Happy birthday in Heaven to the best to ever do it. 😇

Definitely a fan of these vintage Livre de Poche French classic covers.

Released this week from Gill Books is Bailout Babies from journalist & author @adammaguire.bsky.social . ( I love the brief subliminal image from the peak Celtic Tiger era Belmayne ad also) - link to purchase here - thebookshop.ie/adam-maguire...

Kiss, translated from the Irish of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill by Michael Hartnett. #filiocht #irishpoetry

Conor McGregor has withdrawn from the Presidential election. #aras25 (Will await @newschambers.bsky.social’s sounding of the hunger games klaxon)

OK, I think it's time to start rowing back the amount of X, the Everything App screenshots on here. I feel sufficiently aware that many posting there have hypocritical, even incoherent, views on current events.

Coming to a bookstore near you in October 2025… From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33 by Owen O’Shea 🔗 Preorder here bit.ly/From-B2B #IrishCivilWar #CivilWarPolitics #IrishHistory #KerryHistory @owenoshea.bsky.social

#REMtop30 18. Nightswimming The Jools Holland version is one of the best TV performances I've ever seen, goosebumps it's so good. And the way Michael looks at Mike, seems like a beautiful friendship youtu.be/KVT0S0j7F9Y?...

The long-awaited return of Julia Kelly is finally here! STILL is a profoundly moving memoir that transforms grief into something unforgettable - vivid, life-affirming, and unexpectedly joyful. Available everywhere now! www.newisland.ie/shop/p/still... #juliakelly #memoir #irishwriters

Coming from @newislandbooks.bsky.social on 10th October is the eagerly awaited The Dublin Pub - A Social and Cultural History - preorder here ! - thebookshop.ie/donal-fallon...

Newly added to stock is John Connors biography of the noted Tipperary revolutionary and subsequently a longtime TD, Dan Breen - The Man Behind the Myth.

Before, and after.. #subh. It's a bumper year for blackberries round these parts.

A nice signed edition of Iain M Banks 1991 Culture collection - The State of The Art just added to stock. A reprint of the first edition, but in excellent condition, and uncommon signed. thebookshop.ie/iain-m-banks...

Released this week from Gill Books, we have signed copies of Sophie Morris's Sophie's Swaps, €21 , delivery included! thebookshop.ie/sophie-morri...

Niall and myself with the very sound @mcculld.bsky.social at a certain West Cork site which we did landscape analysis on in advance of the 2022 centenary. David's new two-part documentary "Dev: Rise & Rule" kicks off next Wednesday on RTÉ 1 at 9.30pm, be sure to check it out if you can!

On 16th September, 7pm, I have organised an event 'Irish Revolution Legacies' with two prominent historians exploring aspects of the early 20th century Irish revolutionary period. Fundraiser for WFP's Palestine Emergency Appeal. More details (and tickets) here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-revo...

A collection of cleaned,repaired covered (and rejacketed) books ready for collection for a local business. We can usually get a good mix of titles (used and new) in any interest area for hotels, businesses and corporate clients. Said he sounding...corporate. #bulkbooksupply

Hey folks I'm all good just trying to set up this new printer that relies on an app to do any printing like I said I'm all good why do you ask

Just arrived into stock this morning is Cal McCarthy's In the Shadow of the Big Fellow - The commemoration, Commercialisation, Study and Politicization of Michael Collins 1922-2022, published by Michael Collins Museum in Clonakilty. Signed by the author! #cork #michaelcollins

A new addition ('The Woman in Cabin 10') to the surprisingly extensive Keira Knightley library, for people who only want to read books with Keira Knightley on them.

The Royal Canal Greenway looking well today! #speirgorm

People who would never run for the Irish Presidency, but would win comfortably if they did… Brendan Gleeson Graham Norton Brenda Fricker Katie Taylor Gabriel Byrne Marian Keyes

Random new additions, Spanish Civil War, I Ching, Malraux and Riverworld - all listed under Newly Added this month....

Nothing quite as reassuring as walking into the local history museum and scaring the staff with the thought that you'd just like to visit the museum - no school party, don't live here, not part of a social group - just want to visit the museum.

20 newly added titles, currently working through adding a decent batch of Agatha Christie also.

On the way to a wet Templemore town to pack books. Train nearly empty on a bank holiday Monday.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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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

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

As they say on LinkedIn, delighted to share news of my new book about the future of the GAA - more details to follow but feel free to circulate this message. More Than A Game: The GAA and Where It's Going is published soon by Gill Books

It's launch day for the Gill Books Autumn Winter list of forthcoming titles - a strong list - so here's a few highlights - starting with David Gillick - The Race. Yes, it's about athletics, fine margins, dissappointment and triumph in equal measure. thebookshop.ie/david-gillic...

Self-promotion klaxon! Delighted that Gill Books will be publishing my new book, "From Crown to Harp", in October... how the Treaty was undone in 34 episodes! Pre-order links here: linktr.ee/mcculld

A woman came up to me at lunch and took me I look much better on the telly. Another win for the RTÉ makeup department - they work hard in fairness.

If Live Aid happened today there are some who would call it "woke". #LiveAid40

Good afternoon from the Kingdom 🌞

Coming this September from the Instagram phenomenon that is Sophie Morris - Sophie's Swaps - her guide to choosing healthier and more nutritious food in your weekly shop - and saving money also! Preorder now and save €3 off RRP (price includes delivery) #sophiesswaps thebookshop.ie/sophie-morri...

Entrance to ancient church and cemetery, used during the Great Famine 1845-1850 at Kilrush, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford #speirgorm #SpéirGhorm #IrishHistory