Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) invites artists and healthcare professionals to submit proposals for our 2024 Seed Grant programme for creative exploration and responses to grief and loss in residential care settings and nursing homes. Awards are in the region of €2,000 per successful applicant. We’ll offer up to six awards – one per HSE health […]
Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is proud to announce the release of ‘Art by Their Side’, a book highlighting the transformative effect of art on individuals at the end of life. Since the launch of our Arts and Cultural Engagement programme in 2021, supported by the Creative Ireland Programme, we’ve been dedicated to bringing the healing […]
Irish Men’s Sheds Association, funded by Healthy Ireland, and Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) joined forces for a unique creative collaboration with musician Mike Hanrahan for Christmas 2023. As long-standing partners, IHF with The Irish Men’s Sheds Association recognise the power of connection between individuals and within communities. The organisations collaborate to increase Men’s engagement with […]
About “The Waking Walls” “The Waking Walls” is an audio installation event by artist Alan James Burns, in collaboration with writer Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and NYAH. It’s taking place at Cloughoughter Castle, an iconic national monument, in county Cavan, September 8 to 9. Alan, a Cavan-born artist, developed this installation with an Irish Hospice Foundation Seed […]
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Business to Arts Awards, which recognise businesses, philanthropists, artists, and arts organisations that develop “compelling creative partnerships”. […]
Highlighting our raison d’être: ‘Every death matters and we only have one chance to get it right’ Jean Callanan, Chair of Irish Hospice Foundation, re-affirmed our belief in the importance of creative people addressing dying, death and bereavement at our first Arts and Creative Engagement Roundtable Gathering in Dublin on 15th June last. MC on […]
The World Federation of Neurology has just announced ‘Brain Health and Disability: Leave No One Behind’ as this year’s theme for World Brain Day taking place on 22nd July. Key messages – awareness, prevention, advocacy, education and access – remind us of what Danielle Manning, a senior social worker with Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, told us […]
Our current round of 16 Seed Grant funded projects are now coming to fruition and reflect a wider engagement with the issues of dying, death, and bereavement. Our In-Residence programmes, where artists are in service to people at the end of life, in Limerick and Kilkenny hospitals, and projects for HSE staff currently being prototyped, […]
Suicide: “If they really loved me so much, why would they leave?” Now there’s a newspaper headline guaranteed to grab the attention of even the most casual of readers. It’s also the exact same question that prompted Trudy Meehan to write her fictional story book ‘The Way Home’ as profiled by Sheila Wayman in the Irish […]
Generously supported by Rethink Ireland’s Impact Fund for Munster, we are delighted to announce our Compassionate Culture Network (CCN) is now expanding across Munster. Over the coming weeks, four safe spaces where people can have open and creative chats about loss, gently exploring how compassion connects, and share some deadly conversation, will be established in […]
