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Names for the festival in May include some of the best-known writers and personalities in the country.

The novelist’s new book, based on his Netflix hit Top Boy, draws on his experience of being Irish in London – and of being wrongly convicted of murder. But his status as a former convict cuts little ice in his home city

Maurice Leitch, who died this year, left us vivid portraits of Antrim mill villages in decline, tense Border communities and Troubles-torn Belfast

Byrne had a kindness and graciousness, a way of welcoming others, bringing them in, that I have not found elsewhere.

The problem with the novel is that it remains bound to Joyce

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Was King Charles irked by the inclusion, in the first segment of the BBC Jimmy Savile biopic The Reckoning, of footage of him lauding Saviles fundraising abilities?

Acclaimed Northern Ireland author and broadcaster Maurice Leitch has died aged 90 at his home in Faversham, Kent.

A blue plaque has been unveiled for well-known British politician Roy Jenkins and his wife Dame Jennifer Jenkins at their former Oxfordshire home.

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As a part of Peter Doherty's The Battered Songbook Tour, the English musician played The Royal Albert Hall on Friday, May 5th.