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  • Jay Rayner

    The restaurant critic holds court in Belfast's Crescent Arts Centre. His style is not to Fionola Meredith's taste

  • Thee Oh Sees

    If they once sounded anything like Neil Young, Fionola Meredith finds it hard to tell – she's too busy dancing

  • Made in Belfast

    Fionola Meredith is underwhelmed by writer/director Paul Kennedy's debut feature at the Belfast Film Festival

  • Kaleidoscope

    Prime Cut Production's latest interactive, sit-specific work only lacks a little darkness

  • Fickle Favours All-Female Theatre Company

    Fionola Meredith considers the pros and cons of Fickle Favours, Belfast's first all-female theatre company, as they prepare for their first production

  • The Lifeboat Readings

    Leontia Flynn and Sophie Collins continue a series of free readings on the Belfast Barge

  • The Seafarer

    The Devil arrives in a Dublin drinking hole in Conor McPherson's play about men, alcohol and the redemptive power of friendship

  • Karima Francis

    Is it difficult to be the next big thing that never was? Blackpool's finest silences the doubters at the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival

  • Tom Paulin

    Initially hesitant, the once 'notoriously combative' critic, essayist and poet eventually finds his voice on a return visit to Belfast

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    An experimental adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Gothic masterpiece is undermined by a spinning disco ball
  • Ulysses

    Ulysses

    Dermot Bolger's adaptation of James Joyce's famous novel is 'a tribute to Joyce's own curious imagination'

  • Fifty Shades of Red, White and Blue

    Leesa Harker's Ulster parody of the EL James bestseller has been snapped up by Blackstaff Press

  • Bad Manners

    Everyone's favourite ska party band, led by the inimitable Buster Bloodvessel, get the crowd bouncing in west Belfast

  • Gig in the Garden

    Fionola Meredith makes no apologies for enjoying a terribly middle-class day out at sunny Minnowburn

  • NEST

    'The singers and instrumentalists let out a volley of mad mutterings and animal sounds... it is impossible not to smile'

  • OrangeFest 2012

    Surrealist whimsy, Mario, Queen of the Circus and a 'bum-off' at City Hall – that's right, it's the 12th of July

  • Still Not Out of the Woods

    Artists and climbers Dan Shipsides and Neal Beggs recall an ascent to the summit of Lagazuoi

  • Oscar Muñoz, Drawing Down the Walls

    Colombian artist reimagines contentious interface area in north Belfast as part of the London 2012 Festival

  • The Best Art Under Our Noses

    Belfast is currently hosting Da Vinci, Steve McQueen and others, but it's the homegrown art that Fionola Meredith truly appreciates

  • Glenn Patterson at CQAF

    The quintessential Belfast writer brings 'humour, precision and delicacy' to Polish Cultural Week

  • Six Days of Performance Art and Video

    A woman that froths, a man wearing a branch and offal and balloons made out of binbags. It's performance, but is it art?

  • The Ulster Kama Sutra

    An hilarious exploration of 'the hypocrisy, the absurdity and the sexual immaturity' of our wee country

  • Bayou Seco

    An unlikely trio bring the old sounds of the American wilderness to No Alibis bookstore

  • Titans

    Kabosh Theatre Company use Titanic Belfast as the set of their latest site-specific piece. It works

  • Why Are We Interested in Titanic?

    Fionola Meredith talks to her father, Titanic author Michael McCaughan, about our continued fascination with the doomed liner

  • London Art Fair

    Fionola Meredith, chair of Belfast's Golden Thread Gallery, is more impressed with the cheap work than the Hirsts

  • Sarah Savoy & the Francadians

    Fionola Meredith enjoys a healthy helping of Cajun charm

  • Jon Ronson

    The author and film-maker on George Clooney, Ian Paisley and psychopaths in the room

  • Portrait of Edna Longley Unveiled at Queen's

    The scholar and critic enjoyed an 'interactive' experience in the presence of artist Jeffrey Morgan

  • 2011: A Year in the Arts

    Fionola Meredith looks back on a successful funding campaign and a whole host of stand out events

  • Street Art

    It's the Northern Irish artists that light up the Ulster Museum, not Banksy and Co

  • All Souls' Night

    The characters are emotionally starved, but the audience is left replete by the ambigious ending

  • Life's Too Short

    A brief Liam Neeson cameo stands out in the latest Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant sitcom

  • Brendan at the Chelsea

    'Sweary, sweaty and stocky' Adrian Dunbar turns in a compelling performance

  • Michael Longley

    The professional grandfather of poetry on wedding dresses, the wonders of childhood and remembering Ronan Kerr

  • The Human League

    Laughable lyrics and a balding frontman can't put Fionola Meredith off getting lost in 'the joys of pop nostaliga'

  • Behold the Lamb

    'Like a diet of bitter herbs - this film leaves you unsatisfied,' writes Fionola Meredith

  • Raiders of the Lost Story Arc

    Kabosh pull off 'a triumph of creative editing' in this play about the origins of Indiana Jones

  • Spiers and Boden

    No matter what you call it, this English folk duo's sound is likely to get you moving

  • Not a Game for Boys

    The action is moved from London to Belfast - but does the humour translate in this tale of three taxi drivers?

  • Puckoon

    Caught between confusion and delight, Fionola Meredith enjoys the blend of political incorrectness and slapstick

  • National Anthem

    Not one for the tourists, Colin Bateman's first stage show makes for a dark and bumpy ride

  • Mike Faulkner at Aspects

    The Poet Laureate of Strangford Lough takes a gentle dander through his past with Fionola Meredith at Aspects Literature Festival

  • Dancing Shoes

    Fionola Meredith finds faults aplenty in Lynch and Jones' ode to a damaged national hero

  • Venice@the Golden Thread

    Psychic art, séance cabinets and globalisation with chair of the Golden Thread Gallery, Fionola Meredith

  • Paul Durcan

    The rock-poet Paul Durcan packs out the Dark Horse - Fionola Meredith never looks at her watch once

  • Rock Doves

    It might ruffle some feathers, but Marie Jones' latest production doesn't impress Fionola Meredith

  • Mo

    Channel 4 drama explores Mo Mowlam's battle against illness and Northern Ireland's 'dour' politicians. Fionola MeredIth attends a special preview screening at the QFT

  • Forgotten Carols Concert

    Heartfelt hymns and forgotten songs at St Bride's Church Hall bring the magic back to Christmas

  • The White Ribbon

    Fionola Meredith is left in the dark at Queen's Film Theatre

  • An Education

    Fionola Meredith falls for Lynn Barber's memories of youthful seduction

  • Pumpgirl

    Fionola Meredith reviews Carol Moore's cinematic adaptation of the acclaimed stageplay
  • Irish Traveller Community

    The Irish Traveller Community

    Fionola Meredith looks at the second largest ethnic minority group in Northern Ireland

  • The Indian Community in Northern Ireland

    Fionola Meredith discovers there are over 1000 members of the Indian community in Northern

  • These Artists are Making It

    Fionola Meredith finds out more about the Craft NI new scheme
  • Chinese dragon

    The Chinese Community in Northern Ireland

    The province’s largest minority ethnic group