HYMN TO ALL THE RESTLESS GIRLS by Annemarie Ní Churreáin & FALLEN by Audrey Molloy The Gallery Press Launch @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week 💫

Humbled by the attendance at my book launch last night Thanks to the team at @booksupstairs.bsky.social for hosting and to the team at @ucdpress.bsky.social for arranging. Very grateful to Professor Diarmaid Ferriter for doing the honours. Kerry launch in a few weeks. ucdpress.ie

Very much looking forward to this conversation with @whittledaway.bsky.social around THE LIE OF THE LAND this Sunday from 2pm in @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin City centre. Do come along if you’re free.

‼️TOMORROW ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of From Bullets to Ballots by @owenoshea.bsky.social 🗓️ 6.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Books Upstairs, 17 D’Olier Street Dublin 2, D02 RX06 👥 Guest Speaker Professor Diarmaid Ferriter RSVP [email protected] @booksupstairs.bsky.social

I'll be in @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin next Sunday afternoon, chewing the cud with @thinkorswim.bsky.social about his fantastic new book 'The Lie of the Land' 🐮 Book at this link ⤵️ booksupstairs.ie/all-events/j...

Join us at 6.30pm tomorrow where Diarmaid Ferriter will launch @owenoshea.bsky.social’s new history of Post-Civil War Kerry. All are welcome booksupstairs.ie/all-events/launch-from-bullets-to-ballots-by-owen-oshea/

The second part of the book includes poems about Dublin, in particular around Ringsend where Mary lived for many years. There is even a poem about @booksupstairs.bsky.social One of the last times I met Mary was at an @arlenhouse.bsky.social launch in Books Upstairs.

This evening's reading: Dawn Chorus, prose and poems by Mary Guckian about her childhood on a farm in Leitrim.

Join us for a conversation between this dynamic duo tomorrow 6-7pm booksupstairs.ie/all-events/saints-macgabhann/

Two new poetry collections, Fallen by Audrey Molloy and Hymn to All the Restless Girls by Annemarie Ní Churreáin, will launch at 6.30pm on Thursday and all are welcome to join us for the celebration. Refreshments – and poetry! – will be served! ✨🍷📚

We are delighted to present the Dublin launch of SAINTS by Tim MacGabhann, who will be in conversation with Declan Toohey at 6.30pm on Friday 7 Nov. Admission is free and all are welcome. Space is limited so reserve a seat to avoid disappointment ➡️ linktr.ee/booksupstairs @scratchbooks.bsky.social

Book shopping @booksupstairs.bsky.social Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark, Essays on Thomas Kinsella, edited by Adrienne Leavy.

Today ! Join us 🍷📚🎃

My daughter was in town yesterday with her pals and was raving about a gorgeous bookshop they found...it was @booksupstairs.bsky.social 😍

The artist at work! Some photos of Lauren O’Hara painting The Happy Prince in the iconic window of Dublin’s @booksupstairs.bsky.social The illustration is from our new edition of Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children, out now and available wherever good books are sold!

We’re taking over Books Upstairs! For now! It’s all Little Island in the @booksupstairs.bsky.social window today!

Thanks to everyone who came to @booksupstairs.bsky.social last night to launch Lauren O’Hara’s OSCAR WILDE’S STORIES FOR CHLDREN! It was a lovely evening celebrating a very special book.

A wonderful day of book signing all over Dublin city with the fabulous author of Mary MacSwiney @lloislanel.bsky.social @schoolhumandev.bsky.social Get your signed copy in 🖊📕👏 @gutterbookshop.bsky.social @dubraybooks.bsky.social @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social

ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33 by Owen O’Shea 6.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Books Upstairs, 17 D’Olier Street Dublin 2, D02 RX06 RSVP [email protected] @owenoshea.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social

We'd also like to thank all our readers, subscribers and patrons. We hope very much that you enjoy the issue. It will be launching on 30 October @booksupstairs.bsky.social. You can pick up a copy at the launch or order your copy now on our website. channelmag.org/issue-13/

I love both @channel-lit.bsky.social and @booksupstairs.bsky.social, so I'm grateful to have a story in this and really excited to give a reading at the launch.

Come join us this Thursday at @booksupstairs.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of OSCAR WILDE’S STORIES FOR CHILDREN, illustrated by Lauren O’Hara, and containing a new foreword by Colm Tóibín! There will be wine! Some of it will sparkle! And people and books! 📚😍

We're honoured to be publishing the work of all these talented writers in Issue 13. Join us for the launch in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 30 October to hear from some of them 👏🏻 channelmag.org/issue-13/

Always a treat to get into @booksupstairs.bsky.social & lovely to sign some copies of New Arcana 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

✨ Something Wilde this way comes ✨ Please join us at Books Upstairs on 23rd October for the launch of OSCAR WILDE’S STORIES FOR CHILDREN, illustrated by Lauren O’Hara and with an original foreword by Colm Tóibín. @booksupstairs.bsky.social #kidlit #kidsbooks #speirgorm

We can't wait to celebrate Issue 13 with all these talented souls - seven brilliant contributors plus musical guest Sailhymn ✨️ Join us on 30 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social to hear from them all. channelmag.org/issue-13/

@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of FILLY @bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫

Over at Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin, there are a small number of signed prints of Lauren’s draft artworks. These offer a unique glimpse behind the illustration process, and would make a lovely gift with the book. Or to keep for yourself! booksupstairs.ie/pre-order-an...

Pre-order this stunning new edition of Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children illustrated by the extraordinary Lauren O’Hara & you’ll be put in a draw to win one of fourteen beautiful signed prints of Lauren’s illustration drafts for the book: booksupstairs.ie/pre-order-and-win/

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

Full house @booksupstairs.bsky.social last week for launch of THE HARE'S CORNER @newislandbooks.bsky.social in partnerships w/@burrenbeotrust.bsky.social, with poetry by @janeclarke.bsky.social, prose Catherine Cleary & illustrations Jane Carkill.

Wonderful launch for The Hare's Corner on Friday evening. It was a celebration of the book but more importantly everyone who is looking after Irish nature. Thanks @newislandbooks.bsky.social @burrenbeotrust.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social Jane Carkill Catherine Cleary

26 September 2025 @ 6.30pm @booksupstairs.bsky.social - Launch of The Hare's Corner @burrenbeotrust.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social Tickets here... www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

On Thurs 2nd Oct, 6.30pm, Fintan Drury & Justine McCarthy will discuss Catastrophe: Nabka II. This urgent book offers an insightful & moving analysis of the decades-long oppression of the Palestinian people. Admission free | Booking essential ➡️ booksupstairs.ie/all-events/catastrophe-event/ 🇵🇸

We are delighted to present the Dublin launch of Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell, who will be in conversation with Eoin McNamee for the occasion, at 6.30pm on Wednesday 1st of October. Booking essential booksupstairs.ie/all-events/sugartown-launch/

Join Bullaun Press as we launch our next title in translation, What Remains by Brais Lamela, translated by Jacob Rogers, in Cork and Dublin next month.

Colm Tóibín @booksupstairs.bsky.social signing SHIP IN FULL SAIL: Laureate Lectures and Other Writings. Grab a copy while the signed ones last! @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

Booklaunch in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 17 September. All welcome.

📣 We’re recruiting! • Bookseller/Barista position available • 3-5 days a week • Bookshop experience essential • Email CVs and cover emails to [email protected] by 15th August

Join us to celebrate the launch of Rose Keating’s debut short story collection, ODDBODY. Rose will be in conversation with author Cathy Sweeney, starting at 6.30pm tomorrow! Register here : booksupstairs.ie/all-events/launch-oddbody/ @rosekeating.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

⭐️ Books at One have announced the 21 Irish bookshops who will receive up to €5000 to bring community ideas to life ⭐️ @booksupstairs.bsky.social @rickoshea.bsky.social @booksatonedublin.bsky.social @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social @kennysbookshop.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/bookshops-wi...

I even popped in to @booksupstairs.bsky.social to let them know in person... Congratulations to everyone, I can't wait to see their projects come to fruition 😎 (This needs to be labelled #AD even though there is nothing in my contract that says I have to do this, I'm just chuffed for the shops!)

You might remember a while ago I was an ambassador for the Books At One Community Fund project. Today, they announced the 21 recipients, all brilliant independent bookshops around the country, each recieving up to €5,000 for the projects in their shops they wanted to get off the ground/make better.

Thank you Wendy Erskine for this lovely shout out! 🥰

Sarah Moss will be in conversation with Enda Wyley next Thursday 🔥Taking bookings now : booksupstairs.ie/all-events/sarah-moss-at-books-upstairs/ @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Sarah Moss will be in conversation with Enda Wyley next Thursday 🔥Taking bookings now : booksupstairs.ie/all-events/sarah-moss-at-books-upstairs/ @picadorbooks.bsky.social

A few spots left for this evening’s event with Grainne O’ Hare discussing her brilliant and hilarious novel with Niamh Donnelly - book your free admission ticket here: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/thirst-trap/ @spacedolphin93.bsky.social @niamhdonnelly.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who came out to @booksupstairs.bsky.social on this warm Sunday afternoon. A joy to read with @robmclennan.bsky.social @eireannmor.bsky.social & @christinemcnair.bsky.social. My thanks also to @poetryireland.bsky.social for partnering on the event.

We at Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are very glad to host this event: Looking at Women Looking at War: a War and Justice Diary, by Victoria Amelina. @booksupstairs.bsky.social Books Upstairs, Dublin, 29 July, 6pm. booksupstairs.ie/events/