Elvis has entered the building...👑🎸 We’ve got big, proper biographies, Memphis Mafia backstage stories, gospel-era Elvis & a couple of “what REALLY happened” deep-dives for anyone with Suspicious Minds. Pop in & browse Secondhand until you can’t help falling in love!

The Write Stuff is one of the best nights going in Dublin ❤️

Best Social Media at #GIBA26 tonight. The only award where the acceptance speech is immediately followed by "Sorry, I have to post this.” 🏆📲 Cheering for everyone who makes brands feel human, keeps the comments kind & somehow finds time to eat canapés while uploading a reel & holding a glass!

Nights like this are why we love having a bookshop. Write Stuff filled Chapters with stories, songs and serious heart. Huge thanks to Brush Shiels, John O’Donnell and Ciaran Moran, and to the indefatigable Steve O’Toole for hosting. 📚🎶✨

There’s a Best Social Media prize at #GIBA26 tonight & I’m rooting for the person who: ✅ posted ✅ tagged ✅ didn’t typo ✅ still has 12% battery left. 🏆📱 Extra marks for anyone who had the foresight to bring a battery bank!

Only single unit retailer & first bookshop to make the shortlist - but not our night tonight! Congratualations Insomnia Coffee - you do make the most scrumptious hot chocolate & your stores in Kells & Navan are a delight! #GIBA26

Back at the store, we are gutted to be missing our monthly Write Stuff spoken (and sung) word night with this months guests the mighty Brush Shiels, Ciaran Moran & John O’Donnell, hosted by the endlessly energetic Steve O’Toole - oh to be able to be in 2 places at once!

Big night at Chapters: we are genuinely honoured to be at the Guaranteed Irish Business Awards #GIBA26, shortlisted in the Retail & E-Commerce category (sponsored by TikTok Shop). We’re alongside brilliant Irish businesses & feeling both proud & slightly stunned.

F1 is back, and so are the people saying ‘tyre deg’ at brunch. 🏁 We’ve a pit wall of reads at Chapters (Bernie Collins, Susie Wolff, Ted Kravitz, Luke Smith, Günther Steiner…). I worked on Formula 1 video games - the most gloriously feral & exact fans of all time!

1711 Homer in the wild. 📚 Secondhand at Chapters: Homer’s Odyssey (Vol. II), Cambridge 1711 (MDCCXI), edited by Joshua Barnes. Greek text + Latin trans with ancient scholia, notes, variant readings & Homeric extras (hymns/fragments, Batrachomyomachia). A serious collector piece.

1711 Homer in the wild. 📚 Secondhand at Chapters: Homer’s Odyssey (Vol. II), Cambridge 1711 (MDCCXI), edited by Joshua Barnes. Greek text + Latin trans with ancient scholia, notes, variant readings & Homeric extras (hymns/fragments, Batrachomyomachia). A serious collector piece.

It is the first World Book Day in the last 20+ years that I haven't had to make a costume & so I totally forgot it was happening! Instead I am going to post books and poems ... or maybe books that have been recently signed ... think I will do that! #WorldBookDay

❤️Absolutely love this Q&A with Áine Toner, Features Editor at the Belfast Telegraph❤️ @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @belfasttelegraph.co.uk booksirelandmagazine.com/you-can-keep...

A first for the store tonight - but hopefully not the last … an Irish Times Women’s podcast recording with a live audience!

⭐There's been so much going on, we've almost forgotten to tell you! First up—curious what books are out this month? We've got you covered! ⭐ @lilliputpress.bsky.social @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @merrionpress.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/new-books-fo...

Galway Kinnell

Unfortunately this is actually postponed as Dr Jones is ill and can’t travel.

Unfortunately we have just been notified that Forest Issac Jones is unwell and unable to travel to Ireland. We wish him a speedy recovery and hope that we get to listen to him soon.

Looking beautiful too!

gorse 12 + 13 are now available in @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social.

Not glamorous, but absolute bliss!

Who benefits when history reduces Rory O’Connor to a single moment? Come to the launch & argue (politely): was O’Connor a doomed idealist, a strategic genius, or the one figure we still misunderstand most?

Delighted to be welcoming Ciarán Moran to The Write Stuff @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social This is going to be a banger of a night with Ciaran, Brush Shiels, John O’Donnell & yours truly. ⬆️TICKETS IN BIO⬆️ © The Write Stuff / Steve O’Toole 2026 #ciaranmoran #thewritestuff #chapters #dublin #Ireland

This time next week I’ll be at @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social in Dublin talking with Irish Times Editor Mark Hennessy about ‘Good Trouble’ #history

#BookSky 📚 💙

Please join us for the launch on Thurs 26th of Gerard Shannon’s fascinating biography of Rory O’Connor: To Defend The Republic, with guests Éamon O’Cuiv & Liz McGillis. Gerard has serious form as a public historian & biographer of the Revolutionary Period -it will be special

Reminded of this today…

I am looking forward to this! Actually, I love every event we have - but sometimes I can imagine my Mum would have come up for this one and it makes it extra special! www.eventbrite.ie/e/an-evening...

I always thought this was one of those “quotes” that is good & worthwhile, but not actually what the author said, but it is real. Conversations with Ray Bradbury (edited by Steven L. Aggelis).

How lovely is this? 📚 ☔️ 🧡

The rain is getting me down - I was supposed to be going for a walk today with an old friend, instead I am reading … so not all bad! chaptersbookstore.com/blogs/news/blo…

It’s STILL raining ☔️☔️ We think we all deserve something lovely … spend €50, receive a voucher of €5. Ends Monday - in the forlorn hope the sun will come out ☀️☀️ Go on… treat your TBR.!

This was such a fabulous night - a big thanks to @ryancahill.bsky.social for asking me along - and a massive thanks to @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social for hosting the event which was amazing!

Last night was pure magic: @ryancahill.bsky.social and @shaunalawless.bsky.social in full flow, trading stories, myth & craft with the best, most devoted fantasy readers in the country. Brilliant books, real friendship, electric room. Signed copies in store now. 🐉✨ #IrishFantasy #myth #fantasy

This history is new to me, well not totally new, but the nuances are & the hard facts. My Grandfather was there, but strangely it wasn’t taught in depth at my school in Liverpool. So I went down a rabbit hole… looking forward to getting my hands on the actual book.

Please join us for the launch on Thurs 26th Feb of Gerard Shannon’s fascinating biography of Rory O’Connor: To Defend The Republic, with guests Éamon O’Cuiv & Liz McGillis. Gerard has serious form as a public historian & biographer of the Revolutionary Period -it will be special night!

We’re back with a banger 5th March with Rock Legend Brush Shiels, artist John O’Donnell & yours truly. PLUS Special Surprise Guest (announcing Sun. 22nd Feb.) Tickets at thewritestuff.ie 🗓️ Thur. 5th March 📍 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social #TheWriteStuff #chapters #chaptersbookstore #Dublin #Ireland

I have just read this in one sitting. Started this morning, I am still in my pjs... Some pages made me wince. Then I laughed, teared up, stopped to think - I couldn't put it down. The Irish Times has it on their 2026 nonfiction to-watch list - they are right. Preorder x.com/chaptersbook...

What a fab, fun day at @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social for Valentine’s Day! Lots of love in the room for Irish romance fiction, with amazing hosting by the Chapters family. They even hand-made paper flowers for the event! Where would you get it? 💖📕

Dorothea Grossman

Heading into the shop for a fantastic day with theRomantic Novelists Association - come down to join us for panels & chats & bubbles! I am going to be spamming you - pick a book - pick a page! The Blue Book is fantastic - but I don’t think k can share them!!

Join us on 20 March in @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social as we team up with the Franco-Irish Literary Festival, Alliance Française & Ambassade de France en Irlande. www.eventbrite.ie/e/cecile-tli...

We’ve got signed copies of Roisín Meaney’s Second Chances in store today ! If you like warm, smart, feel-good fiction with humour, heart & characters you’ll want to move in with, this is your next comfort read. Calling all fans of Irish contemporary & “one more chapter” readers!

Mary Oliver… as always… perfection ❤️

Perhaps it is the rain?

Our first The Write Stuff of 2026 with none other than Brush Shiels, the man who taught Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott how to play guitar. ⬆️ TICKETS LINK IN BIO ⬆️ 📍 5th March @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social © The Write Stuff / Steve O'Toole 2026 #brushshiels #chapters #thewritestuff #dublin #ireland

Muriel went to a good home - @kelfogarty.bsky.social - so I am only crying a little bit! 😢😂

Ok, this is a slightly mad one … the first 3 Scot Pilgrim Graphic Novels have come into Secondhand … and they are in Irish!

Proof that I genuinely adore our customers… I have never wanted a set more than this Muriel Spark beauty in Secondhand. I will hand it over with a smile & then weep copiously & privately mourn it like a Victorian widow … dramatic … moi?! 😂📚💚