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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hello! To those of you new to Irish Fiction Friday (IFF), welcome, and for you die hards, Slainte! Every week we feature a free extract from a piece of Irish SFF fiction. Sometimes it’s a native author, sometimes someone who moved to our emerald shores, and sometimes, as with today, it’s a piece that uses Ireland […]
Hello all! We hope you had a great Worldcon and that everyone got home safe and well. And to those of you that couldn’t make it, we hope you had a wonderful weekend regardless. Here on the blog, we thought we’d return to Rob Hansen’s celebration of UK and Irish fandom, with another edited extract […]
“One, two, three, four, five! Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road. All the way to Dublin’, whack-fol-la-de-da” The Dublin 2019 Worldcon Bid is absolutely delighted to present their first promotional video! The Rocky Road to Dublin is a jaunty Irish folk song about an adventurous young swain who sets his sights on […]
Dear Dublin 2019 Supporters, Friends, Volunteers and the Curious, Dublin 2019’s main news sources are Facebook and Twitter but now, just two years away from the vote for the 2019 Worldcon, we thought it a good idea to present a summary of our activities this year. Frank and Millie’s party room at ConCave Our fantastic party mavens Frank and […]
We had a fantastic time at our SFF books outreach this weekend at Dublin Comicon, where we gave away over 2500 books to attendees, and chatted to them about fandom, the Dublin 2019 Worldcon Bid, and Irish Conventions. It was great to see so many people excited by what we were doing, and agonising over […]
Do you remember when we featured Peadar Ó Guilín‘s The Drowner, back in May? It was a spooky story of drowning and the deep. Well, today on Irish Fiction Friday, we’re bringing you a different extract about the deeps by an equally exciting author: Celine Kiernan. Her work includes the award winning Moorehawke Trilogy, a YA fantasy […]
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