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Skills For Life: Rewiring a Plug & Basic Electrical Safety

Monday 20 October at 5pm

Ballyfermot Library

Skills for Life: Creating a Website

Tuesday 21 October at 6pm

Inchicore Library

Skills For Life: Rewiring a Plug & Basic Electrical Safety

Tuesday 21 October at 6pm

Coolock Library

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Blogs

Staff Pick: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Jeremy Paxman brings his whole arsenal of sneering, rabid, vicious, in your face chippiness to Black Gold – The History Of How Coal Made Britain.

20 October 2025

Publication of 27th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert commemorative lecture

Professor Jane Ohlmeyer’s 2024 Sir John T. Gilbert lecture has just been published by Dublin City Libraries. It was launched on 7th October 2025 by Councillor Vincent Jackson representing the Lord Mayor, at a reception in Dublin City Library and Archive.

9 October 2025

Deireadh Seachtaine Saoire Bainc Dheireadh Fómhair

Beidh Leabharlanna Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath dúnta ón Satharn 25 go dtí an Luan 27 Deireadh Fómhair 2025 (san áireamh).

3 October 2025

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