Localbooks - Online Irish Locations Book Store

Building on ten years of international success with Litriocht.com, The world's largest online Irish language bookshop, Bard na nGleann has launched LOCALBOOKS.IE, which will specialise in local books about Ireland written in either Irish or English. Most of the authors live locally and have unique, in-depth knowledge of that area. Localbooks was opened for business on the 1st June 2010. Books can be shipped anywhere in the world

Localbooks aims to offer the world's most extensive collection of local books on Ireland. The online store will include books on the whole of Ireland, North and South. It also seeks to sell the many books written by emigrants about the parish or village they left behind, or even Irish communities in other parts of the world.

Because of the lack of distribution, finding local books is difficult and time consuming, and most tend to go out of print very quickly. Localbooks is a one stop shop for people at home and abroad who enjoy reading about local areas as diverse as Cape Clear, Kilfenora or Dingle. Each book can transport you to a different time and place and can bring back memories of long ago.

Localbooks.ie readers can learn about specific parishes and how they coped throughout the famine, through migration and the Irish civil war. Stories from local people have been captured and the reader learns firsthand the struggles and successes that have been encountered from the past to the present time. Ireland's cities, towns, villages, bays, harbours, headland and beaches are captured in illustrations and photographs, which will take the reader to many different locations in Ireland.