Eric Luke's picture of the little boy standing behind guns in Belfast in 1977
Eric Luke's picture of the little boy standing behind guns in Belfast in 1977
Team Rock ran a website as well as a stable of rock music magazines More than 70 people have been laid off following the collapse of South Lanarkshire-based rock music media firm Team Rock Ltd. Administrators were called in after the firm got into financial difficulties. A total of 27 staff in High Blantyre and 46 in London have been made redundant. A further seven staff - including four in High B
A statue of the late Irish rock star, Rory Gallagher, is set to be erected outside the Ulster Hall in Belfast, but it is not the only place to commission a permanent tribute to the legend who died in 1995
Rory Gallagher is considered one of Ireland's greatest ever musicians A statue of Irish rock and blues legend Rory Gallagher is to be put up at Belfast's Ulster Hall. Belfast City Council's planning committee gave the proposal the go-ahead at a meeting on Tuesday night. The statue will be put up on Bedford Street at the side of the hall, where Gallagher played regularly throughout the Troubles in
A selection of letters and drawings has cast a light on former first minster and DUP leader Ian Paisley's time in prison. He was the political "never never" man who became Northern Ireland's first minister. Ian Paisley ended up leading a power-sharing executive at Stormont - although he had supported the strike to bring one down 30 years earlier. From firebrand preacher, he moved on to earn the ni
Stiff Little Fingers will go ahead with Paris gig after Friday night's terrorist attack. Belfast punk band Stiff Little Fingers will go ahead with their Paris gig despite Friday's terrorist attacks, in which 129 people were killed. Eighty-nine of those killed were attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theatre. Stiff Little Fingers are due to play in Paris on Tuesday night. The band came to prom
Some bonfires have been controversial and in July, more than 50 homes in Chobham Street, east Belfast, were boarded up to protect them from a 11 July bonfire Environment Minister Mark H Durkan has said he is looking at the option of licensing plans for all bonfires in Northern Ireland. He told the Northern Ireland Assembly it is likely that many of the major bonfires break the law in some way. He
The Miami Showband massacre in 1975 was the first time musicians had been targeted by a terrorist group in Northern Ireland When three young musicians lost their lives on 31 July 1975, the heart was torn out of Ireland's showband community. It also devastated the burgeoning live music scene in Northern Ireland. Forty years later, the Miami Showband massacre, external remains one of the darkest atr
Born againIn 1969 Northern Ireland’s Catholics began to demand civil rights, a concept being made universal at the time by Martin Luther King in the US. Protestants resisted and attacked some Catholic areas of the province. When the 'old' IRA that had fought to obtain independence in Ireland’s War of Independence failed to defend these Catholic enclaves - the handful of IRA men who rushed to their
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