Who's this Dracula guy anyway?

Sean Lennon will present a lecture at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge that is a must for all Dracula fans.



The event All is Not What it Seems: Bram Stoker and Irish Supernatural Fiction is presented in association with Kildare Library & Arts Service Autumn Programme on Tuesday 18 October at 8pm. Admission is free.

A serious gothic fan, Sean will focus on his favourite horror writers, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu and Bram Stoker.

In a personalised view rather than capsulated history, Sean will be having a look through several writings that have shaped the genre and influenced his own work as an artist. An entertaining introduction to this neglected corner of Irish literature.

This illustrated lecture features the screening of Ferndale Films Documentary Dracula’s Bram Stoker which includes interviews with film director Neil Jordan, Senator David Norris, actors Donald Sinden and Christopher Lee, historian Roy Foster, writers, authors and members of the Dracula Organisation and the Bram Stoker Society.

The production finally breaks the coded silence that surrounds the creator of one of literature's most chilling and unforgettable characters and gives a unique understanding of the warring elements in his nature and sexuality that led him to write this masterpiece of the Gothic horror novel.

In addition, the film Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, will be shown on Tuesday 25 October at 8pm. Again, admission is free.

This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer, Jonathan Harker is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of Eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray.

In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.

Sinead Redmond.