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Arts Council of Northern Ireland - Organisation that supports and promotes the arts in Northern Ireland.
BBC - Northern Ireland - Drama - Featuring T.V. and radio productions, message board and quiz.
Art.ie - An all-Ireland arts and entertainment listings site, with previews and reviews, searchable by date, location, or type of event.
Our Jimmy - A Tribute to James Young - Tribute to Ulster comedian James Young. Biography, recordings, photo gallery, recorded monologues, and brief history of Belfast city.
theBigList.co.uk - Portal and directory providing information on pubs, clubs, restaurants including descriptions, whats on guide and menu. Local tourist attractions and sporting activities.
Northern Ireland Public Libraries - Portal providing information on the services and resources available. Includes searchable catalogue of current library holdings.
WhereToTonight.com - Entertainments listings covering bars, clubs, restaurants, cinemas, theatres and attractions. Includes menus, opening times and gig guides.
ISTAR Networks in Northern Ireland - Project to test and develop the role of public libraries as a provider of information and training services. Includes contacts and details of services offered.
Short Stories from Northern Ireland - Features new short fiction from the Province. Stories can be read online or down loaded. Includes contemporary, science-fiction, fantasy and horror.
Artfrique - Performing arts company specialising in dance, music and visual arts from ethnic minority backgrounds. Includes events listings and information about courses.
Spittin' McBain - Comedian with biography, details of audio and video recordings, and ordering information.
Cinemobile - Travelling cinema which visits smaller venues and communities all over the island. Includes news, photos, schedule, programme and ticket information.
Northern Showbiz - Features profiles of the celebrities from the province's entertainment and showbiz world.
Moviehouse Cinemas - Cinemas in Yorkgate, Glengormley and Maghera. Includes information on new movies, weekly competitions, and reviews of current movies.
Prison Arts Foundation - Provides information about the registered charitable trust that promotes arts as a means of expression for prisoners, ex-prisoners, young offenders and ex-young offenders, using all of the arts and crafts including writing, drama, fine art, craft, music and dance.
Arts In Ministry - Christian arts directory for Ireland covering music, drama and art.
Community Arts Forum - Umbrella body for community arts in the province. Includes events, services and funding information.
Paula Clamp - Web page for the novelist with a biography.
Voluntary Arts Ireland - Promotes participation in arts and crafts in the voluntary sector. Includes information on funding, workshops, events and current jobs.
RedHand - Online local community, with discussions on movies, music, games and local news.
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Arts and Entertainment If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons. -- Slavoj Zizek Arts and Entertainment Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown Arts and Entertainment If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Arts and Entertainment "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Arts and Entertainment I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Arts and Entertainment "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Arts and Entertainment Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Arts and Entertainment "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Arts and Entertainment When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Arts and Entertainment Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. -- Caroline Rhea "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Arts and Entertainment A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Arts and Entertainment blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Arts and Entertainment Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Arts and Entertainment Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Arts and Entertainment
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