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A favourite book store: Bob Johnston at his Gutter Bookshop. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
The beauty of a good bookshop – bookworms have their say
  • Books
  • October 23, 2019, 05:22

Rick O’Shea I know I tell this story often these days, but my love of books started and grew with trips I made most weekends in to Eason’s on O’Conne(...)

Anne Griffin is to take over as chief executive of Scouting Ireland from Dr John Lawlor in January. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd/The Irish Times.
Papal visit organiser to become Scouting Ireland chief executive

A woman involved in the management of last year’s papal visit to Ireland is to become the chief executive of Scouting Ireland. Anne Griffin is to ta(...)

Sarah Davis-Goff. Photo by Bríd Donovan
The debut books and authors to look out for in 2019

Sarah Davis-Goff: Last Ones Left Alive (Tinder Press, publication March 7th) A girl called Orpen journeys from east to west across a post-apocalyptic (...)

Anne Griffin was the first to be employed after Dublin was confirmed as the venue for the Meeting of Families. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd
Ten thousand volunteers swing into action for pope’s visit to Ireland

The beating heart of the World Meeting of Families is behind the high wall around a former seminary in the shadow of Croke Park in Dublin. The Holy C(...)

Papal Mass co-ordinator Fr Damian McNeice has recruited 4,000 servers for the event. Photograph: Conor Pope
Organising the papal Mass: 4,000 communion servers, 1,000 medics

While organising the largest outdoor event in Europe this year has been difficult from almost every angle and has required multiple arms of the State,(...)

Pope Francis will visit Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in August. File photograph: Martial Trezzini/AFP/Getty Images
Tickets for Pope Francis events in Ireland on sale from Monday

Tickets for the Mass to be celebrated by Pope Francis in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on August 26th will be available online from Monday. Ticket numbers ar(...)

Cecelia Ahern fantasises about “a surreal magical room, where I could call a book and it would fly off the shelves and land in my hand, like in ‘Matilda’”.
Shelfies with Irish writers: how the literati keep their libraries in order

Would I sound crazy if I admitted to knowing that I have 16,344cm of shelving in my house, of which 10,322cm are filled, leaving me room for about 3,0(...)