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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 21, 2018 12:23:38 GMT
I've just seen a copy of Ireland's Own in Sainsburys. It's a "family magazine" that has been running since 1902. The latest issue, no.5666(!) contains the latest article in its "Stranger than Fiction" strand. This contains "true" ghost stories. I well remember the one about the football player who scored the winning goal in front of literally thousands of witnesses after he had had a fatal car crash! I am not making this up. I have never seen Ireland's Own cited in any guide to supernatural fiction. It is printed on what looks like toilet roll. By that I mean the absorbent kind, not the industrial-strength non-absorbent kind we had in primary school that could literally cut diamonds. Ireland's Own does exist: "The week wouldn't be the same without it!" www.irelandsown.ie/the-irishman-who-inspired-dracula/www.irelandsown.ie/stoker-and-the-irish-vampires/ |
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Post by PeterC on Aug 1, 2018 18:04:33 GMT
I remember Ireland’s Own with great affection. It used to be sold at my local RC Church. It often featured tales about ghosts and the ‘fairy folk’.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 3, 2018 12:22:56 GMT
I'm glad you verified that Ireland's Own actually exists. When I first saw in in the 1970s it seemed like a relic of the 1930s. And the funny thing is, it still is.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 3, 2021 13:54:44 GMT
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Post by PeterC on Nov 3, 2021 14:24:16 GMT
Begorrah! Will ye look at the 'oul teet on the crater!
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Post by helrunar on Nov 3, 2021 17:34:02 GMT
I was wondering why that Ireland's Own rag was promoting Dracula so heavily. Then I remembered that Bram Stoker was Irish--born in Clontarf!
Looking at a listing of his uncollected stories on a popular web reference site, I see a couple of titles that suggest Irish folklore and themes. The tale gruesomely entitled "The Night of the Shifting Bog" evokes a dire circumstance indeed for those prowlings through the hall at one of those sudden wee hour awakenings.
Slainte, H.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 3, 2021 19:45:30 GMT
Begorrah! Will ye look at the 'oul teet on the crater! A friend of mine told me that he had dreamt about an Irish vampire, one Count O'Mannion! |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 4, 2021 15:16:48 GMT
Begorrah! Will ye look at the 'oul teet on the crater! A friend of mine told me that he had dreamt about an Irish vampire, one Count O'Mannion! For all the non-Irish, what is the joke? |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 4, 2021 16:19:02 GMT
A friend of mine told me that he had dreamt about an Irish vampire, one Count O'Mannion! For all the non-Irish, what is the joke? It's just the incongruity of the name. In any event, the Count was a bad baste or the divil. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 16, 2022 10:51:38 GMT
In the 1970s and 1980s (and maybe later) Ireland's Own ran Lee Falk's newspaper strip The Phantom. Apart from its very good logo below, the strip was as dull as ditch water. Incredibly, created in 1936, it is still running world wide.  |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 16, 2022 12:32:39 GMT
In the 1970s and 1980s (and maybe later) Ireland's Own ran Lee Falk's newspaper strip The Phantom. Apart from its very good logo below, the strip was as dull as ditch water. Incredibly, created in 1936, it is still running world wide. The classics are absolutly dull, and the current strip still produced by King's Feature is also mostly meh. You can read a version for free on their website. But Australian publisher Frew is reprinting Phantom stories from the past and all over the world, and there are some good ones, especially the Scandinavian ones. Two examples. The first is from a story called "Nat Turner's Spirit", a story set in pre Civil War America. Produced in Scandinavia, written by Claes Reinmerthi, art by Alex Saviuk and Kari Leppanen  The second is called "A Plague in Venice". The second Phantom visits Venice 1575 during the plague. Also from Scandinavia, written by Janne Lundstrom and art by Hans Lindahl.  Solid historical adventure stories with often very good art. Of course these are no newspaper strips. |
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Post by helrunar on Apr 16, 2022 15:37:04 GMT
That's intriguing to learn that special Phantom stories were written for the Scandinavian market (and presumably other markets had their own stories as well?).
Sounds cool. I was always intrigued by the concept of the Phantom--wasn't his title "the Ghost Who Walks by Day"? But never saw it consistently enough to get into it. I think it was run in a paper my grandfather often bought on Sundays, out of NYC.
There was a film version which was not said to be at all good but the actor who played the character, in the stills I've seen, had a jaw droppingly sexy body. Which means nothing at all to the rest of you--oh well.
H.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 16, 2022 16:21:47 GMT
That's intriguing to learn that special Phantom stories were written for the Scandinavian market (and presumably other markets had their own stories as well?). Sounds cool. I was always intrigued by the concept of the Phantom--wasn't his title "the Ghost Who Walks by Day"? But never saw it consistently enough to get into it. I think it was run in a paper my grandfather often bought on Sundays, out of NYC. There was a film version which was not said to be at all good but the actor who played the character, in the stills I've seen, had a jaw droppingly sexy body. Which means nothing at all to the rest of you--oh well. H. No,indeed. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 16, 2022 16:31:46 GMT
In the 1970s and 1980s (and maybe later) Ireland's Own ran Lee Falk's newspaper strip The Phantom. Apart from its very good logo below, the strip was as dull as ditch water. Incredibly, created in 1936, it is still running world wide. The classics are absolutly dull, and the current strip still produced by King's Feature is also mostly meh. You can read a version for free on their website. But Australian publisher Frew is reprinting Phantom stories from the past and all over the world, and there are some good ones, especially the Scandinavian ones. Two examples. The first is from a story called "Nat Turner's Spirit", a story set in pre Civil War America. Produced in Scandinavia, written by Claes Reinmerthi, art by Alex Saviuk and Kari Leppanen The second is called "A Plague in Venice". The second Phantom visits Venice 1575 during the plague. Also from Scandinavia, written by Janne Lundstrom and art by Hans Lindahl. N Solid historical adventure stories with often very good art. Of course these are no newspaper strips. I knew I'd a response. The subject of the Phantom came up in the MandrakeWiki online encyclopedia,which is massive. The related PhantomWiki is even bigger: www.phantomwiki.org/Main_Page |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 16, 2022 16:37:57 GMT
That's intriguing to learn that special Phantom stories were written for the Scandinavian market (and presumably other markets had their own stories as well?). Sounds cool. I was always intrigued by the concept of the Phantom--wasn't his title "the Ghost Who Walks by Day"? But never saw it consistently enough to get into it. I think it was run in a paper my grandfather often bought on Sundays, out of NYC. There was a film version which was not said to be at all good but the actor who played the character, in the stills I've seen, had a jaw droppingly sexy body. Which means nothing at all to the rest of you--oh well. H. No,indeed. Billy Zane was the Phantom in that film. His ghostly father, i.e., the previous Phantom, was played by Patrick McGoohan who acted like he regretted doing the film at all. |
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