Culture, Arts and Leisure Resources

Questions on Culture, Arts and Leisure were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) Survey in 2001.
Questions on Languages were asked in NILT in 2025.

ARK Resources

• Words Matter. Attitudes to the Irish language and Ulster-Scots (Research Update 172) by Aisling O'Boyle, Lorna Carson and Paula Devine, is based on data from the 2025 NILT survey.
• Videos from the event 'Words Matter. Attitudes to languages in Northern Ireland' held on 4 June 2026 are available on YouTube.
• Dementia in the minds of characters and readers is a project exploring the potential of fiction featuring characters with dementia to improve awareness of and empathy towards people living with the condition.
• Evaluating arts-based programmes for people with dementia, and their impact on wellbeing by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd is an ARK Discussion Paper.
  

Links

• The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is the prime distributor of public support for the arts.
• Under the Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022, three Offices were set up:
  • Office of Identity and Cultural Expression
  • Office of the Irish Language Commissioner
  • The Commissioner for the Ulster-Scots and the Ulster-British Tradition
    

Maintained by Paula Devine