Gerry Daly
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
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Illustrator and author of picturebooks
https://gerrydalyart.ie
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Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
17 days ago
Fantastic to see our titles included in the 2025 Late Late Toy Show! From little Puffling’s new adventure, to an unstoppable GAA duo and the vibrant expression of one of W.B. Yeats’s most memorable poems, these recommendations will delight many of Ireland’s youngest readers.
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Puffling and the Stormy Sea in the Toy Show Leabharlann 😀 Well done the book reviewers!
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@theobrienpress.bsky.social
#picturebook
20 days ago
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Yay! 👏⚡️ Huge congrats to Tom, Erika and Shannon 🥳
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28 days ago
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Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
about 1 month ago
“I liked it so much I got another one of the series” A lovely review of ‘Puffling and the Stormy Sea’ on today’s Oliver Callan Show from 6 year old Erin 💫
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Gerry Daly
Halfway up the Stairs
about 1 month ago
Join us for our annual Books of the Year Online event on Monday 24th November. Check out the fab line up of authors we’ll be talking to below! And we will be giving out a 10% discount code on the night! Book your free ticket here:
halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/2411...
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Lots of signed copies of Puffling and the Stormy Sea by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and me at Dubray books in Cork 😊
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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Fab to spot Puffling’s new book in Dublin’s Winding Stairs window with the gorgeous new book from Lauren O’Hara and Oscar Wilde 😊
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@theobrienpress.bsky.social
#illustration
#picturebooks
about 2 months ago
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Lovely to visit J. Joyce & Co. shop in Cork today and sign / doodle lots of new Puffling books! 😊
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@theobrienpress.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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Puffling’s new book by
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and me spotted in the Eason window on Nassau Street Dublin. Already looking pretty Christmassy!
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about 2 months ago
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Gerry Daly
Erika McGann
2 months ago
🎉 PUB DAY 🎉 I was so lucky to get to work with the wonderful Tom McCaughren on this book, which is gorgeously illustrated by Shannon Bergin. Have read it at a few events already and it's going down a storm! 🌟📚🌟
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We always enjoy thinking up endpapers for the Puffling books. For Puffling and the Stormy Sea (just out from
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
) we focused on the basking shark who plays a starring role. The front endpapers are a wallpaper. Is that a rabbit with a beak? Yes 😊
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3 months ago
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Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
3 months ago
“Erika and Gerry's Puffling is one of the best picture book series out there, and this new entry meets the bar they've set.”
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O'Brien Picture Books
O'Brien are still at it! Here's another two upcoming titles that I'm very excited to see on the shelves. These are going to do really well f...
https://readandreviews.blogspot.com/2025/09/obrien-picture-books_0493108884.html?spref=tw&m=1
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Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
3 months ago
Happy publication day to ‘Puffling and the Stormy Sea’ written by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and illustrated by
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
🌊 Available in all bookshops!
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Gerry Daly
Erika McGann
3 months ago
🎉PUB DAY🎉 Puffling and the Stormy Sea by me and
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
is out today! Published by
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
and available in your lovely local bookshop 😊
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Happy book birthday Puffling! 🥳🌟 Out today from
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
Puffling and the Stormy Sea is an amazing new adventure for Puffling by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and was a total joy to illustrate. Huge thanks to all the OBP team 😊
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#discoveririshkidsbooks
3 months ago
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Puffling and the Stormy Sea will be published trw by
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It was a lot of fun to illustrate
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
’s amazing new Puffling story 😊 I really enjoyed painting many stormy sea scenes. Using impasto, gouache, oil pastel.
#picturebook
#illustration
#puffin
3 months ago
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Coming soon from
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a gorgeous and stunning new book from
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and Conor Busuttil!
#picturebook
#discoveririshkidsbooks
3 months ago
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Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
3 months ago
‘Puffling and the Stormy Sea’ is the newest addition to
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
’s Puffling books family! When a brave little puffling from Skellig Michael ends up far from home, will her new friends be able to help her find her way back? Out next week!
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Gerry Daly
Sinéad O'Hart
3 months ago
More bookish goodness! The super-sweet Puffling and the Stormy Sea by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
; games and mystery are afoot in Blowing the Whistle by Gerard Siggins, and it's creepytimes at sea with Amy Clerkin and Where the Shadows Hide.
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Thanks so much! 🙏😊
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3 months ago
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Thanks a mil for featuring our books! 💜 Fab work everyone
@halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
And well done all the nature trailers! 👏👏
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3 months ago
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Thank you so much
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! 💜
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3 months ago
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Our new book! 💜 Puffling and the Stormy Sea by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and me will be published very soon by
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
Always mega to get a first copy in hand. Can’t wait to reveal more, and see Puffling’s thrilling new adventure out in the world 😊
#illustration
#picturebook
4 months ago
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Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
4 months ago
A brave little puffling lives on Skellig Michael. It’s a windy, stormy day – a perfect day for a wild adventure. But she ends up far from home! Can her new animal friends help her find her way back?
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Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
4 months ago
“packed with adventure for young readers with many twists and turns” What a lovely review of “Puffling and the Stormy Sea” from
@childrensbooksireland.ie
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Puffling and the Stormy Sea | Childrens Books Ireland
During a storm, Puffling wants to go on a wild adventure. Her parents encourage her to look for animals that come out in the storms from the comfort of their nest, but Puffling becomes curious and ven...
https://childrensbooksireland.ie/our-recommendations/puffling-and-stormy-sea
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Puifín Beag ar an fhuinneog álainn 💜@ansiopaleabhar.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Gerry Daly
Halfway up the Stairs
5 months ago
Freya did great finding on her Puffling Seaside Nature Trail! Running all summer, check it out in store Mon to Sat 10-5:30!
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@erikamcgann.bsky.social
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
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A new Puffling book! 🥳 Absolutely loved painting so many stormy scenes.
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5 months ago
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Gerry Daly
Halfway up the Stairs
5 months ago
1/ We are delighted to announce the launch of our Puffling Seaside Nature Trail, running through July and August, kindly supported by the
#booksatonecommunityfund
Inspired by the Puffling books, by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
&
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
, published by
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
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reposted by
Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
6 months ago
“Is scéal é seo a thógfadh do chroí, agus chuirfeadh sé i gcuimhne duit d’óige fosta!” July’s Inis Magazine features a brilliant review of
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
’s ‘Puifín Beag agus an Dorchadas’ - a sweet, endearing picture book translated by Muireann ní Chíobháin.
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reposted by
Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
6 months ago
Illustrator
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
spent a lovely Saturday at
@halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
reading Puffling stories, bringing them to life through gorgeous illustrations, signing copies and, this time, he even launched a Puffling nature trail! Make sure you check out his handy work!
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Always fab to visit
@halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
Paint the window! Read stories! Draw pictures! & sign books! We also launched a Puffling nature trail 😊 Tnx everyone for coming!
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
6 months ago
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reposted by
Gerry Daly
Halfway up the Stairs
6 months ago
Join us for a Puffling event with illustrator
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm!
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Can’t wait to visit
@halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
this Sat 😊
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6 months ago
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Out today in paperback 😊 It’s Too Dark, Puffling by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and me is published by
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
Available in all bookshops “Adorable” The Irish Times
6 months ago
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reposted by
Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
6 months ago
The beloved tale of ‘It’s Too Dark, Puffling’ is now available in paperback! Available in all bookshops, the perfect night-time read. Thank you Arts Council for their help in making this publication possible.
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The new greenway in Dublin port is so fab! 💜 will be visiting this a lot
#dublin
#bike
7 months ago
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💜 go Puffling! And little puffling too 😊
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8 months ago
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Out today in paperback! From
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
Finn’s First Song was the first book I wrote as well as illustrated. It’s been such a joy to bring Finn to schools and libraries. The kids have great fun singing like whales & drawing Finn and his friends.
#illustration
#picturebook
8 months ago
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My piece on Éamon de Buitléar, part of Praising The Dead exhibition from Illustrators Ireland. Opening on Thurs at Culturlann, Belfast.
8 months ago
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Gerry Daly
TheBookshop.ie
8 months ago
Four new and forthcoming children's books from
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
- Titles from
@gerrydalyart.bsky.social
, Paddy Donnelly, Eithne Massey & Judi Curtin. All publishing early May!
thebookshop.ie/obrien-press...
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Gerry Daly
Raven Books
9 months ago
At a time of global financial uncertainty, a sound investment with guaranteed positive return is buying a good book from an independent bookshop.
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Back home from the ever growing whirlwind that is Bologna Children’s Books Fair 💚🤍♥️ Wonderful to see such a large Irish contingent! Met many creatives from around the world. Puffling had a fab time! 😊
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@erikamcgann.bsky.social
@flockdublin.bsky.social
#bcbf25
9 months ago
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Puffling is loving her first visit to Bologna Childrens Book Fair!
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
#illustration
#picturebook
#bcbf2025
9 months ago
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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ó Puifín Beag! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from Puffling! Written by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
Illustrated by mise. Translated by Muireann Ní Chíobháin
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
#happystpatricksday
#láféilepádraig
9 months ago
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reposted by
Gerry Daly
The O’Brien Press
10 months ago
There is still time to enter the Design-A-Cover competition for ‘The Clubhouse Mystery’ by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
Parents and teachers check it out here:
obrien.ie/childrens/de...
@childrensbooksireland.ie
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Puifín Beag agus an Dorchadas 💜 Amach anois! It’s Too Dark, Puffling 💜 Out now in Irish!
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
#picturebook
#discoverIrishkidsbooks
#illustration
10 months ago
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reposted by
Gerry Daly
Books Ireland
10 months ago
Working on the wish list for ten new pieces in the next Irish Writers Handbook. What would you like to see? Here are the topics covered already:
mailchi.mp/790204897691...
(Thanks for suggestions so far!) RTs much appreciated ❤️
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
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Very busy with school events for Book Week! Fun online sessions today with Mary Queen of Ireland NS, St. Margarets, Dublin. 3 books read together and 5 drawings 🤓
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
#bookweek
#picturebooks
#illustration
10 months ago
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Bookshop Buddies at Winding Stairs Bookshop today 😀 Where Are You, Puffling? by
@erikamcgann.bsky.social
and myself, with the fab The President's Glasses by Peter Donnelly
@theobrienpress.bsky.social
#picturebooks
#illustration
#DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
10 months ago
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