Sales of bestsellers including Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn and Joe Duffy’s Children of the Rising contributed to profits at one of the country’s largest independent booksellers almost tripling last year to €161,022.

Adapted from Colm Tóibín’s best-selling novel, Brooklyn (12A) stars Saoirse Ronan as Eilis, a young woman chafing at the lack of opportunities available to her in 1950s Enniscorthy. 

Cork director John Crowley has followed up True Detective with a big screen adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s tale of Irish America, writes Ed Power