Cover image for Dublin Inquirer print edition #123
"June is deeply associated with Áine, the Irish goddess of summer, fertility, love, and sovereignty, whose presence is especially felt around the midsummer season."
Brian Flanagan and Lily Power want Marrowbone Books to be a meeting place as well as a bookshop. “If you’re someone who likes books – and I think these people exist – then we will have something for you,” says Flanagan.
Guidebook writers started using the term “institution” in the last few years, but Des Cooney isn’t interested in that. “It makes you feel old,” he says.