Tipperary bookstore opens a new chapter with expanded space catering for over 5,000 titles

Continuing the success of Dimma’s Books at SVP, Church Street Roscrea, St Cronan’s Conference with the SVP honorary librarian George Cunningham have decided to expand to an upstairs room with over 5,000 volumes, appropriately named Dimma’s Bookstore.

It will be opened officially on Saturday, May 20, from 10.30am to 1.30pm.

Dimma’s Books is providing not only much needed funding for local causes through SVP but is giving the locality and the community a specialist boutique bookshop which is attracting customers from near and far.

The new bookstore will have a wide range of interests to suit all tastes and ages; the average price of a book there will be around 4 euro; these are not charity donations but new, scarce, and antiquarian volumes.

Among the collections is new fiction at almost give away prices from €1.50 to €2.50 for new hardbacks.

Local books feature prominently with works from John Feehan and George Cunningham very much to the fore, all at bargain prices. Also runs of local mags like RP, RPYA, Birr and Moyne Templetuohy.

The Irish section features literary, history, politics, heritage and non fiction. World, European, African, American history, political, biography has an extensive range.

A large selection of books with their bookplate from the former SH secondary school will be of great interest to past pupils who may wish to obtain a memento of their school days.

Almost 200 titles cover railwayiana in all its forms; a truly outstanding collection.

So, too, is the art section with large coffee table books as well as definitive art studies. There is an eclectic collection on wine and beer. Natural history covers birds, dogs, gardening and landscape.

Military history is well covered with a run of the British military history society journal and an extensive run of the Model Soldier Society; books on arms, guns, uniforms etc from European countries are there, almost all in mint condition.

There is a large section on juvenilia both fiction and non fiction. Architecture, photography, cookery, church history also feature prominently.

Wonderful volumes from the British Parliamentary series - folio in half leather are available for a song at €10.

Maps, prints, posters, postal history will also feature prominently in time.

To allow all book lovers to preview the collections in Dimma's Bookstore before the official opening, shop manager Eileen will facilitate any one who wishes to view upstairs. Just ask at the counter.