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July 29, 2007
Posted 3 years, 4 months ago on July 29, 2007
What: Comic Jam
When: Friday August 4th 2007 at 8pm ‘til late [very late!]
Where: The Duke [upstairs] Duke Street [off Grafton Street], Dublin 2.
Who: All are welcome ‘thou having an interest in comics might help. Doesn’t matter if you don’t draw or have never tired to draw a comic this is about having a good night and a good laugh.
Anything else? Bring stuff to draw with and on [ie pencils, pens and paper] and money for pints.
More information from ztoical.
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February 25, 2007
Posted 3 years, 10 months ago on February 25, 2007
After a protracted break over the winter, I’m back with a list of forthcoming Genre events from now to the end of the year. I’ll be at a lot of these events, so I hope to see some of you there.
23 – 25 February: Leprecon 28: Gaming Convention
Venue: Trinity College, Dublin 2
6 March: Unlikely Society Table Quiz
Venue: Cassidy’s Bar, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.
Doors open 8pm, all welcome.
10-11 March: P-CON IV: SF Convention
Venue: Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin 1
Guest of Honour: Kim Newman
26 April: Launch of third Freak Show graphic novel, Ain’t That Peculiar
Venue: The Sugar Club.
Writer and artists present, along with two bands playing songs inspired by the work. Doors open 8pm, all welcome.
20 May: Dublin Toy & Train Fair
Venue: Clontarf Castle Hotel, Dublin 3
9 – 10 June: Vaticon XIII: Gaming Convention
Venue: UCD, Dublin 4
3 – 5 August: Mecon X: SF Convention
Venue: QUB Elms Centre, Queens Elms, Belfast
Guest of Honour: Iain Banks
16 September: Dublin Toy & Train Fair
Venue: Clontarf Castle Hotel, Dublin 3
13 – 14 October: Octocon: SF Convention
Venue: Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Guest of Honour: TBA
27 – 29 October: Gaelcon: Gaming Convention
Venue: TBA
End October: Horrorthon Film Festival.
Venue: TBA
17-18 November: Dublin City Comic Con.
Venue: TBA
Guests announced to date: Jim Lee, Michael Avon Oeming, and Steve McNiven.
18 November: Dublin Toy & Train Fair
Venue: Clontarf Castle Hotel, Dublin 3
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January 31, 2007
Posted 3 years, 10 months ago on January 31, 2007
It’s less than 40 days to the next P-Con. This year’s Phoenix Convention, the fourth, will be held in Wynn’s Hotel on Abbey Street in Dublin over the weekend of the 10th and 11th of March next.
Guest of Honour at the convention is Kim Newman. Other guests include the editorial team from Albedo 1, Michael Carroll, Paul Cornell, Raven Dane, Diane Duane, George Green, Conor Kostick, Oisin McGann, Juliet E McKenna, Ken MacLeod, Deborah J. Miller, Leah Moore, Peter Morwood, C E Murphy, John Reppion, John W Sexton, Colin Smythe and Charlie Stross.
More information as always from the P-Con website.
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August 17, 2006
Posted 4 years, 4 months ago on August 17, 2006
The 2008 Science Fiction Research Association conference will take place in Dublin from the 24th to the 27th of June 2008.
Writer guests who have so far been confirmed for the event are American writer Karen Joy Fowler, whose short story What I Didn’t See won the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and Yugoslavian writer Zoran Zivkovic, whose novella The Library won the 2003 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
The venue for the conference, which is largely an academic gathering, will be Trinity College Dublin, and the organising team consists of Farah Mendlesohn, Edward James (who is to be a guest at Octocon in October), Paul Kincaid, and Maureen Kincaid Speller.
More information will be forthcoming from the SFRA website, or else here.
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June 17, 2006
Posted 4 years, 7 months ago on June 17, 2006
The Belfast SF Group, which used to meet on Thursday nights, has moved its regular meetings to alternate Wednesday nights, starting on Wednesday 14th June. The meetings will be held in the Errigle Inn on Ormeau Road from 8.30 PM. So, and to quote their website, For a bit of the cráic, as they say in these parts, and to meet like minded science fiction fanboys, drop into the Errigle Inn. For more information, visit their website.
The other SF group in Belfast, The Queen’s University Of Belfast Science-Fiction & Fantasy Society, also meets on Wednesday night, of course, although there is hardly any crossover, so the two different meetings won’t really interfere with one another, with the former being the more, eh, mature end of things, and the Queen’s SF crowd being a younger crowd. QUBSFS meets every Wednesday night from 7 PM in Bar 12, which is on Lower Crescent, just off Botanic Avenue, and, obviously enough, no great distance fromQueen’s University itself. The group have a website, but it is in need of updating. You’ll probably get more information from their Live Journal.
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May 24, 2006
Posted 4 years, 7 months ago on May 24, 2006
News reaches us that Dave Lally, ex-patriot Dublinman and current chairman of the European Science Fiction Society will be visiting Dublin early in June. Dave’s fascination with TV show The Prisoner is well known throughout fandom, as is his predilection for the number six. Therefore, his decision to attend the June meeting of the Unlikely Club, which meets on the first Tuesday of the month in the Westmoreland Bar on Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2, seems all the more apt, being as the date is 06.06.06, or the sixth of June 2006. Perhaps there’s even a secret code in date he’s chosen . . .
The club meets from 7.45 PM in the upstairs bar, if you feel like going along. I’ll be in Edinburgh, but tell him I said Hello.
Those of you who have been privileged to receive one of Dave’s terse emails will appreciate the Lally-iser!
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April 26, 2006
Posted 4 years, 8 months ago on April 26, 2006
Belfast Science Fiction Group have moved their meetings from their previous venue (of 19 years) in the Monico to the quieter environs of the Errigle Inn on Ormeau Road, Belfast. Call them old codgers if you want, but anyone over the age of 25 who has ever tried to find a pub in a city or town centre where you can hold a conversation at less than a 100 decibels will sympathize.
Meetings are every other Thursday at 8.00 pm and the next meeting will be on 11th May, 2006, with the next one after that on the 25th May, 2006..
More details of the meeting venue and times are available on the Belfast Science Fiction Group website.
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February 25, 2006
Posted 4 years, 11 months ago on February 25, 2006
The Dublin-based SciFiClub has been renamed The Unlikely Society. The club, now being run by Ali Sugg, has also moved premises, and all future meetings, at least for the time being, will take place in the upstairs room of the Westmoreland Inn on Westmoreland Street, just off O’Connell Bridge, in the very centre of Dublin City.
The club will continue to meet on the first Tuesday of the month, however. The next meeting, on March the 7th, is a table quiz. The April meeting will be an open forum, although the actual subject is not yet announced.
Information about forthcoming meeting should be available on their website, or through their regular electronic newsletter, which you can subscribe to on their site.
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November 10, 2005
Posted 5 years, 2 months ago on November 10, 2005
We are a bit late in reminding you about this, but Science Week Ireland is taking place between the 13th and 20th November next, although there are related events throughout the month of November.
Science Week features “hundreds of fun science, technology and engineering events” all over the Republic. The theme this year is “The Science Behind Entertainment”, focusing on the science behind music, movies and sport. While many of the topics and events are, to be fair, aimed at younger people, there are events to appeal to people of all ages. Details of what is happening in your area are available at the Science Week 2005 website.
One of the events that caught my eye – and this is indeed a bit of local partisanship on my part – is the University of Limerick Science Fair on the 13th November at the University of Limerick campus at Plassey, Limerick, which features, amongst other items, talks on Superhero Science, Dive with Sharks and Magic Science and Mystery, a chance to meet NASA astronaut Dr. Stephen Robinson, science workshops, planetarium shows, steam engines, rescue helicopters and a Giant Bubble Show.
And, yes, there is face painting and a bouncy castle.
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September 7, 2005
Posted 5 years, 5 months ago on September 7, 2005
Eugene Doherty has been working on an online gallery of Belfast and Northern Irish Fandom, with photographs from conventions past, including Nicon in 1986, ’87, ’88, and ’89, Mecon I and IV, and various other fan gatherings. There are also photographs of prominent Northern Irish fans, including Tommy Ferguson and Joe Nolan, probably the oldest SF fan in Ireland.
As Eugene says It’s still a bit beta at the moment (firefox gets cranky on some of the early pages) but here is a rough gallery of rough Norn Iron fan photos from various gatherings over the years inc the Monico, Nicon, Mecon, & TASH [The Amazing Sentient House].
You can see the gallery here. Shockingly, the gallery is missing this photograph, of myself being kissed by the late Michael Sheard during the Who Wants To Be a Chocoholic panel at Mecon Delta in 2001.
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