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Literature
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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Visual Arts
'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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Performing Arts
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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Literature
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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Performing Arts
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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Film
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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Literature
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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Literature
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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Performing Arts
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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Dance
WICCA
The fifth Echo Echo Festival of Dance and Movement bows out with an entrancing multinational exploration of the female bond
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ReviewVisual Arts Myths, Memories and Mentiras
Lisa Gingles uses collage and pencil to explore issues of beauty with a fantastical exhibition at the Waterfront Hall
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ReviewFilm Whiplash
JK Simmons is the drum tutor from Hell in Damien Chazelle's scorching jazz opus
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ReviewClassical Metropolis
Dmytro Morykit performs an empathetic modern score to Fritz Lang's classic silent movie in the Waterside Theatre
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ReviewVisual Arts The Art of Superstition
A range of Illustrators approach the brief with Python-esque wit, skill and vision at Ards Art Centre
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ReviewDance Coppélia
Russian State Ballet of Siberia perform Léo Delibes's fantastical, folksy story during a tiring run at the Grand Opera House
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ReviewLiterature Martina Devlin
Out To Lunch festival goers come out in force to hear the story of Ireland's final conviction for witchcraft
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ReviewMusic Homegrown '15
A wealth of Derry's finest acts perform in the Millennium Forum in tangible legacy from City of Culture 2013
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ReviewVisual Arts Agloe
Sara Morrison creates a visual history of a dead town at the new Framewerk gallery
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ReviewLiterature The House Where It Happened
Martina Devlin spins an eerie tale around Ireland's last witchcraft trail
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ReviewClassical Music From The Heart
Domingo Hindoyan stands in to conduct pianist Inon Barnatan at the Ulster Hall
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ReviewFilm Taken 3
Liam Neeson runs out of steam in Olivier Megaton's excruciating pay off to a high-earning trilogy
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ReviewFilm Testament of Youth
Vera Brittain's war memoir makes for an intense cinematic experience
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ReviewMusic Piaf
Christine Bovill's emotional tribute to the famous French chanteuse leaves the Black Box in tears
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ReviewMusic Niamh McGlinchey
The country singer entertains at Out To Lunch
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ReviewFilm The Theory of Everything
Eddie Redmayne becomes scientist Stephen Hawking in revealing biopic
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ReviewMusic By Any Means
Two of Northern Ireland's most promising metal acts get the New Year under way at Voodoo in Belfast
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ReviewFilm The Hobbit
Peter Jackson's unrecognisable The Battle of the Five Armies is a triumph of style over substance
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ReviewPerforming Arts Thank F*ck It's Christmas
Jude Quinn's one-man show sees Santa in mischievous mood
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ReviewVisual Arts Nomad Kyrgyz People
Turkish academic Yavuz Ozer reveals a fascinating insight into the lives of Central Asia's nomads
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ReviewLiterature Colin Bateman
Crime writer, screenwriter, children's author – Bangor's finest delivers words of wisdom in Ballycastle
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ReviewPerforming Arts Slimmer for Christmas
Leesa Harker updates Pride and Prejudice for the 80s generation
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ReviewLiterature Lines of Vision
Writers respond to paintings in the National Gallery and reveal true value of the arts
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ReviewVisual Arts Exploring Spaces
Group show at the Roe Valley Arts Centre inspires new perspectives
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ReviewClassical Messiah
Ulster Orchestra and Belfast Philharmonic Choir perform together for what could be the last time
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ReviewClassical Reflecting Light
Cappella Caeciliana record contemporary pieces and festive classics
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ReviewPerforming Arts Jack and the Beanstalk
Terry Blain discovers that for all our technological advances nothing much changes in Pantoland
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ReviewVisual Arts A New Chapter
Former female prisoners open their hearts with hand bound book exhibition at the Linen Hall Library
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ReviewFilm Xmas Movies
Ralph McLean reviews his top ten festive favourites to make the season of goodwill go a little bit faster
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ReviewFilm Black Sea
Michael Smiley joins an ensemble crew searching for Nazi gold in Kevin MacDonald's tense thriller
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ReviewLiterature Mickey Finn's Air
Gerald Dawe's new collection takes the reader on flights of nostalgic fancy
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ReviewFilm St. Vincent
Bill Murray is an unlikely babysitter in Theodore Melfi's quirky comedy also starring Chris O'Dowd
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ReviewPerforming Arts Tinseltown
Paul Boyd pits belief against world-weary cynicism in what is sure to be a smash hit musical
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ReviewVisual Arts Civil Rights
Void's timely and pertinent exhibition shows that racial equality is yet but a dream in modern America
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ReviewClassical Ode to Sting
Lisaire String Quartet interpret classic Police and Sting tracks – watch a live performance
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ReviewVisual Arts MAC International
Joanne Savage appreciates flashes of brilliance at The MAC but hopes for greater thrills in future
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ReviewFilm The Drop
James Gandolfini's final film is a gripping ensemble adaptation of the gritty Dennis Lehane novel
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ReviewLiterature Poetry Ireland Review
Latest issue sees a range of contemporary poets writing about their favourite Seamus Heaney poems
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ReviewFilm The Imitation Game
Benedict Cumberbatch is extraordinary in Morten Tyldum's flawed biopic of Enigma breaker Alan Turing
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ReviewPerforming Arts An Evening with CS Lewis
David Payne's play is heavy on anecdote but light on the good stuff – the books
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ReviewMusic The Lost Brothers
Mark McCausland and Oisin Leech channel the finest songwriters in Derry
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ReviewPerforming Arts Unhome
Jim McAleavey's house of horrors bulges with invention and endless witty subversions at The MAC
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ReviewMusic Lit Up Inside
Van Morrison launches a book of his lyrics in London joined by Michael Longley, Edna O'Brien and Ian Rankin
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ReviewVisual Arts World Press Photo
Famine, war, family and more – Belfast hosts the international photojournalist exhibit for the first time
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ReviewFilm I Am Ali
Claire Lewins uses exclusive audio journals to tell at least part of the legendary boxer's life story
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ReviewFilm The Fall
With episode two of series two set to air tonight, we look back at the slow-burning opener
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ReviewPerforming Arts Jacques Brel is Alive...
Blunt Fringe reanimate the husky Belgian songwriter and 'matador of emotion'
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ReviewPerforming Arts Damage
A suppressed emotion will do anything to survive in Patrick J O'Reilly's gay conversion therapy drama
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ReviewMusic NI Music Prize
Robyn G Shiels scoops album of the year, while alt-metal icons Therapy? perform Troublegum
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ReviewLiterature Belfast Days
Excerpts from Eimear O'Callaghan's teenage diary written at the height of the Troubles in 1972
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ReviewFilm Third Person
Liam Neeson is an author struggling with a failing narrative in Paul Haggis' similarly unsuccessful ensemble piece
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ReviewVisual Arts From Bolshoi to Belfast
The evolving aesthetics of Russian theatre revealed at Crumlin Road Gaol
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ReviewLiterature The Stairwell
Michael Longley considers mortality in his new collection shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize
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ReviewMusic SOAK
Derry's finest returns home after a year in the spotlight
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ReviewVisual Arts Royal Ulster Academy
After 133 years, the annual exhibit of art by members and non-members continues to astonish
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ReviewClassical Ulster Orchestra
Philip Hammond enjoys the youthful energy of principal conductor Rafael Payare
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ReviewDance Ludo Lusi Lusum
Animals metamorphose and interact in Echo Echo's delightful new piece for children
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ReviewMusic Lost Domain
Ash frontman Tim Wheeler produces a cathartic solo album following his father's battle with dementia
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ReviewMusic The Gloaming
Trad supergroup play out the 2014 Belfast Festival at Queen's with support from Hannah McPhillimy
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ReviewMusic Remembering Gerry
A host of musicians indebted to the late Radio Ulster presenter Gerry Anderson perform in Belfast
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ReviewPerforming Arts Neither Either
Two of Ireland's finest companies are inspired by the work of poet Seamus Heaney