This week’s Irish Fiction Friday offering comes to us from Brian J Showers. While today’s selection isn’t strictly speaking fiction, it does nicely tie together our piece on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu on Friday the 13th and our new regular feature of Touring Tuesdays. Today’s reading is an account of Showers’ reading WJ McCormack’s biography […]
Welcome again to Irish Fiction Friday! In honor of the Dublin2019 AEM/AGM taking place in Dublin this weekend, we are featuring a Dublin artist/author. Jim Fitzpatrick is perhaps best known as an artist. He was born in Dublin and his first fame came from his iconic red and black portrait of Che Guevara. Fitzpatrick worked […]
Happy Irish Fiction Friday! What better way to celebrate the first of only two Friday the 13ths in 2017 (the other in October) than with some classic horror? This week’s featured writer is Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Arguably his most famous novella is Carmilla (1872) – the story of a vampire which has been credited as […]
Welcome back to Irish Fiction Fridays! Happy New Year! This year is an important one for Dublin2019 as the bid will be voted on at Worldcon75 in Helsinki. Stay tuned for more information on the voting process, volunteering, spreading the word, and more. But for your reading pleasure, our first author of 2017 is Margaret […]
‘Harry hadn’t noticed the dragon dropping Fiona off because by now he was clinging to the horse’s neck and looked like a sloth hanging upside down from a branch.’ It’s Irish Fiction Friday once again. Hello everyone, are you feeling that Worldcon feel? Maybe getting ready for MidAmeriCon and looking forwards to red lemonade and drinking […]
Hello everyone! It’s Irish Fiction Friday for the Dublin 2019 Worldcon Bid Team, and we’re feeling like admiring some art today. Do you remember Cathal O’Sandair? We featured a picture of one of the Captean Spearling books on our fantastic booklet about Irish Science Fiction by Jack Fennell (see the entry on our blog here – […]
It’s Friday, we’re Irish and this is definitely fiction! Mystic fiction! Today we’re bringing you AE aka George William Russell, owner of a particularly fine beard, and whose The Candle of Vision has pretty much everything a SFF reader could desire! Russell’s guide describes various visions including encounters with UFOs. It’s written as ecstatic literature […]
Hey, it’s Irish Fiction Friday from the Dublin 2019 Worldcon team! Worried about all the excitement over in the UK? Get your ‘Definitely in the EU’ supporters membership from us here! Right, on the the reading! If you’ve not been keeping up, as part of our Bid to host the Worldcon in 2019, we are […]
Hello all, Irish Fiction Friday here with something cheerful for you. Song of the Sea (Amhrán na Mara) is the second feature-length film from Cartoon Saloon. It won the 2014 Academy Award for best animated feature and scored a massive 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. It had fantastic reviews and really captures a sense of wonder. It sounds like […]
This week our subject for Irish Fiction Friday is the webisode series History Respawned, which is co-hosted by Cork born John J Harney and Bob Whitaker. Each episode, they and special guests examine a videogame and the ways it represents history. The series transitions between games with direct historical links, as well as fantasy worlds which draw […]
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