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November 6, 2007
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago on November 6, 2007
The Second Annual Dublin City Comic Con takes place in the Tara Towers Hotel, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, over the weekend of Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th of November.
Guest of Honour is Jim Lee, and other guests include Simon Bisley, Doug Braithwaite, CB Cebulski, Paul Cornell, Andy Diggle, Adi Granov, Jock, John McCrea, Steve McNiven, Mark Millar, Steve Mooney, Ben Oliver, Carlos Pacheco, Nick Roche, Liam Sharp, and Stephen Thompson. If you’re not sure who any of these are, follow the links on the site’s Guests’ Bios page.
Most importantly, you can now Buy Tickets Online for the con. Just go to the con’s Pre-Order Tickets page to buy your tickets via PayPal.
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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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June 24, 2007
Posted 3 years, 5 months ago on June 24, 2007
Mira Furlan, the Croatian-born actress who played Ambassador Delenn in Babylon 5 and who currently plays Danielle Rousseau in Lost, is doing a signing in Dublin’s Forbidden Planet International branch on Crampton Quay on the 15th July from 3PM to 5PM.
Prior to this, she will be attending the The Memorabilia Show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England on the 7th & 8th of July.
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May 27, 2007
Posted 3 years, 6 months ago on May 27, 2007
When I made my initial listing of forthcoming events for 2007, there were a few pieces of information missing, as various things had not been announced yet. Date and venues have since been forthcoming, as well as further guest information, so here is the updated position on the Irish SF and Comic Conventions for the next 12 months.
3 – 5 August 2007: Mecon X: SF Convention
Venue: QUB Elms Centre, Queens Elms, Malone Road, Belfast
Guest of Honour: Iain Banks
Other Guests: Paul Cornell, Ian McDonald, Leah Moore, C.E. Murphy, John Reppion, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Scott Rohan
13 – 14 October 2007: Octocon: SF Convention
Venue: Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Guest of Honour: Alastair Reynolds
Other Guests: TBA
17 – 18 November 2007: Dublin City Comic Con: Comics Convention
Venue: TBA
Guest of Honour: Jim Lee
Other Guests: C.B. Cebulski, Paul Cornell, Andy Diggle, Adi Granov, Jock, Steve McNiven, Mark Millar, Steven Mooney, Michael Avon Oeming, Ben Oliver, Carlos Pacheco, Nick Roche, and Liam Sharp
29 – 30 March 2008: P-CON V: SF Convention
Venue: Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, Dublin 2
Guest of Honour: C E Murphy
Other Guests: TBA
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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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Posted 3 years, 10 months ago on February 25, 2007
The Aeon Award for 2006-2007, brought to you by the wonderful people at Albedo One, is still open for submissions.
The Aeon Award short story competition is designed to promote new writers by raising their profile. But a prize of €1000 for the winner and publication in Ireland’s premier magazine of SF&F for the top three stories – as chosen by renowned SF and fantasy author Ian Watson – doesn’t do any harm either.
The winner will be announced at the upcoming, high profile European Science Fiction Convention in Copenhagen in September 2007. The entry fee is €5 and the contest is open until the end of June next.
More details on the Albedo One website.
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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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November 11, 2006
Posted 4 years, 1 month ago on November 11, 2006
Nicholas Whyte’s Science Fiction and Fantasy set in Ireland: a checklist, his remarkably detailed list of works of speculative fiction set in or featuring Ireland, has moved.
It can now be found at www.nicholaswhyte.info/sf/irsf.htm
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October 12, 2006
Posted 4 years, 2 months ago on October 12, 2006
David Stewart passed away in hospital at 3.35 AM on Thursday the 12th of October 2006. He had been suffering from Oesophageal Cancer for the past twelve months. He was 46 years old.
David is gone, and I really don’t know what to say. He was a larger than life figure in any number of ways. He was very active in SF fandom, not only in Ireland, where he was on the committee for Octocon a number of times, but on the world stage, being much involved with the last Worldcon, and also chaired the (unsuccessful) Irish bid to run Eurocon in 2007. David was also a good friend, and did Deirdre and myself the great honour of being Best Man at our wedding in 2004.
I’ll miss him, and I know many, many people will miss him, all around the world.
The charity auction at Octocon this weekend is for the Oesophageal Cancer Fund. If you wish to honour David’s memory, you might consider bidding on something there, or making a contribution to the charity.
If you wish to express your condolences, please add a message to this entry on my Livejournal, which I know David’s family have already seen.
Here’s a photograph of David that effectively captures his essence. It’s how I remember him: Larking around at a con, in the company of friends.
Ní bheidh a leithead án arís.
We Will not see his like again.
Pádraig Ó Méalóid
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October 9, 2006
Posted 4 years, 3 months ago on October 9, 2006
Octocon takes place in a few days’ time in the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Co Kildare, just a few miles outside Dublin city.
Guest of Honour this year is American comics’ artist J G Jones, and other guests include:
Bob Byrne
Michael Carroll
Richmond Clements
Robert Curley
Harry Harrison
James P. Hogan
Edward James
Anne McCaffrey
David Murphy
John Vaughan
Press Start to Play – Adam Law & Darryl Walker
There’s a strong comics theme in this year’s con, not only with comics artist J G Jones at Guest of Honour, but with Irish comics writer Rob Curley, Irish comics writer and artist Bob Byrne, Irish webcomic creators Adam Law & Darryl Walker, and occasional 2000AD & Judge Dredd the Megazine contributors Michael Carroll and Richmond Clements. Even old hand Harry Harrison wrote a few tales for EC Comics, back in the day . . .
Full details of this year’s Octocon can be found on the con’s website.
Agents will also be on hand from both P-CON IV and Mecon 10, for those of you who wish to join up for those excellent forthcoming conventions!
See you there, if you’re there.
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