Airgedlámh: An Irish Fantasy Fiction Magazine (Autumn, 1980)
Edited by Dave McFerran
Publishers: Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton
(a) Airgedlámh Publications, UK • mag • £1.50/$4.00 (Limited to 500 numbered copies)
Dave McFerran should be here to see this, for it is his concept and his ideals that shaped
Airgedlámh. Dave, or "Cuddles" as he was so fondly known to his many friends, died on
February 5th, 1980, a few days short of his twenty-sixth birthday. He was a popular and
tirelessly irrepressible figure in British Fantasy fandom, with an inexhaustible wit
and an unending supply of anecdotes, as acquaintances at Fantasy conventions will
readily attest. His articles and reviews appeared in many magazines, he worked with
Jim FitzPatrick on a number of projects and was closely involved with The British
Fantasy Society for several years. As British correspondent to the American magazine
Chacal, he contributed the entertaining 'Crosswinds' column to its pages. Sadly,
however, the two publications he hoped to edit himself, Vadhagh and Airgedlámh,
never appeared. Dave had been seriously ill with cancer since July 1979 (and was in
pain for most of the World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton), but after an
operation at Christmas he appeared to be recovering slowly. In fact, he communicated
his hopes to travel from his home in Belfast to England to see some of his
friends shortly before his death... As close associates and friends to the
posthumous editor of Airgedlámh, we know that Dave will be missed by a great
many fans and we offer this single issue of the magazine as a special tribute to him.
| EDITORIAL |
David Sutton & Stephen Jones |
| MANSLAYER! |
Simon R. Green |
| THE FAMULUS IN THE TALISMAN |
John Hurley |
| TWO SORROWS AND A JOY |
Gordon Larkin |
| JIM FITZPATRICK: THE EARLY YEARS |
Dave McFerran |
| WITCH TREE (Illustration) |
John Stewart |
| NUADA AIRGEDLÁMH (Illustration) |
Jim FitzPatrick |
| THE UNIVERSE OF ISLANDS: A NEW TALE OF THE VOIDAL |
Adrian Cole |
| THE PROPHECY OR, THE WITCHWOMAN |
Marion Pitman |
| IN MEMORIAM: DAVE McFERRAN |
Peter Tremayne & Karl Edward Wagner |
[Note: I recently found a small box of "scratch and dent" copies of this in my
parents' attic. These are a little grubby or feature off-register colour on the cover. None
are numbered. If you are interested in purchasing a copy, please contact me via the website.]
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