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The Literary Renaissance in Dublin YouTube video by Dublin Tales

This is the link ...
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I didn't know that, thank you !

The area up the striped
ramp is into the existing shop area, which will remain .

Work is ongoing on the extension to the physical bookshop here (The Book Temple) area is now almost fully shelved, just needs cleaning , lotsa dusting and of course, books. Aiming to be fully open on Patricks Day #speirgorm .

My favourite book. Buy it!

The seminal account of a lost 1950's bohemian Dublin in a handsome new edition from @lilliputpress.bsky.social & a new introduction from Joseph O'Connor. Both melancholy and sharp, portraits of Behan, Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien .
Dead as Doornails - Anthony Cronin. thebookshop.ie/anthony-cron...

Always on the lookout for new podcasts ( while still working, obvs :)

Introducing: Words in the Air, a new literary podcast!

The first episode features Irish Writers Centre Ambassador Joseph O'Connor in conversation with Madeleine Keane, Literary Editor of the Sunday Independent.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3a00...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/do/podcast/w...

My new book Nature’s Acre — about wildlife gardening, community and biodiversity in Ireland — launches next week at Sonairte, the National Ecology Centre.
@irishtimesnews.bsky.social @irish_examiner.bsky.social @independent-ie.bsky.social
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Tá an leabhar díolta anois áfach, ach bhí dhá ghrianghraf eile agam dhó - iad seo.

There's a great line from a poem .. cat ag crú na gréine - (the cat milking the sun ) which I always think of anytime I see a cat stretched in the sunshine like this

Give me the light years
But I want the dark ones, too
Grief is the singer in my band
She's a passenger van
And a shortcut straight to the truth
Learn from the nightshades
They grow in the darkest places..

from Salt, Then Sour,Then Sweet, Sara Bareilles

As *gaeilge* D'oh.

🚨 The Competition watchdog has been ordered to review the retail energy market, after some home heating and motor fuel suppliers seemed to rise prices long before any oil or gas shortage would kick in. Peter Burke’s instruction to CCPC is to identify whether all levers are being used to manage costs

I also like that the publisher Gill , is still going strong in Irish publishing also, well over a century on.

Gethan Dick - Water in the Desert Fire in the Night - PB - BRAND NEW sales@thebookshop.ie

Winner of the Kate O'Brien Award at @limericklitfest.bsky.social , published by @tramppress.bsky.social - Waterin the Desert, Fire in the Night from Gethan Dick - only €10 while stocks last!
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Not a particularly rare book, but this first edition of Gill's Irish Reciter from 1905 has a very handsome cover design. Tá téacsanna as Gaeileg ann chomh maith. thebookshop.ie/j-j-o-kelly-...

The Kate O'Brien Award 2026 winner is Gethan Dick with Water in the Desert, Fire in the night.
"Short story collection of excellence." The prize this year is €5000, very kindly sponsored by Bill and Denise Whelan

#LLF2026

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Fancy a bit of retail therapy?

We make lots of lovely things and we could do with a few orders.

Reposts would be fabulous too, I swear I am not demanding.

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Clash of the Princes Fighting Fantasy The Warlock's Way

Two of the better condition Jackson & Livingstone Fighting Fantasy I've seen recently. Both 1986 Puffin UK.

Orban is a pox on Europe.

I love that this book is still finding readers. It declares its unorthodox, experimental intentions from the start and it’s really not what you think it might be. @rha-arts.bsky.social #FromTenTillDusk

that was so feckin stressful ( despite it being easy in the end)

Delighted to hear Horslips' album, The Táin, announced as RTE Choice Music Prize - Classic Irish Album. At last ! Here are the boys with the artwork that inspired the album. You can see this piece we made about the album on Creedon's Musical Atlas here 👉https://www.rte.ie/player/find?q=creedon.

Delighted to be getting them for sale Ciarán !

Nature’ Acre my first book now on the shelves of its first bricks and mortar bookshop - of course an Irish independent bookshop.

@thebookshopie.bsky.social in Templemore.

Independent bookshops still and will always matter:

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#IrishBooks #IndieBookshop

It's excellent isn't it?

Normally I'm a fan of Faber editions but I think the 1965 Penguin edition design wins hands down here #lordoftheflies

Orders will ship next week. (All international orders have already shipped)

Just arrived at the warehouse today, The forthcoming book (Feb 27th) from Orla Drumgoole - ( Irish Mammy Cooks on TikTok and Insta)
Things you'd actually make for the dinner😁 #speirgorn #irishmammycooks