Over 1.5 million euro is being invested locally by the Arts Council for 2018.
Individual artists as well as groups will be benefiting from the investments.
In Kilkenny €36,000 heading to the Young Irish Film Makers, €82,000 is going to Barnstorm Theatre Company, and €165,000 euro is being granted to the local Monkeyshine Theatre.
In Carlow €139,000 is going to the Eigse festival, €120,000 to the United Fall, there’s €95,000 for Visual and the GB Shaw theatre.