Welcome to a Friday the 13th edition of Irish Fiction Fridays. We’ve featured Le Fenu before, but today we will visit more of his Gothic horror stories in honor of the day! In a Glass Darkly Volume one features three stories: “Green Tea,” “The Familiar,” and “Mr Justice Harbottle.” They were first published in 1872, […]
We have featured James Stephens’ Irish Fairy Tales on a previous edition of Irish Fiction Friday, and today, we feature one of his novels: The Crock of Gold. Born in Dublin, he was adopted by the Collins family, for whom his mother worked. He was a supporter of the Irish language, which he spoke and […]
This month, join Oisin McGann as he interviews Denman Rooke. A few years ago, I was asked by Penguin to write two novels for a new online medieval fantasy game that was in development called Kings of the Realm. It was being produced by an Irish company, Digit Games Studios, and I got to visit […]
Welcome again to Irish Fiction Friday. Today we feature a supernatural/occult novel by a renowned late 19th and early 20th century Palmist! William John Warner was born in a village outside Dublin in 1866 and assumed the name Count Louis Hamon (or Count Leigh de Hamong). He is perhaps best known by his sobriquet, Cheiro. He […]
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! Today we feature Belfast author and journalist Robert Cromie, who was born in Clough in 1855 and died in Belfast in 1907. We have featured Cromie on IFF before, but today we turn to his first science fiction novel, A Plunge Into Space. The novel is dedicated to Jules Vernes. There […]
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! Today we feature one of Ireland’s best known playwrights – George Bernard Shaw. Born in Dublin on July 26, 1856, he moved to London in 1876 and died in Hertfordshire, UK in 1950 at age 94. Hating school, Shaw left formal education to become a clerk to a land agent in […]
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! With the fall weather almost upon us, I thought a nice supernatural thriller would be just the thing to curl up with beside the fire. This week you can enjoy another novel from Charlotte Riddell who we last featured in February on the series. Riddell was born […]
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! This week we look at some Irish Fairy and Folktales. T Crofton Croker was born in Cork in 1798. He held a position in the Admiralty, but considered it his life work to collect ancient Irish poetry and folklore. The stories featured here today are from an […]
This month Oisin McGann is joined by Lily Bernard. Back in 2013, Children’s Books Ireland put together an exhibition of the work of Irish children’s book illustrators entitled Pictiúr, which ended up touring parts of Europe before returning to be displayed in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, among other venues. I was familiar with […]
I thought it only appropriate to feature one of our Guests of Honor this week after winning the Bid vote to become the seated 2019 Worldcon 77! This week we spotlight Diane Duane, Ian McDonald has already been the subject of a post. Diane Duane was born in New York, but currently resides in County […]
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