Culture Northern Ireland: Literary Belfast What's Onhttp://www.culturenorthernireland.orgCulture Northern Ireland's RSS Feed for Literary Belfast What's On eventsCopyright 2010 CultureNorthernIrelandFri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 <![CDATA[Dr Mark Phelan: Queer Up North]]>Dr Mark Phelan presents a talk on Queer up North: F.J. Bigger, Roger Casement and Irish Historiography.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=51735http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=51735Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Andrew Sneddon: Holy Island: The Rathlin Catechism]]>A talk by Andrew Sneddon.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=52770http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=52770Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[David Huddleston: Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases: Medical and Health Records at PRONI]]>A talk looking at medical and health records by David Huddleston.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=52829http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=52829Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Jim McDowell: History of the Olympic Games]]>A talk by Jim McDowell chronicling the history of the Olympic Games

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=55890http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=55890Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Thomas Olver: The Life of a Student at Trinity College Oxford]]>A talk by Thomas Olver about life as a student at Oxford's Trinity College

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=55891http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=55891Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Andy Kershaw: No Off Switch]]>Andy Kershaw talks about his autobiography No Off-switch. A born rebel and a maverick, he’s combined his passion for music with a lunatic curiosity and an instinct for frontline journalism, reporting for the BBC and the broadsheets from the world’s most extreme countries, Iraq, North Korea, Haiti, Angola and Rwanda during the genocide.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56245http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56245Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[The Reader Organisation]]>The Reader Organisation aims to bring about social change by sharing great literature with people of all ages, from all backgrounds, and with all abilities. Through weekly, read aloud sessions, the Get Into Reading model promotes a deeper, more personal engagement with literature and focuses on its practical uses for and in the real world. In other words, it’s about experiencing what literature can do for you. Patricia Canning, a PhD graduate of Queen’s, is the group facilitator and will be delivering the weekly sessions at the Seamus Heaney centre on Thursdays from 12.30 - 2pm. Come along and join the reading revolution.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56591http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56591Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Dickens 2012 Celebrations]]>Dickens 2012 Celebrations see Dickens expert Leon Litvack and actresses Rosie Pelan and Brigid Bates give dramatic readings from selected Dickens novels.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56881http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56881Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Alice in Wonderland Story Time]]>Alice in Wonderland Story Time is a special ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’ with eats and treats and a prize for best dressed Alice in Wonderland costume.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56929http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56929Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Lionel Shriver]]> 

Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include Orange Prize–winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs and Ordinary Decent Criminals.

She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Economist, Marie Claire, and many other publications. 

 

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56963http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=56963Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Literary Lunchtimes with Lisa Keogh]]>A rehearsed reading of Lisa Keogh’s beautiful play 'Ahab’s Daughter'. On the remote island of Nantucket, Atha's life revolves around her Quaker faith and unstable mother, until her brother returns from sea with Jareb, an ambitious whaler. Torn between her passionate bond to Jareb and her oath to never marry a sea-faring man, Atha must discover her own identity and try to make peace with her past.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=57584http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=57584Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Literary Lunchtimes with Martin Mooney]]>Belfast-born poet, Martin Mooney, revisits The Ulster Hall’s past as he reads from his collection of poetry drawing on the iconic building’s archives. He also explores the theme of remembering through some of his other works.

Mooney composed poetry for installations throughout The Ulster Hall and is the author of four poetry collections: Grub (1993), Rasputin and his Children (2000), Blue Lamp Disco (2003) and most recently, The Resurrection of the Body at Killysuggen (2011).

There will be a free guided tour of The Ulster Hall following the reading.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=57594http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=57594Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Literary Lunchtimes with Wireless Mystery Theatre]]>Wireless Mystery Theatre combine literature, drama, and music to portray how Ulster writers such as Cathal O`Byrne, Louis MacNeice, and W.R. Rodgers looked back, mythologised, embroidered and romanticised the streets, roads and the psycho-geography of the places in which they grew up.

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=57755http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=57755Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT<![CDATA[Literary Lunchtimes with Jennifer Johnston]]>Jennifer Johnston - celebrated novelist, playwright and one of Ireland`s most admired writers - gives a reading from her new novel, Shadowstory, and discusses her work with the audience.

Jennifer has published over sixteen novels, including The Whitbread Prize-winning The Old Jest, the Booker Prize shortlisted `Shadows on our Skin` and `How Many Miles to Babylon?`

]]>http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=57756http://www.literarybelfast.org/event.aspx?title_id=57756Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:40:45 GMT