Storytime for Ages 3 and Under at Thurles Library

Each Wednesday at 11am Thurles Library holds a Storytime session for toddlers. These 30-minute sessions are suitable for ages 3 and under with fun filled stories read to the children every week.   This event is not only fun for the children to meet others of a similar age but being read stories regularly is […]

Roscrea Library Adult Book Club

New York Times Bestselling author Susan Wiggs says, “You’re never alone when you’re reading a book” and this is certainly true for Roscrea Library’s Adult Book Club who meet on the last Wednesday of every month from 3:30pm to 4:30pm to discuss the latest book they have been reading.   Book Clubs such as this […]

Green Guru Michael Kelly shares tips on how we can all enjoy a Greener Christmas

Founder of GIY Michael Kelly along with Muireann Ní Chíobháin have a new book out. It is beautifully illustrated by Fatti Burke and aims to teach children how to grow and cook food as well as live more sustainably. They are sharing some of their top tips on how we can all have a more […]

​​New Book Celebrating Irish wildlife

A new book featuring a collection of wildlife and nature writing by West Cork based author Calvin Jones celebrates the incredible diversity of life on and around the island of Ireland. Volume one of “The Irish Wildlife Collection” featuring wildlife profiles and articles covering a wide selection of species from humpback whales to dandelions and […]

Ten Red-Hot Tips To Promote Your Business – New Book by Ellen Gunning

Who could better placed than Ellen Gunning MA, MIAPR, FPRII, NUJ, director of Irish Academy of Public Relations to advise small and medium-sized business on the best PR techniques and how to use them? In Ten Red-Hot Tips Ellen cuts through the jargon to provide the reader with the techniques to create the ‘angles’ that […]

New book exposes story behind Ireland’s gas and oil

With estimates of a ‘potential of at least ten billion barrels of oil equivalent’[1] (oil or gas) said to exist offshore and onshore Ireland, questions about who owns and benefits from Ireland’s resources have arisen in recent years. The prolonged Corrib gas conflict and allegations of a ‘gas giveaway’ have also prompted many people to inform […]

Mercier Press announce fiction competition for first-time authors

Ireland’s oldest independent publishing house, Mercier Press has launched a fantastic competition to find a first-time fiction author with the potential to become a bestselling writer. The Mercier Press Fiction Competition will be accepting manuscripts from unpublished authors from 21 September 2016 to 1 February 2017.  In addition to a publishing deal, the winner will […]

An Obstacle Confusion – Book of Barneyisms – by Jim McCann & Wendy Shea

An Obstacle Confusion.  By Mattie Lennon. BARNEY;  When is the baby due? PREGNANT WOMAN; December. BARNEY;  This December?     “Formalism, by being an ‘ism,’ kills form by hugging it to death”, so said Peter Viereck but there are “isms”   worth saving.  Formalism is defined as, ”the practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to […]

Tipperary author included in new rural anthology Around The Farm Gate

A Tipperary author has had his story included as part of Around The Farm Gate, a unique anthology of Irish rural memories which is hotly-tipped to be a best-seller this year. Patrick O’Dwyer hails from Tipperary town and is married with three children. His story ‘The Cow That Went On Holidays’ brings a certain humour […]

New Book ‘The Curse of the USS Annie Oakley’ – Q and A with author Joe Terry

A new book by Author Joe Terry, ‘The Curse of the USS Annie Oakley’  is being launched in Cork City Library on 18th June at 7pm. We feature a Q and A session with the author below the description. On learning of the assassination of his godfather, President John F Kennedy, Boston College undergraduate DANIEL […]

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