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SUMMARY:Mary Beckett: A Belfast Woman at Look North! Festival at the Linen Hall Library
DESCRIPTION:This event took place on the 25th February 2026. A video recording is now available to view on YouTube. \nBorn in 1926\, Mary Beckett is regarded as one of Belfast’s finest writers. Widely acclaimed for her novels and short stories\, especially A Belfast Woman\, A Literary Woman and Give Them Stones\, her work did much to capture and explore the lives and experiences of women\, especially working-class women. To mark the centenary of her birth\, The Linen Hall Library in partnership with Look North!\, brings together two acclaimed Belfast writers\, Anne Devlin and Wendy Erskine\, to talk about Beckett’s work and her enduring legacy. This session will be chaired by award-winning novelist and short story writer\, Bernie McGill. \nSupported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. \nThis event will be hosted by The Linen Hall Library\, Belfast on 25th February at 1pm. Tickets £5. Booking details here.
URL:https://berniemcgill.com/event/mary-beckett-a-belfast-woman-at-look-north-festival-at-the-linen-hall-library/
LOCATION:Linen Hall Library\, Belfast\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, BT1 5GB\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:'The Day of the Papering'\, a new short story by Bernie McGill on BBC Radio 4
DESCRIPTION:Set in an abandoned military base at Fort Dunree in Co. Donegal\, the story follows artist-in-residence Kayla\, on the final day of her residency\, as she installs her work in one of the abandoned buildings on the site. She’s being reluctantly helped by caretaker Dermot who has little time for Kayla’s work. The story touches on ‘the mica crisis’ that affected thousands of homes in Donegal from 2011 on. \nRead by Amy Molloy and produced for BBC Radio 4’s Short Works by Michael Shannon\, you can listen to the story here on Thursday 26th June 2026 and thereafter on BBC Sounds. \nBernie McGill is the 2023 winner of the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her collection This Train is For. She is the author of two novels: The Watch House (nominated for the Ireland European Union Prize for Literature in 2019) and The Butterfly Cabinet (2010). Her short stories have been widely anthologised\, and her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Bernie was co-judge of the Edge Hill Prize in 2024 and of the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award in 2023. She is a Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund\, a Mentor with the Irish Writers’ Centre and an Honorary Member of the Linen Hall Library\, where her writing archive is held. Her first short story collection\, Sleepwalkers (2013)\, was re-published in 2025 by No Alibis Press.
URL:https://berniemcgill.com/event/the-day-of-the-papering-a-new-short-story-by-bernie-mcgill-on-bbc-radio-4/
LOCATION:BBC Radio 4 Short Works\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Bernie McGill among four leading Northern Irish artists to receive highest honour from Arts Council of Northern Ireland
DESCRIPTION:A poet\, a visual artist\, an author and an inclusive theatre maker have been presented with Major Individual Artist Awards (MIAs) by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Poet\, Padraig Regan\, visual artist and painter\, Pádraig Mac Cana\, author\, Bernie McGill and inclusive theatre maker and director\, Andrew Stanford\, will each receive a National Lottery funding award of up to £15\,000 to create ambitious new work. \nEach of the artists will now use the award to develop a series of new works. To hear the awardees speak about their proposed work\, go to the Arts Council of Northern Ireland website. \nAuthor Bernie McGill will use her award to create a new work of fiction inspired by Eleonora Duse\, an Italian actress active around the 1890s – 1920s and rated by many as the greatest of her time. As part of the award\, Bernie will spend time researching Duse at the Cini Foundationi and Museo Civico di Asolo in Italy. Watch the video here. \nPoet Padraig Regan will use their award to begin work on a new poetry collection exploring geology. They are interested in how poetry and language can relate to the natural world\, and how thinking about landscape on geological timescales may allow us to see the landscape as something that’s very much in process rather than a kind of static backdrop to our human lives. Video here. \nInclusive theatre maker and director Andrew Stanford will use his MIA award to create ‘Home in a Boat!’\, an immersive sensory theatre adventure that’s all at sea. The project is being created for families across the country\, serving the needs of children\, young people\, and adults who have complex needs and PMLD (Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities) and will be a sensory theatre storytelling experience that participants can engage with from the comfort of their own homes. Video here. \nVisual artist and painter Pádraig Mac Cana’s paintings are interchanges between external events\, observations and his inner life of experiences and memories. Pádraig is currently undertaking an extended residency with The Florence Trust in London and will use the MIA award to research\, develop and produce a new series of paintings that confront and reframe an aspect of the lingering historic trauma of the Northern Ireland Troubles. As part of the MIA award\, he will undertake research at the British War Museum\, The British library\, The Imperial war Museum and on-site locations in London. \nDirector of Arts Development at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland\, Gilly Campbell\, said\, “Congratulations to all four artists in receiving a Major Individual Artist Award. These awards will enable these enormously talented artists to undertake a substantial piece of new work and reflects the Arts Council’s commitment to creating the conditions in which to grow artistic talent through experimentation and innovation. Thanks to money raised for good causes by the National Lottery players\, these major awards will help to cement the national and international reputations of these artists\, and strengthen the positive cultural profile of Northern Ireland\, both at home and abroad.” \nThe four join a distinguished list of artists who have previously benefited from the Major Individual Artist award\, including writers; Susan McKay\, Moyra Donaldson\, Carol Moore\, Rosemary Jenkinson\, Malachi O’Doherty\, Jimmy McAleavey\, Anne Devlin\, Carlo Gébler\, Damian Gorman\, Patricia Craig\, Sinéad Morrissey\, Glenn Patterson\, Owen McCafferty\, Brian McGilloway and Shelley Tracey; playwright Shannon Sickles (Yee)\, performance artist\, Sinéad O’Donnell\, magician\, Nikola Arkane\, visual artists\, Mairéad McClean\, Rita Duffy\, Susan MacWilliam\, Cara Murphy and Gail Ritchie; composers\, Deirdre Gribben\, Ed Bennett\, Piers Hellawell\, Ian Wilson\, Elaine Agnew\, Conor Mitchell\, Neil Martin and Deirdre McKay; musicians\, Michael McHale\, Ruth McGinley and David Lyttle plus choreographer\, Oona Doherty\, among others. \nMajor Individual Artist awards form part of the wider Support for the Individual Artist Programme (SIAP) which is supported with funding from The National Lottery and administered by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland annually.
URL:https://berniemcgill.com/event/bernie-mcgill-is-among-four-leading-northern-irish-artists-to-receive-highest-honour-from-arts-council-of-northern-ireland/
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