This year's Rosslyn Academy High School Play was the rollicking fun children's story of Swallows & Amazons. The musical play is based on the novel of the same name first published by Arthur Ransome in 1930. The story was adapted to the theatre by the Royal National Theatre and debuted at the Bristol Old Vic in December 2010. Rosslyn Academy is the first high school to stage the musical play.

Francesco Bianconi: "Meravigliosa canzone di Neil Hannon dei Divine Comedy, di cui abbiamo fatto l'adattamento in italiano. Del testo non c'è niente da spiegare, parla da solo. È un incredibile piccolo film sul passare del tempo. Abbiamo mantenuto abbastanza intatto anche l'arrangiamento da camera originario, perché anche lui ci è parso perfetto e bellissimo."

" Il pouvait ainsi tenir des conversations enflammées sur Iron Maiden comme sur Kim Wilde, les Smashing Pumpkins, Duran Duran, Electric Light Orchestra, Massive Attack, Divine Comedy ou A-Ha. "

In How Music Works, Niall Byrne talks to Irish people who make a living in the music industry. This week: Stuart Bailie: writer, broadcaster and CEO of the Oh Yeah Centre in Belfast.

I grew up, and this will really be showing off my age, Listening to ‘Fin de Siecle‘in the car of my best friend’s dad and begging him to play Track 6, just so we could sing a “swear word” at the top of our lungs (But it’s hard to get by/ when your arse is the size/ of a small country – National Express).

“Don’t stop going to silly rock and roll concerts. Don’t stop enjoying silly rock and roll… if we keep going, they can never win. Now let’s go play some silly rock and roll!” Neil Hannon, The Divine Comedy

Photography by Carrie Davenport.

The Oh Yeah Music Centre Legends award has been handed to the likes of Gary Moore, Stiff Little Fingers and Therapy? to name a few and it was very fitting that the name of Neil Hannon was added to this list on Saturday night. The renowned singer song from Fermanagh, who by his own admission may well always only be remembered for writing the theme tune to “Father Ted” and “My Lovely Horse”, has been the constant in The Divine Comedy and more recently The Duckworth Lewis Method where he has woven powerful and touching lyrics into songs that genuinely make you just want to listen.

Wicklow man Andy Gaffney had a - let's be blunt - unusual request for the hotel when he stayed there on Saturday night, and they came through. The 30-year-old was in Belfast to see musician Neil Hannon pick up his Oh Yeah award.

The great and good of the local music scene gathered last night in Belfast’s Mandela Hall where Neil Hannon also receiving Oh Yeah Legend Award for his 26 years of fabulousness. We remember him turning up at Hot Press Central in 1990 with a Dunne’s Stores bag full of his debut Fanfare For The Comic Muse mini-album, and retiring to The Bankers for the accompanying interview. Since then, he’s accumulated a body of work which puts him up there…

Also at the event, Divine Comedy, led by Neil Hannon, received the Oh Yeah Centre’s Legend Award. It was presented by Stuart Fleming from PRS for Music, the organisation which sponsored the award.

Meanwhile, a special Oh Yeah Legend Award was presented to the Divine Comedy - but the band nearly didn't make it after being held up for seven hours during a shut-down at Gatwick Airport after a man was caught with a handgun.

The Belfast event also saw the presentation of a special Oh Yeah Legend Award to The Divine Comedy, led by Neil Hannon. He played a one-hour set of his greatest songs as the culmination of the awards night. Neil dedicated his performance to the people who were killed attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris during a series of terror attacks on Friday.

The Belfast event also saw the presentation of a special Oh Yeah Legend Award to The Divine Comedy, led by Neil Hannon. He played a one hour set of his greatest songs as the culmination of the awards night.

The evening also featured a performance from Neil Hannon’s The Divine Comedy who were the recipients of the Oh Yeah Legend Award, and rightly so – word is they performed ‘My Lovely Horse’, which is pretty legendary, we think.

The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon was also honoured with an Oh Yeah Legend Award, before performing an hour long set. Presented by the Oh Yeah Music Centre and supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the event tied in with the culmination of Sound Of Belfast; a nine-day festival of gigs and workshops.

The 2015 Oh Yeah Legend Award was presented to The Divine Comedy at the Mandela Hall, Belfast, November 14. Neil and his band played a one hour set of his greatest songs as the culmination of the awards night. Neil dedicated his performance to the people who were killed at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris.

TOMORROW night Neil Hannon returns to Belfast’s Mandela Hall, the very venue where the supposed 'last ever’ Divine Comedy gig took place in 2001.

The bishop's son from Enniskillen says he is an unlikely icon, but ahead of receiving a special award on Saturday, Neil Hannon says his life is anything but a rock 'n' roll cliche.

Later on you can lie back and think of Downpatrick on Ash’s hazy Oh Yeah, filmed in a rainy Great Yarmouth. Coming from the same place: Neil Hannon’s Divine Comedy and the sardonic Something For The Weekend.

Le reste du concert nous entraîne dans un univers féerique : celui du Conte d’hiver de Shakespeare, pour lequel Joby Talbot (collaborateur de Paul McCartney et de The Divine Comedy) a composé cette «Danse de printemps» présentée en création mondiale ; et celui du ballet Cendrillon de Prokofiev, dont Leonard Slatkin a sélectionné pour l’occasion les plus belles pages.

Quiz-monstering at @mvpdublin with @cathy_davey and @divinecomedyhq for @MyLovelyHorseR. Canter on down, Nov. 19.