Our Ríocht: Sport, history and culture

Our Creative Residency in Art and Sport is a partnership between Dublin City Council Sports Section and the Culture Company. This Residency programme creates opportunities for artists to work in residence across local sports clubs and Dublin City Council community sports and recreation centres.

Sport and art can be transformative experiences, creating spaces where people connect, grow and relate. Both bring positive impacts for the city in improving health and wellbeing. Yet there is relatively little space where sport and art can be meaningfully explored together. By creating this space we can work together to open up new ways to access, engage with, and understand sport and art.

Theatre-maker Timmy Creed has been working with the members of Kevins GAA Club in South Central Dublin since January 2023, spending time learning about the club’s history and culture and taking part in training. Timmy has also researched the history of hurling, and how it connects with mythology, folklore, Irish history and the Irish language.

Join us on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September at Kevins GAA Clubhouse, Donore Avenue, Dublin 8 for Our Ríocht (Our Kingdom). The title is a play on Aeríocht - an open air gathering of community that features sport, music, craft and dancing, hosted by the Gaelic League.

Our Ríocht is an opportunity for members and neighbours of Kevins GAA to come together to celebrate Gaelic history and heritage. Led by artist Timmy Creed we will share stories, food, song and games, exploring the roots of hurling through myth and language and building our collective story together.

Book free tickets here.

Inspired by Our Ríocht and want to get more involved in hurling? Join Kevins, or your local GAA club.

We are currently developing four new Creative Residencies in Sport and Recreation Centres, in partnership with Dublin City Council Sports Section. Through the residency, four artists will be selected and assigned to one sports or recreation centre each, for a period of 11 months. The residency is an opportunity to try out ideas, develop and share new ways of working, and facilitate the introduction of new audiences to Dublin’s sports and cultural offer.

The selected artists will be announced soon and will work in Ballybough Community, Youth and Sports Centre, Bluebell Community and Recreation Centre, Irishtown Sports & Fitness Centre, and Poppintree Community Sports Centre.