1st July 2026: We are delighted to announce the 23 funding recipients of independently run bookstores for the second year of the Community Prize Fund initiative.
This year’s recipients include 23 bookstores from 14 counties, spread across the island of Ireland. Among the entries and successful applicants are recently opened stores as well as those who also received funding in 2025.
The fund was first created in 2025 for Books at One via the One Foundation where it awarded 21 bookshops grants of up to €5,000 in support of their community projects. The aim was to further strengthen the importance of independent bookstores as creative venues for community engagement and connection across the country.
From storytelling events, creative workshops and youth programmes, The Community Prize Fund helped support a wide variety of different projects, responding to the unique needs of each bookstore’s local community.
This year, we are delighted to see to see both the initiative and the ideas within the applications grow and look forward to seeing how these are brought to life by the communities that shape them.
Recipients of the Books At One Community Prize Fund 2026 are:
- Antiquity Bookshop, Cork
- Antonia’s Bookstore, Meath
- Bantry Bookshop, Cork
- Books Upstairs, Dublin
- Bookworm Bookshop, Tipperary
- Castle Books, Mayo
- Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway
- Halfway up the Stairs, Wicklow
- Leaf and Bower, Cork
- Little Acorns, Derry
- Pangur Bán Bookshop, Mayo
- Prim’s Bookshop, Cork
- Quay Books, Limerick
- Red Books, Wexford
- Roe River Books, Louth
- Tales for Tadpoles, Wicklow
- The Bookshelf, Down
- The Ennis Bookshop, Clare
- The Maynooth Bookshop, Kildare
- The Nenagh Bookshop, Tipperary
- Turning Pages Bookshop, Galway
- Woodbine Books, Kildare
- Worm Books, Cork
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