“I will break every bloody bookshop in the city up.”

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Different kind of book tour...

Over two days in October 1938, [Patrick Kavanaugh] turned his ire on Dublin’s bookshops.

Statements from five booksellers – taken by Garda Sergeant Noel C. Reynolds on 27 and 28 October and released today under the 30-year State paper rule - allege that Kavanagh “threatened them with the object of compelling them to stock” his new novel. 

https://www.thejournal.ie/ill-wreck-the-joint-the-day-patrick-kavanagh-threatened-dublins-booksellers-4385208-Dec2018/