Gareth Hanrahan’s a writer and game designer living in Cork. His gaming work includes Moria, the Darkening of Mirkwood, the Pirates of Drinax, the Dracula Dossier, Eyes of the Stone Thief, Cthulhu City, Dagger in the Heart and the upcoming Merryshire Detective Club; his novels include The Gutter Prayer, The Lands of the Firstborn trilogy…
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Octocon Presents: C.E. Murphy with Bone & Blood
Thursday 26 March, 2026 @ 8pm IST Join us live on YouTube for a reading and interview with one of our 2026 Guests of Honour, C.E. Murphy. https://www.youtube.com/@OctoconIRL Octocon 2026 & 2025 members are invited to join us on Zoom after the streaming ends (8:45) for a private Q&A. An email with the invite link…
First Octocon Hangout – Sun 8th March on Zoom
We’re launching a new monthly Zoom hangout, where you can connect with other Octocon members. As well as a general social space, we plan to host breakout rooms for writers and crafters, and will have a featured event each month such as a workshop, fan chat or talk. The hangout will be restricted to members…
Registration for Octocon 2026 is Now Open!
Hello everyone! We have exciting news – you can now register for Octocon 2026 through our members’ portal. This year you will need to register your email address with our system before you purchase membership. Make sure to check your spam / junk folder if the registration emails don’t appear in your inbox. All types…
Octocon 2025 Overview
Saturday 11th October 2025 – Maldron Hotel, Tallaght, Dublin & OnlineSunday 12th October 2025 – Online Supported by Supporting Octocon 2025 was a hybrid convention As such, in addition to our in-person activities, we also featured: What Went On at Octocon 2025 Octocon’s 2025 programme took place both in Dublin and online, with programme streamed…
Octocon 2025 General Gallery
Octocon 2025 Cosplay Showcase Gallery
Octocon 2025 Cosplay Showcase Gallery
Cosplay showcase gallery with our in-person guests Fenek and Przysto * Please note that alt text / captions are not available for this gallery.
Octocon 2025 Trade Hall
Every year, we welcome artists, writers, crafters, comic creators and retailers into the Trade Hall to show off their wares to our members. Our 2025 Trade Hall was located in Shannon 1, at the heart of Octocon. Our line-up of traders: We also had our Octocon Book Table, selling books written by authors appearing at…
Adrian Tchaikovsky – Guest of Honour
Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and many others. Children of Time and its series…
C.E. (Catie) Murphy – Guest of Honor
C.E. (Catie) Murphy was born and raised in Alaska, where she held the usual grab-bag of jobs usually seen in an authorial biography, including public library volunteer, archival assistant, cannery worker, and web designer. She has something in the region of eighty books out, under a startling variety of names and genres, ranging from fantasy…