Happy Irish Fiction Friday! In honor of the full moon this weekend, I thought it appropriate that we visit “a classic of Victorian supernatural fiction.” This week we visit the work of Charlotte Riddell her Weird Stories. The link to the work contains a brief biography of Riddell and links to more information about her. […]
Please enjoy this week’s Touring Tuesday with James Shields! Today we are in Slieve Gullion in the Mourne Mountains area known as the Ring of Gullion. The Mournes extend from County Down in Northern Ireland, through Armagh into County Louth in the Irish Republic. Slieve Gullion is the highest point in County Armagh at 575 […]
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! Today we’re going to turn our attention to the theatre and feature Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Ireland, on Good Friday, April 13, 1906 and died on December 22, 1989 in Paris, France. He was a playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and theatre director. Beckett attended […]
Welcome to another installment of Touring Tuesdays! By James Shields On touring Tuesdays we’ll try to bring you to all the famous sites of Ireland, but today I thought I’d go off the beaten track and give you an example of one of the many hidden sites that can be found around the country. It […]
This week’s Irish Fiction Friday offering comes to us from Brian J Showers. While today’s selection isn’t strictly speaking fiction, it does nicely tie together our piece on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu on Friday the 13th and our new regular feature of Touring Tuesdays. Today’s reading is an account of Showers’ reading WJ McCormack’s biography […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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