Welcome to another edition of Touring Tuesdays! This week join Fionnuala Murphy for a walk to the Poolbeg lighthouse. Fionnuala Murphy The walk is out to the Poolbeg lighthouse in the middle of Dublin Bay and is approx 6km each way, but it’s a flat walk and should take no more than 3.5 hours. You […]READ MORE
Welcome again to Irish Fiction Friday! In honor of the Dublin2019 AEM/AGM taking place in Dublin this weekend, we are featuring a Dublin artist/author. Jim Fitzpatrick is perhaps best known as an artist. He was born in Dublin and his first fame came from his iconic red and black portrait of Che Guevara. Fitzpatrick worked […]READ MORE
Today’s Touring Tuesday post is about a new attraction in Dublin – an escape room on a boat that will hopefully ‘launch’ in the spring across from the CCD. Escape rooms are currently all the rage, and this might be the kind of diversion you would like to add to your trip to Dublin – […]READ MORE
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! What better way to celebrate the first of only two Friday the 13ths in 2017 (the other in October) than with some classic horror? This week’s featured writer is Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Arguably his most famous novella is Carmilla (1872) – the story of a vampire which has been credited as […]READ MORE
Welcome to a new feature in which we hope to showcase just a few of the many wonderful things to see in Ireland! Each week we will be providing you with more reasons to extend your stay around Dublin2019 as Ireland is full of natural beauty and history. Please enjoy our first feature by James […]READ MORE
Welcome back to Irish Fiction Fridays! Happy New Year! This year is an important one for Dublin2019 as the bid will be voted on at Worldcon75 in Helsinki. Stay tuned for more information on the voting process, volunteering, spreading the word, and more. But for your reading pleasure, our first author of 2017 is Margaret […]READ MORE
‘Harry hadn’t noticed the dragon dropping Fiona off because by now he was clinging to the horse’s neck and looked like a sloth hanging upside down from a branch.’ It’s Irish Fiction Friday once again. Hello everyone, are you feeling that Worldcon feel? Maybe getting ready for MidAmeriCon and looking forwards to red lemonade and drinking […]READ MORE
Hello everyone! It’s Irish Fiction Friday for the Dublin 2019 Worldcon Bid Team, and we’re feeling like admiring some art today. Do you remember Cathal O’Sandair? We featured a picture of one of the Captean Spearling books on our fantastic booklet about Irish Science Fiction by Jack Fennell (see the entry on our blog here – […]READ MORE
It’s Friday, we’re Irish and this is definitely fiction! Mystic fiction! Today we’re bringing you AE aka George William Russell, owner of a particularly fine beard, and whose The Candle of Vision has pretty much everything a SFF reader could desire! Russell’s guide describes various visions including encounters with UFOs. It’s written as ecstatic literature […]READ MORE
Hey, it’s Irish Fiction Friday from the Dublin 2019 Worldcon team! Worried about all the excitement over in the UK? Get your ‘Definitely in the EU’ supporters membership from us here! Right, on the the reading! If you’ve not been keeping up, as part of our Bid to host the Worldcon in 2019, we are […]READ MORE
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