ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book with elements of fantasy, mythology or fairytale The booksellers in Dubray Books Rathmines chose - Daughter of the Otherworld by Shauna Lawless Girls who Slay Monsters by Ellen Ryan & Shona Shirley Macdonald The Morrigan by Kim Curran The Book of Gold by Ruth Frances Long Irish Fairy Forts by Jo Kerrigan & Richard Mills Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran Tangleweed and Brine by Deirdre Sullivan Brigit: Lady of the Irish Underworld by Pauline Breen

Siobhán chose Skipshock by Caroline O'Donoghue #RIWC26 #fantasy #mythology #fairytales

while my pick is Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran #RIWC26 #fantasy #mythology #fairytales

Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book with elements of fantasy, mythology or fairytale

Day 21 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26
A book with elements of fantasy/ mythology/fairytale

Booksellers @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines chose the books in the first picture (list in alt text)

Siobhán chose Skipshock-Caroline O'Donoghue
& I chose
Queen of Coin & Whispers-Helen Corcoran
#RIWC26

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 21: A book with elements of fantasy, mythology or fairytale - Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy

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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 19: A book that you found really scary - Redder Days by Sue Rainsford.
Winner of The Kate O’Brien Award 2019

#readirishwomenchallenge #kateobrien #irishwriters #books #readmore @bookaneer808.bsky.social @suerains.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

Between the jigs & the reels, I forgot to post this yesterday - #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 Day 19
A book your 8 year old self would have loved

My two choices are

Wild Dublin: Exploring nature in the city by Éanna Ní Lamhna and Anthony Woods
&
First Term at Fernside by Sheena Wilkinson

#RIWC26

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 19: A book your 8 year old self would have loved - Fia And The Last Snow Deer by Eilish Fisher

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Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book you found really scary Our booksellers @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines chose - The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth What Walks These Halls by Amy Clarkin Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad Republic of Shame by Caelainn Hogan Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

My picks are - Wise Creatures by Deirdre Sullivan

My picks are - Ash + Salt by Sarah Grace

Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book you found really scary

Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26
A book you found really scary

Our booksellers @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines chose are on the table (list in alt text)

My picks are -

Ash + Salt by Sarah Grace
&
Wise Creatures by Deirdre Sullivan

#RIWC26 #scarybooks ##speirgorm

A poster that reads, “Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.”

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.

Tomorrow, I’ll post a reminder to the GOP about book bans and censorship :-)}

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 18: A book with a green cover - Necessary Treasons by Maeve Kelly

#readirishwomenchallenge #maevekelly #femalewriters #kateobrien #irishwriters @bookaneer808.bsky.social

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 17: A book that deals with rebellion - The Pull Of The Stars by Emma Donoghue

#readirishwomenchallenge #irishauthor #femalewriters #read #books @bookaneer808.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @emmadonoghue.bsky.social

Day 19 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26
A book your 8 year old self would have loved

I chose

Wild Dublin: Exploring nature in the city by Éanna Ní Lamhna & Anthony Woods
&
First Term at Fernside by Sheena Wilkinson

What books would you pick?
#speirgorm #RIWC26

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 16: A book about looking for a place to belong - The Country Girls by Enda O’Brien

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Day 18 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book with a green cover In Rathmines @dubray-books.bsky.social we chose these books WIld Dublin: exploring nature in the city by Éanna Ní Lamhna & Anthony Woods The Friendship Fairies go to Camp by Lucy Kennedy & Philip Cullen The Faerie Isles by Síne Quinn & Dermot Flynn The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan The Kai Cookbook by Jess Murphy Menagerie by Nuala O'Connor Let me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney Esther is now Following You by Tanya Sweeney

I chose The Woman in the Water by Henrietta McKervey Never no More by Maura Laverty #green #RIWC26

Day 18 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book with a green cover

Day 18 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26
A book with a green cover

In Rathmines @dubray-books.bsky.social we chose the books displayed on the table - list in alt text

I chose

The Woman in the Water by Henrietta McKervey
Never no More by Maura Laverty

#green #RIWC26

#readirishwomenchallenge Day 18: A book with a green cover
'Selected Stories' by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

A beautiful collection of short stories that demonstrates the breadth of The Laureate For Irish Fiction's achievement across her writing career.

@bookaneer808.bsky.social #irishwriters #shortstories

Day 17 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book that deals with rebellion Our bookseller Alison Dubray Books Rathmines has chosen Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad The other books chosen on the table beside her are - Trespasses by Louise Kennedy The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell A Family Matter by Claire Lynch Eva Gore-Booth by Sonja Tiernan Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen Songlight by Moira Buffini Wild Irish Women by Marian Broderick

I picked The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

Day 17 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book that deals with rebellion

Day 17 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26
A book that deals with rebellion

Our bookseller Alison @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines chose Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

The other books chosen are on the table (list alt txt)

I picked The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

#RIWC26 #rebellion

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#readirishwomen Day 16: a book about looking for a place to belong

Brilliantly written, witty, and full of sharp observation, 'Moving About the Place' brings together some of the best of Evelyn Conlon’s work to show how borders, movement and history change and transform people’s lives.

#readirishwomenchallenge
Day 16: A book about looking for a place to belong

'For the Sins of my Mother' by Marie Therese Rogers-Moloney

#historicalinstitutionalabuseinquiry #hiainquiry #nazarethhouse #resilience #inspirational #inspirationalwomen #irishwriters @bookaneer808.bsky.social

Day 16 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book about looking for a place to belong To the Waters and the Wild by Eilish Fisher and David Rooney Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel This Hostel Life by Melatu Uche Okorie My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden Small Magucs by Alex Dunne I'm looking forward to reading Small Magics and Contentious Spaces! #RIWC26 #belonging

I'm looking forward to reading Small Magics by Alex Dunne and Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh #RIWC26

Day 16 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book about looking for a place to belong

Day 16 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26
A book about looking for a place to belong

Dubray Rathmines booksellers chose the titles on the table -

I'm looking forward to reading Small Magics and Contentious Spaces!

#RIWC26 #belonging

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 15: A book set in the world of the arts - Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

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Day 15 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book set in the world of the arts The booksellers @dubraybooks Dun Laoghaire, represented here by the legendary Mary, have included these titles - Home Economics by Caitriona Lally Show Me Where it Hurts by Claire Gleeson Snowflake by Louise Nealon Four Night Seas by Niamh MacCabe The Wardrobe Department by Elaine Garvey Attention by Anne Enright A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

My #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 picks for today? Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise #RIWC26 #worldofthearts

My #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 picks for today? Ina Boyle 1889 - 1967: A Composer's Life by Ita Beausang & Séamas de Barra #RIWC26 #worldofthearts

Day 15 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book set in the world of the arts

Day 15 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book set in the world of the arts

Mary, bookseller from @dubray-books.bsky.social Dun Laoghaire included the titles in the first picture(list alt txt)

My picks
Saoirse Charleen Hurtubise
&
Ina Boyle 1889 - 1967: A Composer's Life Ita Beausang & Séamas de Barra

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 14: A picture of your #RIWC26 TBR pile

#readirishwomenchallenge #read #irishauthor #femaleauthors @bookaneer808.bsky.social @emmadonoghue.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

So many #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 tbr stacks from the brilliant booksellers @dubraybooks Rathmines today! On the table we have The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent Few and Far Between by Jan Carson An Arrow in Flight by Mary Lavin Something Terrible Happened Last Night by Sam Blake Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Four Night Seas by Niamh MacCabe Scare B'n'B by Catherine Doyle Ellora McGee: The Pooka Plant by Sinéad O'Hart & Una Woods Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin The Favourite by Rosemary Hennigan

Molly's picks - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin Antarctica by Claire Keegan An Arrow in Flight by Mary Lavin Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth

Cian's picks - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent

Day 14 - So many #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 tbr stacks from the brilliant booksellers @dubraybooks Rathmines for today's prompt

Day 14 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 #TBR
@dubray-books.bsky.social booksellers Molly & Cian chose
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell
Ordinary Saints Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
Antarctica Claire Keegan
An Arrow in Flight Mary Lavin
Heap Earth Upon It Chloe Michelle Howarth
The Truth About Ruby Cooper Liz Nugent

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 13: A book that is an anthology- Windfall Irish nature poems to inspire and connect.

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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 12: A book set in a city - Lazy City by Rachel Connolly

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Day 13 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book that is an anthology A fine clatter of titles here @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines! Banshee edited by Ailbhe Malone Irish Women's Speeches Volume II edited by SonjaTiernan Dublin: Written in Our Hearts edited by Declan Meade An Asylum for my Affections: Sketches of Maeve Brennan edited by Molly Hennigan Wired Our Own Way: an Anthology of Irish Autistic Voices edited by Niamh Garvey The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories & the Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland both edited by Sinéad Gleeson Stepsisters : stories from the Irish edited by Brian Ó Conchubhair & Tara MacLeod

I also chose Banshee edited by Ailbhe Malone and...

...Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and the Sublime edited by Maria Giakaniki # RIWC26 #anthology

Day 13 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book that is an anthology

Day 13 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book that is an anthology

A fine clatter of titles here @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines! Listed on alt text

I chose Banshee edited by Ailbhe Malone
&
Uncanny Ireland: Otherworldly Tales of the Strange & the Sublime edited by Maria Giakaniki

#SpeirGorm

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 11: An author whom you’ve read multiple books by - Kate O’Brien

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Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book set in a city The booksellers @dubraybooks Rathmines chose In Glass Houses by Edel Coffey The City Girls by Patricia Scanlan The City Changes its Face by Eimear McBride Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran Silent City by Sarah Davis-Goff The Long-winded Lady by Maeve Brennan Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin #RIWC26 #City

Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book set in a city I chose the two books that are informed by and obsessed with New York City - the first is In Glass Houses by Edel Coffey & Long-winded Lady by Maeve Brennan #RIWC26 #City

Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book set in a city The booksellers @dubraybooks Rathmines chose I chose the two books that are informed by and obsessed with New York City - the second one is Long-winded Lady by Maeve Brennan #RIWC26 #City

Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book set in a city #RIWC26 #City

Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 A book set in a city

The booksellers @dubray-books.bsky.social Rathmines chose the books in the first picture.

I chose the two books that are informed by & obsessed with New York City

In Glass Houses by Edel Coffey
&
Long-winded Lady by Maeve Brennan

#RIWC26

An author whom you've read multiple books by is the prompt for Day 11 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26 I chose the latest books by these two authors - Tana French - I believe I've read all her books to date, so can't wait to dive into The Keeper

Tatyana Feeney - her picture books are full of charm, playfulness and visual inventiveness, and I adore them! A Friend for Tiny Ghost is a delight.

The other authors chosen @dubraybooks Rathmines are - Anne Enright Maeve Binchy Marian Keyes Kit de Waal Sheena Wilkinson

An author whom you've read multiple books by is the prompt for Day 11 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26

An author whom you've read multiple books by is the prompt for Day 11 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge26
two authors I chose -

Tana French
&
Tatyana Feeney

The other authors chosen @dubraybooks Rathmines are -

Anne Enright
Maeve Binchy
Marian Keyes
Kit de Waal
Sheena Wilkinson

#RIWC26

Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 10: A book you discovered at a book event - A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello

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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 7: A book with singular character -Solo by Gráinne O’Brien

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