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National Museums of Northern IrelandNational Museums of Northern Ireland's Rhythms of the Year

Rhythms of the Year is NMNI's online gallery of cultural customs, high days and holidays and life events. Capture a cultural event in your culture, submit your image online and give the world a glimpse of multicultural Northern Ireland.

Short Story Competitionexterior of Linen Hall Library

Michael McLaverty Short Story competition is open to new Irish writers. Organised by the Linen Hall library, the award winner receives £2000 and publication of their story. Writers should submit original, unpublished stories in English. Keep your word count under 3000 and enter by 30 June.

Still, The Blackbird Singsimage of Cultúrlann Ó Fiaich in Belfast

An Irish poet and British soldier Francis Ledwidge died at the battle of Ypres during the First World War. Dave Duggan re-enacts the final events and encounters of Ledwidge's life in the play Still, the Blackbird Sings. It is performed in Cultúrlann Ó Fiaich on 12 March.