverse evenings of interactive visual, aural and haptic installation work and performances designed to stimulate the senses. Her compositions have been performed throughout Europe and the Americas by ensembles such as Concorde, Percussemble, Trio Scordatura and Bradyworks. The focus of her residency will be to write a five movement string quartet with an electronic part based on sound recordings made in Paris.       Judith writes: Thank you again for the wonderful opportunity read more
	Donald Teskey Donald Teskey is primarily a landscape painter and in his work he attempts to convey the experience and sense of a place through a sustained exploration of the elements of rural and urban landscape. His work in Paris will be to look at, experience and investigate the environment through drawing and painting. Teskey is a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and of Aosdána. His work has been exhibited in Ireland, UK, Europe, US and China and is held in major collections throughout the world.

Artists in Residence in 2011   September - December 2011
	Celia de Fréine Celia de Fréine will use her residency to work on a new collection of poetry Ar Cois: Afoot. Her poetry has won many awards, including the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1994 and Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnachta in 2004. She has published four collections of poetry. Many of her plays in English and in Irish have been performed and she has developed a number of film projects in collaboration with Biju Viswanath. She has written for television, including the long-running TG4 series Ros na Run.     Celia writes: (the cci) áit ar féidir sult a bhaint as an saol... read more
	Theo Dorgan Theo Dorgan’s residency will be used to work on a novel “murmuring in my ear that will be largely set in Paris”. He has published five collections of poetry, two accounts of sailing voyages – one transatlantic, the other from Cape Horn to Cape Town. He has been Series Editor of European Poetry Translation Network publications and was editor of The Great Book of Ireland, among many other publications. He presented Poetry Now on radio and RTE TV’s books programme Imprint.     Theo writes: The tranquillity of the Centre, the thorough but unobtrusive support it offers... read more
	Deirdre McKay Co. Down-born Deirdre McKay studied music at Queen’s University, Belfast completed by a doctorate in composition in 2003. Her work has been performed in Europe, South Africa and USA with commissions from the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, RTÉ Living Music Festival, Music Network, Dublin Youth Orchestra, Sligo New Music Festival, Naughton Gallery Belfast (with artist Jean Duncan), Ulster Youth Orchestra and the Irish Chamber Orchestra.       Deirdre writes: "It's the precision and finish, chocolatiers with perfect boxes... read more
	Wayne Jordan Wayne Jordan is a director, writer and designer who has worked at the Abbey Theatre and Project Arts Centre. In 2010 he directed Christ Deliver Us! (Tom Kilroy) and The Plough and The Stars (Sean O’Casey), Celebration (Harold Pinter) and Ellamenope Jones, also written by himself. No Romance, a new play by Nancy Harris, won great critical acclaim earlier this year. He will use the residency to work on the early stages of a new work inspired by material from the autobiographies of Sean O’Casey.
	Ignatius McGovern Poet and academic Iggy McGovern is interested in the common ground between Poetry and Science. He will spend his residency working on a verse biography of the life of William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65). Hamilton is the most significant figure in Irish science, and his world-wide status can be gauged by the distinctive “Hamiltonian” tag that dominates online “hits”; But he was also a poet, friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Iggy hopes to complete the work within 2012, which is the year of Dublin City of Science.    Ignatius writes: I loved the local mix of science and literature... read more
	Sonia Shiel Sonia Shiel’s installations, often composed of paintings, sculpture and video, explore the propensity of art to be effective in the real world, while pitching mankind’s most earnest endeavours against their odds. She has had a number of solo shows in recent years in Dublin, Cork, Kilkenny, Helsinki and Berlin. She has been the recipient of a number of awards as well as international residencies. Her work explores how and what art chooses to be when it can be anything, and if the artist today can start a revolution that nobody else can.
May - July
	Colin Bateman Colin Bateman is a best-selling novelist, screenwriter and playwright from Bangor in Northern Ireland. A former journalist, his first novel Divorcing Jack won The Betty Trask Prize and was later made into a movie. He has published thirty novels and writes regularly for television. He was recently made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Ulster for his services to literature. While in Paris Colin will be working on a BBC adaptation of Where Are You Really From?, an autobiography by Tim Brannigan about growing up as a black child in Republican West Belfast and the remarkable secret his mother kept from the world.
	Stephen Gunning Stephen Gunning makes work according to the driving theme of the modern city and its potential as a site of anthropological enquiry and the extended meaning of social events, gatherings, and informal (but often socially compelled) movements such as parades, protests, festivals or public celebrations. He is particularly concerned with the themes of placement and presence, “the conventional metaphor of life as a journey” and in this respect is fascinated by the relationship of the particular to the universal, the elevation of the ordinary into something filled with implied importance.
	Caoimhin O Raghallaigh CaoimhÌn is best known as a traditional fiddle player whose solo work has become increasingly adventurous over the last few years. His residency will be devoted to work on material for two solo shows: firstly, to use the city of Paris to shoot and edit new film material, collaborating with a wide range of musicians; secondly, to write new material specifically for performing in churches. He will work in the chapel of the Irish College, where he knows and loves “the beautiful acoustics”.
	Catherine O’Kane The Royal Dublin Society Student Art Awards and the Centre Culturel Irlandais offered Catherine a residency for her short film ‘Prelude’, an investigation into her childhood memories. Using old photographs, reminiscences with her family and locations around her home, she reconstructed key images in this visualization of her memories. She combined her own piano playing with her animation and used the metaphors of a box of memories and a locket as linking devices.

January - April 2011
	Robert Janz Robert Janz’s poetic art is a passionate plea for greater restraint in civilisation’s encroachment on the natural environment. His works explore aspects of motion, change and transience. His project in Paris is ephemeral and out in the streets. He will also use his studio, drawing and erasing on the walls every day, a slow kinetic installation.
	Mary Morrissy Mary Morrissy will work on the first draft of a new novel in which the central character is a Greifer, a Jewish woman employed by the Gestapo to identify other Jews living underground. Such women prowled the night spots of the city, pointing out Jews who were living incognito. Many of them had turned informer to avoid being sent to the camps and thus balanced the complicated equation of betrayal and survival.    Mary writes: A residency at the CCI offers a potent mix of quietude and stimulation... read more
	Maurice Riordan Maurice Riordan has published three award-winning collections; the most recent, The Holy Land, received the Michael Hartnett Award in 2007. He is working on a new collection of poems, provisionally called The Water Stealer. These continue from previous books a thematic exploration of time and memory, but with a more intense focus on the natural world.
	Garrett Sholdice Garrett Sholdice is a composer and co-director of Ergodos, a Dublin-based music organization. In 2009 he also founded Harmonium, an acoustic chamber ensemble of flexible instrumentation. The focus of his residency is the composition of an austere chamber opera for female voices and small ensemble, which will utilise techniques adapted from Javanese gamelan music and Medieval organa, and texts from French symbolist poets.
	Dylan Tighe Dylan Tighe will use his time in Paris to research and formulate ideas and aesthetics for a multidisciplinary theatre performance based on the poetry of Michael Hartnett. This will fuse theatre, music, visual art and poetry. It will incorporate spoken, sung and projected text, filmed sequences, staged images and tableaux.    Dylan writes: The residency at CCI was an invaluable opportunity... read more

Artists in Residence in 2010   September - December 2010
	Siobhán Cleary Composer in residence Siobhán Cleary will work on two projects: a work for chamber choir based on tongue twisters in different languages and a ballet based on the origins of the wing shun martial arts: The common legend involves the young woman Wing Chun after the destruction of the Southern Shaolin by the Qing government. After she rebuffs the local warlord's marriage offer, he promises to rescind his proposal if she can beat him in a martial art contest. The Buddhist nun Ng Mui teaches her to box so that she defeats the warlord. This style of boxing is named after her.
	Sean Lynch Artist in residence Sean Lynch is particularly concerned with developing a chronology of ‘flashpoints’, of moments where understandings/ misunderstandings of art in its wider social context can be observed. He will find and articulate specific examples around the display and interpretation of modern, conceptual and site-specific art. He hopes that his time in Paris will result in bringing perspective, form and conceptual reflection to the subject matter he locates.
	Gina Moxley Writer in residence Gina Moxley is a playwright, fiction writer and actor. The Crumb Trail was performed as part of 2009 Dublin Theatre festival. It also toured to festivals in Germany, Denmark, Oregon and New York. Two of her plays, Dog House and Danti-Dan, are published by Faber. The focus of work during her residency is an adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels for the stage. In tandem with her theatre work she will continue to write short fiction.
April - July 2010
	Irene Buckley Irene Buckley is a composer who is completing a PhD in Composition at University College Cork. Her work has been performed at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; in New Orleans and in Copenhagen; in Carnegie Hall and The Tank, New York; and in many other prestigious venues. She is a member of Cantemus chamber choir and, among other projects, will create a new work for the Irish Chamber Choir of Paris during her residency.
	Vona Groarke Vona Groarke’s most recent collection of poetry Spindrift was highly acclaimed, as were her earlier collections - Juniper Street, Flight, Other People’s Houses, Shale – all published by Gallery Press. She has won numerous awards, including the Rooney Prize and the International Strokestown Poetry Prize. During her residency in Paris she will concentrate on “that most difficult of tasks – beginning all over again with a fresh book”.
	M.J. Hyland Maria J. Hyland was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2006 for her novel Carry Me Down and won both the Encore and Hawthornden Prizes in 2007. How the Light Gets In appeared in 2003 and This is How in 2009. She will work on her fourth novel during her time in Paris, birthplace of André Gide, which she feels is apt as the story-line is inspired by him.    Maria writes: My bright, clean room was perfect for writing... read more
	Kennedy Browne and Sarah Browne Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne work together and separately. They will use their Paris residency to develop new ideas and projects after a long engagement with the work which they presented both jointly and individually at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
	Helen O’Leary Wexford-born Helen O’Leary divides her time between the US, where she is a Professor of Art, and Ireland. She has had exhibitions in Chicago and New York, in Melbourne and India, as well as in Europe. Her numerous awards and commissions are testament to a varied and exciting practice. She works with the language of painting/ minimalism, with a catholic rather than puritan inspiration. In her artist’s studio forms are elastic; everything is in a state of potentiality.
January - March 2010
	Conall Morrison  Conall Morrison is a Dublin-based writer and director. He has worked for the Abbey Theatre, the Lyric and other companies in Ireland; he has directed work for the Royal Shakepeare Company, English National Opera and the Royal National Theatre London as well as working in many other countries. During his residency he will concentrate on an new play Patrick's Day on Montserrat. Montserrat is an actively volcanic island. With the volcano and its lava as central images, he intends to write a play that animates the events of the St. Patrick's Day slave rebellion of 1768, when African slaves unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow their Irish masters.
	Leanne O’Sullivan Cork poet Leanne O’Sullivan will work on her third collection Tales of the Flood during her Paris residency. Two earlier collections Waiting for My Clothes (2004) and Cailleach: The Hag of Béara (2009) were published by Bloodaxe Books. Her subject matter is of broadly human interest: communication and conflict between individuals; the relationship between inner and outer experience; and the shaping influence of spatial contexts and landscapes on states of being. Her poetry has been published in Ireland, England, India, America and Canada and she has won a number of prestigious awards.
	Sid Peacock Sid Peacock, from Northern Ireland, is a composer with broad interests who has worked with musicians from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. During his residency he will work on a composition with a Paris-based tango musician. He will also develop a music and narration project based on the works of some of the major Beat poets such as Ginsberg, Corso, Kerouac and Burroughs. He is interested in the field of community music and has been artistic director of Birmingham Jazz Education Project as well as Cheltenham Festival Youth Jazz composer-in-residence.   Sid writes: My time in Paris provided the inspiration for my Surge Big Band La Fête... read more

Artists in Residence in 2009   September - December 2009
	Trish McAdam  Trish McAdam worked in photography, graphics and short films before making her first feature Snakes and Ladders in 1996. She has produced and directed documentaries for RTE and will work on a feature script while in residency in Paris. She is a founder member of Screen Directors Guild of Ireland and currently vice-president of the Federation of European Directors.   Trish writes: An altogether inspiring and battery charging experience. Days stretched out… read more
	Lia Mills During her residency, Lia Mills will work on her third novel. She has published two novels Another Alice (1996) and Nothing Simple (2005) and also writes short stories. In Your Face (2006) est un récit autobiographique sur le cancer. Lia writes: I began my residency at the end of August, a few days after the anniversary of the Liberation of Paris... read more
	Gail Ritchie Gail Ritchie is from Northern Ireland. Her work features in major collections in both Ireland and the UK. She works in a variety of media from installation, photography to sound and object based pieces, drawing on both cultural and historical references. Her current line of research is focused on conflict. Her residency will allow exploration of this theme in historical artworks and battlefields from the First World War. Gail writes: Being based in Paris over an extended period of time enabled me to engage... read more
	Gareth Williams Gareth Williams is a Glasgow-based composer originally from Armagh. In recent years his work has been in the field of opera and music theatre, two works being commissioned for Scottish Opera. During his residency, he will work with rhetoric and ritual of Irish Catholic language and prayer, using the litanies as material to create a theatrical and cathartic piece of staged music.

April - June 2009
	Sean Hardie - writer An author of novels, screenplays, TV comedy and satire, Sean Hardie will turn his pen to writing a full-length play. Its broad theme will be identity - cultural, national and personal - in the context of increasing globalisation and economic migration.    Sean writes: I found the residency very rich and rewarding… read more
	Fiona Mulholland - multi-media artist Fiona Mulholland is particularly interested in exploring discontent in society as an ?emotional geography?. She will collaborate with a cross-section of people in Paris to re-create the original scenarios of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT, a projective personality test designed at Harvard in the 1930s) in the form of large-scale photographs and video works.
	Audrey O'Reilly - writer/film director A writer who is at ease both in Irish and in English and whose dramas have featured regularly on Irish television, Audrey O'Reilly will be working on the film script of the true story of a plot to kill Louis XIV by his chief mistress Mme de Montespan.   Audrey writes: Well the