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Aoibh Johnson's The Daughters of Róisín will be performed at the Front and Centre symposium.

Putting Northern Ireland's women writers front and centre

Later this month, a collective of women working in collaboration with the Drama Department at Queen's University Belfast will host the Front and Centre celebration of writing by women, non-binary and queer writers.

Books • 22 May

Northern Irish forces pose on a south Fermanagh border road that has been trenched and barricaded by felled trees, March 1922
Photo: Photo: Bettmann/Getty

Revolutionary Times: partition & the creation of Northern Ireland

Revolutionary Times is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book chronicling the Irish revolutionary period, based on the hugely popular RTÉ online project, Century Ireland.

Books • 13 Jan

Martin Doyle: 'Their stories sometimes broke my heart but their spirit mended it too.'

Dirty Linen - Martin Doyle on the Troubles in his homeplace

'These are tragic stories, whose telling deeply moved me. But I also felt privileged to be in the presence of people whose resilience and undying love restored my faith in humanity.'

Books • 15 Oct 23

In the Name of Gerry Conlon - how we made the new documentary

At the height of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Gerry Conlon and three others were falsely convicted of IRA bombings in Guildford, England.

Documentaries • 14 Aug 23

Architects of Air return to this year's Kilkenny Arts Festival

Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1pm

Culture 5 • 04 Aug 23

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, US Senator George Mitchell and British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Good Friday Agreement announcement in 1998

David McCullagh on one man's journey to the Good Friday Agreement

Books • 09 Oct 22

Watch: Middle ground in Northern Ireland - what happens next?

In Conversation • 10 Oct 22

Anne Carr poses in front of her portrait

In The Picture: NI Peace Women command the spotlight at Stormont

visual arts • 27 Sep 22

Book Of The Week: Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

Books • 02 Apr 22

Some of the artefacts (clockwise): Portrait of Edward Carson (1911) by Robert MacCameron, The Crumlin Meteorite, Replica of the Broighter Torc, Home Rule Game, Large White Ulster Pig Model, Hands Across the Divide (2019) by James Ashe.

The new exhibition of NI treasures that puts Irishness in focus

History • 01 Mar 22

Down the Tubes - Gary Mitchell on his new Drama On One play

Drama On One • 23 Jan 22

Documentary On One: the men reporting on The Troubles

Documentary On One • 12 Aug 21

Maeve, revisited - inside an Irish screen classic

Film • 24 Jun 21

The Maidstone Escape - an extract from Seán McConville's new book

Books • 14 Apr 21

Sunday Miscellany: The Master by Nuala Hayes

Brian Friel • 17 Dec 20

Chipper and compelling: Michelle Gallen's cooks up an Ulster Fry in Big Girl Small Town

Reviewed: Big Girl Small Town by Michelle Gallen

Tyrone-born Michelle Gallen's debut novel brings us Majella O'Neill who works in the local chipper in a fictional small town in Northern Ireland who is not keen on most Other People with their nosy gossip-mongering and malice.

Books • 04 Mar 20

The Sound of the Shuttle - Gerald Dawe on his new book

Acclaimed poet Gerald Dawe introduces his new publication, The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays on Cultural Belonging and Protestantism in Northern Ireland, published by Irish Academic Press and in bookshops now.

Books • 06 Feb 20

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