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Greetings! 
This issue John Gray investigates the history of The Twelfth, Daily Telegraph cartoonist Matt Pritchett reveals where he gets his ideas from, and Tyrone author Darach MacDonald tells us about his year shadowing a loyalist flute band. You can also watch the Lowly Knights performing live and hear poet Damian Smyth reading from his latest collection Market Street.
Andrew Johnston gets slated by Kenny Rogers and sweated on by Slash, while Joe Nawaz wonders if the proper terminology is Belfastian or Belfastard.
Finally, win tickets to poetry readings, talks and plays at the John Hewitt Summer School, an evening with the creator of the fictional serial killer Dexter, the Earagail Festival and more.
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|  The Twelfth of July
An in depth history of 'The Twelfth' and its re-branding as Orange Fest from John Gray.
 Matt Pritchett
'Royalty and republicans alike find common ground in the gentle barbs of this master satirist.'
 My Cultural Life: Nicola Russell
The portrait artist on surviving cancer and painting Bill Clinton, Mo Mowlam and an eleven foot horse.
 Joan Lingard 'Imagine
that, people in Japan reading about Ulster fries and Kevin and Sadie
going to Bangor for the day!'
 Aspects Irish Literature Festival
Bangor prepares
for the literary spotlight, featuring Seamus Heaney, Ciaran
Carson and CNI's own Lee Henry.
 Blood & Thunder
'We spend
our lives deliberately ignoring the elephant in the room - in our case,
the other community's culture.'
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 Damian Smyth
'There is no I in poet,' says the scribe
from County Down. 
Who wouldn't want to go to Donegal? asks artistic director Paul Brown.
 Bandwidth presents: The Lowly Knights
Live session recordings from the Common Grounds Café in Belfast.
 Books NI
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 The Line Kings, The Braid Arts Centre, Ballymena, July 3. The Line Kings bring giggle-riddled comedy and performance illustrations to The Braid.
 Saw Doctors, Millennium Forum, Derry,
July 3. The always popular Galway roots band comes to Derry.
 Dancing Shoes, Grand Opera House, Belfast, July 28. The turbulent and colourful life of George Best,
one of the greatest footballers in the world.
 The Next Level, The Mac,
Belfast, August 14. Urban dance and parkour together at last at
The Mac.
 Vincent River, The Market Place Theatre,
Armagh, August 27. Vincent River's secret is what Davey saw
and why Anita fled. |
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