A bookshop with a difference is to open for the month of June at The Kiosk in Narrow West Street in Drogheda.

Cailleach Books is already an online shop but the woman behind the project, Rita Hynes from Drogheda Zine Fair, says that for the month of June, Cailleach Books will open as a bookshop for the public to browse and buy new publications.

“It will be a space for print, publishing and local people” she said.  ”A new community bookshop project in Drogheda dedicated to experimental and DIY publishing, zines, book objects and poetry pamphlets.”

Cailleach Books launches on Saturday 31st May, 6pm at the Kiosk Project Art Space on Narrow West Street with the support of thirtythree.45 and Droichead Arts Centre.

A ‘Cailleach’ is a witch, a deity or a crone, a multifaceted character, and an inspiration for this project. Cailleach Books appears in many forms and iterations, an ever-evolving bookshop space and practice.

To celebrate the launch, Drogheda's visual poet Susan Connolly will be in-store for an event called Towards the Light – Writing and Reading Visual Poetry.

Susan will discuss the concrete and visual poets who have influenced her work and also read from her collections The Sun-Artist (Shearsman Books, 2013), Bridge of the Ford (Shearsman Books, 2016) and Looking Across the River (Redfoxpress, 2022).
For more information visit www.cailleachbooks.ie or email info@cailleachbooks.com