Ian Reynolds
@ianzie.bsky.social
At the third of 3 great exhibitions from the Belfast Archive Project @ulstermuseum.org - Bill Kirk and Frankie Quinn before - and today the Bell Archive. Beautiful, rich, evocative documents of times and people past. An excellent series.
September 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
At the third of 3 great exhibitions from the Belfast Archive Project @ulstermuseum.org - Bill Kirk and Frankie Quinn before - and today the Bell Archive. Beautiful, rich, evocative documents of times and people past. An excellent series.
Live theatre - caught up in a story, enraptured in a moment caught on stage by the production team, the actors and the writer- literally on the edge of my seat and sharing it with others in a darkened room - feels so alive and exciting, a transcendent togetherness.
August 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Live theatre - caught up in a story, enraptured in a moment caught on stage by the production team, the actors and the writer- literally on the edge of my seat and sharing it with others in a darkened room - feels so alive and exciting, a transcendent togetherness.
I engage with theatre (and art in general) to hear stories from all people and culture. But it is also a pleasure in the last month to have seen 2 plays by writers from my own area and relevant to my own story.
August 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I engage with theatre (and art in general) to hear stories from all people and culture. But it is also a pleasure in the last month to have seen 2 plays by writers from my own area and relevant to my own story.
Thrilling theatre at Bright Umbrella tonight with David Ireland’s Ulster American - shocking, visceral and hilarious. Go see - gripping drama.
August 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Thrilling theatre at Bright Umbrella tonight with David Ireland’s Ulster American - shocking, visceral and hilarious. Go see - gripping drama.
Nice to be back at the Strand Arts Centre for 2 good events today - talk on the building’s past and future and a showing of Singin’ in the Rain, preceded by a performance from the Soda Popz.
July 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Nice to be back at the Strand Arts Centre for 2 good events today - talk on the building’s past and future and a showing of Singin’ in the Rain, preceded by a performance from the Soda Popz.
Belfast TradFest looks great this year so I probably should have made to more than this event but tonight’s - Brighde Chaimbeul and Chris Stout & Catriona McKay - was excellent.
July 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Belfast TradFest looks great this year so I probably should have made to more than this event but tonight’s - Brighde Chaimbeul and Chris Stout & Catriona McKay - was excellent.
At the opening night of Sam Robinson’s Spacebucket Rides Again - 2nd of his plays about growing up in Ballybeen. Great night’s theatre but difficult to be objective as this is basically my story
July 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
At the opening night of Sam Robinson’s Spacebucket Rides Again - 2nd of his plays about growing up in Ballybeen. Great night’s theatre but difficult to be objective as this is basically my story
Ulster Consort gigs always have good music (tonight’s at St Patrick’s with pieces associated with the Sistine Chapel) but you also get to experience (and very definitely to hear) great church architecture. Allegri’s Miserere in particular was spine-tinglingly good.
July 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Ulster Consort gigs always have good music (tonight’s at St Patrick’s with pieces associated with the Sistine Chapel) but you also get to experience (and very definitely to hear) great church architecture. Allegri’s Miserere in particular was spine-tinglingly good.
What algorithm ( “or who?) decides the price of second hand books on Amazon? Bought Ladybird in a Loony Bin by Ian Cochrane last week for £4.99 plus P&P. Now available only for £42 (around what I had seen it for before). Other 2 Cochranes that I have read but don’t own are £60 and £87.
July 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
What algorithm ( “or who?) decides the price of second hand books on Amazon? Bought Ladybird in a Loony Bin by Ian Cochrane last week for £4.99 plus P&P. Now available only for £42 (around what I had seen it for before). Other 2 Cochranes that I have read but don’t own are £60 and £87.
For someone who goes to a lot of theatre and lives in Ballybeen/Dundonald it has taken me a ridiculously long to catch up with the DLA but saw it tonight at @themacbelfast.bsky.social and there were some great laughs and both performers were good.
June 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
For someone who goes to a lot of theatre and lives in Ballybeen/Dundonald it has taken me a ridiculously long to catch up with the DLA but saw it tonight at @themacbelfast.bsky.social and there were some great laughs and both performers were good.
Excellent short film telling a story of forgotten local history. Very promising start to a project and account worth following.
Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards.
There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried.
‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down…
www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...
There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried.
‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down…
www.heartsofdown.org/work/the-for...
The Forgotten Famine — Hearts of Down
www.heartsofdown.org
June 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Excellent short film telling a story of forgotten local history. Very promising start to a project and account worth following.
This is great - so wide ranging, so entertaining, such a love of music and pop culture combined with insight and erudition.
June 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is great - so wide ranging, so entertaining, such a love of music and pop culture combined with insight and erudition.
A.I. n’t Written - improv with a twist (scripts by ChatGPT) at The Mac tonight - performed with great verve and funny,if not entirely successful. Promise for more shows.
June 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A.I. n’t Written - improv with a twist (scripts by ChatGPT) at The Mac tonight - performed with great verve and funny,if not entirely successful. Promise for more shows.
Pruning bookshelves is difficult. Very rarely reread but difficult to give away a good book even if all it will do is gather dust. Then there are the ones that I will get round to reading someday 😁.
June 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pruning bookshelves is difficult. Very rarely reread but difficult to give away a good book even if all it will do is gather dust. Then there are the ones that I will get round to reading someday 😁.
Interesting exhibition at Titanic Belfast of etchings by Lucian Freud with several accompanying short films. Usual problem though with the large print catalogue of merely reproducing the blurbs and not indicating how they relate to the paintings on the walls i.e. start on your left and go clockwise
June 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Interesting exhibition at Titanic Belfast of etchings by Lucian Freud with several accompanying short films. Usual problem though with the large print catalogue of merely reproducing the blurbs and not indicating how they relate to the paintings on the walls i.e. start on your left and go clockwise
11 events at the book festival and thoroughly enjoyed them. Such a diversity of ideas, emotions and people that I have engaged with in the last 8 days. A strong, very well run festival that is a tribute to the vibrancy of our cultural sector here. Thanks to all. #belfastbookfestival
June 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
11 events at the book festival and thoroughly enjoyed them. Such a diversity of ideas, emotions and people that I have engaged with in the last 8 days. A strong, very well run festival that is a tribute to the vibrancy of our cultural sector here. Thanks to all. #belfastbookfestival
Events at the book festival with the Seamus Heaney fellows are always a highlight - tonight’s with Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson, Fiona Benson and @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social - provided a good ending to a great festival. #belfastbookfestival
June 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Events at the book festival with the Seamus Heaney fellows are always a highlight - tonight’s with Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson, Fiona Benson and @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social - provided a good ending to a great festival. #belfastbookfestival
Thought this would be the highlight of the book festival - @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social new book- and after the launch tonight I eagerly look forward to reading it. #belfastbookfestival
June 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Thought this would be the highlight of the book festival - @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social new book- and after the launch tonight I eagerly look forward to reading it. #belfastbookfestival
The friendship between @lucycaldwell.bsky.social and @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, the fun they have in chatting and their obvious intelligence and insight makes events between them a real pleasure. Tonight’s, on the latter’s new novel did not disappoint. #belfastbookfestival
June 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The friendship between @lucycaldwell.bsky.social and @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, the fun they have in chatting and their obvious intelligence and insight makes events between them a real pleasure. Tonight’s, on the latter’s new novel did not disappoint. #belfastbookfestival
Day six #belfastbookfestival and an event with Paul McVeigh - a writer I only know from his play Big Man but will have to read more of.
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Day six #belfastbookfestival and an event with Paul McVeigh - a writer I only know from his play Big Man but will have to read more of.
Thank to the very kind and helpful volunteer at the book festival tonight who asked if I needed a seat at the front because of my poor eyesight and then found me one. Exceptional stuff. #belfastbookfestival
June 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Thank to the very kind and helpful volunteer at the book festival tonight who asked if I needed a seat at the front because of my poor eyesight and then found me one. Exceptional stuff. #belfastbookfestival
2 more events at the book festival. Living on the Fringes with the always interesting Darren Anderson and Eoin McNamee (relatively little known to me). Then an eloquent, funny and insightful chat with Roddy Doyle conducted by Glenn Patterson. #belfastbookfestival
June 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
2 more events at the book festival. Living on the Fringes with the always interesting Darren Anderson and Eoin McNamee (relatively little known to me). Then an eloquent, funny and insightful chat with Roddy Doyle conducted by Glenn Patterson. #belfastbookfestival
Should one read books fast or go slow and savour? Certainly sometimes I can read fast and more skim than read properly. Started this by Lucy Caldwell this morning on the bus and between gaps at the book festival finished on the bus home. Loved it.
June 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Should one read books fast or go slow and savour? Certainly sometimes I can read fast and more skim than read properly. Started this by Lucy Caldwell this morning on the bus and between gaps at the book festival finished on the bus home. Loved it.
Tired but buzzin after 4 great events at the Belfast Book Festival - nature and conservation with @rubyfree.bsky.social and- adapting short stories with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and others - translation with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and @wheekerbooks.bsky.social (great name by the way) …
June 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Tired but buzzin after 4 great events at the Belfast Book Festival - nature and conservation with @rubyfree.bsky.social and- adapting short stories with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and others - translation with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and @wheekerbooks.bsky.social (great name by the way) …
2nd event at Belfast Book Festival and a tribute to the late, great poet Michael Longley with a series of readings of his work - had his distinctive voice rumbling in my head throughout #belfastbookfestival #BBF25
June 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
2nd event at Belfast Book Festival and a tribute to the late, great poet Michael Longley with a series of readings of his work - had his distinctive voice rumbling in my head throughout #belfastbookfestival #BBF25