Position One

Byrne Bros Force Fields introduces the fantastical story of the titular Byrne Brothers, Dublin born manufacturers of magical force fields. Using a mockumentary approach their metaphysical working lives are presented as the corporate website for their firm.

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This online work encompasses product marketing materials, a history of the company, pen portraits of the current leadership and archival press materials that depict the development of Byrne Brothers from its founding in 1905 to the present day.

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The lives of the Byrnes is set against a wider world building - the Silver Branch Universe - that imagines what might happen if Irish independence was won on the astral rather than the physical plane by a band of occultist revolutionaries led by William Butler Yeats and, consequently, that Ireland adopted magic rather than Christianity as the States’ official belief system.