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November the month of the Holy Souls is a month of commemorations and remembrances of all our dead and in particular our war dead. Remembrance Day on the eleventh of November or Poppy day as it is sometimes called grew out of recognition of Armistice Day. The celebration of Armistice Day, traditionally a British reserve has spread worldwide and is referred to as Remembrance Day or Veterans Day depending on where you are.

Celebrate Science Week with Dublin City Libraries. There are a lot of books to enjoy from our TumbleBooks collection. Today we have chosen ‘50 Burning Questions’ written Tanya Lloyd Kyi and illustrated by Ross Kinnaird.

You've found that perfect author but read all their books and are waiting patiently for the next one to come out. There may not even be a next one. The wait is just too long...

Welcome back, last week using the website www.irishgenealogy.ie we looked at how to find a marriage certificate. Our example was the marriage of James McCormack and Catherine Clarke who married in 1903. This week, staying with this couple, we are going to try tracing them on the 1911 census.

The Reading Room in Dublin City Library and Archive holds a wide variety of sources to help you find your ancestors.

When you look at the Dublin mountains that form a ring around the south of the city, have you ever noticed one hill – Montpelier Hill - that seems to have a house or some sort of building on the top of it?

Celebrate the Children’s Book Festival with Dublin City Libraries. There are a lot of books to enjoy from our TumbleBooks collection. Today, we have chosen ‘Golden Threads’, written by Suzanne Del Rizzo and illustrated by Miki Sato. Emi loves her stuffed fox but then a storm sweeps the fox away.

Welcome to the fourteenth entry of our blog series 'Lost in the Stacks' - with recommendations by Dublin City Libraries staff. This one was submitted by Jessica from Cabra Library.

Holiday Arrangements (incl. Public Holidays) vary. Dublin City Libraries closes for a number of days over the Christmas and Easter periods, and on St. Patrick's Day and bank/public holidays.

In partnership with Dublin City Libraries, Dublin City Council Culture Company launched Dublin’s first ever Historian-in-Residence for Children. This new Creative Residency will have children and history at its core and is an invitation to local children to work collaboratively, to uncover their own local history, create their own storytelling of that history, discover new passions and see their ideas and interests reflected in the work created.