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Speaking about the award, judges said that McGee's Derry Girls 'approached the underlying questions of prejudice, antagonism, cultural division and violence ...

Lisa McGee's "Derry Girls" endorsed the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize's objective to promote and encourage peace and reconciliation in Ireland.

Praising 'their attentiveness to the world,' the 2024 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year jury names four authors to its shortlist.

Rogers Arena welcomed newcomers to Canada last week to partake in a celebration of community and what is truly Canadian: a skating party.
Amidst the glistening expanse of Rogers Arena's ice, a diverse group of 50 women, men and children gathered for their First Canadian Skate.
The refugees were from

Shankill poet Scott McKendry on working-class identity, his mentor Ciaran Carson and his nerdish love of language

Meet the cocaine dealers who peddled East Belfast UVF drugs in bars around the Newtownards Road.

Belfast has a healthy literary scene, closely connected with Queen’s University, whose creative writing tutors include poets Gail McConnell and Stephen Sexton

From cinema and theatre to television, folk music and literature, Ireland is enjoying unprecedented creative boom

From Hunger Games-style viewings to greedy landlords and grim flatshares, young people aren’t just coping with a broken property market, they are writing about it