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Erika McGann
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Children's author with lots of books out for kids of all ages 🌟
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Erika McGann @erikamcgann.bsky.social · 14d
So excited that Run Home Little Fox by Tom McCaughren, @shannonbergin.bsky.social and me has been shortlisted for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social Junior Children’s Book of the Year! 🌟🦊🌟

Published by @theobrienpress.bsky.social 😊

You can vote for this and many others at www.irishbookawards.ie
Graphic for announcement of shortlisted book for the An Post Irish Book Awards. Dark grey and green background with logos for IBA and Specsavers at the top. At the centre is the cover of the book Run Home Little Fox - a very autumnal woodland scene with trees, flowers and bushes in greens, golds, reds and yellows, with a joyful little fox cub running across the middle. Below the cover is the text Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year - Junior Shortlist 2025
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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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#illustration #picturebooks
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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@eilishfisher.bsky.social just popped in to sign copies of Fia and the Last Deer (now out in a beautiful paperback edition!) and also the The Waters and the Wild! Available in store and online at www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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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November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The shortlists are out! We are celebrating another brilliant year for Irish literature, with some incredible books, authors, illustrators, bookshops & publishers on our 2025 shortlists.

But have you had your say? Pick your favourite books in each category NOW! scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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There are still tickets left for our talk on Friday for @dublinbookfest.bsky.social in the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social. We'll be offering publishing and business advice for children's writers and illustrators who are just starting out.

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#SpeirGorm #BookSky
ProperBook: The Next Step - Dublin Book Festival
The Next Step: Information and Advice for Newly Contracted or Recently Published Children’s Writers and Illustrators Chair: Sarah Webb Speakers: Bruce Stanley (Accountant), Aoife Murray (Children’s Bo...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Puffling’s new book by @erikamcgann.bsky.social and me spotted in the Eason window on Nassau Street Dublin. Already looking pretty Christmassy!
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November 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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A huge thanks to Antonia Daly of Antonia's Bookstore in Trim for including The First Fire of Halloween in her four recommended books on the Late Lunch on LMFM! A great spot to get. The book section starts at 14min 28 secs in.

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#Samhain #PucaFestival #SpeirGorm
The full cover of The First Fire of Halloween. The front features a púca, the mythical Irish shape-changer, as a muscular human figure with a goat's head. He's standing in a field in darkness, with a fire blazing in front of him. Inset in the dark sky above and behind him are a pair of yellow goat's eyes. The title is in orange against the sky, and my name is in black against the fire. The blurb on the back cover reads: Humans have forgotten why they once feared the púca. But he will make them remember. In the small Irish town of Athboy, there is a hill where the first fire was once lit each year to mark the beginning of Samhain. Bonfires would then be lit across the country, launching a festival to celebrate the last harvest before the harsh months of winter. On the night when the boundary with the Realm of the Dead was at its thinnest, it was believed that the spirits of the dead wandered the land. In recent years, that fire has been lit again every Halloween night. Jamie Sheldon is an American girl visiting the town with her parents for an archaeological dig. Rone O’Callaghan lives on a farm near Tlachtga, the ancient site on the Hill of Ward. Both teenagers are close by when a local man is murdered. The circumstances suggest the killer may be acting out some ancient ritual. The truth is even more macabre. This Halloween, as humans wander the streets wearing monster masks, there is a monster among them wearing a human mask. The most treacherous of all the ancient faerie folk . . . The shape-changing púca.
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Perfect Halloween read 🎃👻🎃
oisinmcgann.bsky.social Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 11d
Big thanks to Antonia's Books in Trim for featuring The First Fire of Halloween in their window and table displays in the run-up to Halloween and the Púca Festival!

Support your local indie bookshops!

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#SpeirGorm #SpéirGorm #PucaFestival #Samhain #BookSky
The First Fire of Halloween stacked on a Halloween display of similarly themed books in the shop. A close-up of The First Fire of Halloween, with a goat-headed púca on the cover, among a bunch of similarly themed books in the window of Antonia's Books. One of the windows of Antonia's Books in Trim, Co. Meath, with my book, The First Fire of Halloween sitting among their Halloween display of spooky books. Beyond, you can see the interior of the small shop, filled floor to ceiling with books.
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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“The nomination recognises Pierce’s contribution to Irish historical writing and storytelling, joining a competitive category”

Thank you Drogheda Leader for celebrating Nicola Pierce’s shortlisting in the @irishbookawards.bsky.social

You can vote here www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
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October 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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We are running our Lucky Dip right through midterm! So pop in this week to choose a surprise book for only €5, or order online here halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/Luck...
October 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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A brilliant night at the GPO for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards Shortlist launch! 💚📚

From powerful debuts to beloved favourites, we’re celebrating Irish writing at its best. Now it’s your turn to choose the winners!

Vote here ➡️ scxo9qtv33a.typeform.com/apiba25-vote

#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Londoners! Lauren O’Hara will be on a tour of London indie bookshops later this week! 📚

Grab a limited-edition signed copy of #OscarWildesStoriesforChildren from one of these bookshops while stocks last!

#OscarWilde #kidsbooks #childrensbooks #books #Christmasgifts #signedbooks
Lauren’s London tour itinerary: 30 October 2025 Nomad Books Paper Cat Bookshop ChocoLit Dulwich Books 31 October 2025 The British Library Shop Daunt Books Marylebone London Review Bookshop West End Lane Books
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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So excited that Run Home Little Fox by Tom McCaughren, @shannonbergin.bsky.social and me has been shortlisted for the @irishbookawards.bsky.social Junior Children’s Book of the Year! 🌟🦊🌟

Published by @theobrienpress.bsky.social 😊

You can vote for this and many others at www.irishbookawards.ie
Graphic for announcement of shortlisted book for the An Post Irish Book Awards. Dark grey and green background with logos for IBA and Specsavers at the top. At the centre is the cover of the book Run Home Little Fox - a very autumnal woodland scene with trees, flowers and bushes in greens, golds, reds and yellows, with a joyful little fox cub running across the middle. Below the cover is the text Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year - Junior Shortlist 2025
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Return to Old Ireland! Tír Na n'Og by @erikamcgann.bsky.social & Conor Busuttil & The Stolen Child by W.B.Yeats, illustrated by Erin Brown; glorious gifts that evoke a timeless, magical past. Perfect! @theobrienpress.bsky.social #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
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October 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Join us at our Festival Hub where Claire Gleeson and June O’Sullivan will be in conversation with Sophie Grenham about their beautifully written and deeply affecting debuts exploring resilience and hope in the most challenging of times 🎟️ bit.ly/4oFBS4C
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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The artist at work! Some photos of Lauren O’Hara painting The Happy Prince in the iconic window of Dublin’s @booksupstairs.bsky.social

The illustration is from our new edition of Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children, out now and available wherever good books are sold!
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Voting is now open, make sure to show some love to your favourite books.

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Vote - Irish Book Awards
AN POST IRISH BOOk AWARDS Public Vote 2025 Vote for your favourite books of the year here and win €100 of National Book Tokens Scroll down and vote for your favourite books and be in with a chance of ...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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A fabulous evening celebrating our outstanding authors and stories shortlisted in the @irishbookawards.bsky.social

An immense congratulations to Paddy Donnelly, Tom McCaughren, Erika McGann, Shannon Bergin, Kevin Moran, Méabh McDonnell and Nicola Pierce.
Authors at award ceremony
October 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Congratulations to everyone, but especially to my sister Erika, and her co-creators, Tom McCaughren and Shannon Bergin on their shortlisting for Run Home, Little Fox, and to Nicola Pierce for Great Irish Wives. Brilliant news!
theobrienpress.bsky.social The O’Brien Press @theobrienpress.bsky.social · 19d
A fabulous evening celebrating our outstanding authors and stories shortlisted in the @irishbookawards.bsky.social

An immense congratulations to Paddy Donnelly, Tom McCaughren, Erika McGann, Shannon Bergin, Kevin Moran, Méabh McDonnell and Nicola Pierce.
Authors at award ceremony
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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littleislandbooks.bsky.social
Good morning! Check out Lauren O’Hara’s Happy Prince painting in @booksupstairs.bsky.social’s window! 😍

Launching this evening at 6.30pm, all welcome!
Front of Books Upstairs bookshop with painting of Happy Prince and lettering “Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children Illustrated by Lauren O’Hara” in the window
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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“This mostly rhyming picture book has bright, eye-catching illustrations that will appeal to younger children”

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October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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In spite of yesterday’s rain, the creators behind ‘Run Home, Little Fox’ braved Dublin’s chilly streets to sign copies of their wonderful new picture book.

Signed copies will now definitely warm the hearts and spirits of many readers, grown or young 🦊

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Authors holding their book in bookshop
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
Thanks so much to Natasha Mac a’Bhaird for calling in to sign copies of her books, The Tower Ghost and her latest, The Vanished Girl, yesterday! We love this mystery series set in a boarding school in Donegal!
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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1/ We can’t wait to welcome our good friends @sineadohart.bsky.social & @unawoods.bsky.social this coming Sat at 3pm! They will read and draw front their brilliant new book, Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee. You can order a copy to be signed here halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781...
October 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Wonderful event this Saturday in Greystones at The Whale Theatre with @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social 🌟🌟🌟
halfwayupbooks.bsky.social Halfway up the Stairs @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social · 26d
Our Legends of Irish Children’s Literature family event is this Saturday in The Whale Theatre!

Come to see Marita Conlon-McKenna, Tom McCaughren and Don Conroy, talking to our Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde!

Tickets available here: whaletheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM