Frank Shouldice of Ballaghaderreen was a marksman at North King Street for the Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Easter Rising. He never told his own story! His grandson and namesake set about putting the pieces together . . . which led to the book “Grandpa The Sniper” We will be hosting the author on Friday…
Liber top books for Christmas A Brief history of seven killings €11.95 *WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015* JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes…
About The Campaign BOOKS ARE MY BAG is a nationwide campaign to celebrate bookshops. This collaboration between publishers, bookshops and authors is the biggest ever promotion of bookshops. For many people bookshops conjure fond images of book readings, in-store cafes and delight at the discovery of a new author. And in fact 56% of all…
Colouring for grown ups! At Liber we stock a carefully curated range of the hugely popular colouring books for grown ups. These are currently some of our best selling titles and our top picks are pictured below.
James Joyce & Ulysses comes to Sligo! When Robert Gogan completed his one-man show about James Joyce’s Ulysses entitled Strolling Through Ulysses! he decided that there was no better way to perform it than on a nationwide tour of the independent bookshops of Ireland. The tour started in December 2014 with two special…
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2015 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats. A native of Dublin, who died in France, his heart was of Sligo and it is here that he is buried. Liber have a large selection of Yeats books to get one into the spirit of…
Record Store Day is on Saturday the 18th of April 2015. To celebrate, we will have both major label and indie records on sale. There will be vinyl only played all day from 9am and a wide selection of the Limited #RSD2015 releases available on the day. As usual this will be on a first come first…
Record store day falls on Saturday 18th April this year. We will be celebrating it in style this year with a little help from our friends at “Turn it on”. There will be vinyl only played all day from 9am and a wide selection of the Limited #RSD2015 releases available on the day. As usual…