{"id":17368,"date":"2019-05-17T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=17368"},"modified":"2019-05-17T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T12:42:31","slug":"belfast-book-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/05\/belfast-book-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Book Festival 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Helping to spread the word about this year\u2019s Belfast Book\nFestival (7-16 June) which launched at rooftop bar Babel are (l-r) writers and\nfestival participants Glenn Patterson and Dawn Watson, Festival Director, Roger\nCourtney, Sonya Whitefield&nbsp;(Arts Council of Northern Ireland) pictured\nwith actress Louise Parker who plays Molly Bloom in a specially commissioned\nand adapted for stage performance of &nbsp;\u201cYES\u201d Molly\u2019s Soliloquy from James\nJoyce\u2019s Ulysses.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CjJ_ArVH-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17369\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The 9th Belfast Book Festival features over 80 events\nshowcasing high profile writers and personalities from home and further afield.\nFrom Bake-Off\u2019s Prue Leith, Irish novelists Roddy Doyle and John Boyne to\nformer hostage Terry Waite. The&nbsp;line-up also includes ex- politicians Lord\nDavid Owen and Alan Johnson, television presenter and satirist Will Self, Poet\nLaureate of the United States Tracy K Smith and renowned journalists Reni\nEddo-Lodge and Paul Mason. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Well-known local talent featured during the festival\nincludes Belfast\u2019s Lucy Caldwell, crime writer Sharon Dempsey, poet Medbh\nMcGuckian, novelist Michael Hughes and famed poet Michael Longley who marks his\n80th birthday with readings,&nbsp;conversation and a Duke Special musical\nperformance of Michael\u2019s work. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;\n&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This\nyear\u2019s theme is Where do you like to read? and the public are invited to join\nin the conversation at #BelfastBook. For more information and to book tickets\ngot to B<a href=\"http:\/\/elfastbookfestival.com\">elfastbookfestival.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helping to spread the word about this year\u2019s Belfast Book Festival (7-16 June) which launched at rooftop bar Babel are (l-r) writers and festival participants Glenn Patterson and Dawn Watson, Festival Director, Roger Courtney, Sonya Whitefield&nbsp;(Arts Council of Northern Ireland) pictured with actress Louise Parker who plays Molly Bloom in a specially commissioned and adapted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/05\/belfast-book-festival-2019\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17370,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17368\/revisions\/17370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}