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Sheelagh na Gig: Books Coffee Gifts Wholefoods in Cloughjordan
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Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
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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
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Happy Halloween! At least one of us really made an effort! Employee of the Month award goes to Elliot! #OícheShamhna
A person standing in front of full bookshelves wearing a blue/grey dress shirt with a light-up ghost in the pocket. He's wearing multicoloured striped stovepipe hat with goggles resting on the brim and, in front of his face, holding up a pumpkin with a face drawn on with a marker. Happy Halloween!!
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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!
A happy birthday sign. Happy birthday is at the top, written in mulit-coloured balloon-like letters. Below it says to us! Below that, in cursive script, it says Sheelagh na Gig is 19! And behind that text is a yellow two-layered cake with white topping, sprinkles, and three candles. It's all clipart. A photo. At the top is a happy birthday banner. Below that are two shelves of books, each tied with a red ribbon and a bow. Across the bottom of the bottom shelf is text, yellow background with blue writing ,saying Get your birthday present book!* There's a handwritten sign in the phto that says It's our 19th birthday! Choose one of these new release books on us! Thank you for 19 years! There is a shelf of chocolate below that. and over that shelf is a small textbox, pale blue background, darker blue, with the text *While supplies last.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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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!
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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#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
A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the novel Ordinary Saints. To the left, the descriptive text says, A writer of immense delicacy, perception, and heart. Funny and deeply moving. Nominated for numerous book prizes and book clubs. A must read! At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop.
October 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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#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...
A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the novel Ordinary Saints. To the left, the descriptive text says, A writer of immense delicacy, perception, and heart. Funny and deeply moving. Nominated for numerous book prizes and book clubs. A must read! At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop. A photo of a paperback copy of the novel Ordinary Saints. It is standing with the cover front facing on a bookshelf. You can see other books behind it.
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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!
A handknitted tea cosy depicting President Michael D Higgins. The knitted president wears wire-rimmed glasses, a white shirt, red tie, and grey jacket with two knitted black buttons. The cosy covers a red teapot -- you can see the handle and spout. It all sits on a mosaic-covered mini podium on a black worktop. There are full bookcases in the background. The text says you might not be able to take tea with Michael D in the Áras, but you can take tea with Michael 'Tea' every day at home!
October 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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#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
A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the graphic novel of An Béal Bocht. To the left, the descriptive text says, A classic of Irish literature in a striking graphic novel format. It's our November choice for Léigh Linn: our Gaeilge book club for adult learners and improvers of Irish. At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop. A photo of the graphic novel An Béal Bocht on a book stand on a shelf. You can see other bookcases full of books in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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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
A square poster about Irish Book Week. In the top left is the Irish Book Week logo. The large image is the cover of the graphic novel of An Béal Bocht. To the left, the descriptive text says, A classic of Irish literature in a striking graphic novel format. It's our November choice for Léigh Linn: our Gaeilge book club for adult learners and improvers of Irish. At the bottom is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop. A photo of the graphic novel An Béal Bocht on a book stand on a shelf. You can see other bookcases full of books in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Beimid ag ceiliúradh leabhra, údair, maisitheora, foilsitheora, agus léitheora Éireannach leatsa an tseachtain seo, Seachtain Leabhar na Éireannach! #LoveLeabharGaeilge #IrishBookWeek #IrishBookADay
Postaer ar Seachtain na Leabhar Éireannach. A poster about Irish Book Week.
October 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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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
A poster for Irish Book Week. On an off-white background, on the left is a list of text and on the right is a colourful illustration showing a giant reading while sitting on a bookshop. the text lists the different social media posts that will be happening during the Irish Book a Day campaign.
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Our bookshop logo, based on the dancer sheela from the other side of Borrisokane. Merging ancient symbol with modern queer art: name the artist who inspired the style, anyone? (No, we're not the women from Sheela na Gig bookshop in Galway, but their (long closed) shop partly inspired our name.)
A photo of a white circle of a blue sheela-na-gig shape surround by text in a seanchló font (old-style Gaelic letters) in English on top and Gaeilge on the bottom saying Sheelagh na Gig Síle na gCioch (except there's no letter h because it's seanchló, so there's a dot over the letter C at the end of the word.
October 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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The weather says Ireland but the flower pots say summer.☁️🌧️🌦️🌥️
Colourful flowers in a large flowerpot in front of a grey wall. The flowers include marigolds, lobelia, and Canterbury bells.
July 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The best place to find your next LGBTQIA+ favourite book is at your local, independent bookshop! Celebrate even more by picking up a High Five voucher for a free €5 National Book Token. Have a safe, happy, inclusive, empowered Pride! #nationalbooktokens
#independentbookshopweek #ReadwithPride
A small brown wicker basket is on a black worktop. In the basket, from left to right, are Naitonal Book Tokens vouchers that say Claim a free 5 National Book Token. In the middle are read with Pride booksmarks. At the right is a handwritten sign that says Free Stickers. On top of that are some stickers that say I love my local bookshop. There's a heart image in place of the word love.
June 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Join us! Liz is hosting storytime at 1pm at the Cloughjordan Playground Awareness Family Fun Day this Sunday at St Kieran's Hall. Event starts at noon: Fun on the Farm activities, professional face painting, Cloughjordan fire tender, live music, refreshments and the playground plans displayed. FUN!
A poster of the details of the Cloughjordan Playground Awareness Family Fun Day. (All key details are in the text of this post.)
June 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Circus Picnic tomorrow Sat 7 June with Cloughjordan Circus Club. And Liz will be reading If I Ran the Circus at 1.15pm for storytime. Part of Cruinniú na nÓg.
A multi-coloured poster for the Cloughjordan Circus Club Circus Picnic. A person holds up a copy of the book If I Ran the Circus in front of their face below a black hat covered in dyed ostrich feathers. There are full bookcases behind.
June 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Dancing with Strangers: From Palestine to Ireland. A choreographic act of resistance with four dancers from Gaza and Instant Dissidence. A dancer with outstretched arms asks, 'Will you dance with me?' Do you accept their invitation?
A black background. A film still from the film Dancing with Strangers: From Palestine to Ireland. Still by Dylan Kendle. The text below the image says: Saturday 24 May 1.30pm Sheelagh na Gig Bookshop Cloughjordan, Tipperary. A day of dance duets, film, and readings in support of the people of Palestine by Instant Dissidence supported by Sheelagh na Gig Bookshop. Part of Feminist Book Fortnight. A red background. A drawing of the four dancers in Gaza. The text says: A dancer with outstretched arms wears a t-shirt that says ‘Dance with Me.’ Will you accept their invitation? A dancer with outstretched arms wears a t-shirt that says ‘Dance with Me.’ Will you accept their invitation? Gaza-based dancers Agour, Just, Khaled and Maryam have been remote-working with Instant Dissidence’s Artistic Director Rita Marcalo to create dance duets that they would like to perform with people in Ireland, as a choreographic act of resistance. As they cannot be present in Ireland, ‘body avatars’ from the Irish dance community dance for each Palestinian dancer in their original duet. Through them (and the exchanged gift of dance) Agour, Just, Khaled and Maryam are going to ask you to dance: they want their voices to be heard and their bodies to be felt. Saturday 24 May 1.30pm Sheelagh na Gig Bookshop Cloughjordan Tipperary. Portraits of the dancers Khaled, Maryam, Agour and Just. Credits: JAL. A green background. An collage of pictures of dancers involved. Text says: From 1.30pm on Saturday, 24 May, you are invited to dance with one of the Instant Dissidence dancers, who are stand-ins for each Gaza-based dancer. When you participate, the dancers first hand you a set of 4 cards: each card contains brief information on each Gaza-based dancer, and a child’s drawing (to protect their identities) of a portrait photo sent to Instant Dissidence by them. You choose which dancer to dance with from that set of cards, and we hand you a set of headphones with the audio created by your chosen dancer. As you listen, you find yourself dancing with that dancer (through one of us) to the music of their choice, and listening to their personal story. A black background. Across the top images of three books: The text below the images says: From 3pm to 4pm on Saturday, 24 May, various participants will read extracts from featured books by Palestinian authors: Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman by NS Nuseibeh, The Hollow Half by Sarah Aziza, and Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Paletinian Speculative Fiction edited by Sonia Sulaiman. Saturday 24 May 1.30pm Sheelagh na Gig Bookshop Cloughjordan Tipperary
May 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change is on our shelves just in time for Feminist Book Fortnight. So many women who went on to set up important organisations in Irish society, such as the first Rape Crisis Centre and Open Door Counselling, having a great effect on Irish society.
A dark red background. Top left if the cover of the book After the Train: Irishwomen United and a Network of Change. Below that are two logos: feminist book fortnight and Sheelagh na Gig bookshop. The text on the image says: We can thank the women of Irish Women United for pints in bars, swims at the Forty Foot, access to birth control, and much more. After the Train documents the excitement, dedication, and determination of the women of Irish Women United, who were key in making Ireland a better place for women.
May 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Am scéalaíochta! Dé Céadaoin, An 23 Aibreán, 4.00in, Cloch Shiurdáin, Tiobraid Árann. Leifimid dhá leabhar: Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs with Speckles (as Béarla) agus Rita agus an Róbat (as Gaeilge agus, tar éis, as Béarla). Tá fáilte roimh chách, agus tá sé saor in aisce. 💙📚 #speirghorm #leabhargaeilge
The image says Storytime! Wednesday, 23 April, 4.00pm. Below is the cover of the book Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs with Speckles. There's a red background with a white, sparkly egg and a hen sitting on top of it. Below the book cover is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop. A poster in Irish. Deir an póstaer Am scéalaíochta! Dé Céadaoin, An 23 Aibreán, 4.00in. Tá griangraf air don leabhar Rita agus an Róbat. Tá cailín agus róbat greannmhar sa phictiúr. Tá a lógó don siopa leabhar Sheelagh na Gig ag bun don phóstaer.
April 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Storytime! We'll be reading Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs with Speckles (in English) and Rita agus an Róbat (in Irish first and English after.) Everyone is welcome, and storytime is free! This Wednesday at 4pm in Cloughjordan's favourite bookshop. 💙📚

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A poster that says Storytime! Wednesday, 23 April, 4.00pm. There's a picture of the cover of the book Jenny Peckles Lays Eggs with Speckles. It's a red background with a large white-with-speckles egg and a chicken sitting on top. Below is the logo for Sheelagh na Gig bookshop. A poster in Irish. Deir sé Am scéalaíochta! Dé Céadaoin, An 23 Aibreán, 4.00in. Tá griangraf don leabhar Rita agus an Róbat ann. Tá cailín ann agus róbat greannmhar. Tá an lógó don siopa leabhar Sheelagh na Gig ag bun an phóstaeir.
April 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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We're open Easter Monday from 1pm to 6pm, and it's the last day of our April sale! Selected books are 20% off, children's hardbacks 25% off, and secondhand books €1 each or 6 for €5! Do drop by.
A poster that says Our April sale ends Easter Monday 21 April open 1pm to 6pm. At the bottom is a photo of a bookshop. The sign says bookshop coffee gifts wholefoods. There is a pale Easter egg background with pale yellow, pink, and green zigzag stripes.
April 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Pom Cat invites you to sit in the sun and read Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. Good afternoon!
A ginger cat sits in the sun on a wooden table. In front of her, on the table, is a copy of Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. Her tail caresses the spine.
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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We will be open bank holiday Monday, St Patrick's Day, from 1pm to 6pm, as always? After the parades, sessions, céilí, and pints, you'll need a good book... especially if you're looking at this green background after a few.
A bright green square. At the top, it says we are open St Patrick's Day, Monday 17 March, from 1pm to 6pm. There is a photo of the front of Sheelagh na Gig bookshop. Beneath the photo, it says Sheelagh na Gig books and wholefoods Cloughjordan Co Tipperary. The green background is quite acid and garish, and that's us saying it. But it's eye-catching.
March 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Irish bookshops: does anyone have a copy of 9781804580547, Together Standing Tall, in stock that they can post to a customer? Let us know and we'll pass your details on. (Gill isn't reprinting any time soon.) #speirghorm #speirgorm #IrishBookselling
The cover of the book Together Standing Tall: 150 years of Irish Rugby. The main photo is a colour photo of the Ireland rugby team celebrating a win. Beneath are 5 black-and- white photos of key rugby moments, including one of the women's team with the cup celebrating a win. Well done them.
March 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Happy #WorldBookDay! We welcome school visits today, which means we reconfigure the shop! The children's section triples in size as the books spread out, and our food hall gets transformed into World Book Day book central. We get to do it all again tomorrow, too!
March 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM