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