Private company
Parsons Bookshop
Irish bookshop owner and literary patron
May O'Flaherty (born Mary Angela Flaherty, 14 May 1904 – 27 March 1991) was an Irish book store proprietor, known as the owner of Parsons Bookshop at Baggot Street Bridge in Dublin's southside. Through the shop's writer-in-residence schemes, and general environment, she patronised and befriended prominent Irish writers such as Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, and Seamus Heaney.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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May O'Flaherty (born Mary Angela Flaherty, 14 May 1904 – 27 March 1991) was an Irish book store proprietor, known as the owner of Parsons Bookshop at Baggot Street Bridge in Dublin's southside. Through the shop's writer-in-residence schemes, and general environment, she patronised and befriended prominent Irish writers such as Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, and Seamus Heaney.2
Subsidiaries and ownership
Owners
- May O'Flaherty
From Wikidata.1
Links
- WikipediaParsons Bookshop
- WikidataQ124464589
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- 1WikidataParsons Bookshop on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaParsons Bookshop on Wikipedia