Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! This week we feature the work of Ruth Francis Long, a young-adult fantasy writer who lives in Ireland. In 2015 she was the winner of The European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award For Best Author of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy for A Crack in Everything. […]
Today on Irish Fiction Friday, we feature something a little different. Queen Meave is the twitter account of Meave of Connaught. The bio tells us: “Oldest stories in the newest medium- Tales from Celtic Ireland; Iron Age Warrior Queen; likes: cattle raiding; dislikes: Cuchulainn types.” This is the gift that will keep on giving! If […]
This weekend, in Boston USA, I will be making a presentation at the Fannish Inquisition, held at Smofcon 35. Smofcon is a convention runners’ con held annually and attended by some 200 fans. I have gone to three of them over the years, although Dublin 2019 has had a solid representation there since 2013. The […]
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! This week we feature a musical interlude. This version of Dearg Doom is sung by The Horslips in 1974 on The Old Grey Whistle Test. It is from the album The Táin (1973), based on the mythological cycle. The annotated lyrics are here. The Horslips originated in Dublin and are widely […]
Once again we are indebted to Oisin McGann for this interview with Olwyn Whelan. Though her colourful, eye-catching work is now an ever-present sight on the shelves of bookshops in Ireland, Olwyn Whelan’s long career has stretched across a range of industries. After studying visual communications in Dublin and then illustration in Edinburgh, she started […]
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Friday! This week we feature Rosa Mulholland – also known as Lady Gilbert, and she wrote under the name of Ruth Murray as well. This Irish poet, playwright and novelist was born in Belfast in 1841. She was encouraged in her writing by Charles Dickens. In 1891, she […]
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! Today we have something a little different for you. Please enjoy Seamus Heaney reading the classic Beowulf. Heaney was born near Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland on April 13, 1939. He was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. […]
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! Today we feature A Master of Mysteries by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace. L.T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith who was born in 1844 in Bandon, County Cork. Meade collaborated with others too but wrote 11 books with Eustace, whose real name was […]
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! Today we feature another author from the Swan River Press “Irish Writers of the Fantastic” Poster: Charles Robert Maturin and his novel Melmoth the Wanderer. In fact, I’m sharing two links to the novel. Maturin was born in Dublin on September 25, 1782. He was an Irish Protestant Clergyman. His first […]
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, […]
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