New Irish Science Fiction Association

Hi there,

NISFA is still recovering from a sad week which saw our good friend Frank Darcy lose his fight with cancer.

This month's NISFA meeting will continue as usual, and will be a celebration of Frank's life. Please come along and share your memories or just have a drink to his memory.

In addition, we will have a short discussion about the future of the association, with some changes planned to bring in new faces and revamp the meetings.

We look forward to seeing many of you on Tuesday.

The NISFA team.

Dear Friends,

Frank Darcy, a well known and much loved science fiction fan, lost his battle with cancer and passed away at 6:30 on Wednesday morning. He is a former organiser of the Dublin sci-fi meetings, and has been running P-Con for the last few years.

Bad news: Christine Darcy just phoned to say that Frank died this morning at around 6:30 in Our Lady's Hospice in Harold's Cross. She said that it was very peaceful and he just slipped away.

The next meeting will take place in the White Horse Inn on Tuesday the 10th June at 8pm.

The guest speaker will be Rory Lennon, who will be talking about Midsummer. Bookseller extraordinaire, Rory has an encyclopaedic knowledge of science fiction lterature, and has given many entrawlling talks at meetings and conventions.

Also coming up: the NISFA Summer Barbecue. Date and venue to be confirmed shortly.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!

Just a quick note to remind you of the NISFA meeting on Tuesday 8th April. The meeting is in the White Horse Inn at 8pm and the guest speaker is Derek Gunn, author of Vampire Apocalypse.

This month's meeting of the New Irish Schence Fiction Association will take place tomorrow, Tuesday March 11th at the White Horse Inn.

Feb: CE Murphy will be talking about urban fantasy. She will take a look at how the genre has changed in the last twenty years, discuss what makes a story urban fantasy vs the extremely popular "paranormal romance" that's out there, and then open things up to discussion.

As the White Horse Inn is not open on Jan 1st, our first meeting of 2008 meeting has been moved to January 8th at 8pm. Our esteemed guest will be our own Rory Lennon, possibly the best read person in Science Fiction, will give his predictions for the year... that is the year 5 million!

Following our recent poll, in which the majority of people said they didn't mind changing to the second Tuesday, or in quite a few cases said that it suited them better, from now on NISFA meetings will take place on the second Tuesday of every month.

Yes, Tuesday is NISFA's first Christmas party, so please come along and enjoy yourself.

DJ David Walsh hosts the event. We plan to bring plenty of seasonal delicies. Please feel free to bring along some of your favourite Chrismas foods to add to the party.

On Monday November 12th, John Vaughan's (guest at several Octocons, P-Con 2008, MeCon 2008) short movie Valour is scheduled to shown on RTE2 at 23:55. I've seen this and highly recommend it.

In case you haven't heard, NISFA, or the New Irish Science Fiction Association, is the new name of the organisation previously known as the Unlikely Society, formally known as Sci-Fi Club.
The November meeting of NISFA will take take place on 6th November in the White Horse Inn at 8pm. The speaker will be Peader Ó Guilín, who will read from one of his short stories and his new novel, The Inferior. As well as writimg curious stories for as long as he can remember, Peadar was involved in a project to translate the Linux operating system into Irish.