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At the very least I'd have expected Gavin to be a decent motivational speaker ( in the style of a football manager talking up his team at half time) But not *even* that. Crash and burn.

A hardcover first - and sole - edition, 1973 - of Art ó Maolfabhail's history of the origins of hurling - Camán -2000 Years of hurling in Ireland. An uncommon title (as the saying goes, a book "rarely found in good condition" #gaabooks #speirgorm

'This book is a fascinating account of the events in 2015/16 which lit a feminist bomb under Irish theatre ...'

Our thanks to Katy Hayes and @independent.ie for this thorough review of WTF Happened.

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Great feature article in today's @irishindosport.bsky.social Weekend supplement on the book also. Photos by Ruth Medjber.

Marinka, Donetsk region, destroyed by Russian occupiers.

"And I'm we're" ? Not too sure what I was at there.

New releases from Gill Books, Royal Irish Academy, & O'Brien Press

Newly published this week (and I'm we're now at peak release time for books) #speirgorm #irishbooks

The author looking serious signing copies of his book at a table, in the manner of a Stasi signed confession.

Spines copies of the book before shipping on our (messy) packing table in Templemore

Author Donal Fallon signing copies of our preorders of The Dublin Pub , A Social and Cultural history, from @newislandbooks.bsky.social all preorders have now shipped ! thebookshop.ie/donal-fallon... #TheDublinPub

The year's turned.

Photograph of a rapidly dwindling blue sky being swallowed by dark clouds

There goes the last of the sunshine for the year

The uncommon A Great Sacrifice - the detailed history of County Cork soldiers in WW1. A very handsome edition as well as being a great work of scholarship.

Tá an mana 'Guth na nDaoine' níos snasta ná an leagan Béarla - ''Raising Your Voice''.

Man honoured in Cork for tending to Air India graves A man who has spent 40 years tending to the graves of the only two victims of the Air India disaster who were left unclaimed has been honoured by an Indian cultural group in Cork.

When our daily news is dominated by truly awful people like Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu, it's easy to forget that there are still some truly decent, honourable people in the world. Here's a reminder of one of them: Finbarr Archer. 👏👏👏
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Golf hooligans. It's like something you'd make up when you're joking about a country going completely feral.

Cormac Moore - The Root of All Evil : The Irish Boundary Commission - BRAND NEW sales@thebookshop.ie

thebookshop.ie/cormac-moore... is the link. #bigweekend #dublinfestivalofhistory

Really excited to share this front cover draft of my latest book (co-written with Alan Tate) due out in November on Lemon's Pure Sweets. Lemon's used to have a slogan, "You cannot eat a better sweet". This Christmas you cannot get a more beautiful book, full of wonderful images.

I suspect books are rather low (or indeed completely off) his radar, from what I've seen so far...😊

Demented stuff, random policymaking on the hoof. No way to run an economy, never mind anything else.

From the President who brought you ‘we’ll do it with two years’ notice to give people time to move manufacturing’, and ‘we’ll sign a treaty with the EU stipulating that its 15% tariff includes pharmaceuticals’, comes ‘actually yeah we’ll double your price unless you turn the sod over here in a week’

Title on the page says "Metamorphosis and Other Stories."

I really wish that publishers of short stories, if they must put a title at the top of the page, would put the name of the story concerned and not the name of the collection.

The verso pages have Franz Kafka at the top throughout in case we hit ourselves with a hammer after every page and forget.

What Remains, our forthcoming title in translation, publishes in just one week!

Check out the beautiful finished product, which we were delighted to receive from the printers earlier this month.

The Stolen Child by WB Yeats was written when he was just 21, inspired by the landscape of Co. Sligo. Erin Brown has created a magical feast for the eyes! Young and old will adore the plethora of fairies and woodland creatures! Even cute drowsy water-rats! Out 6 Oct. @theobrienpress.bsky.social

Cover of True Friends at Fernside

Reading Guide

“This coming-of-age story offers a compelling insight into the personal troubles of each of these characters and accurately displays how issues at home can sometimes have an adverse effect on behaviour at school.”

Thank you @childrensbooksireland.ie!

A general comment that there's a whole world of classic Irish fiction and non fiction titles ( free copyright in many cases) backlist titles out there that we sell used copies of - in large quantities, that would greatly benefit from modern lower cost reissues.

(This copy has now sold)

Cover image of the forthcoming gift edition of Joyce's The Dead, showing a snow covered Georgian doorway, superimposed on a snowy landscape. Introduction by novelist Nuala O'Connor.

Coming from @newislandbooks.bsky.social this November is a handsome gift edition of the classic short story from Joyce's Dubliners - The Dead, with a new introduction written by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social ( author of the bestselling Nora) - Preorder here - thebookshop.ie/james-joyce-...

It’s always special to see authors holding their book. Earlier this week, we stopped by the Irish Theatre Institute to hand deliver copies of WTF Happened to its authors, Sarah Durcan and Lian Bell, and we were joined by Niamh O’Donnell of ITI.

🔗 Order a copy: bit.ly/wtf-happened

Ah, I didnt get that link. St Paschal was apparently (also) the patron saint of Congresses . Or so the internet tells me.

Connolly running a crowdfunded ''sponsor a poster in your locality'' campaign online, will be interesting to see if it leads to a wider reach.