BRAM STOKER
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The Authoritative Resource for Information about Bram Stoker’s Life and Work
Gathering & Celebrating
The Centenary of Bram Stoker’s Death
In Dublin City, 4 - 9 July 2012
Page updated 4 October 2012
Bram’s Dublin Tour Bram's Birthplace Bram’s Family Bram’s Dublin Journal
Bram’s Bookshelf Bram Stoker Obituary Bram Stoker Centenary 2012 Dracula Serial Reviews of Dracula
Dracula, Ballets, Musicals, Stageplays Project Dracula Dacre Stoker
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Dacre Stoker, Noel Dobbs, Dublin's Lord Mayor Naoise O Muiri, Robin MacCaw
Parker Stoker in the Crypts of ChristChurch Cathedral, 7 July 2012
Dacre Stoker & other family members received their
Certificates of Irish Heritage
Dacre Stoker & Lord Mayor
Bram Stoker's great grandsons at the dedication of the plaque at Dublin Castle.
L - R, Noel Dobbs,
Gen. Mgr. of Dublin Castle, George Moir & Robin MacCaw
Interior of St Ann's Church,
where a service in
Celebration of the Life of Bram Stoker was held, 8 July 2012
Pat Liddy gave special walking tours of
sights of Stoker significance in Dublin
July 2012
A veritable Who's Who
at Trinity College Dublin
Conference
July 2012
The author of Dracula worked here from 1866 - 1878
in the Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerks, which
was attached to the Chief Secretary's Office.
His father, Abraham, had previously worked here for more than 50 years.
Bram was also part time theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, which was co-owned by the famous Gothic horror writer, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, whose writings were inspirational to him.
On promotion to Clerk of Inspection, Bram's meticulous research of the enormous mass of accumulated official documents resulted in his first published book,
The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, which he later described as being 'dry as dust'.
Noel Dobbs, Elizabeth Miller,
& Robin MacCaw
Trinity College
July 2012
Parker Stoker, Valerie Cavalli, & Dacre Stoker in the Crypts
Douglas Appleyard, (Stoker cousin)
of the Raheny Heritage Society
& 'Friends of Bram Stoker'
Artist Beatrice Stewart and David Skal
with her bust of Bram Stoker,
now on display at St Ann's Church
Significantly, a very rare & valuable 1st edition of Dracula was carried into St Ann's Church by the Vicar, & placed on the alter during the Celebration of Bram's Life on Sunday.
This edition (generously loaned for the occasion) is notable for having been signed by Bram to "Hommy Beg" his very dear friend, the novelist, Sir Henry Hall Caine, to whom Dracula was dedicated. The spirits of both men could be felt in the church, where Bram & Florence married in 1878.
When Bram died 100 years ago, "The Daily Telegraph" published Hall Caine's
"Bram Stoker: The Story of a Great Friendship", of which this is but a brief excerpt:
"It is only once in a man’s life that such a friendship comes to him, and when the grave is closed on the big heart which we are to bury to-day, I shall feel that I have lost it.
"Of the devotion of his wife during these last dark days, in which the whirlwind of his spirit had nothing lost to it but the broken wreck of a strong man, I cannot trust myself to speak. That must always be a sacred memory to those who knew what it was. If his was the genius of friendship, hers must have been the genius of love."
Cousins
Helaina Angeletos, Parker Stoker
& John Stoker
Trinity College Library
The Long Room
Photo Albums from Centenary Events to Date,
can be accessed by clicking links below.
29 March - 1 April 2012 - Bram Stoker Award for Vampire Novel of the Century,
9-10 April 2012 - A Very Special Literary Event at Bram Stoker's Birthplace,
Clontarf and Unveiling of Bram Stoker Portrait at Irish Writer’s Centre, Dublin, Ireland
19 - 21 April 2012 - Robson Press Launch of Bram Stoker's Lost Journal
London Dracula Society Event at the Lyceum Theatre, Golders Green Cemetery,
Open Graves Open Minds, Bram Stoker Centenary Symposium, London, UK