A history of P-Con, to shortly be submitted by Padraig.
Submitted by Pádraig Ó Méalóid on 18 January, 2012 - 10:29
I'm sorry to have to announce that three of our announced guests, Leah Moore, John Reppion, and Kim Newman, are not able to attend P-CON this year, due to other commitments. We send them our best wishes, and hope we shall see them over her at some time in the future.
However, we are very pleased to announce that Irish author
John Connolly will be attending the convention as a guest.
Submitted by Anne M Kletcha on 17 January, 2012 - 13:27
Mary Talbot was born in Wigan, England in the 1950s. She is married to comics creator Bryan Talbot, and they have have two sons. Mary studied English Literature and Linguistics at Preston Polytechnic as a mature student, and completed a PhD on Critical Discourse Analysis in 1990. She became the Reader in Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland in 1997, and in 2004 she was invited as Visiting Professor to Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou. She has retired from academic life, and is currently a freelance writer.
Submitted by Pádraig Ó Méalóid on 17 January, 2012 - 13:27
John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968. Before his novel writing days, he worked a number of different jobs including that of a journalist, barman, local government official, waiter and gofer at Harrods department store in London. He spent time at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a BA in English, and at Dublin City University, where he did an MA in journalism. The latter of these led to him working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times, a newspaper which he still writes for.
Submitted by Pádraig Ó Méalóid on 17 January, 2012 - 13:26
Born in Limerick and currently living in Sligo, Kevin Barry started his writing career as a journalist with his local paper. Having moved onto freelance work, writing columns in The Irish Examiner, The Irish Times and Glasgow’s Sunday Herald, he decided to focus more earnestly on his fiction.
The Belvedere Hotel, Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1
This is where the con's Guests of Honour will be staying, and there may still be rooms left. Mention you're going to the Science Fiction convention in the Irish Writers' Convention, and they'll do their best to give you a good rate.
The Kingfisher Restaurant and Guesthouse, Parnell Street, Dublin 1
Submitted by Pádraig Ó Méalóid on 13 October, 2011 - 12:35
We've just launched our lovely new site, courtesy of CE Murphy, with some additional knob-twiddling from James Shields. There's a lot of content to be added, but we're working on this as I write. Guest bios are now up for our two Guests of Honour, Robert Rankin and Bryan Talbot, and also for guests Juliet E McKenna, Professor Kate Laity, and Sarah Pinborough, with the rest to follow as soon as we get them finished.
We've also put up a Join Up page, so that you can join the convention online, with payments being taken via PayPal.
Submitted by Anne M Kletcha on 13 October, 2011 - 12:02
Bryan Talbot is probably the most important English language writer and artist of comics and graphic novels of our time.
Bryan was born in Wigan in Lancashire on the 24th of February 1952. At the age of seventeen he was having illustrations published in Mallorn, the Journal of the British Tolkien Society, and in 1971 he drew the cover to the first issue of Dark Horizons, the magazine of the British Fantasy Society. A few years later he the character of Chester P.
Submitted by Anne M Kletcha on 13 October, 2011 - 10:54
Sarah Pinborough was born in the market town of Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire on the 28th of March 1972. Her father was a career diplomat, so they soon found themselves living in the Middle East, amongst other places, where the lack of television meant that the young Sarah spent most of her spare time reading. From the age of eight, she spent ten years in boarding schools in Britain, before training as a secondary school teacher and teaching at schools in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
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