Paul McVeigh
Review: Big Man, The Naughton Studio, the Lyric, Belfast
Review: Big Man, The Naughton Studio, the Lyric, Belfast PAUL McVeigh's moving, funny and superbly written one man show Big Man recalls a bit of the Bard.
ArtBeat goes to the Festival: Big Man, gay attitudes, Abdullah Ibrahim, Poetry Jukebox, Bill Viola, Merce Cunningham, Jane Coyle and the RSC
PAUL McVeigh, the dramatist behind Big Man at The Lyric Theatre (until November 6), remembers his first Festival offering: "Many years ago I set up a production company in Belfast and put on The Handsome Cabin Boy, based on an old folk song Kate Bush used as a B side to Hounds of Love.
Celebrating Ireland's working-class writers in The 32
"I'd been a schoolteacher who taught in a community school on the Northside and who'd self-published a book, and had metamorphosed into an internationally known author whose name appeared in the Guardian and the New York Times.
New writers invited to submit work to The 32: An Anthology of Working Class Voices
NEW or emerging writers from working-class backgrounds are invited to enter submissions for a new anthology, edited by Belfast author McVeigh (The Good Son).
'In terms of psychology, GAA players are another level up from soccer'
IT was an agricultural hoof up the field from left-back Adam Drury that turned defence into attack, with danger still present even after Gary Doherty’s shot had spun off Roy Keane towards the corner of the box.
Arts Q&A: Writer Paul McVeigh on Al Green, David Bowie and Billy Wilder
1. When did you think about a career in writing and what were your first steps into it? I fell into writing for theatre from directing plays, then comedy while directing stand-ups in London.
Jaipur Literature Festival allows Northern Ireland to savour literary tastes of India
INDIA might seem far away and exotic to Irish eyes but a deep connection between the two countries stretched back millennia.
Outburst Queer Arts Festival to celebrate 10th birthday in Belfast
PERFORMERS from all over the world are set to descend on Belfast for the 10th anniversary of Outburst, the UK’s premier LGBT arts festival.
McVeigh full of praise for O'Neill
FORMER Northern Ireland international Paul McVeigh believes reaching next summer's European Championship finals would top the heroics at the 1982 World Cup.