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The cover of the latest book by Pippa Chapman, Permaculture Planting Designs.

A sample page from Permaculture Planting Designs by Pippa Chapman showing some tips and a garden design.

A photo of a plant list in Permaculture Planting Designs by Pippa Chapman.

The back cover blurb on Permaculture Planting Designs by Pippa Chapman.

Permaculture Planting Designs by Pippa Chapman is new in stock and selling fast. Twelve Permaculture design garden plans, precise tips on getting started. Recommended! #permaculture #permacultureireland.

Blue snowflake tinsels with pink star detail across the top and bottom. The text says, happy Christmas! We will reopen Sunday 28 December at 1pm. Open 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays. We are open as usual New Year's Day. Then there's the Sheelagh na Gig logi (books coffee gifts wholefoods) and, finally, beneath that it says Cloughjordan Tipperary

Nollaig Shona! Beimid ar ais Dé Domhnaigh! Happy Christmas! We'll be back on Sunday. 💙📚🇮🇪 #speirgorm

The Twelve Days of Christmas - Frank Kelly, 1983 YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults

Boy what day is it?
Christmas Eve!
What time is it?
Round one o'clock!
What's the wifi like?
Holding steady!
Is YouTube still up?
Not a bother on it!
Then it's not too late! Cratchit! Post the video! Is Tiny Tim dead yet? Jaysus he's in his nineties now, what were they feeding him at all?
#speirgorm

Ná bí buartha -- we're fond of the odd pun around here!

A woman with red shoulder-length hair in a black polo neck holds an original art print of her painting of a robin perched in a fruiting holly branch. She stands outside Sheelagh na Gig bookshop. Behind her is a display window painted with stars and red baubles. To the left (her right) is the shop logo and opening hours on the clear glass door.

Local artist Jacinta Glasgow dropped by with original art prints just in time for Christmas. In stock now here in Cloughjordan. #IrishArtists

Thanks, @joanofarchives.bsky.social. No flightless females around here, so that male Winter Moth must be here for the books.

Book cover with red banner and writing

We know just how to impress the rugby lover in your life!
Gift the chance to experience the thrill of the pitch-side view through the lens of superfan Ivan O’Riordan.

Available in all bookshops!

A striped brown moth rests on a plate glass window and the tip of a painted star. Behind the glass are blurred covers of books. You can make out the cover of a book about Live Aid, which has a blue cover and the Live Aid logo.

Form an orderly queue, please, for your Christmas books behind this very patient moth. (And if you know the moth's name, please tell us!) 💙📚🇮🇪

Cloughjordan's bookshop is open every day until Christmas: that's us! AND we're open Christmas Eve 11 am to 6.30pm! If you're in Birr or Roscrea, we are also YOUR local independent bookshop. We're a peaceful, friendly place for Christmas book and gift browsing. 💙 📚 🇮🇪 #booksky

17 reactions · 4 comments | We are delighted to present 'An Seol atá Fút', our December book for Club Leabhar Léigh Linn, written by our very own Annemarie Nugent. Order your copy now and join us nex... We are delighted to present 'An Seol atá Fút', our December book for Club Leabhar Léigh Linn, written by our very own Annemarie Nugent. Order your copy now and join us next month....

This is my lovely lovely Annemarie in @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social talking about her YA book. She is using her teaching voice because it's for a book club designed to teach people Irish and she is very good at teaching Irish and I love her and she's the best. #speirgorm #books #ya #gaeilge

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What a wonderful win for Nicola Pierce’s ‘Great Irish Wives’ last night at the Irish Book Awards!

Nicola’s powerful depiction of the lives of ten wives hidden within history is truly one of the books of 2025.

Congratulations, Nicola!

@irishbookawards.bsky.social

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We’re delighted that ‘Run Home, Little Fox’ was named Children’s Book of the Year (Junior) at the Irish Book Awards!

Tom McCaughren, Erika McGann & Shannon Bergin are a true powerhouse trio and have created a picture book that will be cherished for a very long time. Congratulations to them!

Tá am agat fós an t-úrscéal grafach An Béal Bocht a léamh don chlub an tseachtain seo chugainn. Tá liostaí stór focal agus gramadach ar fáil don leabhar. Tá eolas, leabhra agus ticéid ar fáil ar ár suíomh gréasáin agus sa siopa i gCloch Shiúrdain chomh maith. Léigh Linn! #ForasnaGaeilge

At Uisneach, the sacred centre of Ireland, 2,500 people gather to scatter Manchán Magan’s ashes Month’s memorial hears world will be a less kind, generous, curious and gentle place with the writer’s passing

"There was sleeting rain, sheeting rain, and rain turned to ice that fell in the form of furious hailstones. It was the most elemental of weather for those gathered there at Uisneach, ...to honour a man who chose to live his life woven tightly into nature."

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

A person standing in front of full bookshelves wearing a blue/grey dress shirt with a light-up ghost in the pocket. He's wearing multicoloured striped stovepipe hat with goggles resting on the brim and, in front of his face, holding up a pumpkin with a face drawn on with a marker. Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween! At least one of us really made an effort! Employee of the Month award goes to Elliot! #OícheShamhna

A happy birthday sign. Happy birthday is at the top, written in mulit-coloured balloon-like letters. Below it says to us! Below that, in cursive script, it says Sheelagh na Gig is 19! And behind that text is a yellow two-layered cake with white topping, sprinkles, and three candles. It's all clipart.

A photo. At the top is a happy birthday banner. Below that are two shelves of books, each tied with a red ribbon and a bow. Across the bottom of the bottom shelf is text, yellow background with blue writing ,saying Get your birthday present book!* There's a handwritten sign in the phto that says It's our 19th birthday! Choose one of these new release books on us! Thank you for 19 years! There is a shelf of chocolate below that. and over that shelf is a small textbox, pale blue background, darker blue, with the text *While supplies last.

Breithlá sona dúinn! Happy birthday to us! Beidh cóisir beag sa siopa um thráthnóna ag 4.30i.n. -- píosa císte, an t-amhrán, agus féiríní do chustaiméirí. Bígí linn! We're having a little party this afternoon at 4.30: cake, the song, and presents for customers!

Here's a selection of newly arrived books, both new and restocks. There's at least five I'd like to add to my to-be-read pile!

A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the novel Ordinary Saints. To the left, the descriptive text says, A writer of immense delicacy, perception, and heart. Funny and deeply moving. Nominated for numerous book prizes and book clubs. A must read! At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop.

#IrishBookADay challenge: An Irish book discovered at a bookshop event. While planning #FeministBookFortnight, we discovered After the Train, a collection of first-person testimonials from women who did remarkable things. Would we be where we are today if Irish Women United hadn't existed? @UCDPress

A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the novel Ordinary Saints. To the left, the descriptive text says, A writer of immense delicacy, perception, and heart. Funny and deeply moving. Nominated for numerous book prizes and book clubs. A must read! At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop.

A photo of a paperback copy of the novel Ordinary Saints. It is standing with the cover front facing on a bookshelf. You can see other books behind it.

#IrishBookADay challenge: share your next read. Liz will be reading Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin. Jay lives in London with her girlfriend and doesn't think about her devout upbringing in Ireland. But when she hears her beloved older brother is being put forward for sainthood...

A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the novel Ordinary Saints. To the left, the descriptive text says, A writer of immense delicacy, perception, and heart. Funny and deeply moving. Nominated for numerous book prizes and book clubs. A must read! At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop.

A photo of a paperback copy of the novel Ordinary Saints. It is standing with the cover front facing on a bookshelf. You can see other books behind it.

#IrishBookADay challenge: share your next read. Liz will be reading Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin. Jay lives in London with her girlfriend and doesn't think about her devout upbringing in Ireland. But when she hears her beloved older brother is being put forward for sainthood...

A handknitted tea cosy depicting President Michael D Higgins. The knitted president wears wire-rimmed glasses, a white shirt, red tie, and grey jacket with two knitted black buttons. The cosy covers a red teapot -- you can see the handle and spout. It all sits on a mosaic-covered mini podium on a black worktop. There are full bookcases in the background. The text says you might not be able to take tea with Michael D in the Áras, but you can take tea with Michael 'Tea' every day at home!

Michael D has hosted his last Áras tea party, but you can have presidential tea every day if you have a Michael Tea cosy! e decided to stock one last Michael Tea to mark the end of the era. Handknitted in Cloughjordan by Noreen, we think it's the best Michael Tea design we've seen, but we're biased!

A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the graphic novel of An Béal Bocht. To the left, the descriptive text says, A classic of Irish literature in a striking graphic novel format. It's our November choice for Léigh Linn: our Gaeilge book club for adult learners and improvers of Irish. At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop.

A photo of the graphic novel An Béal Bocht on a book stand on a shelf. You can see other bookcases full of books in the background.

#IrishBookWeek challenge: Share an Irish language book. We have to share the graphic novel of An Béal Bocht, which is the November book choice for our Gaeilge book club: Léigh Linn. I had forgot what an absurdist classic it is. #IrishBookADay #ForasnaGaeilge #loveleabhargaeilge #LéighLinn

A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the graphic novel of An Béal Bocht. To the left, the descriptive text says, A classic of Irish literature in a striking graphic novel format. It's our November choice for Léigh Linn: our Gaeilge book club for adult learners and improvers of Irish. At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop.

A photo of the graphic novel An Béal Bocht on a book stand on a shelf. You can see other bookcases full of books in the background.

dúshlán #IrishBookWeek: Roinn leabhar Gaeilge. Ba mhaith linn an t-úrscéal
grafach An Béal Bocht a roinnt. Is é seo rogha Léigh Linn i mí na Samhna. Is sárleabhar
éigiallta é, leabhar den scoth! sheelaghnagig.com/l%C3%A9igh-l... #IrishBookADay #ForasnaGaeilge #ClubLeabhar #loveleabhargaeilge

Postaer ar Seachtain na Leabhar Éireannach. A poster about Irish Book Week.

Beimid ag ceiliúradh leabhra, údair, maisitheora, foilsitheora, agus léitheora Éireannach leatsa an tseachtain seo, Seachtain Leabhar na Éireannach! #LoveLeabharGaeilge #IrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay

A poster for Irish Book Week. On an off-white background, on the left is a list of text and on the right is a colourful illustration showing a giant reading while sitting on a bookshop. the text lists the different social media posts that will be happening during the Irish Book a Day campaign.

It's Irish Book Week! Join us in celebrating Irish authors, illustrators, publishers, books, and readers! We'll be posting all week about our favourite Irish books and also the Irish Book Awards nominees! #IrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay #loveleabhargaeilge #IrishBookAwards

A photo of a white circle of a blue sheela-na-gig shape surround by text in a seanchló font (old-style Gaelic letters) in English on top and Gaeilge on the bottom saying Sheelagh na Gig Síle na gCioch (except there's no letter h because it's seanchló, so there's a dot over the letter C at the end of the word.

Our bookshop logo, based on the dancer sheela from the other side of Borrisokane. Merging ancient symbol with modern queer art: name the artist who inspired the style, anyone? (No, we're not the women from Sheela na Gig bookshop in Galway, but their (long closed) shop partly inspired our name.)

That's our Sheelagh! We'll spotted.

Colourful flowers in a large flowerpot in front of a grey wall. The flowers include marigolds, lobelia, and Canterbury bells.

The weather says Ireland but the flower pots say summer.☁️🌧️🌦️🌥️

The winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction is Donal Ryan, for Heart, Be at Peace.

"For its clarity. For its perfectly pitched voices. For its humanity and kindness." - Jim Crace, Chair of Judges

Congratulations, Donal! 🎉

@doubledaybooks.bsky.social

A small brown wicker basket is on a black worktop. In the basket, from left to right, are Naitonal Book Tokens vouchers that say Claim a free 5 National Book Token. In the middle are read with Pride booksmarks. At the right is a handwritten sign that says Free Stickers. On top of that are some stickers that say I love my local bookshop. There's a heart image in place of the word love.

The best place to find your next LGBTQIA+ favourite book is at your local, independent bookshop! Celebrate even more by picking up a High Five voucher for a free €5 National Book Token. Have a safe, happy, inclusive, empowered Pride! #nationalbooktokens
#independentbookshopweek #ReadwithPride