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IF YOU’RE A book lover, you’ll no doubt have your favourite shop that you love browsing in and buying from.
It might even be in the longlist for the An Post Bookshop of the Year award, which was announced this evening.
The shortlist of six bookshops will be revealed on 20 October and the overall winner announced at the An Post Irish Book Awards on 23 November.
There are 12 bookshops across the country in the longlist for the An Post Bookshop of the Year category at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards. The annual literary event celebrates Irish writing and authors, and last year the bookshop of the year category was introduced to acknowledge the significant role played by independent bookshops and local branches of bookshop chains in their local communities.
Kenny’s Bookshop in Galway was crowned the overall winner in 2021.
The longlist of 12 bookshops around Ireland for 2022 are:
Customers were asked to vote for their favourite bookshops and to explain why. The bookshops that received the most votes were then longlisted and invited by the judges to enter a written submission.
The next stage involves mystery shoppers visiting the longlisted bookshops as part of the judging process, which will help in putting together the shortlist of six bookshops.
The overall winner of the An Post Bookshop of the Year category will be announced at the An Post Irish Book Awards event on 23 November, and the winner will get a trophy along with a prize worth €5,000 from An Post Commerce.
The other categories in the An Post Irish Book Awards include Novel of the Year, Children’s (Junior and Senior), Cookery, Crime Fiction, Popular Fiction, Non-fiction, Sports, Short Story, Poetry, Teen and Young Adult and Irish Language.
Brendan Corbett, Chairperson of the An Post Irish Book Awards, said:
“Bookshops sit at the heart of their communities’ cultural and social lives, and we introduced this category last year to acknowledge the important contribution they make to not only their communities and readers, but the significant role they play in the Irish book business. The holy trinity of bookshops, writers and readers is a wonderful alliance we should all support, and that’s why I’m delighted to see 12 such deserving bookshops on the longlist.”
A TV programme about this year’s awards will be broadcast on RTÉ One television in December and will culminate in one of the 2022 winning titles being announced as the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2022.
To find out more, visit the An Post Irish Book Awards website.
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Have we not also learned, that maybe we are our own worst enemy?
More power to anyone that uses Facebook, but any reason to stop picking up your phone for no reason has to be a good thing.
An infinite amount of negativity and consumerism on a 6 inch screen can only be good for so long.
Younger adults and kids are a problem. Peer pressure and immaturity takes away their objectively. Facebook has way too much con trol over people’s lives but adults have a right to choice.
@Great White Hope: adults do peer pressure quite a lot. They just don’t use the internet to do it. Never notice if somebody gets a new car in work but others do and say how they must get a new car soon. Keeping up with the Jones’ is a real thing.
I find it strange blaming a private company for the issues in society. They are not a government and have been asking to be regulated for years as they seem to know they shouldn’t be making certain decisions that impact on society.
So where are the regulators? Where are the policies for companies to follow? The Internet has been around for the past 20 years, this isn’t a problem that just creeped up on society. It kinda feels like shifting blame is easier than actually putting controls and protection standards in place
@Gingy Opinion: Facebook asking for regulation is a cop-out on their part, knowing full well that the wheels of regulation are far slower than the pace of change. They have known for some time about the negative impact of their platforms on society as a whole, but chose profits and growth instead. The criticism of Facebook rests in the fact that they offset to regulators what they themselves could, but choose not to do.
@OnlyHereForTheComments: But why is society asking a private company to make these decisions?
None of us would ask a brewery to regulate for who can drive after they consume their products. Sure each brewery would come up with their own rules to suit their business objectives and people would end up consuming the products from the brewery with the most lax rules. There would be carnage.
This is clearly a failure of elected officials to legislate. I take your point on the speed of change, but surely that is the exact same problem that a company like FB would face in terms of the policies they would need to constantly update. The difference being this is a regulators job.
I just think we need to stop trying to shift the failings of society and governments, and take some ownership.
“They values profits over safety” they do.
Say it in a devon accent, think lotr -
I find it strange blaming a private company for the issues in society. They are not a government and have been asking to be regulated for years as they seem to know they shouldn’t be making certain decisions that impact on society.
So where are the regulators? Where are the policies for companies to follow? The Internet has been around for the past 20 years, this isn’t a problem that just creeped up on society. It kinda feels like shifting blame is easier than actually putting controls and protection standards in place
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