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Bram Stoker
Exploring Transylvania: Home of Dracula provides a trip with teeth
Take away the tourists in Transylvania and you could be back in the Middle Ages with historic castles, enchanting forests and soaring mountains
‘Roll up your sleeves’: the IBTS wants your blood this Halloween
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has launched a somewhat spooky seasonal campaign
Best things to do around Ireland in the week ahead from Halloween festivals to Niall Breslin’s gigs
October 25th-31st, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Bram Stoker, the corncrake and ‘folklore as resistance’: Making Macnas’s Halloween parade
Louise Lowe and Owen Boss of Anu are swapping intimate immersive theatre for this year’s Macnas parade, An Truen: The Summoning of the Lost
Storm names: Bram, Marty and Wubbo among weather systems
Irish storm names for the coming year include literary nods, cultural odes and heartwarming personal anecdotes
Zealous book bans and brilliant writers forged strong Irish Penguin links from the start
The publisher celebrates its 90th anniversary this month
Dracula author’s Dublin birthplace available for €400 a night on Airbnb
Plus Catherine Connolly’s limo life, national anthem lessons and a recession-busting ruse in waiting
Derelict Dublin: 10 unused northside buildings in a city gripped by a housing crisis
Including the former Coláiste Mhuire on Parnell Square, the former Guineys department store on Talbot Street, and a ‘shrine’ to Bram Stoker
Festivals in Ireland 2025: From Longitude to All Together Now - a guide to 80 of the best
From Brigit and Dublin Lunar New Year to Culture Night, Space Week and Cork Jazz Festival, here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year
Nosferatu director Robert Eggers: ‘We needed to find a way to make the vampire scary again’
The film-maker follows in the eerie footsteps of FW Murnau and Werner Herzog in his new feature, starring Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult
How Dracula author Bram Stoker’s childhood Dublin home was transformed
The Dracula author’s birthplace in Marino, Dublin has been transformed – just don’t expect a Transylvanian castle aesthetic
Long-lost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker unearthed at National Library of Ireland
Gibbet Hill, the Irish writer’s macabre tale of a man set upon by strange children at the site of a real murder, was discovered by Dublin researcher Brian Cleary
Sail and rail to discover England’s prettiest towns and villages
There’s no better time to rediscover the joy of travelling by train
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
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