Contact Details
Prison Library Service
Library Office
Mountjoy Prison
North Circular Road
Dublin 7
Tel: + 353 (0)1 8062837
Email: dublinprisonlibraries@gmail.com
Also:
Prison Library Service
Library Office
Wheatfield Prison
Cloverhill Road
Clondalkin
Dublin 22
Tel: + 353 (0)1 620 9406
Branch Libraries
The Prison Library Service manages eight libraries in Dublin:
- Mountjoy Males
- New Medical Unit
- Dochas Centre (Female Prison)
- St. Patrick's Institution
- Training Unit
- Arbour Hill Prison
- Wheatfield Prison
- Cloverhill Prison
The Dublin Prison Library Service is an agency service of Dublin City Council Public Libraries to the Irish Prison Service. The service was initiated in 1981 by the Department of Justice in partnership with Dublin City Council.
Libraries in prisons provide a similar range of material and services to those provided by public libraries. In addition to a lending and reference collection and depending on their size, the branch libraries provide some or all of the following:
- Periodicals
- Newspapers
- Foreign Language Material
- Talking Books
- Large Print
- Music Listening Posts
- Self Learning Computers
- TV/DVD
- Music Lending
- DVD Lending
- Law Collection
Library users may request items not available in their library.
The Prison Library Service puts special emphasis on collection development in areas that are particularly relevant to the prison population, i.e. Literacy, Foreign Language and Legal Material.