If you are a member of Worldcon 75, then I ask you for your vote. You can do this by mailing in a ballot (please note July 29 receipt deadline for US mail) or in person at the Helsinki Worldcon. Please vote for Dublin 2019. It is so important to us and we need and […]READ MORE
Welcome to Irish Fiction Friday! This week we feature a short story by well-known Irish fan Bob Shaw, who was very involved in early Irish fandom. We’ve already featured The Enchanted Duplicator that he co-wrote with Walter Willis. “Light of Other Days” features illustrations by Paul Campbell and was nominated for a Hugo in 1967. […]READ MORE
Greetings from the Chair’s desk, So it is important to me and the committee that we clearly communicate before our vote about what we are doing with our progress reports. In the modern world, many people get their information now online or electronically by email, and conventions send out a huge amount of information using […]READ MORE
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Friday! Today we feature an anonymous work from 1886. According to the UCD Digital Library, Newry Bridge or Ireland in 1887 is a “pamphlet containing a narrative piece on Ireland and Home Rule,… which first appeared in the St. James’s Gazette. The author predicts in his story that […]READ MORE
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! Today we for your entertainment, we offer a less well known supernatural thriller by the very well-known Bram Stoker: The Mystery of the Sea. Abraham Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Clontarf, County Dublin, Ireland and died on April 20, 1912 in London, England. He attended Trinity College and […]READ MORE
Please enjoy Oisin McGann‘s interview with Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick this month. Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick is one of Ireland’s most accomplished writer-illustrators. Among her many accolades, she has won Ireland’s most prestigious children’s book prize, the Bisto Book of the Year Award, three times for her picture books, then after it was renamed the CBI Book of the […]READ MORE
This week on Irish Fiction Friday, we are featuring a dystopian fairy tale. “The Last Reel” is presented here as a podcast on Pseudopod, but originally appeared in Supernatural Tales #10, in 2006 and was reprinted in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR #18 (2007). Lynda E Rucker was born in the American south […]READ MORE
Today’s edition of Irish Fiction Fridays brings you the science fiction tale “Recording Angel” by Ian McDonald. “Recording Angel,” which was originally published in 1996, was later expanded into Chaga. There’s a terrific interview with McDonald (Author Spotlight) that gives some background to the story. Ian McDonald was born in Manchester in 1960 (to a […]READ MORE
This week for Irish Fiction Friday, we feature The Dolocher, the first adult novel by author Caroline Barry, who currently lives in the midlands of Ireland. Her first two novels are Young Adult novels: The Rocket Girl and Isadora Elzbeth. According to an interview, which you can read here, her current work in progress is […]READ MORE
Today’s Irish Fiction Friday offering could almost have been a feature on our Touring Tuesdays feature. The High Man is a documentary on Ireland’s myths and monuments, so it might give you some ideas of places you’d like to visit – before or after Dublin2019!READ MORE
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