Previous Events
Bookshop Residency at the Seán Corcoran Series
Old Methodist Church, St Laurence St. Drogheda
Friday 5th September - Sunday 7th September
Cailleach Books is thrilled to announce a curated bookshop residency as part of the Seán Corcoran Series, a vibrant programme of traditional and multidisciplinary arts celebrating the life and legacy of Drogheda-born singer, fieldworker, documentary maker and vernacular musicologist musician, Seán Corcoran.
This occasion marks the second iteration of our bookshop, which will be housed in Drogheda’s Old Methodist Church. We are beyond excited to form a new bookshop in this incredible space and host an assemblage of zines, book objects and poetry pamphlets to browse and purchase. Cailleach Books will be open throughout the festival, from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025.
More info on www.seancorcoranseries.com
Morning Coffee & Cake with Cailleach Books
Old Methodist Church, St Laurence St. Drogheda
Saturday 6 September 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Join Cailleach Books for a morning of coffee, cake, and conversation as part of the wonderful Seán Corcoran Series programme.
This event invites you to meet and share your thoughts on what you are reading, writing or publishing in a relaxed group setting. Writers, zinemakers, poets and everyone in between are most welcome!
More info on www.seancorcoranseries.com
Afternoon Coffee at Cailleach Books every Thursday from 5 June 1-2pm
Cailleach Books hosts weekly coffee afternoons every Thursday! Join us for a free coffee and casual group conversation about what you are reading, writing or publishing. Stop by and have a chat in-store every Thursday from 1-2pm.
Unholy Ghost Zine: A Listening Party
Friday 4 July 6pm
Come join us for a very special zine listening party at Cailleach Books! To celebrate the debut of Unholy Ghost zine, we invite you to an in-store listening party of Dark Folk music from their first issue! We will be serving free drinks, and copies of Unholy Ghost will also be available to purchase on the night.
Unholy Ghost is made by Dubh Fēng Studio, Pocan from Drogheda & Siwi from Jingjiang, China. Dark Folk is an underground genre, and this zine was created to share some of the great music from it. It has a very community-driven scene and Unholy Ghost want to do their part to help it grow here in Ireland.
This will be our closing event at The Kiosk Project Art Space and we're delighted to share it with the zinemakers of Unholy Ghost. Make sure to pop in for one last chat and a drink!
Cailleach Books Reading Series #2 Conjuring – The Practice of Poetry
Saturday 28 June 6pm
Join artist and writer Stephanie Ní Thiarnaigh for a short performance of work from her poetry collection The Weight of a Feather (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and conversation about poetry as artistic practice. In this intimate event, Ní Thiarnaigh will explore how mythology can be a powerful tool in the process of writing about difficult subjects whether that is trauma, conflict, or marginalised narratives of history, and how we might consider poetry as artistic practice.
Drogheda Creative Writers at Cailleach Books
Saturday 21 June 11am and Sunday 22 June 12pm
Cailleach Books is delighted to host Drogheda Creative Writers on Saturday 21st June and Sunday 22nd June. This is a free, open session and all writers and listeners are welcome! Whatever the particular format might be given, there is an opportunity to read work as a group. Amidst the praise and constructive comments of supportive fellow writers, both writing and friendships bloom – and the craic is great! Drogheda Creative Writers is supported by the Droichead Arts Centre.
Cailleach Book Reading Series #1
Towards the Light – Writing and Reading Visual Poetry
Saturday 31 May 6pm
We are thrilled to launch Cailleach Books with Drogheda's visual poet Susan Connolly. Susan Connolly began writing visual poetry with word-drawings, then wrote concrete poems on a portable typewriter. Since 2021, she has made a series of concertina books. Susan will talk about the concrete and visual poets who influenced her work and will read from her poetry collections The Sun-Artist (Shearsman Books, 2013), Bridge of the Ford (Shearsman Books, 2016) and Looking Across the River (Redfoxpress, 2022).