Midweek Review

"I'M A film-maker, I'm always looking for interesting stories," explains director Gary Lennon of what led him to make I Dream in Photos, his new documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Cathal McNaughton.

Review Universal Food Security: How to End Hunger While Protecting the Planet By Dr Glenn Denning (Columbia University Press, 2023) THE twin needs of providing universal food security while ending the scourge of hunger has been a daunting topic from a humanitarian standpoint for decades.

WELL, what can you say about a band that emerges ethereally from the bowels of some imaginary shamballa in east London, popping up from underneath the 'stage', spotlit bit-by-bit – heads, torso, legs – rather than saunter from the wings in conventional fashion? Nothing was conventional about this Super Trouper show; certainly not the unearthly entrance of four shimmery 'Abbatars' to sing and dance – and, yes, chat a little too – for adoring fans packed into the purpose-built Abba Arena in Pudding Mill Lane, Stratford.

LINDA Ervine is having a bit of a breather – but not for long.

In May 1923, Armagh-born and newly appointed anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff Frank Aiken issued an order to republicans to dump their arms, thus bringing an end to the hostilities of the 11-month long civil war.

Thursday’s election falls just 12 days short of the 50th anniversary of the election to the 26 new councils on May 30, 1973.

David Ervine's early death in 2007 is widely regarded as robbing our politics of an important voice. A powerful new one-man play, The Man Who Swallowed A Dictionary, tells the remarkable story of the UVF man turned loyalist politician

Peter Howson first emerged during the mid-1980s as part of the 'New Glasgow Boys' art movement.

Quite a few of the greatest artists, from Vincent van Gogh to Edvard Munch (who painted The Scream from personal experience of intense anxiety), suffered from mental ill health.

This weekend 100 years ago, on April 1 1923, a 'temporary frontier' on imported goods was placed on the boundary line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.