Media Release #3 Link to media releases here: https://dublin2019.com/about/press/ Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon Dublin, Ireland August 15-19, 2019 press@dublin2019.com Monday, February 26, 2018 Dublin 2019 to increase attending membership rates Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon has announced the following changes in attending membership prices to take effect from Tuesday, April 3, 2018: […]READ MORE
By Oisin McGann Paul Bolger has spent most of his career in the animation and film industry. He started out working on features such as the animated classics The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven, and has since designed, written and directed a host of animated and live action projects, including contributing to the […]READ MORE
Thanks as always to Oisin McGann for this month’s interview! A comic creator on the Irish indie scene, with a Manga-influenced illustration style characterised by flowing lines and movement, Leeann Hamilton also works as a graphic artist on computer games. She studied at the Irish School of Animation at Ballyfermot College and is a graduate […]READ MORE
Seasonal greetings to you all, wherever you are this wintertime. I recently attended the Dublin 2019 volunteer meet and had some lunchtime meetings with committee members. It was so nice to see fans coming together this far out from the convention, all with a common purpose. I also spent time this week walking around Dublin […]READ MORE
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! In keeping with the season, we present something just a little different. Today, please enjoy this entry on “An Irish Christmas” from the blog of Mairéad – an Irish lass who came to America, met a lad from Donegal in New York, married, and now lives in the US. While I’m starting […]READ MORE
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! Today’s offering likely needs little introduction, but in case you aren’t familiar with either Oscar Wilde or The Picture of Dorian Gray, read on! Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on the October 16, 1854. Wilde came from a very literary family and lived […]READ MORE
This month Oisin McGann interviews Eoin Coveney. Back in the mid-nineties, I was working in an illustration studio in Dublin among a mix of keen amateurs and a few full-time professionals. Eoin Coveney was one of the more experienced guys, already well set on his career. It was a bit of a mental place, but […]READ MORE
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! This week we feature the work of Ruth Francis Long, a young-adult fantasy writer who lives in Ireland. In 2015 she was the winner of The European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award For Best Author of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy for A Crack in Everything. […]READ MORE
Today on Irish Fiction Friday, we feature something a little different. Queen Meave is the twitter account of Meave of Connaught. The bio tells us: “Oldest stories in the newest medium- Tales from Celtic Ireland; Iron Age Warrior Queen; likes: cattle raiding; dislikes: Cuchulainn types.” This is the gift that will keep on giving! If […]READ MORE
This weekend, in Boston USA, I will be making a presentation at the Fannish Inquisition, held at Smofcon 35. Smofcon is a convention runners’ con held annually and attended by some 200 fans. I have gone to three of them over the years, although Dublin 2019 has had a solid representation there since 2013. The […]READ MORE
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