Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1

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 chaptersbookstore.com/blogs/news/b...

Cassie Stokes came in to sign Best of Ireland and discovered the less glamorous side of publishing: several hundred hardbacks & a Sharpie! 😂 We think this will be HUGE for Christmas! 500+ tried & tested recs across all 32 counties. Less “tick off the sights”, more go, sit, meet & experience!

Is there a way of saying "sure look" as Gaeilge? Or "it is what it is"? I can't think of a comparable phrase ... though my neighbour used to say "well, I've never seen hands on an ass before" - I don't know why, it made no sense, other than he was finished talking to you 🤷‍♀️😂

AH HERE NOW! COLM O’REGAN IS COMING TO CHAPTERS! And it's FREE! Usually you have to pay to see him being funny! 😂 Colm joins Sharon Mannion to talk Tipping Away, his hilarious new book about Hiberno-English. 📅 29th Oct, 6.30pm 📍 Chapters, Dublin 1 🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/...

Spent a lovely afternoon in @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social yesterday - innovative event format: Afternoon tea with author @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social . The conversation was wide-ranging and included pressing issues for authors such as genAI & copyright law + reflections on the history of technology.

With a lovely shout-out to ourselves, @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social and @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social 🧡 Thanks @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Huge thanks to @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social for the perfect event to close my #IrishBookWeek east coast signing tour - and to everyone, including fellow-authors, who came and joined in the brilliant book-chat regardless of Dublin's ominous storm warnings! #spéirgorm #booksky📚💙 #AWinterWedding

👻 Dublin has always had one foot in the other world - join Donal Fallon & Warren Farrell for ghosts, grave robbers, Gothic writers & the city's haunted history. 🪦 28th Oct at 7pm Free tickets at: www.eventbrite.ie/e/... With massive thanks to @dublincitylit.bsky.social

Work views don't get much better than this ... I am not much good at remembering to express gratitude ... but around now 5 years ago Willie announced that Chapters was closing ... now I am working in the book nook, with tea from @arboretumGC, watching the world go by.

📚 3PM SECONDHAND SPECIAL! A Celebration of Irish Life (1990). Six beautifully preserved hardbacks featuring Maeve Binchy, John B. Keane, Father Browne & more. A snapshot of Irish life, writing & culture. Complete in its original green presentation box - a gorgeous find❤️

Is there a way of saying "sure look" as Gaeilge? Or "it is what it is"? I can't think of a comparable phrase ... though my neighbour used to say "well, I've never seen hands on an ass before" - I don't know why, it made no sense, other than he was finished talking to you 🤷‍♀️😂

This, along with the phrase "I turned around", weere the two phrases that caused my Irish mother endless trouble & confusion when she was telling a story during the many years she lived in Liverpool. They coped better with 'gas' & 'craic' ... 'yoke' was tough though!

3PM SECONDHAND SPECIAL! A beauty with a history! Typo Ornamenty (Prague, 1990), a magnificent portfolio of typographic designs, from the personal collection of Jan de Fouw, the Dutch designer who helped shape modern Irish graphic design. 240 loose sheets of visual magic! ❤️

I have just bought sweeties for this... not really Afternoon Tea fayre ... but any excuse for tea, cake, sweeties and book talk! Looking forward to this immensely!

This, along with the phrase "I turned around", weere the two phrases that caused my Irish mother endless trouble & confusion when she was telling a story during the many years she lived in Liverpool. They coped better with 'gas' & 'craic' ... 'yoke' was tough though!

This is one I use a lot - I'm grand, it's grand, grand so .... It is also one I have to translate a lot. Daughter has just started uni in the UK. She messaged me to say that she is not sure she speaks the same language as her peers. I told "ah sure, it'll be grand"

“I will, yeah.” Three words. A complete sentence. Absolutely no intention of doing anything. Colm O’Regan understands the Irish language better than most of us understand ourselves. Join him & Sharon Mannion for the Tipping Away launch on Thurs 29th Oct at 6.30pm 🎟️ FREE – book on Eventbrite.

📚 3PM SECONDHAND Frank Shovlin's new John McGahern biography has arrived, so we went hunting in Secondhand. The result? First editions of Nightlines, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Memoir. And the Memoir is SIGNED! Irish literary treasure. ❤️ #JohnMcGahern #IrishBooks

This is one I use a lot - I'm grand, it's grand, grand so .... It is also one I have to translate a lot. Daughter has just started uni in the UK. She messaged me to say that she is not sure she speaks the same language as her peers. I told "ah sure, it'll be grand"

REACHER FANS! CHAIN REACTION is here! We have some copies signed by BOTH Lee & Andrew Child arrived - several sold before reaching the shop floor - be quick! And Lee, if you're ever passing Parnell Street & fancy a casual signing, the kettle's on! ☕ #JackReacher #LeeChild

AH HERE NOW! COLM O’REGAN IS COMING TO CHAPTERS! And it's FREE! Usually you have to pay to see him being funny! 😂 Colm joins Sharon Mannion to talk Tipping Away, his hilarious new book about Hiberno-English. 📅 29th Oct, 6.30pm 📍 Chapters, Dublin 1 🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/...

What an incredible line up for this year's An Post Novel of Year Shortlist - seriously strong ... glad I am not having to judge!

“I will, yeah.” Three words. A complete sentence. Absolutely no intention of doing anything. Colm O’Regan understands the Irish language better than most of us understand ourselves. Join him & Sharon Mannion for the Tipping Away launch on Thurs 29th Oct at 6.30pm 🎟️ FREE – book on Eventbrite.

👻 Dublin has always had one foot in the other world - join Donal Fallon & Warren Farrell for ghosts, grave robbers, Gothic writers & the city's haunted history. 🪦 28th Oct at 7pm Free tickets at: www.eventbrite.ie/e/... With massive thanks to @dublincitylit.bsky.social

📚 3PM SECONDHAND SPECIAL! A Celebration of Irish Life (1990). Six beautifully preserved hardbacks featuring Maeve Binchy, John B. Keane, Father Browne & more. A snapshot of Irish life, writing & culture. Complete in its original green presentation box - a gorgeous find❤️

What finds in Secondhand for Irish Book Week! 🎬 Manny Farber's Negative Space: gloriously unconventional film criticism. 🎨 Cristín Leach's Negative Space: art, marriage, loss & rebuilding. 🔮 Carl Abrahamsson's Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward.

The book budget is not a fixed financial limit. It is a philosophical question. And we prefer not to rush important intellectual work. 📚 chaptersbookstore.com #BookSky

Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise - two young people, a city and a ticking clock. Oran Doyle’s Give Me ’til Midnight brings that magic to Dublin, with a time loop! Clever, tender and entirely its own. Lovely to welcome Oran in to sign copies! @everywithwords.bsky.social❤️📚

3PM SECONDHAND SPECIAL! A beauty with a history! Typo Ornamenty (Prague, 1990), a magnificent portfolio of typographic designs, from the personal collection of Jan de Fouw, the Dutch designer who helped shape modern Irish graphic design. 240 loose sheets of visual magic! ❤️

REACHER FANS! CHAIN REACTION is here! We have some copies signed by BOTH Lee & Andrew Child arrived - several sold before reaching the shop floor - be quick! And Lee, if you're ever passing Parnell Street & fancy a casual signing, the kettle's on! ☕ #JackReacher #LeeChild

We found out lots about Pat, who sounds a wonderful character & serious brain who is sadly missed. The invitation is now making its way to his Godson.

📚 3PM SECONDHAND Frank Shovlin's new John McGahern biography has arrived, so we went hunting in Secondhand. The result? First editions of Nightlines, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Memoir. And the Memoir is SIGNED! Irish literary treasure. ❤️ #JohnMcGahern #IrishBooks

Cassie Stokes came in to sign Best of Ireland and discovered the less glamorous side of publishing: several hundred hardbacks & a Sharpie! 😂 We think this will be HUGE for Christmas! 500+ tried & tested recs across all 32 counties. Less “tick off the sights”, more go, sit, meet & experience!

🚨 SARAH J. MAAS FANS! ALL EIGHT Throne of Glass books have JUST arrived in Chapters Secondhand. A gorgeous matching rainbow collection! 🌈📚 We love a complete series trade-in. Although we're slightly amazed someone could bear to part with it! In Parnell Street now. 👀

📚 Three Authors Walk Into a Bookshop... we're trying something different! Tues 20tt Oct - 6.30pm - upstairs at Chapters. Ruth Ennis, Seán Farrelly & Courtney Smyth. Pull up a chair, meet the authors, meet fellow fans and talk books! 💚 Free, friendly and proudly part of #IrishBookWeek

I think @vonny.bsky.social found our poet of the gorgeous launch invite!

📚 Three Authors Walk Into a Bookshop... we're trying something different! Tues 20tt Oct - 6.30pm - upstairs at Chapters. Ruth Ennis, Seán Farrelly & Courtney Smyth. Pull up a chair, meet the authors, meet fellow fans and talk books! 💚 Free, friendly and proudly part of #IrishBookWeek

AH HERE NOW! COLM O’REGAN IS COMING TO CHAPTERS! And it's FREE! Usually you have to pay to see him being funny! 😂 Colm joins Sharon Mannion to talk Tipping Away, his hilarious new book about Hiberno-English. 📅 29th Oct, 6.30pm 📍 Chapters, Dublin 1 🎟️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/...

Delighted to have The First Fire of Halloween included in the Halloween promotion at @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social in Dublin city centre. An iconic indie bookshop with a passionate staff. #SpeirGorm

Dublin! Join THE UNDETECTABLES author @cswritesbooks.bsky.social for "Three Authors Walk Into a Bookshop" at @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social tomorrow evening in celebration of #IrishBookWeek! https://tinyurl.com/3wz457e2

Things we find in books! Does anyone remember either pub? Better still, does anyone remember Patrick Jones or this book of poetry or this launch? We would LOVE to hear from you.

👻 Dublin has always had one foot in the other world - join Donal Fallon & Warren Farrell for ghosts, grave robbers, Gothic writers & the city's haunted history. 🪦 28th Oct at 7pm Free tickets at: www.eventbrite.ie/e/... With massive thanks to @dublincitylit.bsky.social

Folio Friday – absolute beauties have arrived! Orlando, Possession, Brave New World, Oscar & Lucinda, The Human Factor, Fermant's Last Theorem & some wonderful myths and legends. Beautiful bindings, gorgeous illustrations and a serious temptation to start collecting.

What finds in Secondhand for Irish Book Week! 🎬 Manny Farber's Negative Space: gloriously unconventional film criticism. 🎨 Cristín Leach's Negative Space: art, marriage, loss & rebuilding. 🔮 Carl Abrahamsson's Occulture: The Unseen Forces That Drive Culture Forward.

📮 Gremlins running the postal service? That explains a lot! Lovely to welcome Dublin author & teacher D. T. Moorhouse to sign Grebs & Co, a magical adventure set inside a postbox. From @everywithwords.bsky.social Thank you for calling in! 💚 #IrishBooks #ChildrensBooks

Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise - two young people, a city and a ticking clock. Oran Doyle’s Give Me ’til Midnight brings that magic to Dublin, with a time loop! Clever, tender and entirely its own. Lovely to welcome Oran in to sign copies! @everywithwords.bsky.social❤️📚

Ok ... production value is poor ... but remember ... this is an improvement & I am an actual human learning to make something! Check out our Halloween books - explore fears safely, laugh at monsters, discover our storytelling traditions & most importantly have some fun!

📚 A Roald Dahl I've never seen before! The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977). Seven wonderfully strange tales of greed, extraordinary abilities, cruelty and chance - for the older reader! And what a gloriously battered vintage Puffin cover! Who remembers this one?

BE PREPARED! ⚜️📚 We are ridiculously delighted with this vintage Scouting & Wolf Cub collection in Secondhand. Knots, badges, campfire songs, glorious illustrations and some beautiful old Ladybirds. Who remembers earning their badges? And can you still tie the knots? 💚

Reading before bed is healthy. Apart from the part where “one more chapter” becomes 2:47am and you begin calculating whether four hours’ sleep is technically enough. Still healthier than lying awake wondering how the book ends. 📚

This is The Mighty Crong! Thanks to @oisinmcgann.bsky.social for coming in - it was a brilliant session & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social for all their support!