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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1
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Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
A Post Bookshop of the Year!
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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
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Bookshop Of The Year 2025 Chapters Bookstore Dublin
It is 5 a.m. and I am sitting at the kitchen table, my jacket and bow tie abandoned somewhere in the hall, far too wired to sleep. A few hours ago, at the An Post Irish Book Awards, Chapters was named...
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Brrrrr. Here we are in a frosty, sparkly new year. Wondering what books are out this month?

📗First Flush lists all Irish-authored, Irish-published, & Irish-interest books each month. See what's new or browse the database!📗
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New year, new books—new releases for January - Books Ireland
Our data base First Flush lists all new Irish books each month, and is fully searchable.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 AM
From David in Secondhand - rarely in & go very quickly - Vols 1 & 2 of the Collected Plays of Brian Friel - remember 20% off in the sale!
January 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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I present the #cat semi colon
(Cc @bcdreyer.social)
January 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Actually we are already live online!!

Discount applied automatically at checkout!
As we have all enjoyed Christmas & are officially off today, our Sale will kick in tomorrow!
January 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
As we have all enjoyed Christmas & are officially off today, our Sale will kick in tomorrow!
January 1, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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This message is aimed at me and I intend to pay attention to Floella as much now as ever.
Happy New Year everyone especially my #Playschool Babies. Remember to spread as much unconditional love, joy, peace, kindness and positivity wherever you go. Keep hope in your heart and make your world shine with happiness ❤️
January 1, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Have just seen this, I think for the first time -
January 1, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Zoélie has been busy in Secondhand finding treasure for you!

Marzahn, Mon Amour signed by both author & translator - winner of the prestigious 2023 Dublin Literary Award - a major international prize celebrating translated fiction!
January 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Here’s some more of my favourite books from 2025: Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession, The Party by Tessa Hadley, Onr Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes, Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst, The Dream-Pedlars by Mark Dowsher, My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss, and Love Sex & Frankenstein by Caroline Lea.
January 1, 2026 at 9:58 AM
From all of us here, we wish you & yours a joyful, prosperous, healthy 2026 ✨✨✨
January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I didn’t know that it had so many verses!
December 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Peak
December 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Time to put away my Christmas books - needless to say I was completely spoilt!
December 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I read this early in the year & saved just for now!
December 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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One bag of books successfully transferred to @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social - if you're looking for 10 year old books on SQL or R then you are in luck!
December 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Aw thank you! Its available from @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social if you want the paperback:
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(Pls ignore the 1-star review there - it’s by my mother’s 80yo neighbour who thought 1 star was the highest rating! 😳)

You can also get it on Kindle.
Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory | Maeve McGettigan has never met a commitment she didn’t run from… until she landed a job as Dublin''s least prepared robot babysitter.One minute Maeve’s coasting through her boring marke...
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December 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Hope you all having a peaceful & relaxed day, however you spend it
❤️🎄❤️

I am about to explode from Maltesers 😊
December 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Poem of the day … it made me smile!
December 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is a beauty found by David & his team in Secondhand!
December 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
First Editions of Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ & ‘Rose Maddox’ in Secondhand today!
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A signed copy of Nick Harkaways'
'The Gone-Away World' is in Secondhand!
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Winter Solstice today … the shortest day, or longest night … depending on what tout are looking for.

The Laughing Heart - Bukowski
December 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
A beautiful poetry box set of four of Seamus Heaney’s collections have arrived in Secondhand - on the shelves now!

Included:
- Death of a naturalist
- Door into the Dark
- Wintering Out
- North
December 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Signed copies!! ✍️📚
Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children by Nicole Louie is part memoir, part a chorus of candid conversations with 14 women around the world, exploring what a full life can look like outside the script of motherhood.
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM