Four Irish Bookstores In Battle For Independent Bookseller Of The Year
The Gutter Bookshop in Temple Bar is one of four Irish bookstores nominated for the Independent Bookseller of the Year Award, 2012. They form one of seven regional sub-categories in the competition which offers a prize of £5,000 The final regional winners…
Briefly Noted | Eason plans 150 job cuts to achieve €5m saving – The Irish Times – Wed, Feb 08, 2012
IRISH-OWNED book and stationery retailer Eason has reached agreement with staff on a cost reduction programme that will involve about 150 voluntary redundancies as it seeks to achieve savings of €5 million a year. The company has also decided to…
Briefly Noted | And The Nation’s All-Time Favourite is: | | Childrens Books Ireland
Voters across Ireland have chosen John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as their all-time favourite of the 21 books which have won the annual Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Award since the awards began in 1990! The Bisto…
Briefly Noted | James Joyce children’s story The Cats of Copenhagen gets first publication | Books | guardian.co.uk
Like its predecessor, The Cats of Copenhagen was written in a letter to Joyce’s grandchild, Stephen James Joyce, while the author was in Denmark and the four-year-old Stephen was in France. The new tale is “exquisite, surprising, and with a…