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The Annual Graiguenamanagh Town of Books Festival returns this weekend and one bookseller has come up with a ‘novel’ idea to promote reading. Wally O’ Neill, owner of Red Books in Wexford and Gorey, and one of twenty-five booksellers in the town of books, is giving away a wheelbarrow of new books to one lucky customer over the weekend of August 18th - 20th. “The Town of Books Festival is renown across Ireland as the premier annual event for book lovers of all ages,” Mr O’ Neill said. “It’s probably the biggest gathering of bibliophiles in the state and, in...

Upcoming events at Red Books   Friday 18th November:   OUTSPOKEN   (Monthly spoken-word open-mic hosted by Alanna Hammel and Deirdre McGarry.  This month's special guest poet is Margaret Galvin) Thursday 24th November:   WRITE CLUB   (Our Writers Group returns after a break over the Opera Festival.  New writers welcome.  Three euro fee to cover refreshments.) Friday 2nd December:   BOOK LAUNCH   (Pheme Glass will launch the third installment of the Blossom or the Bole series.) Thursday 8th December:   WRITE CLUB    (Meeting of our Writers Group.  New writers welcome.  Three euro fee to cover refreshments.) Friday 9th December:   WEXMAS   (A celebration of local writing...

A string of fringe events will take place at Wexford independent bookstore Red Books during the Wexford Opera Festival. Owner Wally O’ Neill said that the events would be ‘live literature’, an attempt to bring books alive and put their merit at the centre of artistic expression. “We are lucky to have twelve live events coming up in the bookstore over the festival,” Wally said. “These events are provided by the artistic community that has evolved around Red Books, including writers, poets, historians, film-makers and musicians. We’re going to increase our opening hours again to facilitate these events so we’ll...

Two hundred people attended the opening of a extension to a Red Books in Wexford's St Peter’s Square last Tuesday evening. Veteran bookseller Anton O’ Broin cut the ribbon on the new building, stating that readers and bookshops were alive and well in Wexford. “Our extension doubles the size of Red Books and increases our stock to a quarter of a million books,” Wally O’ Neill, the owner of Red Books, said. “It also affords us much needed space for book launches, writer groups and the many other events that happen around bookstores like ours.” Red Books began life in...