Makeup and the Arts
By special request! Article about history of make up, relevant to the arts.

Dublin Diocese Liturgy Resource Centre
In 2004 the LitMus (Liturgy and Music) Office was incorporated into a new Diocesan Liturgical Resource Centre, based in Clonliffe College. The centre acts as a support for parishes and other groups to encourage and enable them to improve the quality of liturgical services, including also music and liturgical art. The school choirs event Emmanuel is on of the initiatives of the centre.

New Liturgical Movement
Huge site dedicated to sacred liturgy and the liturgical arts. There's an impresssive archive of news and articles.

Logos Institute
Lots of different articles and resources on this site, including articles about creativity, as well as religious poetry and original music. Available for download is the online magazine Logos Review - A Journal of Spiritual Arts and Ideas.

Quilty Artists
This is an Irish forum/community for Catholics interested in the arts, especially those praticing the arts. There are opportunities for sharing artworks and personal stories of engaging with the arts.

The International Society of Christian Artists
S.I.A.C. is an international association of Christian artists, artists who work to Christian themes, for liturgical spaces and / or who live and work according to Christian values. S.I.A.C. seeks to bring together artists of many nationalities and backgrounds to share experiences and grow in mutual understanding. S.I.A.C. is an association open to creative artists of all disciplines – poets, composers, photographers, visual artists and writers among others.

Catholic Underground
An initiative of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, Moyross, Limerick. Events combining prayer and music take place regularly around Ireland. The Underground also includes poetry, visual art, dancers, film, drama.

Fraternity of St Genesius
An Irish site devoted to the interface between Catholicism and drama, in theatre and cinema. The group organises various events, like a monthly film club, and has a drama group that has staged works by John Paul II.

Catholic Authors
A site with detailed biographical information on a range of Catholic authors, including Tolkien and Chesterton.

Catechetics Commission
This is the official site of the Catechetics Commission of the Irish Bishops Conference, featuring resources for special events days, such as Education in Faith Sunday.

Catholic Ireland
A comprehensive portal site for all things Catholic in Ireland. There is plenty of interesting material in the Culture and Arts section.

Catacombers
This relatively new site is a web community for Catholics interested in artistic expression. The most active part of the site is the lively and busy forum section, but there is also an interesting section on poetry.

Catholic Planet
This general Catholic site has excellent sections on poetry and music. In the poetry there is a huge range of poems by a wide variety of authors, and in the music section there are free music downloads in MP3 format and Real Audio streams of fulll songs.

Sr Rose's Movie Blog
Sr Rosa Pacatte writes about the movies. Sr. Rose Pacette is a Daughter of St Paul and Director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies, Los Angeles. She is the co-author of the Lights, Camera…Faith! Series.

WingClips
Brilliant site that provides film clips on a variety of inspirational themes. Clips can be viewed on site and/or downloaded. Many clips are free and available under the basic subscription option. Paid for subscriptions give access to higher quality clips and clips from high profile films.

Irish Church Music Association
Organises various events including an annual Summer School in Maynooth. Provides information on Church Music issues through the website and newsletter.

Dublin Choral Foundation
Established in 1996 to promote the development of choirs of excellence and to provide a musical education for children hitherto only av ailable in the cathedral choral tradition, Dublin Choral Foundation is now recognised as one of Ireland’s leading choral establishments. The two choirs of Dublin Choral Foundation, The Lassus Scholars and Piccolo Lasso, directed by Ite O’Donovan, cater for singers of all ages. They are named after the great composer and virtuoso of Renaissance polyphony, Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594).

Elation Ministries
An Irish group of musicians and singers available for retreats, youth work, parish work and music workshops. Their site includes some music and video samples.

Emptiful Vessels
This site features the poetry of Fr Seamus Devitt CSSR, a poetic priest of the Redemptorist Order. A wide variety of spiritual topics is covered, and the site layout is attractively simple and uncluttered.

Catholic Poets and Writers
This website exists to help Catholic poets, writers or editors by providing information on researching, writing, and revising poems, articles, stories, and books from a Catholic perspective.

Hopkins Poems Set to Music
Singer Sean O'Leary has an album of Hopkins poems set to music. There are samples to listen to on this website dedicated to this project - follow the link to "Play Demo". Particularly striking are his versions of "I wake and feel the fell of dark" and "Spring". There is a link on the site to buy the album.

Fr Bill Moore
Fr Moore, a member of the Congregation of Sacred Hearts, is a Catholic priest and artist. His work is abstract, and among his inspirations are nature, church vestments and the writings of T.S. Eliot. There are galleries of work on his website.

The Jesse Box
The Jesse is a new initiative to help parents tell Bible Stories at home, but could also be used with younger children at school. The method is based on drama and imagination, using Bible figures that the children help to make. Story kits are now available for the Nativity and Easter, and there are support materials available online to those who purchase the kit. See a video here.

Epiphany Studio Productions
A Catholic theatre group from USA. Their motto is "Entertaining, Educating & Inspiring through a Catholic vision in the Dramatic Arts!". Some of their performances can be ordered on DVD from their website's store. Clips, previews, and interviews are also available on their YouTube channel.