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In 1957, The Shannon Airport Development Authority (SADA) was set up with the aim to make Shannon Airport more appealing through the promotion of freight traffic and the development of nearby tourist facilities.

In 1959, SADA became the Shannon Free Airport Development Company (SFADCo). SFADCo would receive funding from the government and have the additional functions of establishing an industrial estate and housing for workers.

In 2014, Shannon Development was amalgamated into Shannon Group (later The Shannon Airport Group), a conglomerate of aviation, property, and tourism businesses created to drive the economy of the west of Ireland.

Shakram Music and Dance Company, later renamed Shakram Dance Company, was co-founded in 1999 byancer and choreographer Mairéad Vaughan and composer Dara O’Brien co-founded Shakram Music and Dance Company following their return from India and their respective studies in Indian classical dance. The company’s distinctive aesthetic drew heavily on Bharatanatyam, a South Indian classical dance form, and was further informed by Vaughan’s studies of ethnic dance in Peru, Equador, Malaysia, Borneo and Thailand and the rhythmical, gestural and spatial nature of these art forms. Shakram Dance company toured nationally and internationally and created thirteen original dance works before dissolving in 2014.

Irish Modern Dance Theatre, also known as John Scott Dance, was founded in 1991 by Dublin-born John Scott to create and commission new works to expand the experience of dance theatre for audiences in Ireland and abroad. Since its instigation, the company has operated the policy of employing Irish dancers in its work whenever possible and seeking Irish dancers living abroad to bring them back to work in Ireland. It has also forged links with international choreographers and other artists, including Meredith Monk, John Jasperse, Thomas Lehmen, Sara Rudner, Sean Curran, Chris Yon, Deborah Hay, and Charles Atlas. The Irish Modern Dance Theatre has produced several ground-breaking works which break traditional theatre and dance conventions, leaving audiences thrilled and sometimes shocked. They have been performed in theatres, art centres and schools across Ireland. International venues include PS 122, Danspace Project at St Marks Church, La MaMa (New York), Forum Cultural Mundial, SESC (Rio De Janeiro), l’Étoile Du Nord (Paris), Pustervikstheatern (Göteborg), Varna Summer Festival, Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Estonia), Scenario Pub.bli.co (Sicily) andAl Kasaba Theatre (Ramallah).

Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet was founded in 1946 to provide dance performances at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. Its first artistic director was John Field, who later worked as co-director of the Royal Ballet. In 1955, Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet relocated to the Royal Opera House but retained its name. It returned to Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1970. Twenty years later, the company relocated to Birmingham and changed its name to Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Dudley Ryves (d. c. 1793) was the agent and receiver to Francis Thomas, 3rd Earl of Kerry in the 1760s.

Patricia Ryan was born Mary Patricia Kinneen in London in 1923 to William Kinneen and Christiana Kelly. She trained with Nadine Legat in London until her family's move to Dublin in 1939, when she began taking lessons from and performing with Sara Payne. In 1956, having married the artist John Ryan, she became director of the National Ballet School in Dublin, which later evolved into the National Ballet Company. In 1963, the National Ballet Company amalgamated with Joan Denise Moriarty's Irish Theatre Ballet. The venture was short-lived and the company disbanded shorty after its first season. It also marked the end of Patricia Ryan's career in dance as teacher, dancer and choreographer.

Dance company founded by Fiona Quilligan.