Welcome to Irish Fiction Friday. We really hope you’ve been enjoying nearly 18 months of free fiction and work from Irish writers and creatives. Our team is always adding more ideas and people to our files, and it’s really amazing to constantly be hearing from people about what they are writing or doing within Ireland. […]
It’s Friday, so it must be time for some Irish Fiction! Except we’re not taking you to a work of fiction today. Instead, we’re showcasing Blogging Woolf’s journey to Ireland to follow in the footsteps of Virginia and Leonard Woolf. The Woolfs made their visit in 1934 and fell in love with the country, so much […]
Welcome to Irish Fiction Friday, where we showcase some of the best SFF that Ireland has to offer, to encourage you to support our bid for Worldcon in 2019. Today’s spooky entry for Friday the 13th highlights a lesser known work by one of the fathers of the horror genre: Bram Stoker. He was born […]
It’s time for another Irish Fiction Friday, where we share some of the best SFF Ireland has to offer, showcasing the background that a bid for Worldcon in Dublin is built on. This week, we’re featuring a children’s book, Darkmouth by Shane Hegarty. Children’s fiction is where the imagination can really go wild, and Darkmouth […]
It’s Irish Fiction Friday time, where we showcase SFF from Ireland to encourage you to support the bid for Worldcon in Dublin. Today we’re bringing you something special from a giant of the SFF world: Doctor Who. Johnny Byrne is an Irish writer, born in Dublin, who wrote several classic Doctor Who episodes including The […]
Jo Zebedee is one of our supporters and has been really involved with promoting Dublin 2019 online from the start. She also helps to organise Women Aloud – a series of events in Northern Ireland celebrating women authors. She’s a prolific new author, and has previously featured on IFF after she sent us some free […]
What’s the collective noun for a group of birthdays? A cake? A bumps? Whatever it is, it was the anniversary of James White’s birthday last week and so this week’s Irish Fiction Friday squeezes in a celebration of one of our most famous and beloved science fiction authors. The Sector General series of 12 books […]
We’ve skipped a couple of Irish Fiction Fridays recently because there’s been so much going on, but today we’re back with an article about Flann O’Brien. It was the 50th anniversary of his death on the 1st of April, and we wanted to share some writing about this iconic Irish author with you. An iconic […]
We have a fantastic surprise for you! Last year, author Jack Fennell contacted us and offered to support the Dublin 2019 Worldcon Bid with a brilliant gift. He’s allowed us to publish his bibliography of Irish Science Fiction, which describes hundreds Irish Science Fiction stories and books published from the 1850s to the present day. We’ve […]
Today’s Irish Fiction Friday brings you an old tale of the Near Future. London’s Peril was written in 1900 by Irish author Edmund Downey under the pseudonym F. M. Allen. Born in Waterford in 1856, Downey was a publisher in London from 1878 to 1906, first through Ward & Downey and then through Downey & […]
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