Second-hand bookshop in the city centre, opened in August 2024. A wide-ranging stock of generally good quality.
Little Lane is a welcome addition to the second-hand book scene in south-east Ireland: a new shop that places a high priority on sourcing good-quality stock. It has a wide range of literary and popular fiction. Sci-fi is a speciality. Also a good selection of children's books. The non-fiction stock is very varied, but books on Irish interest, especially Irish history (and indeed history in general) feature strongly. The books are in good condition and the prices are very reasonable. The likeable owner, Jim Reid, reports that trade has been very brisk: "Waterford loves books!" The shop is in the heart of the city centre, just off the Apple Market, not much more than a ten-minute walk from Waterford railway station (which is on the opposite bank of the River Suir) and about half that distance from Waterford bus station on the quay. For the rest of 2024, it is open from 12 noon until 4pm on 23rd & 24th December and from 10am to 5.30pm on the 27th & 28th. Normal opening hours resume on 2nd January 2025. Booker T 23.12.24
Little Lane Bookshop has been a real success since it opened a couple of years ago. As a result, it is moving to bigger and better premises in a more prominent location, on O'Connell Street, in the centre of Waterford's Cultural Quarter. The shop is currently closed, but is expected to reopen at the new premises in mid to late July. Booker T 16.06.26
The renovation and fitting out of the new premises is “taking a little longer than we first anticipated”, says the owner. The hoped-for reopening date in July has been missed, but the work is progressing quite rapidly now and the shop should be open soon, apparently. Booker T 10.08.26
The shop reopened yesterday in its new, larger premises, in a much more prominent location at O’Connell Street, in the heart of Waterford’s ‘Cultural Quarter’. Although the official reopening ceremony is not until Sunday 30th August, the shop will be open on each of its normal opening days (Wednesday-Sunday) from now on. Little Lane was the only commercially run second-hand bookshop to open in the Republic in 2024, and has been a real success. The shop’s owner, Jim, has proved himself adept at sourcing good-quality stock and the prices here are very reasonable.
O’Connell Street is just behind Merchant’s Quay, near the Rice Bridge. It is about a five-minute walk from Waterford (Plunkett) railway station, on the opposite bank of the River Suir; frequent trains from Dublin, Kildare, Athy, Carlow and Kilkenny, and infrequent services from Limerick Junction via Cahir, Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir. The bus station, which is on the quayside, is only a very short walk away and is served by routes from Dublin (600, 736), Cork (40, 600), Limerick (55), Clonmel (55, 355), Carrick-on-Suir (55, 355), Cahir (355), Carlow (365, 736), New Ross (370) and Kilkenny (600). Booker T 23.08.26
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