The weather says Ireland but the flower pots say summer.☁️🌧️🌦️🌥️

The winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction is Donal Ryan, for Heart, Be at Peace. "For its clarity. For its perfectly pitched voices. For its humanity and kindness." - Jim Crace, Chair of Judges Congratulations, Donal! 🎉 @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

The best place to find your next LGBTQIA+ favourite book is at your local, independent bookshop! Celebrate even more by picking up a High Five voucher for a free €5 National Book Token. Have a safe, happy, inclusive, empowered Pride! #nationalbooktokens #independentbookshopweek #ReadwithPride

Join us! Liz is hosting storytime at 1pm at the Cloughjordan Playground Awareness Family Fun Day this Sunday at St Kieran's Hall. Event starts at noon: Fun on the Farm activities, professional face painting, Cloughjordan fire tender, live music, refreshments and the playground plans displayed. FUN!

Circus Picnic tomorrow Sat 7 June with Cloughjordan Circus Club. And Liz will be reading If I Ran the Circus at 1.15pm for storytime. Part of Cruinniú na nÓg.

Dancing with Strangers: From Palestine to Ireland. A choreographic act of resistance with four dancers from Gaza and Instant Dissidence. A dancer with outstretched arms asks, 'Will you dance with me?' Do you accept their invitation?

After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change is on our shelves just in time for Feminist Book Fortnight. So many women who went on to set up important organisations in Irish society, such as the first Rape Crisis Centre and Open Door Counselling, having a great effect on Irish society.

Am scéalaíochta! Dé Céadaoin, An 23 Aibreán, 4.00in, Cloch Shiurdáin, Tiobraid Árann. Leifimid dhá leabhar: Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs with Speckles (as Béarla) agus Rita agus an Róbat (as Gaeilge agus, tar éis, as Béarla). Tá fáilte roimh chách, agus tá sé saor in aisce. 💙📚 #speirghorm #leabhargaeilge

Storytime! We'll be reading Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs with Speckles (in English) and Rita agus an Róbat (in Irish first and English after.) Everyone is welcome, and storytime is free! This Wednesday at 4pm in Cloughjordan's favourite bookshop. 💙📚 #speirghorm #booksky #discoveririshkidsbooks

We're open Easter Monday from 1pm to 6pm, and it's the last day of our April sale! Selected books are 20% off, children's hardbacks 25% off, and secondhand books €1 each or 6 for €5! Do drop by.

Pom Cat invites you to sit in the sun and read Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. Good afternoon!

We're all guilty of leaning into Amazon when needs must, but we need to wean ourselves off old, difficult habits, now more than ever. If you read this, share a cool Irish business, designer, craftsperson or indie retailer we can support instead, and let's get a list together. #spéirghorm #Ireland

We will be open bank holiday Monday, St Patrick's Day, from 1pm to 6pm, as always? After the parades, sessions, céilí, and pints, you'll need a good book... especially if you're looking at this green background after a few.

Irish bookshops: does anyone have a copy of 9781804580547, Together Standing Tall, in stock that they can post to a customer? Let us know and we'll pass your details on. (Gill isn't reprinting any time soon.) #speirghorm #speirgorm #IrishBookselling

Happy #WorldBookDay! We welcome school visits today, which means we reconfigure the shop! The children's section triples in size as the books spread out, and our food hall gets transformed into World Book Day book central. We get to do it all again tomorrow, too!

If there is a better book title in the history of children's books, I don't know it. Here's my new favourite book! #sleeptightdisgustingblob #hewaaron #childrensbooks #lovereading #cloughjordan #shoplocal 💙📚 #spéirghorm

Looking forward to the publication of A Family Matter in May. Read it in one sitting. 1982. Dawn is a young mother when Hazel lights up her world. But she has a daughter. 2022. Heron has news from his doctor. Telling his only child seems impossible, as is telling her other secrets.

🌱 We're Hiring! Feasta is looking for a Part-Time Project Coordinator for a brand new project on strengthening local food economies in Ireland in partnership with Cultivate and Talamh Beo. ⌛7 hrs/week | €20/hr 📍 Mostly remote with occasional in-person meetings 📅 Apply by Feb 14th

Yes, we are open Brigid's bank holiday Monday (and every bank holiday outside of December.) we are looking forward to the spring that Brigid's Day heralds -- and to our new Brigid's cross, which is traditionally made for us by a customer. Last year's cross is still looking good, though!

A prescient classic -- How Democracy Ends by David Runciman. Not sure I agree with the Evening Standard's 'Scary, but in a good way'. I'd plumb for a simple terrifying, myself. #HowDemocracyEnds 📚💙

Is aoibhinn linn Eilifint Óg agus an Folcadán! Thaitin uisce go mór le hEilifint Óg. Ar thaitin an folcadán leis? Cad a cheapann tú?? Eilifint Óg loves water lots. But does he love a bath? With interesting pictures and a clever idea, children and parents will love this story. #spéirghorm

Delighted to meet author and historian Dr Patrick J O'Connor, who was in with his latest book about Arthur and Maud Griffith. Arthur & Maud Griffith: The Love of Ireland #irishhistory #cloughjordan #speirghorm #speirgorm #lovereading 📚💙

Belarus: 'It was exactly like Paul Lynch's Prophet Song' by journalist Sasha Romanova www.thejournal.ie/readme/belar...

Tá an t-eagrán úr nua de Comhar ar an tseilf anois. #IrisComhar #GaeilgeBeo

Nothing says 'open' like tables outside. In the snow. (And we are open. The joys of village living -- you can walk everywhere, even in snow.) #sneachta

#Sneachta! It's a snowy Cloughjordan.

Found in our history section just now. Happy Christmas! There will not be breakfast because you left it in the bookshop.

Donal Ryan. Gentleman. Superior author. Irish Book of the Year winner. Always in stock. (And he's from just down the road, too.)

We will be open for all your book, coffee, gift and wholefoods needs in Cloughjordan, Tipperary from noon to 6.30pm Saturday, Sunday, and Monday and on Christmas Eve from 11am to 6.30pm or when all the customers leave, whichever comes first. As is tradition, we are a Christmas-music-free zone!

A very satisfying afternoon at the brilliant @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social #IndieBookshop, picking up pre-ordered books along with a couple that caught my fancy on the shelves. Won't post cover pics as some are presents, but 👇 is a selfie present. Hope you're a good loser @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social

Now in stock! Shane McGowan: Songsmith. A special book of photos and memories of Shane by award-winning photographer Pádraig Ó Flannabhra. #shanemcgowan #pogues #speirgorm #spéirgorm #Cloughjordan #Nenagh

Focail na mBan: Women's Words and Brehons and Brahmins: Resonances between Irish and Indian cultures are in stock -- for the moment! Beautifully produced by Mayo Books Press with a cloth binding and stitched spines. Available in our bookshop and our webshop -- and we ship internationally. #booksky

Irish shopkeepers: does anyone have a CD of songs that soldiers sang our listened to in World war 1? Must be in Ireland for Christmas delivery. We have a customer looking. Please send details if you have something. #spéirgorm #speirgorm #Christmaspresentsireland

Gaeilgeoirí: why, WHY, does autocorrect insist on changing the word BE to b'é? What is it trying to say? We've never typed that in our lives. Tá cúpla focal againn, ach níl go leor againn a bhaint úsáid as b'é. Does it even mean anything? #gaeilge #spéirgorm #speirgorm #gramadach

It's back! Power has returned to #Cloughjordan. We'll be open with full service today. Christmas market is on, Christmas market storytime at 2pm with Liz is on. And the Solas Spectacular is ON! Take that, #StormDarragh #speirgorm #CloughjordanCircusClub #Nollag2025 #WhereElseWouldYouGetIt

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops

New from Braiding Sweetgrass author Robin Wall Kimmerer! The Service berry: An economy of gifts and abundance. (Auto correct wanted to change 'abundance' to 'sundance'. A sundance might lead to abundance', but they are NOT the same thing.) #Booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (14/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops

A question for our lovely followers: would you like to see our videos of books being unwrapped for Advent here, or shall we save that for more commercial channels? #Answersinacommentplease

Christmas book window shopping for you on this very sunny Monday in #Cloughjordan #Tipperary. Do you see anything you'd like from Santy? #ChristmasBooks #shoplocalireland #cloughjordan #tipperary

We're open every day between now and 6.30pm until Christmas, and on Christmas Eve we're open from 11am. (Then we're having a few days off to read all our new books!) #ShoplocalIreland #Cloughjordan #Tipperary

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops

Voting tomorrow? Undecided? The Which Candidate website from University of Limerick can help -- pick your constituency, answer a few questions about your own views, and they'll tell you how candidate views match your own. Easy, quick, and helpful! #GeneralElection2024 www.whichcandidate.ie

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops

THREE new #booksky feeds for the nerds. 🫡 1️⃣ - SciFi/Fantasy/SpecFic - use 🪐📚 to post to feed 2️⃣ - Smut/Erotica/🌶️ - use 🌶️📚 to post to feed Add a 💙 at the end of either of those emoji combos to post to the main 📚💙 feed as well. 3️⃣ - Booksky Trending 🔥 - same feed, sorted by popularity Enjoy! 🫶🏻

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge #choosebookshops