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Book Review: The Skelper and Me
Tony Doherty completes his trilogy of Troubles memoirs with more accessible and authentic storytelling, spanning his time as an IRA prisoner to his long journey for justice after his father's death on Bloody Sunday
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'Absorbing' Troubles Art exhibition reflects decades of tension and turmoil
Over 40 works from National Museums NI's collections create an account of the conflict that's heartbreaking and hard to forget
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Peter Pan given a dazzling Derry makeover at the Millennium Forum
Big musical numbers, pyrotechnics and pixie dust-like sprinklings of the city's trademark sense of humour takes the age-old panto to a magical new place
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Derry: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
Historian Adrian Grant delves a century into the city's past and, with new facts and parallels to today, manages to makes a gripping read from events we already know the outcomes of
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Myra's Story
A play so good they named it twice, Fionna Hewitt-Twamley not only fills Carmel McCafferty's shoes comfortably, but is bewitching as the rock bottom title character once known as Maire
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Hear My Voice: film inspired by Colin Davidson exhibition 'offers a tribute to the human spirit'
Brendan J Byrne manages to further enrich the moving source material of Silent Testimony while extending the experience for those unable to see its portraits in person
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Her Name Was Rose
Claire Allan leaves 'Chick Lit' behind in favour of a dark thriller which, for the Derry-based author, signals a bright new chapter
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The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee
While his wasted sporting potential is a source of frustration, the ex-world champion boxer's remarkable, still unfinished story makes for an absorbing read with as much tragedy as it has triumph
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Hansel and Gretel
Featuring a role call of fictional favourites, the MAC's fairytale production places a feast of Northern Irish theatre talent firmly in the (sweet) shop window
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WICCA
The fifth Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement bows out with an entrancing multinational exploration of the female bond
Wise Women & Witches
Bob Curran delves into the facts behind the folklore at the Roe Valley Arts Centre
Female Gothic
Rebecca Vaughan's medley of classic ghoulish tales is a tricky treat at The MAC
Black Stone Cherry
American purveyors of backwoods rock chug their way through an impressive set at Mandela Hall
An Enemy of the People
Schaubühne Berlin get Belfast fired up for change
Neil Cowley Trio
Jazz meets classical at the City of Derry Choral Festival with suitable support from Codetta choir
Serena
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper make it three for three in Susanne Bier's long-in-the-making English language debut
'71
Jack O'Connell excels in this taut Troubles-era thriller by director Yann Demange and writer Gregory Burke
Guide Gods
A profound and thought-provoking piece from disabled artist, singer, choreographer and thinker Claire Cunningham
Trio Rafale
Swiss three-piece conjure the spirit of their classical forebears in a buoyant performance at Queen's
Stewart Parker Memorial Lecture
Award-winning actor Adrian Dunbar commemorates the late playwright at the Belfast Festival
The Goose Tree
Moyra Donaldson takes stock of a life in letters and finds solace in nature
Where They Lie
Mary O'Donnell's fourth novel is a darkly passionate tribute to the Disappeared
Make Every Show...
Endlessly inventive conceptual artist Ryan Gander exhibits in Derry~Londonderry
Beoga
Virtuoso trad group are supported by emerging act Cúig in Belfast
Sive
JB Keane's 1956 play set in rural Ireland abounds with dark themes familiar to 21st century audiences
Dillon & Tyminski
One of Ireland's finest vocalists is supported by American bluegrass legend at the Waterfront Hall
Southpaw Niños
Mick McCullagh's trad debut features songwriting worthy of The Waterboys
Ulster Society of Women Artists
Lisburn's Island Arts Centre hosts annual mixed media exhibition
Dracula Untold
Northern Ireland provides a dramatic backdrop to Gary Shore's largely superficial blockbuster
Ó Raghallaigh & Trueman
Composers conjure hypnotic soundscapes in north Belfast
Doppelgänger
Peter Liversidge's Symbolist exhibition at The MAC is a psychosexual Where's Wally?
Barry Douglas
Jenny Cathcart takes a trip down memory lane at Fermanagh Live thanks to the virtuoso pianist
Foil, Arms & Hog
Dublin-based trio perform a short but sweet set at the Belly Laughs Comedy Festival in Belfast
Martin Bell
Acclaimed war correspondent on learning his craft in Troubles-era Northern Ireland
Bangor Literary Tour
Kenneth Irvine traverses the 'Cradle of Modern Irish Literature' with poetry, song and not a few tenuous links
A Most Wanted Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman is every inch the jaded spook in his final film directed by Anton Corbijn
Pentecost
Lyric Theatre's latest production is beautifully written, directed with brio and perfectly performed
Jonathan Harker and Dracula
Gerard McCarthy plays a plethora of characters in Ulster Theatre Company's game adaptation
Crossing the Water
Jeffrey Morgan exhibits 40 years' worth of canvases capturing his wife, author Patricia Craig, in thought
Cabaret
Bruiser's confident, sassy and perfectly judged musical is a must see show at The MAC
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Liam Neeson stars in this stylish, lean adaptation of the Lawrence Block novel
The Starry Messenger
Derry's Void gallery exhibits a cross-section of video works shot on 16mm film
First Aid Kit
Swedish sister act show themselves to be shining lights of the nu-folk scene at Mandela Hall
Beyond Measure
Concepts of time and space inspire a range of artists including Patrick Pye at the Strule Arts Centre
In Order of Disappearance
Hans Petter Moland channels the Coens in this comic revenge thriller shot on the Norwegian tundra
My Heaney
'When terrible things happen, we go to the poets.' Broadcaster Seamus McKee reads at On Home Ground
On Home Ground
Claire Savage takes in poetry, music and the debut public reading by children's author DD Everest
Milltown Cemetery
Tom Hartley writes a richly complex history of the Belfast graveyard
Planted
New Trad quintet Moxie release an uplifting debut album on jazz drummer David Lyttle's Lyte Records
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Lasse Hallström's adaptation is aesthetically pleasing but stuffed full of unpalatable clichés
Second Chance Cinema
Cinephile cooperative screen three Northern Irish films for free at the South Bank Playhouse
Sestina
The innovative vocal ensemble welcome theorbo player Paula Chateauneuf to the Ulster Museum
Race With The Tide
PØRTS release three offcuts from their forthcoming debut album which suggest greater things to come
The Blame
Michael Nolan's novella in and about modern Belfast is satisfyingly ambiguous and hints at greater things
Beckett Trilogy
Lisa Dwan is ghostly and ghastly in this extraordinary production at The MAC
Magic Touch
Five artists explore how technology impacts on creativity at the Centre for Contemporary Art
Two Days, One Night
Marion Cotillard gives an unmissable performance in the Dardennes brothers' portrait of life on the edge
A Sense of Wonder
Biographer David Burke attempts to define Van Morrison
Punk Rock
A series of brilliant stage debuts transport Lyric Theatre audiences into the teenage heart of darkness
Walled City Tattoo
Derry's got talent as drummers, dancers, singers and stuntmen transport Ebrington back in time
Where Are They Now?
Bill Kirk traces the trajectory of Belfast residents originally photographed in the 1970s and 80s
Jeremy Thomas
The heavyweight British film producer discusses a career behind the camera at Queen's Film Theatre
Laoch Na Laochra
Dara Vallely and Réamonn Ó Ciaráin tell the story of the warrior king Cú Chulainn at Ulster Museum
The Congress
Actress Robin Wright sells a version of herself in Ari Folman's dystopian allegory on paternalist Hollywood
Arts Council Crafts
Enniskillen's Higher Bridges Gallery displays works from the ACNI Acquisitions Collection of Applied Art
Lilting
Ben Whishaw stars in Hong Khaou's touching English language debut about sexuality and acceptance
Reverend Billy
American comedy preacher brings his anti-consumerist campaign to Belfast's Corn Market with choir in tow
Little Matador
Snow Patrol guitarist Nathan Connolly performs a cathartic hard rock support set at Belsonic
Bangor's Ghost
Rachel Coulter curates an evening of spooky song and storytelling at the Bangor Open House Festival
War Words
Genevieve Swift and Andrew Eaton read original compositions and archived material at PRONI