{"id":9931,"date":"2025-09-08T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9931\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:07:13","slug":"inside-one-of-irelands-most-charming-independent-book-shops-youll-never-become-a-millionaire-but-ive-never-been-happier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9931\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside one of Ireland\u2019s most charming independent book shops \u2013 \u2018You\u2019ll never become a millionaire, but I\u2019ve never been happier\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Red Books, now based in the centre of Wexford town, had humble beginnings trading out of a tiny coach house. The store bursting with character is now on the verge of celebrating a decade in business and counts Roddy Doyle as a regular customer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Owner of Red Books, Wally O'Neill, welcoming celebrated Irish writer Roddy Doyle to the shop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8adf4011-3221-4963-9a4c-103070173860.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Owner of Red Books, Wally O&#8217;Neill, welcoming celebrated Irish writer Roddy Doyle to the shop<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Wally O\u2019Neill is a Duncormick man who has run Red Books, an independent store, in St Peter\u2019s Square in the heart of Wexford, for almost a decade. It is located in a discrete premises, effectively sandwiched between Wexford town\u2019s iconic churches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, the way books were sold was transformed. Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars it now makes, Wally chuckles that his little store is still proudly in business.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Books, now based in the centre of Wexford town, had humble beginnings trading out of a tiny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,12434,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-9931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-cillian-boggan","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}