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Sinead Morrissey
The youngest ever winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award -
The Northern Ireland Publication Resource
Preserving for Posterity -
Reading Societies and Libraries
Those reading societies and libraries that were intrinsic to the literary life of the city -
The Ulster Literary Theatre and The Revival
How the ULT helped forge a Northern theatrical identity -
Back from the Brinks
Brendan Deeds talks to best-selling novelist Sam Millar -
Lapsed Protestant
Gavin Carville reviews the new book from Glenn Patterson -
Bit Part in the Big Picture
Poet Gerald Dawe traces his family to an unlikely Belfast -
David Torrence is Caught Red-Handed
Tammy Moore meets the man with no alibis -
I Wouldn't Say 'Boo' to a Goose
Q&A with Colin Bateman -
Drawn to the Magnetic North
Darran Anderson is attracted to the emerging NI poets of this publication -
Sinead Morrissey - Interview with Declan Meade
Part One: Becoming a poet -
Sean O'Reilly: Interview with Declan Meade
Part Two: Character is the Most Important Thing -
This Poet is on Fire
Kirsten Kearney catches the Fire Poet at the Opera Fringe Festival -
Schools Poetry at the Barbican
Chelley McLear answers Antrim's call for 'Poetry Please!' -
John Hewitt: The Granddaddy of Ulster Poets
The forerunner of the new wave of poetry in the 1960s -
Thomas Carnduff
Working class poet and playwright -
Samuel Beckett
Martin Mooney reflects on the importance of the Nobel prize-winning writer -
Enniskillen Pays Tribute to Samuel Beckett
Jenny Cathcart reports on events marking the centenary of the writer's birth -
The Death of a Friend
Poem by Armagh resident Dan Campbell -
Stage Irishmen and Women
Vivien Hewitt seeks out the dramatists of Restoration Ulster -
Where there can be hope
Children's Express Journalist, Lena Jaegemann interviews Lucy Caldwell -
Samuel Ferguson
An important forerunner to the Irish literary revival -
Sam Hanna Bell
Novelist, short story writer and broadcaster -
RB McDowell
A prolific if mercurial historian -
Seamus Deane
Profile of the writer, teacher and founder of Field Day Theatre Company -
Bernard MacLaverty
Profile of the lab technician turned novelist -
Representations of Belfast in Fiction
CultureNorthernIreland’s guide to the representation of Belfast in fiction -
Shock of the New - David Foster
Fear and loathing at the salad bar -
Shock of the New - Kevin Morgan
Belfast born poet and former abattoir worker -
Paul Muldoon
One of the most acclaimed poets in the English speaking world -
Representations of Belfast in Poetry
'A city build upon mud, a culture built upon profit' -
Patrick Kavanagh
One of the foremost Irish poets of the twentieth century -
Padraic Fiacc
Controversial and influential Belfast poet -
Richard Rowley
The popular poet who wrote in the dialect of Belfast’s working class -
Michael Foley
Renowned Poet and Insomniac -
Martin Lynch
Often controversial, Lynch’s work demonstrates a strong social conscience -
Mary Costello
Author of Titanic Town -
Martin Waddell - A Child for Forty Years
Rachel Wilson talks to the internationally recognised author of children's books -
Mairtn Crawford's Selected Poems - Lagan Press
Enjoy three poems from the much loved poet who died in January 2004 -
Mairtn Crawford remembered
A tribute to Mairtín Crawford by personal friend and fellow poet Naomi Foyle -
Old Belfast Newspapers: The early 19th century
From The Banner of Ulster to the Vindicator -
Nell McCafferty
Ireland’s best known feminist -
Michael McLaverty
Novelist and short story writer -
Literary Lions on Tour
John Gray on what the nineteenth century literati thought of the north -
Walter Hegarty
Derry born author who describes growing up in Derry in the 1940s -
Louis MacNeice
Remembering one of Northern Ireland's most famous poets and broadcasters -
Jennifer Johnston
Derry-based Jennifer Johnston is one of Northern Ireland’s most popular novelists -
Joyce Cary
Author of ‘the last great English political novel’... -
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver’s Travels and prebend of Kilroot parish -
John Boyd: A Crossing Place
Exhibition focuses on key literary figure -
Short Story by one of Ireland's Finest Writers
William Trevor's 'The Room' is published online exclusively here -
Sean O'Reilly - Interview with Declan Meade
Part One: Finding a Voice in Fiction -
Frances Thompson
The NI poet based in England brings fond memories of home into her work -
Helen Waddell
Novelist, critic and committed Christian -
Charlie Donnelly Winter School 2006
Ryan Dunne raises a glass to socialism in Coalisland's Craic Theatre -
The Belfast Literary Scene - A Personal Reflection
Highlights from poet and editor of Irish Pages, Chris Agee -
Gaelic Poetry in Ulster
Gréagóir Ó Dúill on how poetry has been composed in the Irish language in Northern Ireland for more than 2000 years -
Sinead Morrissey - In Interview with Declan Meade
Part Two: Returning to Belfast and the challenges of the future -
Contemporary Poets from Northern Ireland
A general introduction to contemporary poets from Northern Ireland -
Graham Reid
Writer of the iconic 'Billy trilogy'
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