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Saturday 31 October in Belfast
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Saturday 31 October 5 listings
Morning 2
11:00
Belfast’s Statues and Sculptures - from Frink to the Big Fish | Walking Tour
A walking tour of some of the best sculptures in Belfast, starting outside the Ulster Museum and ending at the Big Fish on Donegall Quay. These fascinating works of art also provide an intriguing insight into the culture and thinking of the city when they were created. They are in effect, a snapshot of what Belfast thought was important down the ages. Does something that was trendy in the 60s have anything worthwhile to say to us now? Is what was important in 1880 important today? Visit a dozen of the best sculptures of Belfast, then decide which you feel have stood the test of time.
Afternoon 3
14:00
Belfast’s Statues and Sculptures - from Frink to the Big Fish | Walking Tour
A walking tour of some of the best sculptures in Belfast, starting outside the Ulster Museum and ending at the Big Fish on Donegall Quay. These fascinating works of art also provide an intriguing insight into the culture and thinking of the city when they were created. They are in effect, a snapshot of what Belfast thought was important down the ages. Does something that was trendy in the 60s have anything worthwhile to say to us now? Is what was important in 1880 important today? Visit a dozen of the best sculptures of Belfast, then decide which you feel have stood the test of time.
14:00
Eoin McNamee
Details Eoin McNamee presents his new short story collection, The Comets . The Comets is a richly textured collection of stories, set in Ireland and Northern Ireland, that explore working-class lives teetering on the borderlands between violence and love. McNamee tells these haunted stories with precision and care, cementing again his position as one of the most loved literary stylists of contemporary Irish writing. The author of eight novels including Resurrection Man and The Bureau , McNamee has been nominated for theMan Booker Prize, and has won the Kerry Fiction Prize and the CWA Steel Dagger. Liam McIllvaney said of McNamee's prose that it has the 'cadenced majesty of McCarthy or DeLillo, but the vision it enacts is all his own.' Most recently, Eoin was part of the writers room for Netflix’s Vikings Valhalla series. Programmed as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival.
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