Case studies

Be inspired by projects funded by Creative Europe that feature Irish partners! Across the funding strands, you will find compelling stories, innovative projects and creative partnerships.

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Breaking the Patterns exhibition in NowHere Lisboa. Credit: Francisco Baccaro.

Breaking the Patterns (2023 - 2025)

Breaking the Patterns supports emerging artists and creative professionals at the start of their careers within the Cultural and Creative Industries fostering their innovation and talent.

Culture

Seanie Barron Walking Sticks, 2014. Credit: Seanie Barron.

ACCESS (2024 - 2026)

ACCESS (access: practices and habits) fosters accessibility as a creative practice at the heart of arts organisations.

Culture

SWAN participants. Credit: photographer Ruth Connolly.

SWAN (2023 - 2026)

The SWAN project (Singing With Additional Needs) draws on best practices taking place in different European countries to include people with additional needs in collective singing.

MEDIA

Cork International Film Festival (2021 - 2026)

Cork International Film Festival is a celebration of cinema, running annually for eight days in November.

MEDIA

Celtic Utopia documentary; MDEMC Sweden and Plainsong Films Ireland. Image courtesy MDEMC.

Celtic Utopia / Útóipe Cheilteach (2026)

Celtic Utopia is a feature documentary. After 100 years of independence, a bold new wave of young Irish artists redefine folk music and reflect over the impact of their colonial history.

MEDIA

Hidden Assets 3; image courtesy Soho Moon

Hidden Assets 3 (2025)

When investigative reporter Olatz Alzola and her family are brutally murdered in Bilbao, DS Claire Wallace is drawn into a case that links their killings to a CAB raid in Ireland that ended in tragedy.

MEDIA

Obituary Season 2 (2025)

Obituary tells the story of an obituarist who turns to murder when her work dries up. The RTÉ and Hulu show follows the exploits of Elvira, Bodkin and The Dry star Siobhán Cullen, an obituary writer on a smalltown newspaper who turns to murder to drum up business.

MEDIA

This is Not a Murder Mystery; images courtesy Deadpan Pictures & Panenka

This is Not a Murder Mystery (2025)

Crime drama set in the 1930s about a group of young Surrealist artists, including Dali and Magritte, who are trapped in a lavish mansion with a serial killer on the loose.

MEDIA

The Necromancer's Tale (Seance); Psychic Software, Galway

The Necromancer’s Tale (2025)

Video game: The Necromancer’s Tale from Psychic Software, Galway is a narrative-driven top down story-rich gothic RPG with an isometric viewpoint. Available on the Steam Platform from July 2025.

MEDIA

Re-creation (2025)

In a fictitious trial, twelve members of a jury must decide whether British journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in 1996.

Cross Sector

Courts reporter Stephen Bourke leads a training session; image courtesy of Dublin Inquirer 2025.

YoCoJoin

YoCoJoin was an EU project funded under Creative Europe’s Cross Sector strand News Journalism partnerships from November 2024 to January 2025. The full title of the project was Empowering the Youth: Strengthening Local News Media Services Through the Youth Community Journalism Initiative.

MEDIA

Goat Girl (2024); from Daily Madness, Ireland

Goat Girl (2025)

Goat Girl from Daily Madness (TV film) is a quirky coming-of-age comedy about Gigi, a pre-teen raised by goats, facing her biggest challenge: school!