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Conventional Wisdom

  By Lisa McInerney | November 11, 2009 - 9:00 am | Events, Featured Post, The Culch
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Being annoyed that “real life” had conspired to keep me from three days of the four-day Irish Discworld Convention may not be the best excuse for my acquiring a monstrous hangover, but I don’t have much else to go on. Well, apart from that the run-up to the weekend of the convention had been fraught with unanswered emails, precarious travel arrangements, and budget miscalculations; a few hefty glasses of wine the night before had seemed as fitting a commiseration as any. Besides, I reassure myself, as our car bounces out of another pothole and my stomach heaves accordingly, hangovers aren’t entirely out of place at a Discworld convention. Terry Pratchett understands hangovers. Terry Pratchett, after all, gave us Bilious, the Oh God of Hangovers. He gave us Scumble, and Wow-Wow Sauce as an extreme cure for overdosing on it. He gave us the worrying concept of knurd, which is the … There’s more →

Holy Offler The Crocodile God! It’s the Irish Discworld Convention Interview!

  By Lisa McInerney | October 21, 2009 - 8:11 pm | Books, The Culch
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With so many of us up in a delighted heap at the thought that the 1st Irish Discworld convention is only around the corner, what better introduction to the madness than a lovely sit down and a chat with Sheila, Nicola and Mary-Ellen, the organisers? Find out how exactly your common-or-garden Pratchett fan puts together an entire 4-day celebration of all things flat and elephant-supported, and be inspired into sewing up a Vetinari coat-of-arms of your own, and wandering along for the weekend. So, the lore goes that you hatched the idea of an Irish Discworld convention whilst attending in Birmingham - were there lots of Irish exiles over? The Discworld Convention in Birmingham was fun. So much fun that we were disappointed (read annoyed) that there wasn’t an Irish one. And we were really amazed that in a convention of 800 or so people we were 2 of about … There’s more →

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett - a new Discworld novel - is out now

  By darraghdoyle | October 12, 2009 - 6:49 pm | Books, The Culch
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Imagine my surprise, me, a so-called self respecting pTerry fan, when walking into Chapters yesterday I saw there’s a new Discworld book out. A full novel. Unseen Academicals. The 37th in the Discworld series. A hardback. €19.99. A book I didn’t know was due out so soon. Woot We’re back in good old Unseen University for this one, with Ponder Stibbons, Ridcully, the Librarian and the rest of the wizards up against a rather unexpected challenge not from the Dungeon Dimensions this time… Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they’re in the mood for trying everything else. The prospect of the Big Match … There’s more →

Holy Blind Io! It’s the 1st Irish Discworld Convention!

  By Lisa McInerney | September 21, 2009 - 11:41 pm | Books, Events, The Culch
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If you’ve ever thought the name “Havelock” sexy, or used the Vimes’ Boots Theory at a dinner-party discussion, or roared, “I Aten’t Dead!” at yer da, then you’ll be just as excited as I am that the first ever Irish Discworld Convention takes place from the 6th to the 9th of November in the Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Discworld, for the uninitiated, is a series of comedic fantasy books by Sir Terry Pratchett set on the … well, Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four gigantic elephants, carried through space on the back of a celestial turtle. Lest that frighten you back into your Al Gore tomes, it should be stated that the Discworld books are probably the most side-splittingly funny, savagely satirical, and emotionally validating books you’ve never read. In short, if you’re not familiar with Discworld due to “ooh, not much liking fantasy, thank … There’s more →