Bram Stoker – Gibbet Hill
At this years Bram Stoker Festival, The Rotunda Foundation would like to highlight the Macnas Parade event which is inspired by the Gibbet Hill Story occurring on On Sunday 2nd November at 7pm.
World-renowned spectacle makers Macnas return to Dublin’s streets with another magical and unforgettable parade: An Treun – The Summoning of the Lost, a brand-new procession weaving through the North Inner City on a new route, passing beneath the city’s elegant Georgian facades as dusk descends on Hallowe’en Weekend.
Inspired by Gibbet Hill, the long-lost tale by Dracula
Info on the event can be found here.
Biographies
Paul Murray
Paul Murray is the author of From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker
(2004) and A Fantastic Journey: the Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn (1993),
which won the Koizumi Yakumo Literary Prize in Japan and the Lord Mayor of
Dublin’s Commendation in 1995. He edited The Japanese Ghost Stories of Lafcadio
Hearn for Penguin Classics (2019) and contributed the entries on Stoker and Hearn to
the Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009). A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and a
former Irish diplomat, Murray was Irish Ambassador to South Korea and North Korea
(1999-2004), and to the OECD and UNESCO in Paris (2006-12). He served twice at
the Irish Embassy, London, 1974-75 and 1989-97. His other postings included Tokyo,
Ottawa, New York, and Strasbourg. He edited Ireland today for the Department of
Foreign Affairs, Dublin, 1975-78. His 2023 interview with the literary journal, The
Wise Owl, is available on YouTube (https://www.
Paul McKinley
Paul McKinley is an artist living and working in Dublin. Recent
exhibitions include, ‘Sacred Trust, Donations and their legacy’,
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2024, ‘Pomegranate’, (solo) Kevin
Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 2023, ‘Blume’, (solo) Kevin Kavanagh
Gallery, Dublin, 2021. ‘From the Mountain’, works from the Arts
Council collection, Wexford Arts Centre, 2019 and ‘Many Worlds’,
Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, 2017.
Awarded the prestigious Nissan Art Project in 2007, McKinley
has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is included
in the collections of Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, An Chomhairle
Ealaíon/The Arts Council, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Trinity College
Dublin, Office of Public Works and Allied Irish Bank and Kildare
County Council.
Brian Cleary
Brian Cleary is a writer, pharmacist, and researcher. He discovered Gibbet Hill, a long-lost short story by the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, which had remained undisturbed in the archives for over 130 years.
After an experience of sudden hearing loss, Brian had been pursuing his lifelong passion for the works of Bram Stoker at the National Library of Ireland, when he made the discovery.
All proceeds from sales of Gibbet Hill will go to the Rotunda Foundation’s Charlotte Stoker Fund to support research into potentially preventable hearing loss in vulnerable babies – a fund named for Bram Stoker’s mother, who was also an advocate for deaf people.
Gibbet Hill had its world premiere at Dublin’s Bram Stoker Festival. You can now watch this event at the Gibbet Hill Event Videos link on this page.
Brian is an advocate for accessibility and hearing loss research. He writes about hearing loss, severe tinnitus, and his experiences after receiving a cochlear implant at www.noisysilence.ie