Irish Fiction Friday has featured authors, artists, and editors. Today, we bring you an Irish musician, Padraigín Ní Uallacháin from County Louth, who writes and performs Celtic music that also features strong speculative themes. This hauntingly beautiful YouTube video, “Suantraí Sí” (Fairy Lullaby), is sung in Gaelic and put to music by Padraigín Ní Uallacháin. It’s […]
TOR.com, a terrific site for all things science fiction and fantasy, recently asked Irish blogger and journalist Liz Bourke to tackle the topic of “Celtic fantasy,” which she did beautifully. There are many ways she could have tackled the topic, and she does it in style. If you haven’t read her piece, there’s no better […]
Are you ready for some horror? Today’s Irish Fiction Friday brings you “The Whipping Boy” by Damien Kelly, an exclusive tale of horror that was originally published in The New Gothic and made available to the Dublin2019 blog courtesy of Stone Skin Press. The Gothic is the most enduring literary tradition in history but in […]
Dublin2019 has been promoting Irish speculative fiction, art, comics and more, but today we’re looking at Irish speculative theater. Specifically, The Weir by Conor McPherson, which tells the story of a small group of people in an Irish pub who share an evening of telling ghost stories. Dublin born McPherson was named by the New […]
Happy Friday the 13th! Dublin2019 brings you another installment of our delightful Irish Fiction Friday. This week we are featuring the very talented Elizabeth Bowen who will give you a little something to think about on this very freaky Friday. It is our pleasure to introduce you to Ms. Bowen via her short story “The […]
Dublin2019’s Irish Fiction Friday continues with a fantastic short story by Irish writer Nigel Quinlan. We hope you enjoy this modern fairy tale, which will leaving you hungry for more. Special thanks to Nigel for sharing his story with us. Nigel Quinlan is an Irish writer, born in Limerick and living in Tipperary. His children’s […]
Halloween is nearly upon us, and what better way is there to enjoy this spooktacular holiday than by reading a classic ghost story by an iconic Irish author? We’re looking forward to some ghostly mayhem with The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde. First published in 1887, The Canterville Ghost is a 19th century tale about […]
The nights draw in and mist curls through the trees, but today we want you to get your walking boots on for Dublin’s Bram Stoker Festival! But was Dracula Irish, you ask yourself? We’ve got the answers for you on today’s Irish Fiction Friday! As one of our most famous exports, we’ve featured Stoker already […]
This week Irish Fiction Friday features author Lynda E Rucker. Although currently living in the UK, Lynda has lived in Ireland for many years and takes inspiration from the landscape, people and places for her short horror stories. The House on Cobb Street is typical of her eerie, thoughtful prose, but there’s another reason we’re featuring […]
Welcome to an even more Irish IFF than usual! This weekend is Octocon, our national convention, and many of our Committee, Bid Team and Volunteers will be in attendance. Several of the authors and publishers already featured in IFF or on the blog will also be present – including the two guests of Honour – Maura […]
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