An Post Bookshop of the Year 2024

The ‘An Post Bookshop of the Year’ category is designed to acknowledge the significant role played by independent bookshops and local branches of bookshop chains in helping their local communities to find and savour the titles of their choice. 

Previous winners include Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery, Galway in 2021, Bridge Street Books, Wicklow in 2022 and Halfway Up The Stairs, Greystones, Wicklow in 2023.

The shortlist of six bookshops around Ireland for 2024 are: 

• Bridge Books, Dromore, Down
• Liber, Sligo
• Little Acorns Bookstore, Derry
• O’Mahony’s Booksellers, Limerick
• Tales for Tadpoles, Bray, Wicklow
• The Company of Books, Ranelagh, Dublin

The overall winner of ‘An Post Bookshop of the Year’ will be presented with their trophy at the An Post Irish Book Awards event on 27th November.