Arts community praises Paisley’s vitality, but some find it hard to forgive his divisive role

Simon Stephens’s ‘Punk Rock’ is coming to the Lyric, in a statement of intent by the Belfast theatre’s new boss. So will it deliver something ‘live, direct, physical and unpredictable’?

The crime writer has turned away from Northern Ireland for his new novel, about a murder in a German nudist religious cult in the South Pacific a century ago

Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee among four artists to receive £15,000 awards

The words ‘community’ and ‘communities’ appear 35 times in Richard Haass’s newly published paper on the past, parades and flags. It’s a word Northern Ireland can’t seem to escape

Ulster, Irish, British or European? In Mark Carruthers’s new book about identity in Northern Ireland, artists’ insights are richer than politicians’

Opinion: Unity is not inevitable, but will require work, dialogue and compromise

Let’s have a few decades of civility before we decide