Veteran bookseller honoured at Wexford Book Fair

By Dan Walsh Anton O’Broin, 87, of Kilrane, was honoured by fellow booksellers at last weekend’s 55th Annual Wexford Book Fair for his lifelong role in establishing and sustaining Ireland’s longest-running book fair. Mr O’Broin was a founding member at the first book fair in Enniscorthy’s Murphy Floods Hotel in 1969 and was instrumental inContinue reading “Veteran bookseller honoured at Wexford Book Fair”

New chapter for Wexford Book Festival

By Dan Walsh “We want Wexford to become a town of books for the weekend,” said festival organiser Wally O’Neill of Red Books looking forward to events running from October 16th-18th as the annual Wexford Book Fair expands into the first Wexford Book Festival. The new festival will bring events to venues around the town,Continue reading “New chapter for Wexford Book Festival”