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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
Hidden Agenda
Subversion and irony abound in works from the Crafts Council collection by Grayson Perry and others
Love's As Warm As Tears
Ulster Youth Choir commemorate the outbreak of the First World War
Joe
Nicholas Cage finds critical salvation in David Gordon Green's latest feature set in the rusted, dilapidated South
Brendel & Beckett
The Austrian pianist and poet is a witty if laconic conversationalist at the Happy Days festival
Panti Bliss
Ireland's leading drag queen delivers the Amnesty International Pride Lecture at The MAC in Belfast
Mood Indigo
Michel Gondry's whimsical adaptation of the Boris Vian novel is a cocked-eyebrow of a film that never lets up
Romeo & Juliet
Ulster Youth Orchestra perform music from Provofiev's great ballet and more at the Ulster Hall
Bathed In Lightning
The life and legacy of guitarist John McLaughlin explored in Colin Harper's monumental new biography
July '14
Andrew Lemon rounds up the latest releases from Boxcutter, Sister Ghost and TOSKA
Year Zero
University of Ulster undergraduates exhibit glimpses of their artistic vision at SpaceCraft
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë's classical novel is adapted at Banbridge's Solitude Park
John Hewitt
Maureen Boyle attends a range of events at the International Summer School in Armagh
Comedy Day Festival
Colin Geddis is ringmaster as the Crescent Arts Centre hosts a smorgasbord of Northern Irish comics
Palimpsest
An inventive contemporary musing on the fraught nexus between past and present at the Golden Thread Gallery
Grand Central
France is smitten with nuclear energy, but not the workers, in this adaptation of Elisabeth Filhol's satirical novel
Rhythm Nation
Ulster Youth Training Choir gain valuable live performance experience at Craigavon Civic Centre
Skylight
National Theatre's star-studded current production to be streamed live into Queen's Film Theatre on August 3
Albatross
Andrew Farmer and Sons of Caliber ride the alt-folk wave with a debut album of highs and lows
Arborist
Mark McCambridge continues to impress with rich tunes and a hard-earned earthy croon
Walled City Music Festival
Founders Cathal Breslin and Sabrina Hu lead the opening concert in Derry~Londonderry
Creggan Writers' Showcase
Guildhall Press invite a diverse range of writers to read in Derry~Londonderry
The Hundred-Year Old Man...
... Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared lives up to its protracted title
Home Words
The Public Record Office celebrate the life and work of poet, activist and mentor John Hewitt
The Rock Machine Turns You On
Art rock trio Petomane craft a fine collection of pop tunes full of wit and graphic poetry
Where There Are People
Eamon O'Kane uses a derelict greenhouse in Denmark as a metaphor for man's desire to tame nature
The Stars of Ballymenone
Charismatic anthropologist Henry Glassie returns to the County Fermanagh village where he made his name
Malcolm Orange Disappears
Jan Carson's debut novel is a magical realist adventure that fizzes with life
June '14
Andrew Lemon reviews the latest releases from Michael Mormecha, Go Swim and Freak's
Cold in July
1980s Texas is the backdrop to Jim Mickle's impressively pulpy adaptation of the Joe R Lansdale novel
Anti-Flag
Political punk veterans mark two decades together with an energetic showing at the Mandela Hall
Rhinos
Hard-rocking duo Paul Currie and Laura Totten keep smiling despite a disappointing turnout at the Oh Yeah Music Centre
Romancing Ireland
Paul Clements' biography of Richard Hayward reveals a forgotten renaissance man
Little Jokes
Chatterbox Productions enter the weird world of Victorian renaissance man Edward Lear at The MAC
Schubert
Barry Douglas's thunderously authoritative interpretation of the Austrian composer's final piano sonata
Alana Henderson
Cellist and singer-songwriter exudes musicality at the Black Box
Hung by the Hawthorn
Miriam de Búrca exposes societal divisions using folklore, draftsmanship and installation in Enniskillen
Breaking the Silence
Former Israeli soldier turned peace campaigner Yehuda Shaul speaks from the heart at the Black Box
Jonathan Meades
The inimitable architecture and food critic revels in language and sardonic wit at the Crescent Arts Centre
Belle
Amma Asante tells the incredible true story of Miss Dido Belle Lindsay in this grandly realised sophomore feature
Hillbilly Hell
16th Open House Festival continues with a celebration of blues and roots at the Empire Music Hall in Belfast
Kin
Richard Gorman's meaningless abstract paintings with a Japanese bent leave Joanne Savage flabbergasted
The Tailor of Inverness
The extraordinary story of one intrepid Polish father, soldier, tailor arrives at the Lyric Theatre
Fruitvale Station
Ryan Coogler's searing directorial debut screens in Belfast as part of Community Relations Week
The Pigeon Men
Felicity McCall bravely tackles the subject of child abuse in this compelling but disturbing novella
The Incubator
New literary journal launches at the Black Box in Belfast with readings from featured writers
Rocky
Party-poppers The Wonder Villains' long-awaited debut fizzes with youthful energy and delivers on live reputation
Game of Thrones
Having sold out in record time, this touring show is an interesting diversion from the ongoing series
Septic Tiger
Pearse Elliott's latest work is an entertaining if unwieldy beast set in the border area of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Art of the Troubles
The current exhibition at the Ulster Museum inspires a day of discourse from a variety of speakers
Venus in Fur
The boundaries between fact and fiction are blurred in Roman Polanski's amusing adaptation of the David Ives play
NI Night
Former fabric designer Kevin Collins paints a 'delicate and luminous' version of Northern Ireland under the stars
The Delines
A literate and uplifting performance at the Real Music Club from Willy Vlautin and Co
Suggs
Madness frontman turned touring raconteur recalls an extraordinary life well lived at the Ulster Hall
Fading Gigolo
John Turturro writes and directs this refined and stylish comedy starring Woody Allen and Sofia Vergara
Jimmy's Hall
What was supposed to be Ken Loach's final film – an overly theatrical adaptation of the play by Donal O'Kelly – is no great legacy
Idir Dhá Aigne
Michael Doherty and John Stewart present two very different visions of Belfast at An Culturlann
Villa & Discurso
Guillermo Calderón's rumination on a damaged Chile feels familiar in post-conflict Belfast
May '14
Andrew Lemon appraises the latest releases from Empty Lungs, Tied to Machines and UNKNWN
Curious Beasts
John Higgins visits the Ulster Museum as an unusual collection from the British Museum packs up for Hull
PJ O'Rourke
American conservative satirist holds court on the baby boom generation at Ulster Museum for the Hay Festival of Literature