Tag: bookstores

• Interview – Vibes & Scribes, Raring to Reopen

  

  If there is a business that knows how to keep our heads, hearts and hands happy, it’s the very vibrant Vibes & Scribes in Cork City. The business started as a small bookshop, founded by Joan Lucey, then diversified into arts and crafts, before expanding further into fabric, wool, yarn, haberdashery and upholstery supplies. This…

  RestingWillow

  May 13, 2021

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  books, bookshops, bookstores, Cork City, interview, Vibes and Scribes

• Bookstores Ireland, Raring to Reopen

  

  In recent weeks, the call for bookstores in Ireland to be classed as essential, and allowed to reopen as soon as possible, had been growing. Then came the somewhat unexpected, but very welcome, announcement that bookstores (and other ‘non-essential retail’) would be allowed to reopen by mid May. There were many valid reasons backing the…

  RestingWillow

  May 3, 2021

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  books, bookshops, bookstores, Dubray, Hodges Figgis, Raven Books, The Company of Books, value of books, value of reading