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
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
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
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
The Dead Beside Us
Tony Doherty wastes no time in following up his 'important' debut with a 'profound' adolescent account of conflict continuing to tear through 1970s Derry
This is Hame: Two Modern Ulster-Scots Poets
James Fenton and Philip Robinson have been recently re-published by Ullans Press. Their books offer a window into that world – its language, humour, culture, religion and politics
Hopdance
Against a pre-Troubles Belfast, Stewart Parker's posthumous novel shows one of the city's favourite sons discovering what would become a seminal writing voice
The Rule of the Land
With eloquence and tact, Garrett Carr charts a timely expedition along the line that divides and defines Ireland, its history and its people
Heaney, Sir! St Columb's Remembered
One-time peers including Phil Coulter recall the poet's college years with revealing anecdotes, recitals and an audience panel
The Way We Were
Dublin author Sinéad Moriarty gives shelter to fiction fans in Bangor with an intimate discussion around her latest novel and writing career
This Man's Wee Boy
Debut author Tony Doherty lends a vital human voice to Derry's darkest period with a childhood portrait of life in the city
The Wing Orderly’s Tales
Carlo Gébler’s new collection of short stories is an authoritative portrayal of life and death in a Northern Ireland jail
The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast
Roy Johnston's posthumous chronicle of the formative period is an unprecedented work. Claire Savage reports from its launch at the Linen Hall Library
Once Upon a Time in the North West
Garbhan Downey's transatlantic newsroom thriller characterises the resilient role of Derry through some of the last century's darkest days
Troubles Over the Bridge
James Ellis's memoir raises questions of the times that deprived the late actor of his true off-stage potential as well as the wider barriers art must often overcome
An Evening with Ian Rankin
The acclaimed author on why his latest release isn't 'really a Rebus novel', as the retired detective moves out on his own in the Scottish capital
Sam Burnside Book Launch
Playwright Frank McGuinness and more mark the release of the poet's newest publications with recitals tinged with the significance of recent world events
Brian McGilloway and John Connolly
Two of Ireland's most accomplished crime authors trade literary lessons to mark the double launch of their latest books
The Wheels of the World: 300 Years of Uilleann Pipers
From the Famine to the Fureys, Colin Harper leaves few stones unturned in his quest to trace the fortunes of Ireland's 'only' true indigenous instrument
My Writing Life; Why Bother?
Authors Carlo Gébler and Ian Sansom share their views and experiences of the literary world with a sold-out crowd at Aspects Festival
House of Small Absences
Anne-Marie Fyfe reflects on places past and present in her fifth poetry collection
Ciaran Carson and Stephen Sexton
Teacher and pupil read from their work at the 2014 John Hewitt Society Spring Festival in Carnlough: 'Everything I do in English, there’s always the shadow of another language'
The Good Son
Belfast author Paul McVeigh’s debut novel may be set during the Troubles but is a charming coming-of-age story with a refreshingly complex young narrator at its heart
Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2015
Community Arts Partnership reward Stephanie Conn for her poem 'Lavender Fields' at a busy evening in Belfast's Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts
The Squat Pen
Ballycastle Writers Group host the fortnightly showcase of poetry and music on tour from its usual home of Belfast's No Alibis Bookshop
Oils
Stephen Sexton is inspired by classic works of art in a captivating poetry collection that leaves the reader to 'create their own metaphorical trail of breadcrumbs'
Northern Noir
Three of Northern Ireland's finest crime authors, Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville and Steve Cavanagh, share literary insights at Libraries NI Catch a Crime Writer event
Martina Devlin
Out To Lunch festival goers come out in force to hear the story of Ireland's final conviction for witchcraft
The House Where It Happened
Martina Devlin spins an eerie tale around Ireland's last witchcraft trail
Colin Bateman
Crime writer, screenwriter, children's author – Bangor's finest delivers words of wisdom in Ballycastle
Lines of Vision
Writers respond to paintings in the National Gallery and reveal true value of the arts
Mickey Finn's Air
Gerald Dawe's new collection takes the reader on flights of nostalgic fancy
Poetry Ireland Review
Latest issue sees a range of contemporary poets writing about their favourite Seamus Heaney poems
Belfast Days
Excerpts from Eimear O'Callaghan's teenage diary written at the height of the Troubles in 1972
The Stairwell
Michael Longley considers mortality in his new collection shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize
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
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
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
The Blame
Michael Nolan's novella in and about modern Belfast is satisfyingly ambiguous and hints at greater things
War Words
Genevieve Swift and Andrew Eaton read original compositions and archived material at PRONI
Bathed In Lightning
The life and legacy of guitarist John McLaughlin explored in Colin Harper's monumental new biography
John Hewitt
Maureen Boyle attends a range of events at the International Summer School in Armagh
Creggan Writers' Showcase
Guildhall Press invite a diverse range of writers to read in Derry~Londonderry
Home Words
The Public Record Office celebrate the life and work of poet, activist and mentor John Hewitt
Malcolm Orange Disappears
Jan Carson's debut novel is a magical realist adventure that fizzes with life
Romancing Ireland
Paul Clements' biography of Richard Hayward reveals a forgotten renaissance man
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
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
PJ O'Rourke
American conservative satirist holds court on the baby boom generation at Ulster Museum for the Hay Festival of Literature
From Out of the City
John Kelly imagines a future Dublin lorded over by porn stars, dead presidents and not-so-starry skies
Writers on Writers
Poet Martin Mooney and playwright Martin Lynch discuss their influences at the Linen Hall Library
Poets in the City
Poetry, music and the movies meet as One City One Book Belfast visits Movie House Cinemas
Still
Community Arts Partnership publish 52 poems informed by the word and its various connotations
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