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Dublin's Oldest Independent Bookshop. Estd 1978.

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We have a very exciting event announcement coming soon…. Watch this space 🔥 🎶

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I hope to make one of my rare trips to Dublin for this reading.

Oksana will read from her collection and discuss the work with celebrated Irish poet Moya Cannon on Thursday 20 November at 6.30pm. Admission free, but space limited. Reserve here: booksupstairs.ie/all-events/sti… @ok_maksymchuk @Carcanet



This Wednesday ⬇️⭐️

If you are coming to our launch at the wonderful @BooksUpstairs this Wednesday (6th Nov) you might enjoy listening to @MaryMcAuliffe4 and me speaking about the collection on the @NewBooksNetwork with @AidanJBeatty who was a wonderful host to us, click below for the link.

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There's a new @holyshow_ie exhibition at @MoLI_Museum and I am so, so happy to be part of it. As writers and as readers, we're truly fortunate to have these beautiful weirdos. 100% worth seeing and worth finding the new issue in @BooksUpstairs

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Halloween reads in full flight this week 🎃👻🧙‍♀️🧡💀

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Since launching 24 hours ago this has risen to a total of 4,500 writers and publishing professionals pledging to boycott all complicit Israeli institutions. Names are coming in faster than we can process them.

BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history. lithub.com/hundreds-of-au…

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We are so glad to be hosting the launch of this posthumous collection of poems by the much loved poet Gerard Fanning. Please join us to celebrate this remarkable body of work collected together for the first time. Hosted by poet Gerry Smyth. Join us 💙 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/lau…

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Colm Tóibín, current Laureate for Irish Fiction and one of the finest novelists writing today, had some very nice things to say about Books Upstairs last week. This much appreciated shout out came as a total surprise and means a lot to us ✨✨✨

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Laureate Colm Tóibín shares his favorite Irish bookshop of the year. What’s your go-to spot for book shopping? #IrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay @BooksellingI @BooksUpstairs @artscouncil_ie



Emily Houricane called in to sign copies of her new novel A Kennedy Affair. Inspired by real events, it is a powerful story of friendship & forbidden passion - & we have signed copies in stock now! Thanks so much @EmilyH71 & @HachetteIre ❣️ booksupstairs.ie/product/a-kenn…

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The lovely @fhayesmccoy was here to sign copies of her latest novel - a book about a family-run bookshop struggling to cope (couldn’t possibly relate 😂😉) Signed copies here now: booksupstairs.ie/product/the-bo… @HachetteIre

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Alan Hollinghurst stopped by to sign copies of his new novel, Our Evenings, described as his finest novel yet. Signed copies here now: booksupstairs.ie/product/our-ev…

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We were delighted to be selling at the launch for @LaraMarlowe’s new book about Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko. This book tells the compelling story of a country at war and a fearless woman fighting for its survival. We have copies of the book signed by both Lara & Lieutenant Yulia.

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Well this is a very nice way to start the day … ❣️ #IrishBookWeek

Laureate Colm Tóibín shares his favorite Irish bookshop of the year. What’s your go-to spot for book shopping? #IrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay @BooksellingI @BooksUpstairs @artscouncil_ie



Very glad to be @GateTheatreDub for @poetryireland’s event celebrating Paul Durcan & this beautiful new selection of 80 poems for his 80th birthday from @PenguinIEBooks 🧡

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We had a great time launching LET'S DANCE by Lucy Sweeney Byrne at the wonderful @BooksUpstairs recently, with a brilliant introduction by Rob Doyle (1/2)

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