The Irish Sci-Fi News Archives

The Archives of the Irish Sci-Fi News are currently being made searchable. At the time of writing, the archives back to June 2004 can be searched for particular items by using the Search form on the right of the page. The database will be updated with older stories on a phased basis - or, in English, when we have the time - and will be searchable back to 2002 soon.

This section contains links to the original e-mail versions of the Irish Sci-Fi News. Just click the dates

2005

February 2005

  • Table Quiz
  • Mecon News
  • Worldcon News
  • Octocon News
  • P-Con News
  • Eurocon News
  • Scifi Club News
  • Navan Film Festival
  • Crow Street Press
  • Aeon Press Looking for Comics Artists
  • Crazy Dog Audio Theatre
  • In Brief

2004

December 2004

  • Special Comics Edition
  • Dublin Comic & Toy Convention
  • Crow Corner Comics to Reopen
  • Rad Comics
  • Sancho's Last Case
  • Millar & Hitch Signing at the 3rd Place
  • Alan Moore on BBC Radio 4
  • The Third Place
  • Dublin Toy and Comic Convention
  • SubCity News

October 2004

  • Royal Marine Hotel to Close
  • Senior Common Room Closes in Queen's Belfast
  • Octocon News
  • P-Con News
  • Chris de Burgh buys Alien Chestburster
  • Website for Toy Fairs
  • Brief Hiatus for Crow Street Comics
  • Maltese Falcon Spotted on Dawson Street
  • New Website for Brenb

June 2004

  • Dandelion Books Closes
  • All Change at Octocon 2004
  • Mecon 8 Announced
  • P-Con News
  • End of an Era at DMZ
  • Aeon Press Award
  • Society for Creative Anachronism

March 2004

  • Voice of the Flame Competition Winner
  • Dublin SciFiClub Awards
  • TAFF
  • Seen in Shop Windows (Parts I and II)
  • Convention News
  • Wooden Rockets Award
  • Jack the Ripper in Dún Laoghaire
  • Thirteen Magazine
  • Gay Trekkies Birthday Bash

January 2004

  • Table Quiz
  • Convention News
  • Fanfic Thesis
  • Mecon News
  • Gay Trekkies
  • March of the Sinister Ducks
  • 2nd Dublin SciFi Awards

2003

November 2003

  • HHGG returns to Radio 4, with help from CDAT
  • Neil Gaiman in Dublin
  • 2nd Birthday at Third Place
  • UFO con in Galway
  • Mecon News
  • Toy Fairs in 2004
  • Any Slash Fiction fans?
  • Two Quizzes

October 2003

  • Dominicon 2004
  • Octocon 2004
  • Irish Bid for Eurocon 2007
  • Rumour has it
  • Mecon News
  • Toy Fairs in 2004
  • Any Slash Fiction fans?
  • Two Quizzes

September 2003

  • P-Con Looms.....
  • James White Award Table Quiz
  • And now a word from Bobby
  • Irish SF News in Antipodean Twinning Ceremony
  • John Vaughan Lives!
  • News from the DMZ
  • The Ring
  • One Small Step for a Man
  • Culture by the Bucket
  • Bram Stoker Dracula Experience opens in Dublin
  • An Teachtaire

June 2003

  • Irish SF News Quiz and Party (again)
  • Gaelcon
  • Fringe
  • ProPHecY
  • Subcon V
  • Buffy Star to play Belfast
  • Diane Duane wins the Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize
  • Erwin Scrödinger shocks the natives of Dublin

May 2003

  • Irish SF News Quiz and Party
  • Medieval Festival at Slane Castle
  • BBC Northern Ireland Big Read
  • Alan Moore 50th Birthday Event
  • In Dublin City
  • The Jig is Up
  • Diane Duane wins the Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize
  • Erwin Scrödinger shocks the natives of Dublin

April 2003

  • Gay Trekkies celebrate Star Trek First Contact
  • Trinity Booksale
  • Crazy Dog Masterpiece Theatre
  • Dominicon
  • Ballyfermot Gaming Club
  • Fringe Subscription List
  • Hellmouth

March 2003

  • Mind Body Festival
  • SF Table Quiz
  • Dominicon
  • P-CON
  • Finncon X
  • Mecon
  • SciFiClub
  • DMZ Events
  • Gaming Clubs
  • Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish
  • Pádraig's Virtual Science Walk of Dublin #1

January 2003

  • SF Table Quiz
  • Dominicon Changes Dates
  • Other Con News
  • P-CON
  • Crazy Dog Audio Theatre
  • An Sclábhlaí and An Tóraíocht
  • Colomoters Davis
  • The Hellmouth hits Belfast
  • Grissecon 1
  • Medieval Ireland at Slane Castle

2002

December 2002

  • Convention News
  • Phoenix Convention
  • More News from Aeon Press
  • Babies!
  • DMZ One-Day Event
  • SciFiClub
  • Other Realms opens in Cork
  • In Brief

November 2002 (Part III)

  • Why don't you?
  • DMZ One-Day Event
  • Old Comics
  • Darryl Sloan
  • ConFusion
  • P-Con 2003 Update
  • Subcon
  • In Brief

November 2002 (Part II)

  • Changes at SilverOak
  • Planet Floods Again
  • Mecon
  • Fringe Lives!
  • Laughter Lounge
  • Trinity Fights Lucas
  • P-Con 2003

November 2002 (Part I)

  • Julian West wins James White Award
  • Dominicon
  • "In Dublin City" by Gerry Hunt
  • Subcon IV
  • Celtic Renaissance Fayre
  • 100 Greatest Britons
  • Aeon Press publishes "This Way Up"
  • They Came and Shaved Us
  • Monthly Quizlet
  • DMZ One-Day Event
  • An Tóraíocht
  • Lawrence Llywelyn-Bowen
  • Shopping for the discerning SF fan
  • US Presidents and their beards

September 2002 Newsletter Update!

  • British Fantasy Society Awards
  • DMZ One Day Event
  • The Third Place Expands
  • Slovo Books
  • Octocon Update
  • The Phantom Chancer
  • Bargains Abound!

August/September 2002 Newsletter (Part II)

  • Octocon
  • Flooding in Prague
  • Alien Online Nominated in BFS Awards
  • Gay Trekkies
  • SubCity News
  • Atomic Diner Launches "Naked Lunch"
  • SciFi Club Meetings
  • Dublin Toy & Train Fair
  • Shameless Plug Section
  • Monthly Quizlet

August-September 2002 Newsletter (Part I)

  • Crazy Dog Audio Theatre
  • Sub-City Games Nights
  • Sci-FiClub Quiz!
  • Hodges-Figgis gets the builders in
  • SubCity News
  • John W Sexton

July 2002 Newsletter (Part 2)

  • Octocon Poll
  • The Most Unusual Wagon you'll ever see...
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy Set in Ireland: A Checklist
  • Horrorthon
  • Witchfest
  • Wicca is still not what you make chairs from
  • An tInneal Mallachtaí (The Curse Engine)

July 2002 Newsletter (Part 1)

  • Here Comes The Wagon.....
  • Andrew Robinson in Belfast
  • Crimelords of Sunnydale
  • Irish Ghost Festival
  • Wicca is not what you make chairs from
  • Blue Peter Guide to Spaceship Repair
  • Irish SF News Quiz!

June 2002 Newsletter (Part 2)

  • Gaming Events
  • Michael Carroll writes book!!
  • Black Books
  • Crazy Dog Audio gets Big Name Stars
  • Who's Doing What
  • Mecon
  • An Sclábhlaí

June 2002 Newsletter (Part 1)

  • Regularly Held Events
  • One-off Events