Today on Irish Fiction Friday, we have a bit of a treat. We are featuring not one but four Irish authors who have just been honored at the 27th Children’s Books Ireland awards. You can read the full write up in The Irish Times. Chris Haughton won the 27th Children’s Books Ireland Book of the […]READ MORE
Today we feature another terrific interview from Oisin McGann. Colin Lorimer: An Unwavering Desire I first encountered Colin Lorimer at Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design and then later when we both worked in pre-production in Fred Wolf Films in Dublin. Even back then in the nineties, Colin had an obvious passion for comics […]READ MORE
Welcome to another entry of Irish Fiction Fridays. This week we have a detailed essay by Luke McInerney followed by a sixteenth century bardic poem composed for Seán Mac Conmara in both original Gaelic and translation with extensive notation. You will find the poem after the essay. According to Academia.edu, Luke McInerney is an independent […]READ MORE
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! This week we feature Shoes Ducks and Maids of the Sea which is a collection of thirteen short stories retelling the classic tales of Hans Christian Anderson with an Irish eye. There are stories from Paula Leyden, Oisín McGann, David Rudden, Sheena Wilkinson, Deirdre Sullivan, Claire Hennessy, Paul Timoney, […]READ MORE
After a brief hiatus, we’re happy to be back with our intrepid traveler and photographer, James Shields! Newgrange One of the most famous heritage sites in Ireland, I’ve been going to Newgrange since I was a small boy, and it’s always been an inspiration for me. At almost 5,000 years old, the site is older […]READ MORE
Today for Irish Fiction Fridays we feature something a little different: The Emergency Session by Arthur Riordan. The Emergency Session is a satirical rap-cabaret featuring Eamon DeValera on such subjects as the liberal agenda and the rural/urban divide. While it is a full length theatrical production, first produced by the Rough Magic Theatre Company on October 5, […]READ MORE
By James Bacon Our bid-chair James Bacon had a meeting on the 3rd of May 2012, first with Tom McPherson at the Convention Centre Dublin and then with Donna Brogan and her team at Failte Ireland, it marked a point in the history of the bid. Today marks the fifth anniversary of what could be […]READ MORE
Welcome back to Irish Fiction Fridays! Today we look at the 2012 movie Grabbers directed by Jon Wright. This is hilarious Irish horror. An ensemble cast of Irish actors including Russell Tovey (Torchwood), and Ruth Bradley (Stardust). ‘After discovering mutilated whale corpses, the quiet community slowly comes to realise that they’re under attack by bloodsucking […]READ MORE
Today we feature another wonderful interview by Oisin McGann. When I first met Clíodhna Lyons at a comics event we did in 2011, she mentioned that she was creating comic art using screen-printing, among other techniques. Truly, this was a woman who liked doing things her own way. After studying animation at Ballyfermot College in […]READ MORE
William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1887 – April 1918) was a British writer but The House on the Borderlands (1908) is set in the remote village of Kraighten in rural Ireland. American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft listed The House on the Borderland and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences and Terry Pratchett has […]READ MORE
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