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This Saturday in Athy

Offaly in two weeks time...

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Co. Offaly this weekend.

Sharing a premises with Charlie Byrne at Ennistymon Book Town Festival Here all day Sunday as well.

Up and running at Graigenamagh Bookfair. Here til Sunday.

This weekend at the ARCH Kilkenny Road Athy

On this Sunday in Kilkenny. The crest on the poster is the Kilkenny City coat of arms, l have been told, but could be wrong :-)

3D Relief Maps of Ireland Terraform designs and manufactures decorative 3D relief maps of well known Irish landscapes using open-source data sets, 3-D-printing technology and vacuum foaming...Read More

Visit MoLI 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2

Ireland's Town of Books returns on the weekend of the 19th to the 21st of August in Kilkennys scenic Graiguenamanagh.

We will have booksellers from across Ireland and the UK, literary events and oh so many wonderful books.

Come and join us this month!

Please share widely, looking forward to the weekend

Tickets To Dublin's Spectacular 360-Degree Van Gogh Exhibition Are Now On Sale You can now grab tickets to Dublin's amazing Van Gogh exhibition, an immersive experience which plunges you inside his painted world.

It seems that the banning of books is back in vogue in the United States and sure to spread its reach through the Internet across the world. In the past few weeks books entirely diverse in range have been removed from school libraries in Texas, Tennessee and Oklahoma.

Among them, Maus, “The Bluest Eyes” by Toni Morrison, “The Perks of being a wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky, “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini and “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J Mass. That’s a graphic novel retelling the holocaust, a classic by a Nobel prize winner, a coming-of-age novel, a novel about afghan life and a fantasy.

Currently, the following well known books are among the most challenged by threats of censorship and banning;
• Of Mice and Men
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Colour Purple
• Harry Potter
• Brave New World
• The Bible
• 1984
• One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Lord of the Flies
• The Great Gatsby

In 1998, just as his behemoth was beginning to shutdown bookshops across the world, Jeff Bezos said; “We want to make every book available—the good, the bad and the ugly. Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable.”

Now that it controls the market and most opposite is gone, Amazon has changed its tune. “Amazon has a First Amendment right to pick and choose the materials they offer. Despite its size, it does not have to sponsor speech it finds unacceptable."

Now the list of books banned from Amazon and their many online minions is growing by the day. The problem is when Amazon bans a book, that book is essentially removed from existence.

“When a company controls over 83% of the market for books, it begins the process of deleting ideas from a society.”

As it stands, book banning is restricted to the school library system in certain American states, and to alternative political tracts online, but how long will it be until Amazon or another giant decides to remove books like the ones above, books that carry such inspiring ideas, from existence?

Independent bookstores don’t ban books. We believe it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable. We think that banning books is one step away from burning them, and, as the great German poet Heinrich Heine once prophesied, “Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”

To combat these regressive steps, we are introducing a new banned books section in Red Books where books that are currently, or have been in the past, banned will be available for sale at low prices for as long as our doors stay open.

We will also be starting a new video series where we will discuss these endangered books and promote their values.

Let us know what your favourite banned book is and why, and tell us what you think about the banning of the books above!

Sundays 12@12 (Part 1). Remember we are offering click&collect and free local delivery on all these books and more at www.theirishbookshop.com.

* The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the discovery of the secret scrolls of Jesus (€5)
https://theirishbookshop.com/products/the-hiram-key-pharaohs-freemasons-and-the-discovery-of-the-secret-scrolls-of-jesus?_pos=1&_sid=db642d800&_ss=r

* The Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the great secret of the freemasons (€5)
https://theirishbookshop.com/products/the-second-messiah-templars-the-turin-shroud-and-the-great-secret-of-the-freemasons?_pos=1&_sid=b3b364da5&_ss=r

* The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) (€4)
https://theirishbookshop.com/products/the-power-of-now-eckhart-tolle?_pos=1&_sid=3c467b465&_ss=r

* Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is shaping our future (€5)
https://theirishbookshop.com/products/elon-musk-how-the-billionaire-ceo-of-spacex-and-tesla-is-shaping-our-future?_pos=1&_sid=1bc7a8590&_ss=r

* The Virus: Where did it come from? (€4)
https://theirishbookshop.com/products/the-virus-where-did-it-come-from?_pos=1&_sid=16e44429b&_ss=r

* A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Woolstonecraft) (€4)
https://theirishbookshop.com/products/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman-mary-woolstonecraft?_pos=1&_sid=fcdb0beec&_ss=r

We're open in Wexford's St Peter's Square again on Tuesday from 10-5pm.

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50th anniversary of the Wexford Book and Collectors Fair The Wexford Book and Collectors Fair will take place in Wexford towns Talbot Hotel on the 31st of October, marking the 50th anniversary of Irelands longest running book fair moving from Enniscorthy to Wexford. In 1971, Wexford book seller and stamp dealer Anton O’ Broin cut a deal with the then ma...

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Local Bookshop Becomes a Hub for Wexford Talent | Wexford Weekly Red Books in St Peter’s Square is a bookworm’s paradise as well as a platform for some of Wexford’s best and brightest.

Our friends at Red Books in Wexford have some great picks for the Gaeilabans:

Posters all up and the stalls are all set up in Teach Ceoil, The Court House and many other locations for this weekend’s Ennistymon Book Town Festival

A weekend away

Bookselling Ireland has called for bookshops to be reclassified as "essential services" and reopened. The organisation said that the survival of the bookselling sector in Ireland is very much at risk, and the loss of bookshops would be devastating for individuals and local communities.

France, Italy, Germany, Belgium and other countries have already declared bookselling an essential service, highlighting the benefits to mental health and culture that such spaces provide. Today the town was full of people but a small independent bookstore like ours wasn't even allowed to offer click&collect while much bigger shops which attract much bigger crowds remain open.

We are still posting new books every single day to our website www.theirishbookshop.com.

The Life, Work, and Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Two new volumes document the state of international scholarship on Rosa Luxemburg

The Secret Bookstore The Secret Bookstore is an Independent Irish Bookstore in Dublin. We Offer A Wide Range Of Books With Free Delivery In Ireland Over €20. History, Philosophy, Music, Science, Sci-Fi, Art, Poetry and more!

January bargains!

Hundreds of thrillers for €3 each on our website www.theirishbookshop.com along with hundreds of other great books.

Check out our thriller selection here. More added everyday.
https://theirishbookshop.com/collections/thrillers-3-sale

We can post anywhere in the world at standard rates. We post by weight and not by item like certain internet giants.....

We also offer free delivery in Wexford town. Just click the option in the checkout on the website.