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Michael Longley Shortlisted for TS Eliot Prize
Belfast poet makes the cut with 2014 collection The Stairwell -
The Simpsons & Mathematics
Ahead of his lecture at the Black Box, author Simon Singh writes about secret equations in Halloween episodes -
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 -
Considerations #1
Poet and playwright Damian Gorman begins new nine-part video series featuring readings of new poems -
The Wide Justice at NI Mental Health Arts Festival
Greek myth inspires collaborative poetry and painting exhibition at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast -
Flann O'Brien Literary Festival
Strabane honours its most famous son, the certified comic genius, with a series of events from October 3 - 4 -
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 -
Finding Finaghy Memoir Reveals Bygone Belfast
Artist David Gepp embraces prose in this intensely visual memoir of life growing up in post-Second World War Belfast -
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 -
Tony Macaulay on Writing All Growed Up
Ahead of his appearance at the Aspects Irish Literature Festival, the Belfast author considers the process of writing memoir -
The Blame
Michael Nolan's novella in and about modern Belfast is satisfyingly ambiguous and hints at greater things -
Aspects Irish Literature Festival 2014
Terry Blain takes in the 2014 programme from a deckchair overlooking Bangor marina -
On Home Ground Festival Commemorates Seamus Heaney
Nuala McAllister Hart peruses the literary festival programme dedicated to the late Seamus Heaney -
War Words
Genevieve Swift and Andrew Eaton read original compositions and archived material at PRONI -
Drinking Becomes Sport in New Novel
Enniskillen-born author Jason Johnson publishes allegorical novel with Liberties Press