The National Irish Science Fiction Film Festival are pleased to announce the nominations for this year’s Golden Blasters. You can read more about the Golden Blasters, which are now in their seventh year, over on their webpage. The festival is usually held at the National Irish Science Fiction Convention; Octocon, so look out for it […]READ MORE
‘Dublin is like a book and its streets are quite readable’. (Brian Showers) As part of our regular features showcasing aspects of Irish SFF culture and fandom, Erin Underwood caught up with some of the leading lights in Irish publishing. Publishing is thriving in Ireland, with several presses, small and large, as well as a […]READ MORE
We’re very keen to promote Irish Fandom, and the many conventions and events that run throughout the year. Today we’re got a guest feature by Phil Lowles of Titancon, talking about the convention next week. Several of us will be there and it’s a really great convention with a lot of heart. Because of Belfast’s close […]READ MORE
This week in Ireland we can smell autumn coming on the wind, so it’s time to curl up with another free SFF extract from Irish Fiction Friday. We like to feature horror and the Gothic alongside our usual SFF settings, and this week Irish Fiction Friday brings you a tale of the Irish beyond Ireland. […]READ MORE
It’s official! Gareth, our wonderful registrar, has crunched the numbers for August and over Sasquan we gained our 800th supporter! This is amazing news for our Bid. We’ve had such kindness and support, and without this sort of backing, we wouldn’t be able to run our campaign. Being a supporter also helps us as we […]READ MORE
Back in August, we attended the Dublin Comic Con and gave out thousands of free science fiction books. It was a fantastic event, and we really enjoyed meeting so many Irish fans. Whilst we were there, we also spent time watching how the venue itself functioned. Over 15 000 fans came through the doors over […]READ MORE
Friday rolls around again, and we’re here once more with a free extract of SFF literature. Today however, we’re also delighted to showcase our new IFF logo, made by Bid Team member Shevaun Frazier (who has also done a lot of our vector work, including the main Dublin 2019 t-shirt logos. It depicts the Children […]READ MORE
We continue our series of An Comhrá / The Chat with Christopher Golden, who sat down with us to discuss all things Dublin 2019, as well as to talk about his recent work. Christopher is is the New York Times bestselling author of SNOWBLIND, TIN MEN, DEAD RINGERS, and many other novels. A comic book […]READ MORE
It’s Friday again, and once more the Dublin 2019 Worldcon bid bring you a free extract of Irish Fiction from one of our wonderful authors. It must be the season for it, because over the next few weeks we have a series of book launches, new courses and other exciting writerly things to bring you. […]READ MORE
Our fans have been really busy recently. We have Sara Felix’s beautiful harps, art from Iain Clarke and shamrocks from Marsha Glassner. And now we’re also really pleased to be able to show you Alqua’s beautiful tankard, which he designed, sculpted and then fired for us. The images show the whole thing being made from first […]READ MORE
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