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Out To Lunch: Seamus Heaney
Leading light of the Belfast Group returns to the place of his poetic birth -
The Chilingirian String Quartet
Performing at Portaferry Presbyterian Church, the chamber music stars impress Philip Hammond with music from three classical masters -
The White Ribbon
Fionola Meredith is left in the dark at Queen's Film Theatre -
Ulster Orchestra
Philip Hammond attends a lunchtime recital at the Ulster Hall -
Polish Passions
Michal Dworzynski and Tasmin Little storm the stage in an outstanding concert, but do enough people appreciate it? -
An Education
Fionola Meredith falls for Lynn Barber's memories of youthful seduction -
Colm Tóibín
The author keeps the Belfast crowd entertained -
I'll Tell Me Ma
John Gray is moved by Brian Keenan's memoir of his Belfast childhood -
Heaney/Longley
Philip Hammond is in a minority of one at the Waterfront Hall - or is he? -
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Philip Hammond travels back in time to Leningrad, 1942 - but was it worth the effort? -
An Irish Country Village
John Gray reviews the second in Patrick Taylor's series of Irish country novels. Watch a video with Taylor below -
To Be Straight With You
'An unsettling, magnificent production that fizzes with imagination.' -
Hilliard Ensemble
Philip Hammond heads south for an exhilarating evening of musicial modernity -
Brian Friel at Edinburgh
Peter Geoghegan enjoys two moments of magic from the playwright's extensive back catalogue -
From a Clear Blue Sky
Timothy Knatchbull's investigation into the IRA bombing of Earl Mountbatten takes a profound journey into personal and Irish history -
Jandek
'Fraudulent art', 'a swindle of the highest order' - Jandek touches down in Belfast -
Stereo War Favourites
They come from Derry, they're headed for the stars -
Belfast Piano Trio
Composer Philip Hammond comes in from the rain for a transcendant performance in Belfast's Rosemary Street church -
ASIWYFA/Fighting With Wire
Two of NI's biggest bands square off at Custom House, and both emerge as victors -
Glover's Mistake
Nick Laird's second novel proves that these days, everyone's a critic