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By Hannah Martin

Join bestselling Irish co-authors of the Aisling series, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen at Kennys Bookshop next Thursday Sept 7, as they join author and journalist Edel Coffey in conversation to celebrate the launch of their new novel, and the final book in their series, Aisling Ever After.

The team at Specsavers Ballina is delighted to announce Eoin Floyd from Crossmolina National School, as the over-10s winner of the Specsavers Irish Book Awards’ short story competition.

THE FIRST year of the new decade sees a new director at the helm of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Sahsa de Buyl. “If you were to look at a theme for this years’s event,” she says, “it would be the great and the good of Irish writing.”

GALWAY BASED author Mick McCormack has won the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award for his novel hugely acclaimed novel Solar Bones, published by independent Irish publisher Tramp Press.

Two of Ireland’s leading novelists, Sebastian Barry and Roddy Doyle, will be among the writers coming to the 2014 Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

What is it you love about your local bookshop? Is it the great advice, the friendly welcome, discovering that ultimate read, or that touch of magic you get from a half hour well-spent in a haven of words?

Westmeath local Mary O’Rourke was named as a winner at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2012 which took place on Thursday November 22.

Well-known Westmeath actress Mary McEvoy has been nominated for an award in the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2011.

Castle Book and Card Centre Ltd in Castlebar is the only store in Mayo to be nominated in the Connacht category of the 2011 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards for Irish Bookshop of the Year. The winning retailer will win a prize fund of €5,000 worth of free electricity. The award is designed to recognise the vital role Irish booksellers play in connecting writers and readers.