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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 2h

Out this month from @newislandbooks.bsky.social is This Modern Love :Architectural Gems of 20th Century Ireland from @emma-gilleece.bsky.social - thebookshop.ie/emma-gilleec.... Zingy orange cover design from @hitoneie.bsky.social

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The (relatively hard to find) Murder in the Midlands 1862-1915 from J.W.H Carter, a signed copy of the first printing. Historic murder cases

Cover shows a (heavy) prisoner escort from Tullamore train station to the courthouse

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What we think autumn will be like / what autumn is actually like.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A book club edition, but still - 1980 US HB edition of Philip K Dick's The Golden Man (primarily early short stories from PKD) thebookshop.ie/philip-k-dic...

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A sharp copy of Donall MacAmhlaigh's An Irish Navvy (aka Dialann Deoraí (The Diary of an Exile). The best book on the Irish working experience in postwar Britain.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For over 20 years, Emmet O'Connor published a wide array of books on Irish socialist and wider Labour history - & forthcoming from @ucdpress.bsky.social is his WAR TO THE DEATH! centered on events in Civil War era Waterford. Preorder here - €23 with delivery included! thebookshop.ie/emmet-o-conn...

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 01/10/2026

For National Poetry Day, another favourite of mine and brother, Ginsberg knew what he was talking about.

Howl By Allan Ginsberg
Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine
Gotta, gotta be down, because I want it all
It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep and she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his
Chest now, he takes off her
Dress now, let me go
And I just can't look, it's killing me
They're taking control

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the karyn in the woods 🎃 @karynmoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

okay I was at a table quiz this evening and there was a question about glenroe and a girl at the next table went ‘what’s glenroe?’ so anyway I’m dead now

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The inaugural author for the @limerickcouncil.bsky.social One City One Book initiative is Karen Fitzgibbon with her 2026 novel Tell the Truth from Poolbeg Press thebookshop.ie/karen-fitzgi...

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Kate Bielinski @katebielinski.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Nice book post today from @thebookshopie.bsky.social. The new @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social book and an unexpected free gift. Thank you! #booksky #speirgorm

Two books
On the left a book called The Female Line northern Irish women writers. On the right a book called No Vacancy by Jan Carson.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A general appeal. If you are an author of any book or books available from Irish publishers (via Gill Distribution, Áis, Poolbeg etc) we'd love to (a) sell your books (b) publish your thoughts on your books, publishing, writing - anything - on our shop blog. (1/2)

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great news. Ireland’s libraries are one of the best parts of our society. (And I’m not just saying that because I’m married to a librarian) #SpeirGorm

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 17/09/2026

And if you haven’t read it yet, good news - it’s out in paperback with a swanky new cover and a lower price, a week from today!

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On the way up to the big shmoke for #dublinhistoryfestival , these two events today in Pearse Street from @kevinrafter.bsky.social and @gerardshannon.bsky.social , thanks to @dublincitylibs.bsky.social

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incredible photo by Rich Fury in the Irish Times of U2 on Grafton Street this evening

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 25/09/2026

The RIA is pleased to announce the publication of 'Ireland: Why it matters to be an island', a new book by Michael Cronin MRIA: www.ria.ie/2026/09/25/r...

Stacks of the book “Ireland: Why It Matters to Be an Island” by Michael Cronin, featuring blue wave patterns and yellow circles.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We've added over 700 comics to the site this month ( new to us as we didn't have a huge quantity before now) Almost all from the last two decades, but a few older ( and more to follow) - thebookshop.ie/comics/

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It's not a hifulutin southern gothic swinging party, Scarlet, it's a

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apples sweeten in the dark... From the late Eavan Boland, for anyone who's ever walked a suburban street on an autumn evening.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Read her. Not just the Cromwell novels. All her novels. Her short stories. Her waspish and insightful non-fiction. March down now to @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social to @bigbeardedbookseller.com to @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social to @thebookshopie.bsky.social to @swanseastones.bsky.social and buy them all

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey kids, back in the day we listened to these things called cassette tapes... A 1987 BBC Audio Lord of the Rings box set. Shiny, we loves it...

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Two volume set of Elizabeth Longford's biography of notable Dubliner" the Duke of Wellington - The Years of the Sword and Pillar of State. Many Irish connections, not least from the author herself.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The as Gaeilge translation of All Quiet on the Western Front, with a great cover from a 1916 German poster. #fictionintranslation

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Origin Books @originbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That's exciting—having them in hand early must feel great before the official launch. Manchán's work always deserves that kind of anticipation.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Copies have arrived at the warehouse ahead of next week's publication date of Manchán Magan's final book, Seeing What's Hidden - get your preorder in ! €20 includes delivery within Ireland. www.thebookshop.ie

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The excellent Catalpa from Michael B Barry. A story of Fenians, prison escape, three continents and high seas adventure, a true history that nearly reads like fiction.

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Lisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 04/09/2026

Happy Friday, pub nerds.

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Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ladies and Gentlemen the government so poor they have to increase the cost of public transport during a cost of living crisis. #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Released (slightly early ) from @newislandbooks.bsky.social - Fearless- Vincent Browne's Magill and Ireland in the 1980's - from @kevinrafter.bsky.social - available now at www.thebookshop.ie - shipping included in the price! #speirgorm

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of my fondest childhood memories was not knowing the name of any CEO of any company.

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Martin Nutbeem (Ghoulish edition, but cool with it) @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is incredible! I know it's to display boxes of gum but it really looks like some anthropomorphic folk horror memory of The Inquisition. Image reposted with alt text to describe the true horror of Spearman.

A display stand featuring Wrigley’s moon-faced mascot, the “Spearman". He's made of flat cut out iron with a sinister celluloid grinning face. He has spindley legs. His body is a thick arrow, with the point making up his head. His arms are stretched out, resting ona series of iron cross with 90° right angles to hold boxes of gum; they are stark and would not look out of place in a dungeon.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The cryosphere is in real trouble. That means that people and agriculture downstream will be too.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Can't post the full length video here, but anyone with a history interest in Dublin will enjoy this from Davy Holden's channel - Donal Fallon @3castlesburning.bsky.social on the city's revolutionary pubs - and we have the buke - thebookshop.ie/donal-fallon... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBP_...

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6 Revolutionary Pubs in Dublin

YouTube video by Davy Holden

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“If poetry is a wheel, the hub for that wheel is love poetry.” — Michael Longley

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just in from @newislandbooks.bsky.social , Carlo Gebler's biographical account of his mother Edna O'Brien. (I'm greatly looking forward to this myself) #speirgorm

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the sharpest copies of the 1947 classic All in the Cooking I've seen, just added to stock (no pun intended🙂) thebookshop.ie/josephine-ma...

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A couple of useful starter packs here from @aislingwalsh.bsky.social: Irish Literary Community go.bsky.app/M7713mj Irish Literary Community II go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv

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Three Castles Burning @3castlesburning.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

NEW EPISODE. The curious history of the Pierrepoint family and Ireland. Albert's biography - Executioner - is a brilliant if sometimes unreliable account of working as a hangman. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Executioners: The Pierrepoint Family

Podcast Episode · Three Castles Burning · 22 August · 33min

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not a particularly rare or high value hardcover, but this is a great period cover on this 1954 1st Ed of The Bulls of Parral by Marguerite Steen. Cover design by Trevor Denning.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The rub of a relic.. "This piece of linen has touched a relic of the martyr''. Always fascinating to me how the medieval idea of saints 'relics' persisted . (Hard to see but there is a tiny square of linen on the page) Found in a 1975 PB on (St)Oliver Plunkett.

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Claire Bradley @cbgenealogy.ie · 15/08/2026

I've got 3 genealogy talks this coming week as part of #HeritageWeek (Monday: 1926 census in Fingal Local Studies in Swords, Tuesday in Navan library on tracing your family tree & Thursday in Clondalkin library on using DNA tests for famiy history).

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Cover reveal today from @eoinpurcell.bsky.social at Full Set Books of the forthcoming Resetting the Republic - How to Build a Better Ireland from Conor Brady (formerly Irish Times editor) - released 5th Nov - preorder here - thebookshop.ie/conor-brady-...

Press image of author Conor Brady, former Irish Times editor and former Garda Ombudsman, who also wrote the standard history of An Garda Síochana

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Two 1970's Piccolo paperback editions of Sinéad de Valera's Irish fairytales - the older edition with a demented looking end of the rainbow creation.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 13/08/2026

Mark English didn’t just run through the line, so much as smash it to bits. Perfection.

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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The chair of Ards Comhaltas admitted afterwards he had been sceptical it could work here at all, this being a complex city. He built it anyway. A million people answered the question for him. Sceptical and building beats certain and waiting.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Coming from Gill Books in September is Seeing What's Hidden by the late Manchán Magan - (completed before his death in October 2025), and the final book in the trilogy that includes 32 Words for Field and Listen to the Land Speak thebookshop.ie/manchan-maga...

The third book in the trilogy from the late Manchán Magan, who completed the book shortly before his death in October 2025.

In his final book, Manchán Magan implores us – even dares us – to move from the limited rational world to a more expansive spiritual one. To become re-enchanted once again. To understand that there are more ways of seeing, more ways of knowing and to uncover the interconnectedness between all things.

Manchán explores how ancient Irish culture retains deep resonances with other indigenous worldviews – a way of perceiving land, language, nature and spirit as inseparable. Drawing on mythology, early law, folklore and placenames, Manchán traces how Ireland’s forests, sacred trees and landscapes shaped the Irish psyche with such a resilience that many beliefs and customs endure to this day. In Seeing What’s Hidden, Manchán implores us to look again so that we too might rediscover our cultural inheritance and chart our course forward from here.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I must admit I wasn't too aware of Jean Plaidy until I started working with vintage books many years ago, but if ever an author was due a renaissance, it's her. Historical romance as a description is probably too vague. History sagas is fairer.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I once had a boyfriend break up with me because I "was boorish". I was devastated at the time but the older I get the more I love this. BOORISH

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Eagrán breá don iris COMHAR ar fáil anois, eagrán spesialta faoi chomóradh 100 bliain Chomisiún na Gaeltachta i 1926. Alt fada ann chomh maith ó @nuachainteoir.bsky.social óna leabhar atá ag teacht ó CIC mí na Samhna. RÉAMHORDÚ ANSEO - thebookshop.ie/john-walsh-a...

Clúdach an leabhar le John Walsh (nach bhfuil críochnaithe uilig fós) ag spáint beirt mhná ag siúl bóthair ar an gCeathrú Rua sna 1920daí. Ár Lámh Shábhála teideal an leabhair ( leagan cainte a chialaíonn 'on the safe side / in safe hands)

Clúdach an iris Comhar, Lúnasa 2026,. eagrán faoi stair agus scéal Coimisiún na Gaeltachta, a bunaíodh céad bliain ó shin i 1926.

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