Tá club leabhar Léigh Linn ar ais an fómhar! Beimid ag léamh an t-úrscéal Éanna Corr le hAntain Mac Lochlainn. Beidh an chéad chlub i gCloch Shiurdáin an 22 Meán Fhómhair. Saor in aisce! Le tacaíocht ó #ForasnaGaeilge Ticéid: tinyurl.com/LeighLinnMF

Club leabhar Léigh Linn: Éanna Corr/ Léigh Linn bookclub

Club leabhar d'fhoghlaimeoirí fásta. A great way to improve your Irish and read and chat about books. Vocabulary lists and newsletters, too!

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Save the date! #IrishBookWeek 2026 takes place October 17th-24th. The Irish Book Week Ambassadors are Catherine Doyle, Shane Hegarty, Carina McNally, Séamus Ó Tuama, and Paddy Donnelly who has also done the gorgeous artwork this year.

New in stock, as part of the #thomasmcdonaghmuseum 's summer of genealogy workshops and their 2026 Hedge School programme of legacy and memory. 1/

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Permaculture Planting Designs by Pippa Chapman is new in stock and selling fast. Twelve Permaculture design garden plans, precise tips on getting started. Recommended! #permaculture #permacultureireland.

Nollaig Shona! Beimid ar ais Dé Domhnaigh! Happy Christmas! We'll be back on Sunday. 💙📚🇮🇪 #speirgorm

Boy what day is it? Christmas Eve! What time is it? Round one o'clock! What's the wifi like? Holding steady! Is YouTube still up? Not a bother on it! Then it's not too late! Cratchit! Post the video! Is Tiny Tim dead yet? Jaysus he's in his nineties now, what were they feeding him at all? #speirgorm

The Twelve Days of Christmas - Frank Kelly, 1983

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Local artist Jacinta Glasgow dropped by with original art prints just in time for Christmas. In stock now here in Cloughjordan. #IrishArtists

We know just how to impress the rugby lover in your life! Gift the chance to experience the thrill of the pitch-side view through the lens of superfan Ivan O’Riordan. Available in all bookshops!

Form an orderly queue, please, for your Christmas books behind this very patient moth. (And if you know the moth's name, please tell us!) 💙📚🇮🇪

Cloughjordan's bookshop is open every day until Christmas: that's us! AND we're open Christmas Eve 11 am to 6.30pm! If you're in Birr or Roscrea, we are also YOUR local independent bookshop. We're a peaceful, friendly place for Christmas book and gift browsing. 💙 📚 🇮🇪 #booksky

This is my lovely lovely Annemarie in @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social talking about her YA book. She is using her teaching voice because it's for a book club designed to teach people Irish and she is very good at teaching Irish and I love her and she's the best. #speirgorm #books #ya #gaeilge

17 reactions · 4 comments | We are delighted to present 'An Seol atá Fút', our December book for Club Leabhar Léigh Linn, written by our very own Annemarie Nugent. Order your copy now and join us nex...

We are delighted to present 'An Seol atá Fút', our December book for Club Leabhar Léigh Linn, written by our very own Annemarie Nugent. Order your copy now and join us next month....

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What a wonderful win for Nicola Pierce’s ‘Great Irish Wives’ last night at the Irish Book Awards! Nicola’s powerful depiction of the lives of ten wives hidden within history is truly one of the books of 2025. Congratulations, Nicola! @irishbookawards.bsky.social

We’re delighted that ‘Run Home, Little Fox’ was named Children’s Book of the Year (Junior) at the Irish Book Awards! Tom McCaughren, Erika McGann & Shannon Bergin are a true powerhouse trio and have created a picture book that will be cherished for a very long time. Congratulations to them!

Tá am agat fós an t-úrscéal grafach An Béal Bocht a léamh don chlub an tseachtain seo chugainn. Tá liostaí stór focal agus gramadach ar fáil don leabhar. Tá eolas, leabhra agus ticéid ar fáil ar ár suíomh gréasáin agus sa siopa i gCloch Shiúrdain chomh maith. Léigh Linn! #ForasnaGaeilge

"There was sleeting rain, sheeting rain, and rain turned to ice that fell in the form of furious hailstones. It was the most elemental of weather for those gathered there at Uisneach, ...to honour a man who chose to live his life woven tightly into nature." www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

At Uisneach, the sacred centre of Ireland, 2,500 people gather to scatter Manchán Magan’s ashes

Month’s memorial hears world will be a less kind, generous, curious and gentle place with the writer’s passing

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Happy Halloween! At least one of us really made an effort! Employee of the Month award goes to Elliot! #OícheShamhna

Breithlá sona dúinn! Happy birthday to us! Beidh cóisir beag sa siopa um thráthnóna ag 4.30i.n. -- píosa císte, an t-amhrán, agus féiríní do chustaiméirí. Bígí linn! We're having a little party this afternoon at 4.30: cake, the song, and presents for customers!

Here's a selection of newly arrived books, both new and restocks. There's at least five I'd like to add to my to-be-read pile!

#IrishBookADay challenge: An Irish book discovered at a bookshop event. While planning #FeministBookFortnight, we discovered After the Train, a collection of first-person testimonials from women who did remarkable things. Would we be where we are today if Irish Women United hadn't existed? @UCDPress

#IrishBookADay challenge: share your next read. Liz will be reading Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin. Jay lives in London with her girlfriend and doesn't think about her devout upbringing in Ireland. But when she hears her beloved older brother is being put forward for sainthood...

#IrishBookADay challenge: share your next read. Liz will be reading Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin. Jay lives in London with her girlfriend and doesn't think about her devout upbringing in Ireland. But when she hears her beloved older brother is being put forward for sainthood...

Michael D has hosted his last Áras tea party, but you can have presidential tea every day if you have a Michael Tea cosy! e decided to stock one last Michael Tea to mark the end of the era. Handknitted in Cloughjordan by Noreen, we think it's the best Michael Tea design we've seen, but we're biased!

#IrishBookWeek challenge: Share an Irish language book. We have to share the graphic novel of An Béal Bocht, which is the November book choice for our Gaeilge book club: Léigh Linn. I had forgot what an absurdist classic it is. #IrishBookADay #ForasnaGaeilge #loveleabhargaeilge #LéighLinn

dúshlán #IrishBookWeek: Roinn leabhar Gaeilge. Ba mhaith linn an t-úrscéal grafach An Béal Bocht a roinnt. Is é seo rogha Léigh Linn i mí na Samhna. Is sárleabhar éigiallta é, leabhar den scoth! sheelaghnagig.com/l%C3%A9igh-l... #IrishBookADay #ForasnaGaeilge #ClubLeabhar #loveleabhargaeilge

Beimid ag ceiliúradh leabhra, údair, maisitheora, foilsitheora, agus léitheora Éireannach leatsa an tseachtain seo, Seachtain Leabhar na Éireannach! #LoveLeabharGaeilge #IrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay

It's Irish Book Week! Join us in celebrating Irish authors, illustrators, publishers, books, and readers! We'll be posting all week about our favourite Irish books and also the Irish Book Awards nominees! #IrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay #loveleabhargaeilge #IrishBookAwards

The weather says Ireland but the flower pots say summer.☁️🌧️🌦️🌥️

The winner of the 2025 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction is Donal Ryan, for Heart, Be at Peace. "For its clarity. For its perfectly pitched voices. For its humanity and kindness." - Jim Crace, Chair of Judges Congratulations, Donal! 🎉 @doubledaybooks.bsky.social