Steve Knightley is a multi-award-winning singer-songwriter and prominent folk/acoustic and roots musician. As a founding member of the revered ‘Show of Hands,’ Knightley’s musical journey is deeply intertwined with a profound connection to places, particularly the West Country, where he currently resides. His solo show infused with a love of English traditional folk music, […]
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We’ve been Longlisted for Best Bookshop in Ireland!
We are absolutely thrilled to have made the An Post Irish Book Awards longlist for Irish Bookshop of the Year! Thank you so much An Post Irish Book Awards & to our fabulous customers who took the time to vote for us. It is a super strong list this year and we are honoured to […]
Easkey Britton Book Event
Join Easkey Britton, activist, surfer and award-winning author of Ebb & Flow and Saltwater In The Blood at Liber Bookshop for a special talk on creativity as a way to deepen connection with nature. Easkey will also be reading from her books, followed by a book signing in celebration of Irish Book Week.
Book Launch: Tangled Web by Florence Gillan
Join us on Friday September 13th from 5pm to launch the latest thriller from bestselling crime writer Florence Gillan. You can purchase books in advance in store on here on our website, and they will also be available to purchase on the night. All are welcome!
Liber at Cairde Arts Festival
Liber are thrilled to be part of the upcoming Cairde Sligo Arts Festival, where we will be selling books at two of the festival’s literary events. On July 6th: Sinead Gleeson in converstation with Una Mannion about her debut novel Hagstone On July 11th: Louise Kennedy in conversation with Adania Shibli Both events are ticketed […]
Book Launch: The Sligo Field Club Vol 8
Join us at 5pm on Thursday 27th of April for the launch of Sligo Field Club, Vol 8. From the Field Club: “The volume, the largest of our first eight volumes so far, contains a broad range of illustrated articles on the geology, archaeology, local history, family history and personal memories of County Sligo, past […]
Book Launch: Let Them Lie by Florence Gillan
Join Sligo author Florence Gillan at Liber Bookshop on Thursday 10th November from 6pm to launch her hugely anticipated debut crime novel Let Them Lie. All are welcome! About the Book: Aoife O’Driscoll travels home to Sligo for a family gathering to mark the twentieth anniversary of her father’s death. While there, the […]
Liber Bookshop Longlisted for the An Post Bookshop of the Year Award!
We are thrilled to announce that Liber has been longlisted as one of the twelve finalists in this year’s An Post Bookshop of the Year Award! We are in stellar company with eleven other bookshops from around the country and are so honoured to have been selected among the finalists. Thank you so much to […]
Book Launch: Tommie Gorman, ‘Never Better: My Life in Our Times’
Join us on Saturday 24th September from 2pm as we launch Tommie Gorman’s hugely anticipated memoir ‘Never Better: My Life in Our Times’. ‘Money is handy for doing messages’ was a phrase the young Tommie Gorman heard from his father, growing up in Sligo in the 1960s. Struggle was never far away but […]
Book Launch: The Six
Join us for the official launch of ‘The Six: The Lives and Memorialisation of Sligo’s Noble Six’ on Tuesday 20th September at 6pm, 100 years to the day that the Noble Six were killed. The book will be officially launched by eminent historian and poet Dr Michael Farry, who has published extensively on the revolutionary […]
