Our Team
Our Team
The Dublin City Council Culture Company team is made up of people from a mixture of backgrounds and experience across engagement, programming, history, project management, policy, communications, heritage, finance, tour guiding and community engagement.
Engagement
Tea & Chats
Engagement Coordinator
Sinéad White
engagement@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Engagement Coordinator
Danielle Breslin
teaandchats@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Engagement Coordinator
Tracey Bardon
memories@14henriettastreet.ie
Engagement Coordinator
Sarah Jackson
engage@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Creative Engagement
Head of Creative Engagement
Linda Devlin
experiment@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Creative Engagement Coordinator
Evan Musgrave
neighbourhood@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Creative Residency in Art & Sport
Project Manager
Annette Ryan
programme@
Culture Connects @ Richmond Barracks
Programme Coordinators
Laura Howe
cultureconnects@richmondbarracks.ie
Richmond Barracks Artists-in-Residence
- Andy Spearpoint (Music)
- Polly Rowley Sams (Eco-gardening and biodiversity)
artists@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Creative Residency
Historian in Residence for Children
Dervilia Roche
residency@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Social Historian
Donal Fallon
socialhistory@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Festival of History
Festival Programmers
Donal Fallon, Cormac Kinsella
Festival Producer
Aisling O'Brien
festivalofhistory@
Festival Marketing
Pat Carey
Dublin City Council Historians in Residence
James Curry (North West)
Cormac Moore (North Central)
Mary Muldowney (Central)
Catherine Scuffil (South Central and South East)
Dervilia Roche (Historian in Residence for Children)
historians@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Project Development
Head of Project Development
Tracy Geraghty
development@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Partnerships and Advisory Groups
partnerships@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Visitor Experience
Head of Visitor Experience
Gemma Sexton
visitorexperience@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Front of House Manager - 14 Henrietta Street
Gemma Howe
info@14henriettastreet.ie
Venue Coordinator - Richmond Barracks
Lorna De Brún
info@richmondbarracks.ie
Visitor Experience Coordinator - Richmond Barracks
Emma Hodges
info@richmondbarracks.ie
Visitor Experience Coordinator
Thomas O'Reilly
visitorsupport@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Tour Guide Team
(14 Henrietta Street/Richmond Barracks)
Alice Brady, Hannah Carnegie, Frank Cullen, Sean Deegan, Wren Dennehy, Phelim Drew, Frank Flanagan, Declan Gannon, Pat Garry, Gemma Howe, Joe Kavanagh, Gus Keating, Jason Neeson, Sheila Robinson, Gillian Ryan, Eddie Smith, and Fergus Whelan.
Culture Club
Engagement Coordinator
Shanaya Ahmad
cultureclub@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Venue hire
(14 Henrietta Street/Richmond Barracks)
venuehire@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Communications
Head of Communications, Marketing and Audience Development
Darragh Doyle
Communications Coordinators
Oliver Deane
Sinéad Dunne
Alan Thornton
comms@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Cultural Audit and Map Administrator
Claire Duggan
culturalaudit@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Operations & Administration
CEO
Iseult Byrne
ceo@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Head of Operations
Emma Dwan O'Reilly
operations@dublincitycouncilcultureccompany.ie
Administration and Operations Coordinator
Stacey Pope
admin@dublincitycouncilcultureccompany.ie
Financial Administrator & Bookkeeper
Siobhan Kilroy
accounts@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Financial Controller
Ciara O'Dowd
Collections Manager
Suzanne Freeman
collections@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Smart Tourism Programme Manager
Barry Rogers
smarttourism@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Access Officers
The Culture Company aims to ensure people with disabilities can access our services, buildings, and information. We have appointed an Access Officer to help us to achieve this, and you can contact them at the below email address.
Emma Dwan O'Reilly
operations@dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
Our Organisation
Dublin City Council Culture Company was established in March 2018, wholly owned by Dublin City Council. It was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee and has a Board of Directors of 7 persons.
Chairperson
Richard Shakespeare
Directors
Siobhán Bourke (Film Producer and Founder; previously Co-Director Irish Theatre Institute); Tim Carey (Author and Principal Officer Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government); Tom Dunne (Group Financial Controller at The Rehab Group); Councillor Vincent Jackson (Independent Councillor for Ballyfermot-Drimnagh); Councillor Cat O'Driscoll (Social Democrat for Cabra-Glasnevin, and Chair of Culture Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) for Dublin City Council); Richard Shakespeare (Assistant Chief Executive, Planning and Property Development Dublin City Council); Brendan Teeling (Deputy City Librarian, Dublin City Public Libraries).
Finance and audit committee
Tom Dunne, Mary Griffin, Richard Shakespeare, Evelyn Whyms.
Executive and staff
Advisory Group
We have established an advisory group to support the creation of ideas and connections for the organisation. They are working collaboratively with the team to support and guide our ambitious, meaningful and achievable cultural initiatives.
Advisory Group 2021 - 2023
Helen Shaw, Brian Treacy, Brian Mullins, Lisa Jones, Emily O'Callaghan, Jessica Smyth, Danielle Masterson, Joan Hannon, Eileen Murphy, Aileen Caffrey, Jennifer Winder-Baggot, Jo O'Donoghue, Liza Michael, Johnathan Santos, Anne Marie Hayes, Stephen Manning, Ruth Hegarty, Deirdre Ryan, Craig Connolly, Barbara Mellon, Liliana Fernandez Mitchell, Trish Cronin, Anthony O'Keeffe, Carmel Hanley, Eamon O'Flaherty, Aine Ni Chaoimh, Shauna Lyons, Fergal Hynes, Michael Kinsella, Jade Connell Carroll, Hazel Tucker Fogarty, Caitlin White, Katrina Enros, Claire Gogarty, Rick O'Shea, Isabelle Keenan, David Gunning, Pearse Corcoran, Niall McGuirk, Lisa Griffith, Michael Ginty,
The group includes community advocates, artists, singers, dancers, researchers, academics, makers, digital storytellers, publishers, social innovators, historians, and more. We're delighted to have them working with us.
__
Antonella Scanu, Sarah McKenna, Helen Doherty, Simon Maguire, Michele Walshe, Emer Meehan, Margarita Vásquez Cárdenas, Karen Aguiar, Alessandra Azevedo, Deirdre Ní Cheallaigh, Damien McGlynn, Jeffrey Roe, Grainne Walker, Muirne Bloomer, Emilie Conway, James Stafford, Felicia Olusanya, Martha Moloney, Nessa McNamara, Julia Moustacchi, Aidan Clifford, Mary Griffin, Emma Loughney, Helen Barry, Muriel McAuley, Mary Weir, Eleanor Collier, John Scott, William Cumming, Dr Darren Kelly, Kim Ennis, Stephen Mandal, Rachel Collier Orla Ryan, Denise Brophy, Evelyn D'Arcy, Godfrey Chimbganda, Dr Conor Kostick, Maretta Dillon, Brian Crowley, Muireann Ahern, Jo McNamara, Gilly Clarke, Sarah Durcan, Beverly Sperry, Megan Riordan, Veronica Dyas, Siobhán Doyle, Gerry Clabby, Michael Foley.
Advisory panels 2018 - 2020
The contributions of the 2018 - 2020 Advisory Panels proved invaluable in helping us with the development of our work and policies and many of our projects found their roots within the group. We’d like to thank them for all of their work and commitment over the last few years.
Heritage Advisory Panel
As of March 2019, panel includes: Muireann Ahern, Denise Brophy, Tom Burke, Godfrey Chimbganda, Gerry Clabby, Brian Crowley, Willie Cumming, Michael Foley, Rob Goodbody, Mary Griffin, Sandra Heise, Beatrice Kelly, Ray Kennedy, Sorcha Kenny, Heather Maitland, Dr Stephen Mandel, Nessa McNamara, Paddy Matthews, Kerrie O’Brien, Mark Reynolds, Fiona Walsh.
Culture Advisory Panel
As of March 2019, panel includes: Helen Barry, Peter Brannigan, Angela Broderi, Gilly Clarke, Aidan Clifford, Eleanor Collier, Rachel Collier, Evelyn D’Arcy, Loughlin Deegan, Maretta Dillon, Deirdre Doherty, Philippa Donnellan, Fergal Dowling, Siobhan Doyle, Sarah Durcan, Veronica Dyas, Gerard Flanagan, Kimberly Gray Ennis, Dr. Linda Green, Denis Horan, Breda Jackson, Darren Kelly, Conor Kostick, Emma Loughney, Fiach MacConghail, Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, Anne Matthews, Muriel McAuley, Jo McNamara, Martha Moloney, Julia Moustacchi, Nor Nasib, NiamhO’Donnell, Felicia Olusanya, Shaz Oye, Betty Purcell, Dr Bernadette Quinn, Megan Riordan, Orla Ryan, John Scott, Beverly Sperry, David Teevan, Karen Twomey, Mary Weir.