We’ve been fortunate to have many bookstores and other retailers (including Celtic shops) carry ClanDonnell: A Storied History of Ireland in inventory. We’ve listed them on the pdf document with the link below. There may be others as well, since our books are in various wholesale catalogues for retailers.

Not all of these retailers still have the book in stock. Retailers often carry a book or two, and order another when and if the book sells. Or not. Shelf space is valuable to a retailer and a sold book is often replaced with a different title.

Sadly, not all of the retailers on our list are still in business. On-line selling has had a brutal effect on small, local bookshops. Many have not survived. The pandemic, of course, made it even worse.

And so, please support your local bookstore! If your bookstore does not carry ClanDonnell or Buy The Horse A Guinness, then you may (a) order directly from us or (b) tell your local store to order from us. We’ll ship it to your store, charge the store a wholesale rate, and you can buy it there when it arrives.

By the way, is the place that sells books a “bookstore” or a “book store”. We’ve seen it used both ways and we have (we must confess) used it both ways. We checked it out and, according to the grammar police, it is one word. This is considered a “closed” compound, as opposed to an “open” compound, such as “grocery store”.

This of course is the American answer. One wouldn’t go to a bookstore in the United Kingdom. Such establishments in British English are called “bookshops”.

So we will forever more shop at bookstores and never return to a book store. We will, though, shop at a bookshop the next time we’re in the U.K.