Cork to hold events for Irish Book Week later this month 

Bookselling Ireland, the force behind Irish Book Week, has announced a series of Cork events as part of the annual Irish Book Week festival.

Now in its seventh year, the festival is a celebration of Irish bookshops, Irish books, publishers, writers, illustrators, and poets.

The campaign encourages people to visit their local bookshops to discover and enjoy a range of events, readings, parties, and displays.

Bookselling Ireland has announced details of several in-store events that will be taking place across Cork to celebrate this year’s Book Week.

In Cork city, Leona Forde will visit Eason on Patrick Street on Saturday, October 19, where she will be doing a book signing of her newest Milly McCarthy book, Milly McCarthy and the Christmas Calamity, at noon. All are welcome to attend.

Elsewhere on that date, Lisa, from ÁIS (Áisíneacht Dáileacháin Leabhar), will be at Waterstones on Patrick Street to chat with customers about Irish-language books.

On Tuesday, October 22, Lucy Holme will be visiting Waterstones to launch her new book, Blue Diagonals, from 6.30pm, and on Wednesday, October 23, there will be a panel discussion with the editors of the Atlas of the Irish Civil War, published by Cork University Press, at 6.30pm.

Further details are available on the website, www.waterstones.com/events/the-atlas-of-the-irish-civil-war-a-panel-discussion-with-the-editors/cork.

In West Cork, the team at Kerr’s Bookshop, in Clonakilty, has announced that Dr Susan Cahill will be visiting the store on Saturday, October 26, at 2pm to launch her first children’s book, The World Between the Rain, as part of the shop’s Irish Book Week 2024 celebrations.

Dr Cahill, who is a native of Clonakilty and has been a customer of Kerr’s Bookshop since she was little, now lives in London, but is said to be delighted to return to Clonakilty for the Irish launch of her new book. 

Further details are available on the website, www.kerrsbookshop.ie.

Book Week runs from October 19– 26.