Representative & Resource Organisation Listing

The Irish Society of Performance Designers is the representative body of scenographers in Ireland.

Minding Creative Minds
Minding Creative Minds is a 24/7 mental health and wellbeing support programme for the Irish Creative community that includes access to counselling services and a range of resources including financial, legal and career advice.

Performing Arts Forum 
A forum that supports artists, arts workers, and organisations to build a better connected, more diverse, and stronger community and secures the resources needed to sustain the sector.

Praxis – The Artists Union of Ireland
Praxis: The Artists’ Union of Ireland is a trade union for artists across all disciplines in Ireland. The union is committed to giving artists strategic power in their places of work and to improving their living and working conditions.

Safe to Create
Safe to Create is a programme that promotes safer working conditions for artists and arts workers. It is managed by the Irish Theatre Institute, in partnership with the Arts Council, Screen Ireland and Minding Creative Minds, on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

Collaborative Arts

Create 
Create is the national development agency for collaborative arts. Our work initiates cross-sectoral national and international partnerships which support artists and communities to co-create work of depth, ambition and excellence.

Dance

Dance Ireland
Dance Ireland supports the development of all forms of dance in Ireland through professional development opportunities and advocacy.

Literature

Children’s Books Ireland (CBI)
CBI is the national children’s books organisation of Ireland. Its mission includes supporting children’s book authors and illustrators.

Illustrators Ireland
An organisation that supports the development of illustration in Ireland. It has published A Guide to Commissioning Illustrators which gives advice to illustrators and clients on managing their business relationship.

Irish Writers Centre
Resource organisation for Irish literature

Irish Copyright Licensing Agency (ICLA)
The ICLA licenses the reproduction of copyrighted works on behalf of both publishers and authors. It collects and distributes the income arising to its members and represents the interests of rights holders.

Irish Writers Union
The Irish Writers Union represents the interests of Irish writers.

Poetry Ireland
Resource organisation for poetry in Ireland

Words Ireland
Words Ireland is a grouping of seven literature organisations who have worked collaboratively to provide coordinated professional development and resource services to the literature sector.

Writer’s Guild of Ireland (WGI)
The Writers Guild of Ireland is the representative body in Ireland for writers for the stage, screen, radio and digital media.

Music

Association of Irish Composers (AIC)
The Association of Irish Composers represents contemporary music composers in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It seeks to enhance the professional status of its members through advocacy and through the provision of information and advice on matters of copyright, commission fees and related rights. The AIC, along with the Contemporary Music Centre (CMC) have published Fee Guidelines for Music Commissions.

Contemporary Music Centre
The Contemporary Music Centre (CMC) is Ireland’s archive and resource centre for new music, supporting the work of composers throughout the Republic and Northern Ireland.

First Music Contact
The lead national music organisation for resourcing musicians and the independent music sector in Ireland. We deliver projects at key stages of an artists’ development, helping them develop real careers.

Improvised Music Company (IMC)
Improvised Music Company is a resource organisation for improvising and jazz musicians. It has engaged with its partners in Europe and with artists in Ireland to monitor income and pay rates across the jazz and improvised music scene.

Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO)
IMRO’s function is to collect and distribute royalties arising from the public performance of copyright works on behalf of its members (songwriters, composers and music publishers).

Music Network Ireland
Music Network is Ireland’s national music touring and development organisation.

Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland (MEAI)
MEAI is a representative association for professionals in the Music & Entertainment industry in Ireland led by industry professionals.

Musicians’ Union of Ireland (MUI)
The Musicians Union of Ireland is an affiliate of SIPTU. It represents professional musicians from every genre along with music teachers, singers and other music professionals.

Recorded Artists Actors Performers (RAAP)
Recorded Artists Actors Performers is a not-for-profit organisation set up to ensure that musicians receive the performance royalties that are due to them.

Screen Composers Guild of Ireland
The Screen Composers Guild of Ireland is the representative body for professional composers of original music for film, TV, animation, advertising and games. It promotes the status and rights of Irish and Irish based screen composers.

Trad Ireland / Traid Éireann
Trad Ireland / Traid Éireann is a resource and representative organisation, promoting the traditional arts throughout the island of Ireland.

Theatre

Irish Theatre Institute (ITI)
Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) is a theatre resource organisation. It supports professional theatre artists to develop sustainable careers and provides mentoring, training and continuing professional development for theatre makers.

Theatre for Young Audiences Ireland (TYAI)
​TYA Ireland (the Irish centre for ASSITEJ International) is the national association representing and promoting professional organisations and individual artists whose work primarily focuses on engaging children and young people in Ireland through theatre.

Screen

Screen Director’s Guild of Ireland (SDGI)
The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI) is the representative body for directors involved in the Irish and international audiovisual industry.

Street Art & Spectacle

Irish Street Art, Circus and Spectacle Network – ISACS
Ireland’s leading support and advocacy organisation for the development of street arts, circus and spectacle art forms.

Visual Arts

Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation (IVARO)
IVARO is Ireland’s copyright collecting society for visual artists. It collects and distributes royalties for the reproduction of visual works of art. IVARO also represents its members in relation to the Artists Resale Right.

Visual Artists Ireland
Representative body for professional visual artists in Ireland