Collection Of Folio Editions
Just In - A collection of folio editions.
These are beautifully bound classics of literature and history, many in slipcases.
New selection of Classics in our books just in section.
We recently aquired a nice selection of classic book from a private library. Included are books on Mythology, Literature, Classic Studies and many more.
New selection of Irish language books just arrived
There is a new selection of Irish language titles just in to the shop, many which are now out of print. These can be found in our Irish language section which is at the back of the shop next to Irish History.
Warehouse in Oranmore open on Saturdays
The warehouse in Oranmore is open every Saturday from 10am - 5pm. For directions to the warehouse, please click here.
Visit Charlie Byrne's in Clarinbridge
Charlie Byrnes have now opened a small shop in Clarinbridge upstairs in Claire's Tea Room.
Salmon Poetry; Reading It, Writing It, Publishing It
This Saturday, the 24th of October, Charlie Byrne's will host a night of readings from several of Salmon Poetry's best-loved poets. The night is themed Salmon Poetry; Reading It, Writing It, Publishing it, and will feature readings from Jessie Lendennie, Susan Millar DuMars, Kevin Higgins, Joan McBreen, Caroline Lynch, Gerry Hanberry and Celeste Auge. The reading begins at 6pm and the night promises to be an eclectic mix of quality writing.
98 Ways to Find a Great Guy By Elizabeth Hazel Paulson Launch
at
6pm.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Paulson’s tongue-in-cheek list of techniques for finding a date, boyfriend, or soul mate also encourages using your time wisely. Number 14, for example, advises working on a political campaign, where dozens of young, idealistic, and passionate — just like you — men are in adequate supply. And hey, if tip number 17 (shamelessly write down your e-mail address on every restaurant/bar credit card receipt where an attractive man has waited on you) doesn’t work out, there are still 96 more left! You’ll have men throwing themselves at your feet in no time, as you learn how to:
Converse intelligently about his favorite book (chances are, it’s Catch-22 or Trainspotting
Get a date (and some extra cash) by becoming really, really good at either pool or darts, perfecting your most innocent wide-eyed look, and hustling newcomers down at the local pool hall
Go to a car show and brush up on key stats, words, and phrases
Cry on demand or save your tears for the ladies’ room, as the situation calls for
Memorize the holy trinity of guy movies: Terminator 2, The Big Lebowski, and The Usual Suspects
Go to AA and NA meetings where you’ll meet plenty of men willing to admit he’s got a problem
And if all else fails, or “he’s just not that into you,” accuse him of being gay — he’ll be so desperate to prove his heterosexuality that you might just get the upper hand!
Charlie Byrne's Bookshop Launch 'Transforming' Children's Services? By Paul Michael Garrett
Charlie Byrne's Celebrates Culture Night 2009
In Celebration of National Culture Night 2009, on the 25th of September, Charlie Byrne's Bookshop will host a night of culture and readings from many of our local authors. The night offers opportunity to discover and enjoy the rich cultural offering of the country’s cultural venues at night, and this year expands to 11 cities and towns nationwide and features a new look ‘see all sorts’ logo.
Fantastic New Children's Books Now In Stock
Many new delightful children’s books have arrived to our shelves in the last few weeks and days. A huge variety of new titles are available including some beautifully illustrated picture books for younger readers from both new authors and award winning favourites Julia Donaldson and Emily Gravett. Our new selection of activity books and novelty books are indispensable during the summer holidays for keeping your children occupied and learning about everything from knights and castles to forensic science, costume history, insects, dolphins, pirates and princesses. For older readers and teenagers we’ve received many themed short story collections, Cynthia Rees and Terry Deary for the in between ages and some really great fantasy titles from Peter Dickinson and romance from Meg Cabot and Kathy Hopkins.
Mary Hanlon and Dierdre Kearney launch first collections at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop
Over The Edge and Charlie Byrne's host the launch of two debut poetry collections on Thursday 6th of August at 6.30 p.m. Dearly Beloved by Mary Hanlon and Spiddal Pier by Dierdre Kearney are both published by Belfast's Lapwing Press. The evening will also see the Galway launch of Chora: New & Selected Poems by visiting poet Nigel McLoughlin, which has just been published by Templar Poetry and Transmorphosis & Other Short Stories by Boris Belony (aka Stephen Hughes), which was recently published by Stichy Press. There will also be a short reading by David Starkey, the Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California who is visiting Galway.
Charlie Byrne's Welcomes the Galway Races with Horse Themed Window Display
The Galway Races bring excitement and energy to the city each year, with a week of race meetings, fashion and entertainment.In celebration of the festival Charlie Byrne's has put together a beautiful collection of equine titles in the shop's main window. A wide array of horse related books are on display ranging from horse racing and biography to horse health and maintenance books. We also have signed copies of Francis P.M. Hyland's History of the Galway Races.
Book Launch Tonight in Charlie Byrne's
Join us for the launch of Barbelo's Blood, a locally published independent novel, written by Captain Joseph W. Barbelo, and praised by Ken Bruen. The night promises to be both enjoyable and stimulating, with a brief speech from the author, wine and a post-launch reception in Bar 8 on the docks. The launch begins at 6p.m.
Charlie Byrne's welcomes the arrival of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Billed as the biggest free outdoor event in Ireland this summer, it will be an action-packed activity filled 2 weeks before the Race sets off for its concluding stages on June 6th.
All details of events and arrangements can be found on the Volvo Ocean Race Galway stopover website, www.galwayvolvooceanrace.com.
Charlie Byrne’s opening hours will be extended during the period of the festival as follows:
Mon-Fri: 9-8 p.m.
Saturday: 9-6 p.m.
Sunday: 12-6 p.m.
Bob Dylan and the Poetry of the Blues.
Gray will be signing copies of his marvellously irreverent ‘The Bob Dylan Encyclopaedia’ as well as copies of his new biography ‘Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell’.
We will be selling tickets for the event. €14 / €12 concessions.
Book Launch on Friday 1 May in Charlie Byrne's!
The book will be launched by Galway TD Michael D Higgins.
Refreshments will be served. Admission is free.
Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2009 coming soon!
Highlights include prose reading by Joseph O'Neill, Timothy O'Grady, Nadeem Aslam, Helen Simpson, Claire Keegan and Janice Galloway. Poetry highlights are Jane Hirshfield, Philip Schultz, Thomas Lynch, Carol Ann Duffy, Don Patterson and Sean O'Brien. This year also features an increased number of ancillary events including a season of literary documentaries by Pat Collins, music events, public interviews, lectures, theatre and dance and a series of children's events.
As ever Charlie Byrne's will be the festival bookseller as our mobile unit sets up a de facto bookshop in the foyer of the Town Hall Theatre. For the duration of the festival, the shop will stock titles by all the writers at this year's Cúirt as well as other material of general literary interest. The shop is also the centre of the signing sessions that are held after the individual readings.
Come and join us, and see if once again Cúirt lives up to its billing of the first and best festival of the Galway year.
07/04/09
Lots of new gardening and cookery titles
We recently got in fresh gardening and cookery titles at great prices. The whole section is just been rearranged with a new table.
Our new display also includes lots of other titles - from home decoration to DIY, craft and antiques - at the best prices.
Superb selection of books from a private library.
We just received a superb selection of books from a private library.
New Walker Books titles: a treat for young readers
Walker Books' recently introduced "Nature story-books" combine animal storybook, factbook and fantastic illustrations to create a beautiful and educational treat for all young animal fans.
Titles include Ape, Tigress, Bat Loves Night and All Pigs Are Beautiful.
Great selection of remainders just in!
In our all new "just in" table we have some 150 titles, both fiction and non-fiction.
Colin Smythe: Gems from the Irish Literary Renaissance
We presently have in stock a broad selection of Colin Smythe titles at great prices.
Long regarded as the most important publisher of material relating to the Irish Literary Renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these books are by or about authors such as W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J. M. Synge, George Moore, William Carleton, Denis Johnstone and M. J. Molloy. They also deal with subjects such as the Irish epic myths, the fairy faith, ghosts, folklore and Irish drama and history.
The books are very attractively published with fine illustrations and handsome dust wrappers. We have a limited stock and don't expect them to last long at these prices.
New Pluto Press and Chomsky titles
Tens of titles from one of the world's leading radical publishers. Subjects include politics, current affairs, international studies, Middle East studies, political theory, media studies, anthropology and development.
Several Noam Chomsky books are also available.
Fr. Ned Crosby Book Launch
Fr. Dick Lyng will launch Fr Ned Crosby's new book of poetry, Windows, on Thursday the 4th of December in Charlie Byrne's starting at 6pm.
Harry Browne's Hammered by the Irish to be launched at Charlie's on Friday November 28th @ 6pm
Author Harry Browne (former Irish Times journalist and DIT lecturer) will be joined by 'Shannon 5' defendant and lifelong activist Ciaron O'Reilly to launch the book that finally tells the story of how five individuals decided to take direct action against an impending war and why, three trials later, an Irish jury decided unanimously to acquit them.
Visions and Revisions
The Directors of Irish Academic Press cordially invite you to a reception to celebrate the launch of three titles in a new literary series:
Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in their Time Series Editor: Stan Smith
Patrick Kavanagh Edited by Stan Smith
John Banville by John Kenny
Elizabeth Bowen Edited by EibhearWalshe
Guest Speaker
Professor Terence Brown, Trinity College, Dublin
To be held at
The Irish Writers' Centre
19 Parnell Square
Dublin 1
on
Wednesday 26 November 2008
6.00pm-8.30pm
RSVP
Rachel Milotte E: rachel@iap.ie T: +353 (0) 1 668 8244 F: +353 (0) 1 660 1610
Great Range of New Books on Eastern Philosophy and Spirituality
We have just received a very large shipment of new titles from Shambhala publishers. Shambhala are world famous specialists in books on spirituality. Our new shipment includes works on Buddhism, Zen, Taoism, as well as works of fiction and other works on spirituality. We have titles by and about Ken Wilber, Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama, and Chogyam Trungpa and many many more. And there are multiple copies available of each title.
ACADEMIC BOOKS JUST IN
We have recently received a large number of new academic titles. Included in this shipment are literary criticism texts from Palgrave Macmillan, covering romanticism, Defoe, crime writing, the nature of the novel, poetry, and much more. In addition we have titles in philosophy, archaeology, classics, European history, and politics. Wittgenstein's work is covered by a number of these philosophy books. Below is a drawing that will be, he hoped, thought provoking concerning our ability to see things 'as something.' What do you see it as? And if you begin to see it as something else, why is that, what has happened?
Literary Classics
We have recently received a shipment of classic titles in English literature. This is just a short list of some of the novels available:
- Kipling, The Jungle Book
- Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot
- Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Austen, Emma, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park
- Melville, Moby Dick
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- James, Turn of the Screw
Galway Culture Night, Friday 19th September
Galway’s first ever ‘Culture Night’ is to take place on Friday 19th September in a number of locations all over the city . Inspired by the success of the Dublin Culture Night over the past
two years, organisers have decided to extend the programme to Cork,
Waterford, Limerick and Galway. Galway’s rich cultural fabric along with cultural institutions
throughout the city will be showcased by hosting a series of programmes
of events and displays on the evening of Friday, 19th September,
admission to many which will be completely free.
Charlie Byrne's bookshop hosts the standing army of western writers in Culture Night, inviting to the microphone any and all locally based writers whose fiction, non-fiction, and poetry were transformed into books within the last year. The event is co-ordinated by Michael O'Loughlin, Galway's writer in residence.
Refreshments will be served. Admission is free. From 6.00 pm until some later time!
For more details about other events happening as part of Culture Night, go to: http://galwayculturenight.com/
Man Booker Prize Shortlist
The Man Booker Prize 2008 shortlist is announced today (Tuesday 9 September). Two first-time novelists, Aravind Adiga and Steve Toltz, survived the cull of the longlist from thirteen novels to just six. Previous winners of the Booker Prize, John Berger and Salman Rushdie, failed to make this year's shortlist and Sebastian Barry is the only novelist shortlisted for this year's prize to have been previously shortlisted (in 2005).
Linda Grant, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000 and longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002, is the only female author to make the shortlist of six. She is joined by Philip Hensher, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002 and a Booker judge in 2001, and the widely-acclaimed Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.
The Man Booker Prize 2008 shortlisted novels are:
- Aravind Adiga The White Tiger (Atlantic)
- Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture (Faber and Faber)
- Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies (John Murray)
- Linda Grant The Clothes on their Backs (Virago)
- Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency (Fourth Estate)
- Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton)
This year's judging panel is chaired by Michael Portillo former MP and Cabinet Minister. He is joined by Alex Clark, editor of Granta; Louise Doughty, novelist; James Heneage, founder of Ottakar's bookshops and Hardeep Singh Kohli, TV and radio broadcaster.
Juliet Bressan book launch
Join us on September 18th at 6pm for the launch of Juliet Bressan's new novel, Snow White Turtle Doves.
Juliet Bressan studied medicine at Galway University and travelled extensively during her student years, working in America and Australia. She is well known in the medical community as a satirical columnist for the award winning newspaper Medicine Weekly. As a medical journalist Juliet Bressan has contributed widely to Television and Radio broadcasting in Ireland, as well as in France, the UK and the US. She is currently a script advisor to RTE's television series The Clinic. She lives in Dublin and is married with two daughters, Molly and Jessica.
Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Competition
Celeste Augé to judge 2008 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition
John Healy's The Grass Arena reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic
Booker Long List & Frank O'Connor Short Story Award
The judges for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for this year's prize:
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Gaynor Arnold Girl in a Blue Dress
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
John Berger From A to X
Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog
Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs
Mohammed Hanif A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency
Joseph O'Neill Netherland
Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence
Tom Rob Smith Child 44
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole
Julian Gough at Charlie's, August 5th, 6pm
While studying philosophy at university in
Charlie Byrne's On Line
Cúirt International Festival of Literature 2008
- Sebastian Barry
- Rachel Cusk
- Jennifer Johnston
- Moya Cannon
- Samantha Power
- Asne Seierstad
- Breyten Breytenbach
- David Harsent
- William Henry
- Seamus Martin
- Donald Hall
- Sean Og de Paor
- and many more ...
