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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1
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Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
A Post Bookshop of the Year!
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · Dec 2
The last 3.5 yrs a small, stubborn team has been rebuilding an independent bookshop, powered by tea, spreadsheets & a slightly excessive love of books.
We’re now officially An Post Bookshop of the Year & our MD, Mick Finucane, has written a 5 a.m. blog about it
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Bookshop Of The Year 2025 Chapters Bookstore Dublin
It is 5 a.m. and I am sitting at the kitchen table, my jacket and bow tie abandoned somewhere in the hall, far too wired to sleep. A few hours ago, at the An Post Irish Book Awards, Chapters was named...
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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.
February 16, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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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!
February 16, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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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
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#TheWriteStuff #chapters #chaptersbookstore #Dublin #Ireland
‘The Write Stuff’ are gatherings in collaborative storytelling, poetry & music. Curated & hosted by Steve O'Toole. At each gathering, storytellers/poets, are joined by a showcase musician, working to a pre-agreed theme. Thus, delivering a continuous, collaborative flow of original work. This is something rather unique & unlike anything currently available elsewhere. Artist John O’Donnell with ‘The Write Stuff’. Collaborative storytelling, poetry & music. Curated & hosted by Steve O'Toole. At each gathering, storytellers/poets, are joined by a showcase musician, working to a pre-agreed theme. Thus, delivering a continuous, collaborative flow of original work. This is something rather unique & unlike anything currently available elsewhere. Skid Row Rock Legend Brush Shiels with ‘The Write Stuff’. Collaborative storytelling, poetry & music. Curated & hosted by Steve O'Toole. At each gathering, storytellers/poets, are joined by a showcase musician, working to a pre-agreed theme. Thus, delivering a continuous, collaborative flow of original work. This is something rather unique & unlike anything currently available elsewhere. ‘The Write Stuff’. Collaborative storytelling, poetry & music. Curated & hosted by Steve O'Toole. At each gathering, storytellers/poets, are joined by a showcase musician, working to a pre-agreed theme. Thus, delivering a continuous, collaborative flow of original work. This is something rather unique & unlike anything currently available elsewhere.
February 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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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...
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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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? 💖📕
Me holding my book Chaos Theory. Me with Mick Chapters (as I call him). Paper flowers in a basket, held by a member of the Chapters team. Irish authors and members of the Romantic Novelists Association. From left, Fiona McCann, Sharon Black, Linda McEvoy, Ruth O’Leary, Val Troy, Seána Tinley, Sylvia Leatham
February 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car BY DOROTHEA GROSSMAN It was your idea to park and watch the elephants swaying among the trees like royalty at that make-believe safari near Laguna. I didn't know anything that big could be so quiet. And once, you stopped on a dark desert road to show me the stars climbing over each other riotously like insects like an orchestra thrashing its way through time itself I never saw light that way again.
February 14, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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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!!
February 14, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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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.

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Cécile Tlili and Sarah Gilmartin in conversation with Aingeala Flannery
Join us on Friday 20 March, at 11am in Chapters Bookshop on Parnell Street, Dublin.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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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!
February 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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Mary Oliver… as always… perfection ❤️
February 13, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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Perhaps it is the rain?
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4d
A valentine's card for bibliophiles.
For @theguardian.com books.
Download a printable version here:
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Title: A personalised Valentine's card for bibliophiles Image: A cartoon heart with arms, legs and a smiling face. With an empty speech bubble above. Five options for text to cut out and put in the bubble: I love you more than my books! I love you as much as my books! I love you almost as much as my books! I love you! No more questions! I love books!
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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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
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Our first ‘The Write Stuff’ of 2026, and what an exciting evening we have planned. Joining us on the night, will be none other than …. Rock legend Brush Shiels, the man who taught Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott how to play guitar. ⬆️ TICKETS LINK IN BIO ABOVE ⬆️ The Octogenarian who was the frontman of guitarist Gary Moore’s first rock band Skid Row, will be joining ‘The Write Stuff’ at Chapters Bookstore, for one very special night only. This is going to be something rather special. Get ready to listen & hear Brush, like never before. 🗓️ Thur. 5th March 📍 Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St. D1. ⏰ 19:00-20:30 Additional guest performers to be announced in coming days, with special surprise guest announcement Sun. Feb. 22nd … But’ don’t wait till then to get your tickets, they’ll be well gone 👍 © The Write Stuff / Steve O’Toole 2026 #brushshiels #chapters #thewritestuff #dublin #Ireland
February 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Muriel went to a good home - @kelfogarty.bsky.social - so I am only crying a little bit! 😢😂
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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?! 😂📚💚
February 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Ok, this is a slightly mad one … the first 3 Scot Pilgrim Graphic Novels have come into Secondhand … and they are in Irish!
February 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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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?! 😂📚💚
February 11, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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My daughter has just sent me this … should I be worried?
February 10, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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One thing I'd forgotten about reading a long-ish book is the simple pleasure of looking forward to hopping into bed and spending an hour or two with it and the prospect of repeating that routine for however many nights to come.
February 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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The sun won't set earlier than it did today again until around Halloween...

.. a thought that might help some others cope with this dreary time of year.
February 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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When you don’t know something … ask an author! The difference between mist and fog answered …
fhayesmccoy.bsky.social Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 7d
Density. It's the distance you can see through them. No, don't mention it. Yer welcome. We authors know EVERYTHING about words and that class of yoke
February 9, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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This morning the mist was so dense I genuinely expected a Stephen King plot twist at the next bend. Which reminded me… Secondhand has gone full King today: Carrie, ’Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Pet Sematary, The Stand…

Also: what’s the difference between mist and fog? ☁️👀
February 9, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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Saw this on an Irish Poetry timeline and I thought I had taken a screenshot of the account name to share - but I had only saved the poem & what a poem it is!! Apologies for the thievery.
February 8, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Our Secondhand Window has gone full Roald Dahl this week: Boy, Going Solo, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox and more. Plus this gorgeous Mr Fox artwork by Mick Minogue keeping watch with that gloriously mischievous stare. 🦊📚
February 8, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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Bus home...
February 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy
Young Anton Chekhov, the playwright, looking super hot in his 20s
February 7, 2026 at 9:56 PM