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  • Romancing Ireland

    Paul Clements' biography of Richard Hayward reveals a forgotten renaissance man

  • Free Derry Protest and Resistance

    Adrian Kerr's history of protest and resistance in the maiden city 'is a valuable addition to the Troubles canon'

  • Plath – A 50 Year Retrospective

    Academics commemorate the life and work of prolific writer and poet Sylvia Plath

  • The Loughsiders

    Shan Bullock's 1924 novel is republished by Turnpike Books, but is Bullock really 'the Thomas Hardy of Fermanagh'?

  • A Twisted Root

    Patricia Craig delves into her mixed Irish ancestry to discover Republican activists and the founder of the Orange Order

  • Changing Times

    Peter Smyth fails to confront the political inequalities that characterised our wee country during the 1950s

  • Belfast The Emerging City

    15 academics explain the city's rise to industrial prominence, but author Glenn Patterson's contribution wins out

  • Charles Dickens in Belfast

    In the author's bicentenary year, John Gray looks back on his visits to Ireland

  • PODCAST: Children of the Revolution

    John Gray talks with author Bill Rolston about interviewing the children of paramilitary combatants

  • Eagle's Wings

    'A unique and definitive history' of Ulster-Scots, Scotch-Irish and Presbyterians in Northern Ireland

  • By the Banks of the Lagan

    Ben Simon's collection of oral histories of the Lagan conjures up rural idylls and model asylums

  • Belfast Shipbuilders

    An admirable exploration of Belfast's engineering heyday

  • Belfast Blitz

    A 'well organized and accessible' compendium of eyewitness accounts by Stephen Douds

  • Take Three Girls

    John Gray discovers new writing from Tara West, Lesley Richardson and Tanya Ravenswater at Finaghy Library

  • Obituary: Brian Moore, 1946 - 2011

    The songwriter, cartoonist and playwright who satirised Northern Irish politics

  • Raise Your Voice in Support of Libraries

    John Gray, former librarian of the Linen Hall Library, makes the case for Northern Ireland's beleaguered public libraries

  • The Last Romantic Out of Belfast

    Sam Keery's autobiographical novel delves into the constricting world of 1940s Belfast

  • The Return Room

    WR Rodgers' radio play is reissued with illustrations and a recording of the original production

  • Voices from Cave Hill

    Learn about the secret history of Cave Hill from the people who lived there

  • If Trees Could Talk

    Ben Simon gets spruced up for a jaunt through Belfast's woodland history

  • The Pen Friend

    John Gray reviews the latest novel from author Ciaran Carson

  • I'll Tell Me Ma

    John Gray is moved by Brian Keenan's memoir of his Belfast childhood

  • An Irish Country Village

    John Gray reviews the second in Patrick Taylor's series of Irish country novels. Watch a video with Taylor below

  • Literary Lions on Tour

    John Gray on what the nineteenth century literati thought of the north