Things To Do

Parades and celebrations will be taking place across 18 different locations in N.I. Here are the details of all of the parades, as well as the routes they will be taking.

Stendhal Festival have announced that the comedy bill for the multi-award winning music and arts festival, which is held in Limavady from August 15 - 17, will this year be headlined by comedy legend Phill Jupitus.

Cairncastle Ulster-Scots 2019 Bluegrass and Folk cross-community festival will commence on Tuesday, July 23, at 8.00pm, in Cairncastle Presbyterian Church Hall with old tyme dancing.

A photographic exhibition of the loyal orders is on show at Carrickfergus Civic Centre.

A new B&B has opened in Whitehead following a £0.5m investment by two local entrepreneurs.

Islandmagee Orange Lodge will have the honour of heading the East Antrim Combine celebration of the Twelfth in Larne on Friday.

This summer, conservation charity The National Trust invites everyone to discover people’s stories, histories and lives that light up The Argory in Co Armagh.

Tractors, vintage cars and motorcycles will take to the roads around Dromore, Co Down on Monday, July 15 as Orange lodges within Lower Iveagh District LOL No 1 host ‘Drive for Drew’ – a fundraising event in memory of local solicitor and former grand secretary of the Orange Order, Drew Nelson.

All across the sleepy seaside town of Portaferry excited children and surprised adults have been finding pebbles painted with uplifting designs and colours, optimistic messages - ‘Be your own kind of beautiful’; ‘Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she began to fly’; ‘Do not search for happiness - create it!’; ‘The dreams that you dare to dream really do come true’; ‘We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in’ - cartoon characters, vivdly drawn animals, pieces of pithy wisdom - ‘Time is precious, don’t waste it’; ‘Wherever you are, be all there’; ‘Everyday may not be good, but there is good in everyday’; ‘Appreciate the little things - there are so many’ - and requests to visit the town’s many local attractions.

A family history exhibition will open at Larne Museum and Arts Centre on Friday July 5.

This summer, locals have the chance to support this year’s Grand Opera House Summer Youth productions, Miss Saigon School Edition and Bugsy Malone.

The Battle of the Somme will be commemorated on Sunday June 30, at the Knockagh War Memorial, in Greenisland.

A Battle of the Somme commemoration parade will take place in Larne this evening (June 26).

The John Hewitt Society has launched the programme for the 32nd John Hewitt International Summer School, taking place in The Market Place Theatre, Armagh from Monday July 22 to Saturday July 27.

Thousands of people are expected in Carrickfergus this Saturday for Northern Ireland’s second Learning Disability Pride (LDP) celebrations.

Up to 11 News Letter readers have a chance to win a family pass to this year’s action-packed family-friendly Dalriada Festival 2019.

King of the chat show sofa, Sir Michael Parkinson, leading forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes, and BBC Radio 6 Music’s poet-in-residence Murray Lachlan Young, are among the multitude of artists and performers joining The Specials, Villagers and The Staves at this year’s Open House Festival Bangor in August.

Northern Ireland’s largest celebration of cultural diversity, the Belfast Mela, returns to Botanic Gardens on Sunday August 25 from 12noon until 6pm for its biggest festival ever, with principal sponsor Sensata Technologies.