Fantastic Fridays: Charles Maturin

Welcome to a new series on Irish writers of the fantastic. Over the next few months Swan River Press will be taking us on a tour through Ireland’s fantasy heritage. “I have traversed the world in the search, and no one, to gain that world, would lose his own soul!” – Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) […]

Irish Fiction Fridays: Horslips: Dearg Doom

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 […]