Welcome to Irish Fiction Friday! This week we feature a short story by well-known Irish fan Bob Shaw, who was very involved in early Irish fandom. We’ve already featured The Enchanted Duplicator that he co-wrote with Walter Willis. “Light of Other Days” features illustrations by Paul Campbell and was nominated for a Hugo in 1967. […]
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Friday! Today we feature an anonymous work from 1886. According to the UCD Digital Library, Newry Bridge or Ireland in 1887 is a “pamphlet containing a narrative piece on Ireland and Home Rule,… which first appeared in the St. James’s Gazette. The author predicts in his story that […]
This week on Irish Fiction Friday, we are featuring a dystopian fairy tale. “The Last Reel” is presented here as a podcast on Pseudopod, but originally appeared in Supernatural Tales #10, in 2006 and was reprinted in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR #18 (2007). Lynda E Rucker was born in the American south […]
Today’s edition of Irish Fiction Fridays brings you the science fiction tale “Recording Angel” by Ian McDonald. “Recording Angel,” which was originally published in 1996, was later expanded into Chaga. There’s a terrific interview with McDonald (Author Spotlight) that gives some background to the story. Ian McDonald was born in Manchester in 1960 (to a […]
This week for Irish Fiction Friday, we feature The Dolocher, the first adult novel by author Caroline Barry, who currently lives in the midlands of Ireland. Her first two novels are Young Adult novels: The Rocket Girl and Isadora Elzbeth. According to an interview, which you can read here, her current work in progress is […]
Today’s Irish Fiction Friday offering could almost have been a feature on our Touring Tuesdays feature. The High Man is a documentary on Ireland’s myths and monuments, so it might give you some ideas of places you’d like to visit – before or after Dublin2019!
Today on Irish Fiction Friday, we have a bit of a treat. We are featuring not one but four Irish authors who have just been honored at the 27th Children’s Books Ireland awards. You can read the full write up in The Irish Times. Chris Haughton won the 27th Children’s Books Ireland Book of the […]
Welcome to another entry of Irish Fiction Fridays. This week we have a detailed essay by Luke McInerney followed by a sixteenth century bardic poem composed for Seán Mac Conmara in both original Gaelic and translation with extensive notation. You will find the poem after the essay. According to Academia.edu, Luke McInerney is an independent […]
Welcome to another edition of Irish Fiction Fridays! This week we feature Shoes Ducks and Maids of the Sea which is a collection of thirteen short stories retelling the classic tales of Hans Christian Anderson with an Irish eye. There are stories from Paula Leyden, Oisín McGann, David Rudden, Sheena Wilkinson, Deirdre Sullivan, Claire Hennessy, Paul Timoney, […]
Today for Irish Fiction Fridays we feature something a little different: The Emergency Session by Arthur Riordan. The Emergency Session is a satirical rap-cabaret featuring Eamon DeValera on such subjects as the liberal agenda and the rural/urban divide. While it is a full length theatrical production, first produced by the Rough Magic Theatre Company on October 5, […]
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