I attended the Irish Crime Fiction Festival event in Trinity College Dublin yesterday. It was very well attended, especially the evening session with Michael Connelly and John Connolly, which had about 400 people crammed into the examination hall. It was an interesting day and the three panels and evening discussion all had some engaging and enlightening discussion. I even managed to slip out of lurk mode and introduce myself to a couple of folk, including Michael Russell who kindly signed a copy of his newly purchased latest book, The City of Strangers. It doesn't matter how many events I attend as a speaker or an audience member, I always feel like I'm out of place, somehow trespassing in someone else's world. And I'm quite happy to spend the time isolated in a crowd; a voyeur rather than a participant. So it was good step out of that bubble a couple of times, but also to sink back into it.Here are photos are of the three panels. Sorry for the poor quality - taken on my phone without a flash.
Panel 1: Eoin McNamee, Conor Brady, Stuart Neville, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Russell
Panel 2: John Connolly, Jane Casey, Arlene Hunt, Alan Glynn, Conor Fitzgerald, Declan Burke
Panel 3: Brian McGilloway, Paul Charles, Declan Hughes, Louise Phillips, Gene Kerrigan, Niamh O'Connor
My posts this week:
Chiselling away at open data blockages
Irish crime fiction festival, this week coming
Smart cities, big data and their consequences
Review of Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb
Some media coverage of AIRO-based work
An honest man?
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