Ukraine appeals: ‘My phone has not stepped ringing ... Everybody wants to help’
Ukrainian community in Ireland overwhelmed with support and donations
New York’s Irish Arts Center gets a new lease of life
The centre’s new home is on the site of an old tyre shop in Hell’s Kitchen
The Michael Healy-Rae climate plan: ‘Save the planet but not at the expense of the farmer’
Radio: Pat Kenny tries to sum up the Kerry TD’s view of the climate crisis in Ireland
‘Ciaran Carson drew Belfast better than anyone I ever read’
Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poet
Irish Pages: words for a time when hope and history no longer rhyme
The current edition of Northern Ireland’s literary journal marks 20 years of the Belfast Agreement – and the overriding mood is one of disillusionment and despair
Inside the Belfast college that moulded peace-makers and Brexiteers
New illustrated book celebrates 150th anniversary of Methody in Northern capital
The Lyric Theatre at 50: a cultural bridge in a divided city
It opened its doors on the cusp of the Troubles, but Belfast’s Lyric has survived
Good Vibrations review: Fast pace, high energy and sardonic good humour
This stage version of Terri Hooley’s story makes the transition from film with style
Glorious era for Irish rowing looks set to continue
Huge entry for Cork Regatta while further World Cup glory beckons in Lucerne
After the amputation: a powerful rendering of disability
Hopdance review: Stewart Parker’s posthumous memoir novel captures figments of a lost year
Opera in Belfast: A canter through 500 years of history, set in a deconsecrated church
Sung in the city’s unmistakable twang, ‘Long Story Short: The Belfast Opera’ is fresh, contemporary and slightly daring
1916 speech: Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson
Centenary: Reconciliation and revolution, a harmony revisited - DCU, February 2016
Doctorin’ the tower: KLF maverick in a small Antrim town
Bill Drummond, who once burned £1m as half of the KLF, is behind a left-field endeavour at Curfew Tower in Cushendall
Ten great Northern Irish novels you might have missed
Authors are using new ways of writing to reflect a changed political environment
Mixed reaction from writers over death of intractable icon
Arts community praises Paisley’s vitality, but some find it hard to forgive his divisive role
Teenage kicks, teenage angst
Simon Stephens’s ‘Punk Rock’ is coming to the Lyric, in a statement of intent by the Belfast theatre’s new boss. So will it deliver something ‘live, direct, physical and unpredictable’?
Death in paradise: Adrian McKinty and the strange case of the Cocovores
The crime writer has turned away from Northern Ireland for his new novel, about a murder in a German nudist religious cult in the South Pacific a century ago
NI Arts Council funds Lough Derg: the musical and Hurricane Higgins: the novel
Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee among four artists to receive £15,000 awards
Don’t mention the C-word
The words ‘community’ and ‘communities’ appear 35 times in Richard Haass’s newly published paper on the past, parades and flags. It’s a word Northern Ireland can’t seem to escape
Nailing their colours to the mast
Ulster, Irish, British or European? In Mark Carruthers’s new book about identity in Northern Ireland, artists’ insights are richer than politicians’
It makes sense for Ireland to have a single economic unit accountable to its people
Opinion: Unity is not inevitable, but will require work, dialogue and compromise
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