The ''Irish Animation Awards'', for which the winners receive a statuette in the shape of a

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, an early animation device, were first held on 13 March 2015 in

Dingle Dingle ( or ''Daingean Uí Chúis'', meaning "fort of Ó Cúis") is a town in County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. The only town on the Dingle Peninsula (known in Irish as ''Corca Dhuibhne''), it sits on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coa ...

, County Kerry. The statuette was designed by animator, film maker and teacher Eimhin McNamara. The judges included

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and

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The second award ceremony took place on 25 March 2017. Winners included ''

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'' as best Irish feature film and

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, whose ''Roy'', won the ''Kids’ Choice Award'' for best animated series. The best music/sound design award was given to ''

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''. In 2017,

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, then industry chair of

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and co-founder of

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said: “We Irish have a passion for storytelling and the arts – a culture which is ideally suited for the creativity of world-class animation studios and the quality of the award nominees shows this.”

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External links

* {{official, http://irishanimationawards.ie/ Animation awards Awards established in 2015 Irish film awards Irish television awards

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