Page 7 - Jan Carson News Today

IT’S a summer evening in Derry in 1997, the night before four teenage girls and a wee English fella get their GCSE results. In between newsflashes…

Society still tends to sideline girls, so a comedy concentrating on the lives of four young women during the Troubles remains groundbreaking TV.

I tried to explain what it was like for me growing up in Northern Ireland. Then I found that this great sitcom did it better, says Caroline Magennis, reader in 20th and 21st century literature

Todays episode of our Dispatches from Ullapool features Belfast-based writer Jan Carson.

The cheer was palpable at the opening of a Wester Ross literary festival

A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news

Arts Columnist Naomi McKeown reviews two recently published books that explore different aspects of Northern Irish life during the Troubles

National Museums NI’s Ulster American Folk Park has introduced a new exhibition.

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin’s Madame Lazare got special mention at the EU Prize for Literature

A WESTER ROSS literary event will be back in May after three years of hiatus.