Happy Irish Fiction Friday! This week we feature a musical interlude. This version of Dearg Doom is sung by The Horslips in 1974 on The Old Grey Whistle Test. It is from the album The Táin (1973), based on the mythological cycle. The annotated lyrics are here. The Horslips originated in Dublin and are widely […]READ MORE
Once again we are indebted to Oisin McGann for this interview with Olwyn Whelan. Though her colourful, eye-catching work is now an ever-present sight on the shelves of bookshops in Ireland, Olwyn Whelan’s long career has stretched across a range of industries. After studying visual communications in Dublin and then illustration in Edinburgh, she started […]READ MORE
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Friday! This week we feature Rosa Mulholland – also known as Lady Gilbert, and she wrote under the name of Ruth Murray as well. This Irish poet, playwright and novelist was born in Belfast in 1841. She was encouraged in her writing by Charles Dickens. In 1891, she […]READ MORE
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! Today we have something a little different for you. Please enjoy Seamus Heaney reading the classic Beowulf. Heaney was born near Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland on April 13, 1939. He was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. […]READ MORE
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! Today we feature A Master of Mysteries by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace. L.T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith who was born in 1844 in Bandon, County Cork. Meade collaborated with others too but wrote 11 books with Eustace, whose real name was […]READ MORE
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! Today we feature another author from the Swan River Press “Irish Writers of the Fantastic” Poster: Charles Robert Maturin and his novel Melmoth the Wanderer. In fact, I’m sharing two links to the novel. Maturin was born in Dublin on September 25, 1782. He was an Irish Protestant Clergyman. His first […]READ MORE
Welcome to a Friday the 13th edition of Irish Fiction Fridays. We’ve featured Le Fenu before, but today we will visit more of his Gothic horror stories in honor of the day! In a Glass Darkly Volume one features three stories: “Green Tea,” “The Familiar,” and “Mr Justice Harbottle.” They were first published in 1872, […]READ MORE
We have featured James Stephens’ Irish Fairy Tales on a previous edition of Irish Fiction Friday, and today, we feature one of his novels: The Crock of Gold. Born in Dublin, he was adopted by the Collins family, for whom his mother worked. He was a supporter of the Irish language, which he spoke and […]READ MORE
This month, join Oisin McGann as he interviews Denman Rooke. A few years ago, I was asked by Penguin to write two novels for a new online medieval fantasy game that was in development called Kings of the Realm. It was being produced by an Irish company, Digit Games Studios, and I got to visit […]READ MORE
Welcome again to Irish Fiction Friday. Today we feature a supernatural/occult novel by a renowned late 19th and early 20th century Palmist! William John Warner was born in a village outside Dublin in 1866 and assumed the name Count Louis Hamon (or Count Leigh de Hamong). He is perhaps best known by his sobriquet, Cheiro. He […]READ MORE
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