Date:
17 Mar 2010 - 12:30pm
South Sligo Athletic Club
Tubbercurry
Co. Sligo
38th
Annual
St Patrick’s Day
10k Road Race
one lap rural
Start time: 12.30pm
Date: Wednesday 17th March 2010
Men’s: Senior, Vets Over 40, Over 45, Over 50
Ladies: Senior, Vets over 35, Over 40, Over 45.
Team Prizes for Senior Mens & Ladies
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Christopher Fowler and I have launched the Campaign for Real Fear: a horror short story competition.
Send us your best 500-word story that explores horror in the 21st century. We want diversity of characters and themes, and beginner or pro can enter.
The top ten stories will be published in Black Static, and podcast by Action Audio.
The deadline for entry is 5pm GMT, on Friday the 16th of April.
If you want change, you better write it.
Information on how to enter is available on the Campaign for Real Fear web...
An exhibition from the European Union Representation in Ireland entitled 'Then and Now'...snapshots of change in the EU years can be seen at Europe Direct Ballinasloe/Ballinasloe Library until 19th March next.This photographic exhibition focuses on showing the positive changes brought to Ireland through its membership of the European Union and is clearly illustrated through before and after photographs.For many it will bring back memories and for others ,especially the younger generation,a sense of incredulity.This exhibition clearly illustrates the EU’s role in the world and is well worth a visit.Opening hours of the Europe Direct Information Centre can be accessed through...
Runners are often called upon to get involved with fund raising programmes for various good causes in a way that perhaps other sports people are not. Like most other situations such expectations can be viewed either as a difficulty or as an opportunity. What often makes the difference between one view and the other is the closeness to ‘home’ of the good cause in question. One cause that is very close to the hearts Athenry members is providing for the needs of people with Cystic Fibrosis.
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On the famed Munich lap in the Phoenix Park, Brian Bruton lead Athenry AC home to silver medals in Grade C at the Senior Cross Country. This was a tough race with a competitive, if small, field, and toward the head of affairs was GCH's own Gary Thornton. We all know locally Gary was in great form after a sub 30 performance at the Fields of Athenry 10km, and now his form over the winter is no secret across the country. Congrats on a fine silver medal from all at Athenry AC [and thanks for the encouragement as you lapped me!]
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A reading by the acknowledged writer Re Ó Laighleis during Ennis Book Club festival 2010 at Scéal Eile Bookshop. He read in Irish and English, with Fred Johnston, who read in French and English. Ó Laighleis explains and reads from his bitingly satirical comment on the Irish arts’ scene, ‘Shapers.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIHbxNhK6So......
No one can ever accuse the Western Writers’ Centre of being behind the door when it comes to technology. Anyone wanting a more visual outline of what’s happening at our March 26th and 27th ‘Forge at Gort’ festival can check out our promo video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWtJ0Q7Wi5s and no, it did not get nominated for the Oscars but it’s well worth a peek. Remember that ALL THE EVENTS AT THIS FESTIVAL ARE FREE. Anyone who wishes to become a ‘Friend of the Centre’ should contact Fred Johnston or Niamh O’Shea at westernwriters@eircom.net......
Today will be my last appearance on "Arts Brew", the Z103 Internet Radio Arts Show, at around 1.30pm. I'll be wrapping up the women and horror debate, and discussing forthcoming writers workshops in Ireland. I've enjoyed being on the show for the last four weeks, and it's certainly made me think a lot more about doing podcasts in the future.
I'd also like to point people to the blog of UK horror magazine, Black Static, where there is a constructive post on the issue of women in horror. It offers information about the female contributors to the magazine, statistics about the books the magazine receives for review and how many of them come from women authors. This is the kind of data that's actually useful to the debate.
Tomorrow I'm at P-Con in Dublin (the programme is now online), and...
Lightwave Speed Modeling Group
This week's topic: Babylon 5
Anything remotely related to that wonderful show which probably fired more forays into CG than anything else in recent years!
I'm giving 90 mins for this in case anyone fancies getting adventurous.
Ships, props, sets, planets.
Time Limit - 90 minutes.
A pile of mostly unfinished models, must try harder :D...
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I have spent most of the last week just sorting through files. Stuff that I have dragged from one computer to another for years... So far I have cleared out over 300 gigs of space.
Nowhere near done yet...
It's time for a summary of the reaction across the Internet to my recent posts about the lack of representation of women in the SFX horror edition.
As I mentioned last week David Barnett at the The Guardian blog brought up the issue immediately, and by the end of the week UK Feminist web site The F Word was running with the story.
Once I posted editor Ian Berriman's reply to my query, the response in the comments, on Internet articles and to me personally has been anger and frustration at the lack of knowledge displayed about women's participation in the horror industry.
As Cheryl Morgan put it, it was a classic case of "How Not to Apologize". Of course, to apologise is to admit fault, and Ian made it clear that he didn't think he did anything wrong. In an blog post called "Sticking...
The 2009 running of the Fields of Athenry 10km road race eventualy took place just a few short weeks ago - in 2010. For many of us this race is a milestone in the running calendar. We look back on previous editions to see how the race has evolved, and hopefully, improved with each passing year. One thing that hasn't changed much over the years is the benign presence of John O'Connor, an accomplished runner himself, with his trusty cameras. We have been delighted over the years with John's contribution to our 10k, and many other events around the county.
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I decided to pick a work to feature in a "Horror's Hidden Treasures" section of my own since SFX failed so spectacularly to ask women to promote an under-rated horror gem.
I'd encourage other women to do the same. There's no pressure to pick a woman's work, but I'm doing so because this writer hugely impressed me with her work.
Since the debacle last year about the lack of representation of women in horror I've been paying more attention to the subject. Even I was under-educated in the variety of women working in the field, but I'm hardly immune to a system that promotes men's fiction and accidentally forgets to give women's fiction equal attention.
The Women in Horror Recognition Month spurred me on to start addressing the imbalance in my own reading in advance of World Horror...
By Deirdre Hassett
Lil is firstly my dad’s dog. She’s secondly, and in a small way, mine – I have a unique selling point that my dad can never match, despite their years of teaming around together – I take her out running.
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This blog post began as a reply to a comment made by horror writer and screenwriter, Alexandra Sokoloff, on my last blog entry, but got too long. It's probably best if you read that first before continuing with this entry.
I'll wait.
Back? Great. Here's what my couple of lines morphed into:
Dear Alexandra,
Thank you for your note, and I appreciate your kind comments. I'm currently reading your novel The Price, as I'm engaged in a drive to read as much horror by women as possible before World Horror Convention. That means getting books from a lot of different sources, especially since women's horror isn't easy to come by where I live in Ireland - although the paranormal romance/urban fantasy section is very well stocked, and I've read from that area too.
I know you're a screenwriter...
After a prompt from a friend I wrote to SFX on Sunday regarding my concerns about its Horror edition. Here is my email:
To whom it may concern,
I purchased the horror edition of SFX magazine at the weekend since I'm a fan of horror literature and media, and also write in the genre.
I was surprised at the lack of representation of women in the articles in the magazine.
In particular I was stunned by the "Horror's Hidden Treasures" piece. You found the time to query 34 men for their opinions, but neglected to ask even one woman to recommend an under-rated gem in the horror field.
Can you explain how this occurred? I'm sure female horror novelists, directors and screenwriters are equally curious, after all there are plenty of them in the genre, and I'm sure they would have been delighted...
I thought this one deserved a post for...
The science fiction convention P-Con is being held in Dublin next week, and the programme of events has been released. Here are the panels I'll be on:
Saturday
10:00 Red Room
Is it time for "Return of the Werewolves"?
Nick Harkaway; Brian J. Showers; Laura Anne Gilman; Maura McHugh; R.F.Long
15:00 Blue Room
Social websites: Bane or boon in the genre fiction world?
Cheryl Morgan; Colin Harvey; Colin Smythe; Maura McHugh; Laura Anne Gilman
17:00 Red Room
Pictionary
Sunday
12:00 Blue Room
Keyboard or pen - Room for both?
R.F.Long; Oisín McGann; Maura McHugh
14:00 Blue Room
Has the Internet become indispensable?
Cheryl Morgan; Bob Neilson; R.F. Long; Maura McHugh
Also, I'll be chatting on the "Arts Brew" programme on the Z103 Internet Radio again today, around 1.40pm. I'll be...
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More shots of the evening skies from my daily walks.
Its strange, as time goes by I find myself with less and less to say....
On February 6th the launch of “Take Three” an Art exhibition took place in Ballybane Library. The exhibition of work was by local artists Terry Smith, Mary Folan and Vera Kenny. It was launched by Arts Officer, James...
Photo Credit: Paddy Parrott - More pictures from this race can be viewed at www.racepix.com
The Galway women's intermediate team came agonisingly close to bronze medals last weekend at the All Ireland Intermediate championships cross-country in Boyle Co. Roscommon. In the end the 'Galway girls' finished just three points behind the Dublin, Cork and Clare teams which filled the medal winning positions. The Galway team was led home by Kathryn Casserly of Castlegar AC in a superb 5th place overall.
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All taken at Ballyloughan beach in Galway
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Date:
5 Apr 2010 - 12:00pm
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This years charities will be STOP suicide (www.stopsuicide.ie, 071-9164286) and the Sligo Family Resource Centre (sligofrc@eircom.net, 071-9146315). Both of these are deserving charities, and sponsorship cards can be procured from either of the charities.
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I really dont have that much left to do on this one, detail up the sails a bit and do a proper texturing job on the whole thing. Its not a lot but still a fairly big job.
I need to just get stuck...
It's ironic that during Women in Horror Recognition Month I have to draw attention yet again to another major publication that has a blind spot when it comes to women in horror.
Five months ago I was irked when the British Fantasy Society published a collection of interviews of horror writers and omitted to include any women. A minor Internet outrage ensued, which died down with the society's quick and honest apology. Naively, I thought maybe a lesson had been learned.
This month the British magazine SFX published a special edition devoted to Horror that overlooks women almost entirely.
In his opening words editor Ian Berriman says: "You see, some people think horror is a limited one-dimensional genre, but I don't see it that way. Horror is a broad church. It encompasses everything...
We must thank the folks at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway, for their efforts for the Colette Wittorski reading there on February 18th, and the Clare Three-Leggéd Stool Poets for their terrific work in organising her reading from ‘Northern Lights’ at Glór, Ennis, on February 20th. Brian Mooney and other poets also read and the group will read again on March 27th at ‘The Forge at Gort’ festival, and Yuki will play before her return to Japan. Books were sold there, music was played; our thanks to Yuki, Michel and Andrew, who very kindly played for us. My personal thanks to Kernan Andrews at The Galway Advertiser for running a very nice piece on Colette Wittorski, who was visiting Ireland and Galway for the very first time. Here are three links to the events,...