Hectic Weekend – Warhoon 28 and 5 days to our price rise. We have a full weekend ahead of us, with representatives from Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon at Norweson in Seattle and in Harrogate at Eastercon in Britain. At Eastercon we will be selling copies of Warhoon 28. This artifact of beauty is a […]
Happy St Patrick’s day. I hope you are enjoying the day, where you are. In Dublin at today’s St Patrick’s day celebrations, Mark Hamill will be in the Presidents stand, marking the connection both his own Irish heritage and his participation in Star Wars, parts of which were filmed in Ireland. In fiction, it is […]
Link to page for more details: Instalment plan page Link to media releases here: https://dublin2019.com/about/press/ Dublin 2019 introduces new payment plan option to spread the cost of attendance Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon has announced a new payment scheme which enables members to spread the cost of their attending membership over an extended period, while also protecting […]
Media Release #3 Link to media releases here: https://dublin2019.com/about/press/ Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon Dublin, Ireland August 15-19, 2019 press@dublin2019.com Monday, February 26, 2018 Dublin 2019 to increase attending membership rates Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon has announced the following changes in attending membership prices to take effect from Tuesday, April 3, 2018: […]
By Oisin McGann Paul Bolger has spent most of his career in the animation and film industry. He started out working on features such as the animated classics The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven, and has since designed, written and directed a host of animated and live action projects, including contributing to the […]
Thanks as always to Oisin McGann for this month’s interview! A comic creator on the Irish indie scene, with a Manga-influenced illustration style characterised by flowing lines and movement, Leeann Hamilton also works as a graphic artist on computer games. She studied at the Irish School of Animation at Ballyfermot College and is a graduate […]
Seasonal greetings to you all, wherever you are this wintertime. I recently attended the Dublin 2019 volunteer meet and had some lunchtime meetings with committee members. It was so nice to see fans coming together this far out from the convention, all with a common purpose. I also spent time this week walking around Dublin […]
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! In keeping with the season, we present something just a little different. Today, please enjoy this entry on “An Irish Christmas” from the blog of Mairéad – an Irish lass who came to America, met a lad from Donegal in New York, married, and now lives in the US. While I’m starting […]
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! Today’s offering likely needs little introduction, but in case you aren’t familiar with either Oscar Wilde or The Picture of Dorian Gray, read on! Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on the October 16, 1854. Wilde came from a very literary family and lived […]
This month Oisin McGann interviews Eoin Coveney. Back in the mid-nineties, I was working in an illustration studio in Dublin among a mix of keen amateurs and a few full-time professionals. Eoin Coveney was one of the more experienced guys, already well set on his career. It was a bit of a mental place, but […]
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