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This year, we are very proud to be celebrating 40 years of partnership between the Arts Council and Ireland's 31 local authorities.

The partnership between the Arts Council and local government began in 1985 with the appointment of the first local authority arts officer in Clare County Council.

Today, each of the 31 local authorities in Ireland has an arts office, embedding arts expertise in local government and supporting artists and communities in every city and county.

Between the years 2005 and 2025, €2.6 billion was jointly invested in the arts through this partnership, strengthening cultural infrastructure and widening access to the arts in every county.

We were delighted to welcome Minister Patrick O'Donovan of the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport to Limerick City Gallery of Art recently to mark the 40th anniversary with representatives from Local Government Ireland and the Arts Council, as well as local authority arts officers past and present.

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