Bram Stoker and Dracula

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A street view from a park, with a plague on the ground.

Bram Stoker and Dracula

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Damian Mac Choiligh

/ 7 November 2026

Dublin, Ireland and the Inspiration for Dracula We have talked already in our blog about Dublin as a city of literature and the wide variety of speculative and fantastical fiction that this city has produced and inspired. In this context, the most familiar Dublin name

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Halloween Reads #2: Short, Scary and Irish

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Max

/ 4 November 2026

For our second post on Hallowe’en reads, we will give you some alternatives to the hefty Gothic novels we discussed back in October. Sometimes you want something that can be read in an evening; a ghost story before bed, a creepy tale over a cup

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Book cover of 'The Cloud of Desolation' by Sam Baneham. It shows a painting of a man in a faded, multi-coloured robe. A butterfly sits just above the man's right hand.

Book Review – The Cloud of Desolation

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Damian Mac Choiligh

/ 14 October 2026

The Cloud of Desolation by Sam Baneham Over the course of the next year, as we anticipate the vote on the site of the 2029 WorldCon, and in the following two years as we (hopefully) prepare for the 87th WorldCon in our City, we will

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The cover of 'the hard life' by Flann O Brien. The cover is a detailed pencil drawing of a young man rushing into the toilet of a pub holding his mouth.

Flann O’ Brien

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Damian Mac Choiligh

/ 5 October 2026

The purpose of this blog, indeed of our website, is to highlight the links between Speculative Fiction and Fantasy and the city of Dublin. To this end, every once in a while, we will talk to you about SFF writers, creatives and such of their

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A hardback copy of 'The Martian Chronicles' by Ray Bradbury.

Ray Bradbury and Dublin

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Damian Mac Choiligh

/ 10 September 2026

The purpose of this blog, indeed of our website, is to bring Speculative Fiction and Fantasy to Dublin and to bring Dublin to SFF. To this end, every once in a while, we will talk to you about writers, artists and other creatives and such

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Dublin in 2029