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The first lots of orders from the sale weekend ready for packing up today and tomorrow (no rest for the wicked)
This area MAYhave been tidied deliberately for this photo also.

Meet the Reeves Family of Tramore House, Douglas | National Heritage Week 16th – 24th August 2025 Rachel Finnegan will give an illustrated talk on the Reeves family who occupied Tramore House, Douglas, during the nineteenth century. She will focus on the Ree...

As part of Heritage Week this month, there's an event and launch in Douglas, Cork also - details below!
www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...

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title page , with estate maps on facong page

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Available for preorder now is a Cork interest local history book - Memories of Gentry Houses in Skibbereen and Douglas edited by Rachel Finnegan - on the Reeves family sisters - 19th & early 20th century Cork women. #cork
thebookshop.ie/rachel-finne...

Good to see you here ! Welcome !

From today until Monday, over 9500 books (HB and TPB, fiction and non fiction) reduced to only €1 at thebookshop.ie !

OOOH, Matron. Etc. 😀

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us & we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, & we only know them when they are gone.

~ George Eliot, ‘Janet’s Repentance’ from ‘Scenes of Clerical Life’ (1857)

#Painting, Peter Ilsted, ‘Girl Reading a Letter in an Interior,’ 1908.

I see so much great ( and often slightly demented ) commercial crime covers from mid last century that, even though they probably cost little to produce, are miles better. Publishers are missing the opportunity to use design as 'brand' for an author.

100% agree. Crime thriller covers in particular have become overly generic - either a man running/walking away from explosion or a ( vaguely) threatening house/ door/ streetscape. When you see a full table of them together they merge into meh.

Some of the best book design in Irish publishing currently also, every new @rialibrary.bsky.social book is a thing of beauty

Two books, the Irish Art of Calligraphy and Old Irish a Beginner's Guide

Beautiful books by @ria.ie!

Everything I need for my retirement plans of becoming a scribe in the ancient monastery of Iona.

Thanks to ⁦‪⁦‪Matthew O’Toole‬⁩ for a very generous review of my book The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission in today’s Irish Times.

Still Life with Pint Glass and Pomegranate

FFS. Joke of a candidate.

Lots of Irish local history added in the last fortnight - thebookshop.ie/non-fiction/...

Brendan Bracken - 'more Churchillian than Churchill' Churchill's faithful and most trusted political advisor was indispensable to the British war effort.

Rumours circulated that Bracken was (as bizarre as it seems) Churchill's unacknowledged son - see engelsbergideas.com/portraits/br...
In further prooof that history connects everything, Bracken's father was also one of the founders of the GAA in 1884.

Some enterprising publisher ( or perhaps the original publisher - Allen Lane via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social really need to republish this - the fascinating tale of Brendan Bracken (1901-58) (a Templemore native) who served in Churchill's War Cabinet . Huge prices for online used copies.

Dear Gay was an instant bestseller when it was published in 2023. PS Gay brings readers more letters and memories from the listeners of Ireland's most iconic radio show. PS Gay reflects the very fabric of our society from the lighter watercooler moments that had us all talking, to personal stories that stopped us in our tracks. Remember the uproar over Dick's affair in Glenroe and the nationwide protest about the decision by Switzer's department store to remove the Christmas gnomes from the window. There are accounts of the devastating impact of the AIDS crisis, the divorce referendum and heartbreaking experiences of abortion. Most importantly, there are the stories of the lives of everyday superwomen who wrote into the show to share their experiences, Gay Byrne acting as ringmaster skilfully capturing what mattered to them. Nostalgic for times that seemed simpler than they are today, and a reminder of how far we have come.

Coming from Gill Books on 0ctober 30th is the follow up to Letters to Gay, P.S Gay, a further collection of correspondence to the Gay Byrne Radio Show on Radio 1 in the 1980's and beyond. Edited by Suzy Byrne, daughter of the late Gay Byrne. thebookshop.ie/suzy-byrne-p...

Beginning on Thursday:
The 66th Yeats International Summer School ( the longest running literary summer school in the world) opens in Sligo.
I will now post some pretty bad photos of the programme.

Has anyone seen these? David has just sent me the pictures - previous winners of the Dublin Literary Awards on the steps of the library in the Ilac Centre. Fair play to Dublin City Libraries & everyone else involved!

Hi.

That was some second half.😄. So good to hear the tribute to the late Dillon Quirke in Rónán Maher's speech.

Gwan the Premier !
( Says the Galway person living in Limerick who works in Tipperary) (And loves Cork, as a place like. )

If you are a person outside of Ireland who's never seen it before, it's a revelation in speed and skill.

All Ireland Hurling Final
Sun 20 July 3:30 pm
For friends in the UK, it’s live on BBC2 and BBC iPlayer, I’d highly recommend tuning in. Non stop drama and action from the fastest field game in the world
#GAA #Hurling #CrokePark #AllIrelandFinal #LiamMcCarthyCup
#LFC #RedSky

Following on from the (very successful) The Irish Words You Should Know - comes An Irish Word a Day from Hector Ó hEochagáin via Gill Books to be published 30.10.2025 - preorder here !
Leabhar nua le foilsiú ag Hector, - déan réamhordú anseo!
thebookshop.ie/hector-o-heo...
#gaeilge #spéirgorm

Was in the US recently and the price of alcohol (and soft drinks) in airports and airlines was...high. $8 for a coke in JFK.

Does it ..work ?

Preorder now available! thebookshop.ie/david-gillic... coming 23rd October!