Improve your physical and psychological health with the Great Courses
From martial arts to mindfulness, from the essentials of weight training to the science of health and happiness, the Great Courses has a fantastic selection of courses to help you improve your health and well-being.
All early learning and care settings in the country are to receive a book on the theme of friendship and a booklet from Barnardos called ‘Supporting Friendships in Early Learning and Care’.
The beginning of May is associated with the Celtic festival Lá Bealtaine. This marked the start of the season of blossoming flowers and fruit trees. Traditionally, belfires are lit on the evening before May Day.
Thanks for bearing with us as we work to resolve teething problems with our new online system. Your library service now has its own online catalogue where you can search and reserve items and log in and manage your account. The online catalogue for Dublin City members is https://dublincity.spydus.ie
Guerrilla poetry involves publishing poetry in unexpected and unconventional ways in unexpected and unconventional places. Guerrilla poets like to choose unusual media or materials for their poems. They avoid publishing their poems using black text on a white page.
Watch back and soak in the environs of the beautiful, Baroque surrounds of St. Ann’s Church on Dawson St for an evening of celebration and performances with Dublin City Council’s One Dublin One Book choice for 2022 Nuala O’Connor’s NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce. Sirens and Songs with Nuala O’Connor, Darina Gallagher and Sinead Murphy. Listen back as Nuala O’Connor reads from and discusses her novel Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce followed by musical performances by Sinead Murphy and Darina Joyce.
Dublin City Council Culture Company will host a number of events at our branches throughout May and June, as part of the Your Tenement Memories initiative.
Proposals invited from artists and arts organisations
Creative Hubs are an initiative of Dublin City Arts Office and Libraries, that sustain high quality arts experiences for children, schools and families to access in their Library and locality, through partnership and engagement.
Are you interested in anthropology, palaeontology or molecular biology? Or would like to cast a botanist’s eye over the marvellously diverse plant life on our planet? Or to take a guided tour of our solar system?