"Thornley Stoker Sir William Thornley Stoker, 1st Baronet (6 March 1845 – July 1912) was an eminent Irish medical writer, anatomist and surgeon. His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876), from Dublin, and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), who came from Ballyshannon, County Donegal. Stoker was the eldest of seven children and the brother of the writer Bram Stoker. He was educated at a private school in England and at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, and Queen's College, Galway, where he obtained his M. D. degree in 1866. During the later part of his life he lived at"
"world they depicted. Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) was born in Limerick but spent time in England. On returning to Ireland he wrote ""The Collegians"", on which his reputation rests. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873) was born in Dublin and lived there for most of his life. He was noted for his mystery novels and Gothic fiction (some of which is based on Irish folklore). Bram Stoker (1847–1912), a writer of similar interests, was born in Dublin but spent much his life in England. He wrote many books but is best known for ""Dracula"", one of the most famous novels in the"
"but is in many respects a political thriller. Stoker draws from personal experience and incorporates historical strands from the Spanish–American War as well as the sixteenth-century conflict between Spain and Elizabethan England, using these events to explore important themes of his time such as national identity and changing concepts of womanhood. Although ""The Mystery of the Sea"" received many favorable reviews when it was published (and many of the criticisms it received could be equally well applied to ""Dracula""), it has been significantly overshadowed in scholarship and criticism by ""Dracula"". Bram Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin,"
"Gombeen Man"" as a short story in ""The People"". On 8 November 1847, Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father worked as a civil servant and his mother was a charity worker and writer. During Stoker's childhood he spend many days in bed due to different illnesses. While Stoker was bedridden, his mother would tell him horror stories which may have influenced his novels and writings. In 1864 Stoker began school at the Trinity College, Dublin. During his time at the university, he worked part-time as a freelance journalist and drama critic. A few years later, in"
"Hamilton Deane Hamilton Deane (1880–1958) was an Irish actor, playwright and director. He played a key role in popularising Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" as a stage play and, later, a film. Deane was born in New Ross in County Wexford, Ireland, and grew up in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin. His family lived close to the families of both Bram Stoker and Florence Balcombe (Stoker's wife), and his mother had been acquainted with Bram Stoker in her youth. Deane entered the theater as a young man, first appearing in 1899 with the Henry Irving Company (Stoker was stage manager for Henry"
"Lady Athlyne Lady Athlyne is a romance novel by Bram Stoker, written in 1908. It was published one year before the release of Stoker's ""The Lady of the Shroud"". Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland near Dublin on 8 November 1847. Due to a childhood illness (which was never identified) that kept Stoker bedridden until about the age of seven, it is speculated that this might have been where he received some of the ideas for his stories like Dracula. Vampires, fairies, or stories of the boogeyman would have held his interest since he spent so much of"
"Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker Commander Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre Stoker, DSO (2 February 1885 – 2 February 1966), commonly credited in films as H. G. Stoker or Dacre Stoker, was a Royal Navy officer of the First and Second World Wars, and a stage and screen actor. He was also a sportsman, active in polo, croquet, hurling and tennis, competing at Wimbledon and becoming the croquet champion of Ireland in 1962, aged 77. He was a cousin to the author Bram Stoker. Stoker's naval career began in 1900 with training aboard HMS ""Britannia"". He studied at the Royal Naval College,"
"with John William Polidori's ""The Vampyre"" (1819). This short story was inspired by the life of Lord Byron and his poem ""The Giaour"". Irish writer Bram Stoker was the author of seminal horror work ""Dracula"" (1897) with the primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Penny dreadful publications were an alternative to mainstream works, and were aimed at working class adolescents, introducing the infamous Sweeney Todd. The premier ghost story writer of the 19th century was the Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu. Literature for children developed as a separate genre during the Victorian era, and some works became internationally known, such"
"Tim Burton. In 2011, accompanied by his wife Birgit, and on the 164th anniversary of the birth of Bram Stoker, Lee was honoured with a tribute by University College Dublin, and described his honorary life membership of the UCD Law Society as ""in some ways as special as the Oscars"". He was awarded the Bram Stoker Gold Medal by the Trinity College Philosophical Society, of which Stoker was President, and a copy of ""Collected Ghost Stories of MR James"" by Trinity College's School of English. Christopher Lee Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was"
"Emily. The remainder of the novel takes the form of an explanation written for Emily on how his life and that of her father intertwined over the years. Mistaken (novel) Mistaken is a novel by the Irish novelist and filmmaker Neil Jordan published in 2011 by John Murray in the UK and Soft Skull Press in the US. It won both the Irish Book Award and Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. The novel is told from the viewpoint of Kevin Thunder who grows up in 1960s Dublin, next door to Bram Stoker's house. Kevin has an elusive double, Gerald for"
"John Banim John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the ""Scott of Ireland."" He also studied art, working as a painter of miniatures and portraits, and as a drawing teacher, before dedicating himself to literature. John Banim was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. At age four, his parents sent him to a local school where he learned the basics of reading and grammar. At age five, Banim was sent to the English Academy at Kilkenny where his older brother Michael (1796–1874) was a student. This school"
"Bram Stoker Award The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for ""superior achievement"" in dark fantasy and horror writing. The Awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA. They are named after Irish horror writer Bram Stoker, author of the novel ""Dracula"", among others. Several members of the HWA—including Dean Koontz—were reluctant to endorse such writing awards, fearing it would incite competitiveness rather than friendly admiration. The HWA therefore went to lengths to avoid mean-spirited competition, they agreed to"
"Norma Stoker Norma Stoker ( c.1905 - 21 August 1962) was an Irish Tennis and Badminton player. Norma Stoker was successful in both tennis and badminton. In tennis, she lost in the singles final of the Irish Open in 1931 and 1933. In badminton, she won the national singles titles from 1934 to 1937 and the women's doubles in 1937 and 1938 at the Irish Open. Norma Stoker was born around 1905 as the daughter of the Wimbledon champion tennis player and rugby international Frank Stoker. The writer Bram Stoker is a distant relative of hers. She is buried at"
"there seems to be some chance of its making it a more conscious aim and steadfast endeavour."" James Cousins James Henry Cousins (22 July 1873 – 20 February 1956) was an Irish writer, playwright, actor, critic, editor, teacher and poet. He used several pseudonyms including Mac Oisín and the Hindu name Jayaram. Cousins was born at 18, Kevor Street in Belfast, Ireland, the descendant of Huguenot refugees. Largely self-educated at night schools, he worked some time as a clerk became private secretary and speechwriter to Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, the Lord Mayor of Belfast. In 1897 he moved to"
"Ripple"" (1913, ""Miss O'Corra, M.F.H."" (1915), and ""The Green Altar"" (1924). Miriam Alexander Miriam Alexander, later Mrs Harold Stokes, (born Sept. 1879) was a British-born author of historical novels with Irish settings. She was born at Birkenhead and educated at home, except for a short period at Alexandra College, Dublin. She was much interested in the Gaelic League but later became alienated from it. She made her literary debut with her novel ""The House of Lisronan"", a story of the Williamite wars. The novel was awarded the 250-guinea Melrose Prize for 1911. Six editions were sold in less than two"
"question of spatial metaphor is raised. Daly believes that Stoker ""fails to capture the nature of the dimensions in which the novel originated and functioned"". The Snake's Pass The Snake's Pass is an 1890 novel by Bram Stoker. It centers on the legend of Saint Patrick defeating the King of the Snakes in Ireland. The novel also centers on the troubled romance between the main character and a local peasant girl. ""The Snake's Pass"" was Bram Stoker's second imperial fiction novel, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1890. The novel is a precursor to Stoker's ""Dracula"" but"
"Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. Norma Stoker Norma Stoker ( c.1905 - 21 August 1962) was an Irish Tennis and Badminton player. Norma Stoker was successful in both tennis and badminton. In tennis, she lost in the singles final of the Irish Open in 1931 and 1933. In badminton, she won the national singles titles from 1934 to 1937 and the women's doubles in 1937 and 1938 at the Irish Open. Norma Stoker was born around 1905 as the daughter of the Wimbledon champion tennis player and rugby international Frank Stoker. The writer Bram Stoker is a distant relative of hers."
"was appointed Officer of Health for the parish jointly with James Colville. On 30 December 1847 Abraham, son of Abraham and Charlotte Matilda Stoker of The Crescent, Clontarf, was baptised by Rev. Edward, a visiting clergyman from the Diocese of Ossory. Bram Stoker, as he became known, was the creator of the Dracula stories and is commemorated today in the Bram Stoker Museum in Westwood Club near the Crescent. Bram's family later moved to Artane Lodge but his younger siblings were also baptised in Clontarf. The church, meanwhile, was becoming too small for its growing congregations, especially in the summer."
"immigration in the 19th century popularised Halloween in North America. For a comparatively small place, the island of Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches, in both the Irish and English languages. The island's most widely known literary works are undoubtedly in English. Particularly famous examples of such works are those of James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde and Ireland's four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature; William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. Three of the four Nobel prize winners were born in Dublin (Heaney being"
"of importance during the 18th century and their most notable works include Laurence Sterne with the publication of ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"" and Oliver Goldsmith's ""The Vicar of Wakefield"". Numerous Irish novelists emerged during the 19th century, including Maria Edgeworth, John Banim, Gerald Griffin, Charles Kickham, William Carleton, George Moore, and Somerville and Ross. Bram Stoker is best known as the author of the 1897 novel ""Dracula"". James Joyce (1882–1941) published his most famous work ""Ulysses"" in 1922, which is an interpretation of the ""Odyssey"" set in Dublin. Edith Somerville continued writing after the death of"
"The Snake's Pass The Snake's Pass is an 1890 novel by Bram Stoker. It centers on the legend of Saint Patrick defeating the King of the Snakes in Ireland. The novel also centers on the troubled romance between the main character and a local peasant girl. ""The Snake's Pass"" was Bram Stoker's second imperial fiction novel, and was first published in the United Kingdom in 1890. The novel is a precursor to Stoker's ""Dracula"" but was his only novel written in his native land of Ireland. A year before the release of ""The Snake's Pass"", Stoker published chapter three ""The"
"Van Helsing addresses the audience with a warning that ""there are such things"". The Irish author Bram Stoker wrote the novel ""Dracula"" while working as a manager for Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre in London; he continued to work for Irving after it was published in May 1897. Stoker secured his theatrical rights to the story that same month by holding a staged reading at the Lyceum; this hasty adaptation was never performed again. In 1899, Hamilton Deane, a young Irish actor whose family owned an estate next to one belonging to Stoker's father, joined Irving's company. In the early 1920s,"
"Dacre Stoker Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker. Stoker was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". He lived in his childhood in Montreal, Quebec and attended the Bishop's College School. He taught for several years at Appleby College. Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team. He coached the team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Because of the Stokers' frustrating history with ""Dracula's"" copyright, Dacre, with encouragement from screenwriter"
"for the differences between ""The New Woman"" and the woman that obeys men and ""properly"" fulfills her role in society. Miss Hayes is not married and she mentions this frequently to Joy as if Miss Hayes regrets her unmarried status and wishes that her niece will never have to face this burden. Lady Athlyne Lady Athlyne is a romance novel by Bram Stoker, written in 1908. It was published one year before the release of Stoker's ""The Lady of the Shroud"". Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland near Dublin on 8 November 1847. Due to a childhood illness"
"South Carolina, where he is the Executive Director of the Aiken Land Conservancy. Dacre Stoker Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker. Stoker was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is the great-grand nephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic novel ""Dracula"". He lived in his childhood in Montreal, Quebec and attended the Bishop's College School. He taught for several years at Appleby College. Stoker is a former member of the Canadian men's pentathlon team. He coached the team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Because"
"1878, Stoker met Henry Irving and they became friends. Two years later Stoker accepted a job to work as Irving's personal assistant in London. Stoker's first book, ""The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland"", was written in Dublin and published in 1879. His first fictional book, ""Under the Sunset"", was published in 1881. Stoker wrote many other novels and short stories; however, the author is best known for ""Dracula"". Stoker died of exhaustion at the age of 64 after writing a total of eighteen books. The novel's main protagonist, Arthur Severn, is traveling to the country of Clare"
"Dracula Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. ""Dracula"" has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel, and invasion literature. The novel has spawned numerous theatrical,"
"""The Western Island; Or, the Great Blasket"" (1944), illustrated by his wife Ida. The essay collection ""The Irish Tradition"" (1947) is often cited, and was reprinted in 1994; it includes ""Ireland and Medieval Europe"", his ""John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture"" from 1927. Robin Flower Robin Ernest William Flower (16 October 1881 – 16 January 1946) was an English poet and scholar, a Celticist, Anglo-Saxonist and translator from the Irish language. He is commonly known in Ireland as ""Bláithín"" (Little Flower). He was born at Meanwood in Yorkshire, and educated at Leeds Grammar School. His parents, Marmaduke and Jane, were from families"
"Bram Stoker, who lived nearby, used to visit when he was young, and which influenced his novel Dracula. In fact, Stoker visited another nearby cemetery which was also sometimes called Ballybough Cemetery, known as the ""suicide plot"", which was used for suicide victims, robbers and highwaymen, through whose corpses' hearts wooden stakes were driven. This cemetery was likely located across the Luke Kelly Bridge on Clonliffe Road. Ballybough Cemetery Ballybough Cemetery () is a Jewish cemetery in Ballybough, Dublin. Founded in 1718, it is Ireland's oldest Jewish cemetery. The cemetery is bounded on one side by a former Royal Irish"
"have been many notable Irish people throughout history. After Ireland's conversion to Christianity, Irish missionaries and scholars exerted great influence on Western Europe, and the Irish came to be seen as a nation of ""saints and scholars"". The 6th-century Irish monk and missionary Columbanus is regarded as one of the ""fathers of Europe"", followed by saints Cillian and Fergal. The scientist Robert Boyle is considered the ""father of chemistry"", and Robert Mallet one of the ""fathers of seismology"". Famous Irish writers include Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis and Seamus"
"Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ""Dracula"". The expression ""Dracula"", which is now primarily known as the name of a fictional vampire, was for centuries known as the sobriquet of VladIII. Diplomatic reports and popular stories referred to him as ""Dracula"", ""Dracuglia"", or ""Drakula"" already in the 15thcentury. He himself signed his two letters as ""Dragulya"" or ""Drakulya"" in the late 1470s. His name had its origin in the Romanian sobriquet of his father, Vlad Dracul (""Vlad the Dragon""), who received it after he became a member of the Order of the Dragon. Dracula is the Slavonic genitive form of Dracul, meaning"
"The Lair of the White Worm The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 – the year before Stoker's death – with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil. In 1925 a highly abridged and rewritten form was published. It was shortened by more than 100 pages, the rewritten book having only 28 chapters instead of the original 40. The"
"Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Bram Stoker, W.B Yeats, Séamus Heaney and Brendan Behan. Known as An Górta Mór (The great hunger) in Gaeilge, millions of Irish people died and emigrated during Ireland's largest famine. The famine lasted from 1845 - 1849, it was worst during 1847 which was known as Black '47. The famine occurred due to the extremely impoverished Irish population's staple food the potato being infected with Blight. This meant the crop failed and turned black. Starving people who tried to eat them would only vomit it back up soon afterwards. Soup kitchens were set up but made"