The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin

🌼Happy launch day to Ruth Ennis!🌼

❤️Ruth is our fab children's books reviewer & is such a supportive, generous, & talented person—we wish her and Shorelines all the success in the world ❤️
@littleislandbooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie @rurooie.bsky.social

Join Mei Chin and I at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social on 19th February as we'll be talking about some of our favourite Chinese literature.

It's free!

Do come and celebrate the Lunar New Year with us – the Year of the Horse.

Loving this look back on #2016 by @gutterbookshop.bsky.social on Insta - includes various photos of me looking skinny (Lockdown gains have stayed for the long haul) + a lovely photo of our wedding & a brilliant cat-audience-at-a-festival pic! www.instagram.com/p/DTsuwz1DC76/

A River Red With Blood (Charlie Parker 23) by John Connolly (Signed & Dedicated 1st Edition Hardback) (April 2026) The brand new Charlie Parker thriller. The players call it the Game, and its aim is simple: to abduct and kill a stranger without getting caught. They're very good at it. They've been playing it for...

If you're in Dublin, you can preorder from @gutterbookshop.bsky.social: gutterbookshop.com/product/a-ri...

Little Island invites you to celebrate the launch of Shorelines by Ruth Ennis Launched by Deirdre Sullivan on 5th February 2026 From 6.30pm to 8pm at The Gutter Bookshop Cow's Ln Temple Bar Dublin 8 D08 DK27

📣 Please join us for our first book launch of the year! 📣

What: SHORELINES, the highly anticipated debut by @rurooie.bsky.social

When: 5 Feb 6.30pm

Where: @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

Who: Launched by two-times KPMG–Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year winner Deirdre Sullivan

All welcome!

‘Animals of Irish Name and Origin’ – new book by Aga Grandowicz. Front cover.

‘Animals of Irish Name and Origin’ – new book by Aga Grandowicz. Contents page.

‘Animals of Irish Name and Origin’ – new book by Aga Grandowicz. Irish red setter.

‘Animals of Irish Name and Origin’ – new book by Aga Grandowicz. Old Irish goat.

Introducing ‘Animals of Irish Name and Origin’ by Aga Grandowicz.
🗓️ 12/03/2026 | Pre-order on NaturalWorldPublishing.ie, HalfwayUpTheStairs.ie, and GutterBookshop.com
💚 Booksellers can order from Argosy.

#AnimalsOfIrishNameBook #IrishAnimals #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks #IrishInterest

😆

Selfie of Bob sitting at airport. He's wearing a cap, headphones & drinking from a cup of coffee. He looks both tired & shocked (the coffee is not good).

Photo of a proof copy of Love Lane by Patrick Gale. It's a blue paperback with orange gold title

Early start: heading to Málaga for a writing week & (hopefully) some sunshine - Irish winters are not SADs friend.. Anyway, #DublinAirport is heaving but I have #Prince & Patrick Gale to keep me company. I'll be interviewing Patrick about new novel #LostLane in @gutterbookshop.bsky.social on 31/3..

Great reads incoming (and there is so much more) - Marta is halfway through that pile and loving it!
Yes, she does share with other staff.
Occasionally.

Thank you to all the beautiful publishers for keeping our reading appetites sated.

New to #Bluesky? Here's a starter pack for Bricks & Mortar Bookshops on the Island of Ireland
#BookSky
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Books and tea

Dropped the smaller offspring off for musical theatre class, so treated myself to a mini-haul from @gutterbookshop.bsky.social and a relaxing tea. Finally got Queer Georgians, as Santa did not provide, and was surprised not to hear much of this little Carol Ann Duffy book via my usual channels…

Our bestsellers in 2025 across both shops: a delightful mix of events, staff picks, and local & tourists' favourites.
Thank you to all of you beauts for supporting us through the year, we wouldn't be where we are without you and your love of reading!

Here's to more book chats in 2026!

YouTube video by Office of Public Works Winter Solstice Live Streaming - 21 December 2025

If you missed out on the Newgrange solstice livestream this morning you can find it here. Really worth it for the authoritative, evocative commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...

Hi Orla, thank you for shopping with us! We're only a small team, so there is always work to be done, and any comments can always be emailed to info@gutterbookshop.com. >M.

In these last few days before Christmas, please do remember to support our retailers - here we are at Dublin’s @gutterbookshop.bsky.social. Stop in!

Thank you 📚💚

A follow up to this. I bought almost all my gifts within Ireland. Some worthy mentions!

Handmade Soap Company
Bookworld.ie Adult Gift Bag bundles
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social - particularly the '642 Things to Write About' for any writers in your life
Poco Beauty
Dunnes €6/€7 candles #Spéirgorm

Bookshop signing fun with our #WTFHappened warriors Lian Bell and Sarah Durcan

@lianbell.bsky.social @sarahdurcan.bsky.social

Many thanks to the following bookshops

@hodgesfiggis.bsky.social
@dubraybooks.bsky.social
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
& Connolly Books

Last Christmas, I gave you Descartes.
But the very next day you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears,
I'll give you some Aristotle.

2025 Favourite Reads🧵 9th year posting a list of books I've enjoyed

Gutter Dalkey turned 12 today! 💚📚
What started as a pop-up (that never popped-down) evolved into the most gorgeous haven for bookworms.

Thank you to all of you beauts who have supported us through it all accepting grumpy recommendations, sulky replies, and reluctant smiles (and that's only Marta).

A picture of Sarah Rees-Brennan (left) and Ruth F Long (right) in front of a Gutter Bookshop sign. Ruth is talking about her new book, The Lore of Silver!

Yesterday evening marked the launch of @rflong.bsky.social's "The Lore of Silver" hosted by the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! Ruth was interviewed by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social about how the series came into being and intrigued us all. There are bodies, you should buy this book!

Q&A—Clare O'Dea - Books Ireland Clare O'Dea talks everything bookish in our companion series to Burning Books.

'I chuckled my way through Less by Andrew Sean Greer, a story about a clueless writer on the festival trail, especially the parts in Mexico and Germany. I also loved the humour in Edith by Martina Devlin'
@fairlightbooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/qa-clare-odea/

Cover of The Lore of Silver and the words You're invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver, the Gutter bookshop Cow's lane, Dublin 2 with Sarah Rees Brennan 6.30pm 20 November 2025

You're invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver on Thursday 20th November at 6.30pm in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane, Dublin 2, now with added @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social

There will be cake. And shenanigans.

Still revelling in all the magic of last week's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social ✨

Huge thanks to all who joined to celebrate these incredible authors, poets & thinkers

And gratitude to the brilliant team at DBF, and to #TheRowanTrust, @dublincityoflit.bsky.social and @gutterbookshop.bsky.social ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

📚 Located in Dublin? Visit your local bookshop to pick up a signed copy of From Bullets to Ballots by @owenoshea.bsky.social!

✍️ Find them in @booksupstairs.bsky.social
Connolly Books
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@hodgesfiggis.bsky.social
Dubray Grafton St

Book Launch: morsels - Dublin Book Festival Susanna Galbraith’s debut collection, morsels (Macha Press) is a formally ambitious multi-sequence debut collection. The title series ‘morsels’ explores the ways language and its absences shape our re...

We can't wait for Susanna Galbraith's MORSELS Dublin launch @gutterbookshop.bsky.social
as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social!

Tickets available at: dublinbookfestival.com/event/morsel...

#ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou

Photo from 2009 of the empty shop unit showing white walls, a pillar and slate floor.

Photo of the empty shop unit from 2009 showing the outside and entrance. It looks very grey and very empty.

Photo of the open bookshop full of books, cards and colour. There's people browsing books and lots of light

Photo of outside of the shop. The street is sunny and colourful with people walking past. Someone has just left the bookshop. You can see things in the windows and a glimpse of the Gutter sign.

16 years ago today we opened the doors to Dublin's newest bookshop.That @gutterbookshop.bsky.social continues to thrive today brings me so much joy. We created something that brought people together & celebrated books & reading. I feel like I added something good to the world & I'm so proud of that.

✨THIS SATURDAY✨

Women Writing History

At 11am in IMMA on 8 November, join us during Dublin Book Festival for a panel with After the Train co-editor Evelyn Conlon and author Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with journalist Clodagh Finn

🎟️ Free – booking required dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-...

Oops, @caimhmc.bsky.social !