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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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ReviewFilm The Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith's tale of intrigue on the Med is stylishly adapted by Hossein Amini
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ReviewPerforming Arts Fulcrum
Dylan Quinn reimagines Samuel Beckett's protest play Catastrophe
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ReviewMusic The Blood of the Innocents
Robyn G Sheils' second album affirms his status as songwriter par excellence
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ReviewLiterature From Out of the City
John Kelly imagines a future Dublin lorded over by porn stars, dead presidents and not-so-starry skies
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ReviewPerforming Arts Flesh and Blood Women
Three plays 'beautifully refract' off each other to show the changing experiences of women
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ReviewLiterature Writers on Writers
Poet Martin Mooney and playwright Martin Lynch discuss their influences at the Linen Hall Library
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ReviewPerforming Arts Demented
Gary Mitchell serves up a new crime comedy at the Lyric Theatre
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ReviewPerforming Arts Thirteen Steps
Patsy Durnin's sympathetic portrayal of the Derry Workhouse takes the audience back in time at The Playhouse
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ReviewLiterature Poets in the City
Poetry, music and the movies meet as One City One Book Belfast visits Movie House Cinemas
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ReviewDance Singin' in the Rain
Can the iconic musical movie transfer to the stage? Umbrellas at the ready at the Grand Opera House
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ReviewDance Ponies Don't Play Football
Pony Dance twerk The MAC audience into hysterics with their latest comedy production
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ReviewMusic Rachel Ries
Sweet-voiced American songstress is ably supported by gravel-voiced Ciaran Lavery at No Alibis Bookstore
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ReviewFilm Frank
Michael Fassbender plays the eponymous musical maverick in Lenny Abrahamson's touching tragicomedy
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ReviewMusic The Handsome Family
Brett and Rennie Spark arrive in Belfast with the theme tune to HBO's True Detective
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ReviewVisual Arts Art of the Troubles
Jane Hardy considers the role of art in our understanding of man's inhumanity to man
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ReviewMusic VerseChorusVerse
Singer-songwriter Tony Wright shows promise on debut solo album
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ReviewMusic SOAK
Talented Derry chanteuse tops the bill at the Black Box with entertaining support from Lisa O'Neill
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ReviewLiterature Still
Community Arts Partnership publish 52 poems informed by the word and its various connotations
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ReviewPerforming Arts How Many Miles to Babylon?
Adapted from the novel by Jennifer Johnston, this story of class, war and lost love is a marvel
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ReviewVisual Arts The Lost & Found Office
Jenny Cathcart visit Seamus Dunbar's immersive exhibition at the Higher Bridges Gallery
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ReviewMusic April '14
Andrew Lemon reviews the latest tracks from PØRTS, Ryan Vail and Go Wolf
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ReviewMusic King Arthur
Choral group Sestina adapt Henry Purcell's semi-opera with staggering results in Derry~Londonderry
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ReviewPerforming Arts Sleeping Beauty
English Youth Ballet give 100 Northern Irish dancers the experience of a lifetime
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ReviewMusic Defending Two Castles
Rabid Bitch of the North hark back to a heavier time with three-track gold cassette tape release
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ReviewFilm The Sea
John Banville's Booker Prize-winning novel is beautifully shot in Stephen Brown's stunted adaptation
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ReviewPerforming Arts Luke McGibbon
The Antrim comic completes an impressive debut solo stand up set at the Black Box
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ReviewPerforming Arts Fabulous Beast
Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan interprets Stravinksy in Belfast
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ReviewPerforming Arts Dirty Dancin' in Le Shebeen
Leesa Harker's latest saucy stage adaptation is flaccid, but Maggie Muff dances on
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ReviewPerforming Arts Shot Glass
Newly established company dedicated to 'pub theatre by new writers' launches with two short plays in the Sunflower Bar
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ReviewLiterature A Commemorative Reading
Poet laureates from across Britain gather at the Ulster Hall in appreciation of the late Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heaney
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ReviewMusic Chamber Choir Ireland
Paul Hillier conducts a new work by American composer David Lang at St Thomas's Church in Belfast
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ReviewVisual Arts Abstract Armature
Simon McWilliams focuses on Belfast's architectural rebirth in his first show in the city for two decades
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ReviewMusic Stapleton & Rose
Oriental influences and unusual equipment enable a journey into the sonic unknown at the Sunflower
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ReviewFilm Calvary
John Michael McDonagh trains his sights on the Catholic Church in an avaricious Ireland
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ReviewPerforming Arts Quietly
Owen McCafferty expertly confronts themes of truth and reconciliation at the Lyric Theatre
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ReviewPerforming Arts Cure
Choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir imitates illness and the process of recovery at The MAC
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ReviewVisual Arts Babochka
Multifarious objects and marvellous minutiae fill the Higher Bridges Gallery in Enniskillen in memory of the Chernobyl disaster
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ReviewLiterature Behind the Headlines
Veteran journalist Alf McCreary recalls a 'multi-faceted, constantly stimulating' career in print
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ReviewMusic Words and Music
Belfast City Choir put poetry to song with an inventive Literary Lunchtime show at the Ulster Hall
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ReviewFilm Shamus
Belfast Film Festival screen Eric Marquis' rarely-seen and decidedly quaint film shot in Belfast and beyond in 1958
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ReviewPerforming Arts Aida
Ellen Kent's traditionalist production of Verdi's masterpiece fails to set the pulses racing
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ReviewMusic Brilliant Corners
Moving on Music's four-day jazzfest is an eclectic musical marathon
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ReviewMusic March '14
Andrew Lemon reviews the latest from Sullivan & Gold, The Wood Burning Savages and Malibu Shark Attack
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ReviewFilm Game of Thrones Season Opener
Matthew Coyle reviews the opening episode of Game of Thrones season 4 at Belfast Film Festival – spoiler alert!
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ReviewPerforming Arts The Nose
Patrick J O'Reilly adapts Nikolai Gogol's satirical short story with hilarious results at The MAC
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ReviewVisual Arts Kara Walker
Californian multi-disciplinary artist confronts American slave history with this endlessly inventive exhibition at The MAC
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ReviewPerforming Arts One Sandwich Short of a Genius
Big Telly channel Dario Fo in this time-shifting play about familial woes
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ReviewFilm Starred Up
Crumlin Road Gaol and the Maze provide the backdrop for David Mackenzie's brutally frank prison drama
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ReviewPerforming Arts A Portrait of the Artist...
Dublin's New Theatre tour a stage adaptation of James Joyce's classic novel with mixed results
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ReviewFilm Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson becomes human under a Scottish sky in Jonathan Glazer's compelling adaptation
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ReviewPerforming Arts Alan Irwin
Winner of the 2014 Chortle Student Comedy Award at Queen's brings his Party Hard show to the Black Box
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ReviewMusic Eat Static
Merv Pepler keeps the psychedelic beats pumping at Voodoo after 25 years of dance floor destruction
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ReviewPerforming Arts Nivelli's War
Hope and magic collide in Cahoots NI's latest inspirational production for audiences of all ages
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ReviewMusic Dola
An 'astonishingly assured and ambitious' debut concept album by experimental duo Allez Bartoli
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ReviewPerforming Arts The Wheelchair Monologues
Gearóid Ó Cairealláin's extraordinary story is told in Gaelic at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich in Belfast
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ReviewFilm The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's latest all-star caper is a fantastically enjoyable yarn
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ReviewMusic Night Music
An innovative presentation of classical music at The MAC proves popular
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ReviewPerforming Arts About a Goth
Staged Assault bring Tom Well's pithy play to the Black Box, chipped black nail varnish and all
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ReviewVisual Arts The Glass Album
Contemporary artists respond to the 19th century documentary and forensic work of James Glass
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ReviewPerforming Arts Shrieking Sisters
Maggie Cronin and Carol Moore tell the story of Ireland's militant suffragettes