Tales of the Five Towns
Arnold Bennett

Bernard O’Donoghue’s poetry collection The Seasons of Cullen Church (Faber, 2016) is lyrical and observant, an elegiac lament, beautiful so often, riddled with memories of a childhood spent near Cork.

Bookshops were very much part of Bernard’s youth, a journey to Cork often only a pilgrimage to visit them. Connolly’s Bookshop in the centre of the city had fought many commercial battles; it closed in 2014, a casualty of a changing world that made less sense of local community.

(This video was filmed in a previous bookshop.)