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Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

Recorded on 3 February 2021 as part of our Healthy Ireland at Your Library Online Webinar Series. 
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20 October 2021

City Surveyor’s Maps Collection 1695-1827 now available

We are pleased to announce that the City Surveyor’s Maps Collection 1695 – 1827 is now available to the public as part of our presence on the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI).
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19 October 2021

Mindful Parenting

Louise Shanagher is a child therapist, a psychology lecturer and a mindfulness teacher.
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11 October 2021

History at your Library

Has Dublin Festival of History whet your appetite for history? Well look no further than your local library! We have lots of great history reads and resources for everyone, from the mildly curious to the practising historian.
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30 September 2021

Tinseltown's Unlikely Revolutionary

Hollywood producers and executives treated the screenwriter as an indentured servant until a hirsute Hungarian started making a whole lot of Chicken Mole for Hollywood. As described in Hollywood Animal, Joe Eszterhas changed the dynamic of the relationship between producer and screenwriter.
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27 September 2021

Sustainable Construction

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.
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19 September 2021

Water Conservation

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.
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17 September 2021

Building Healthy Home

Building Healthy Homes, written by Joseph Brady and Ruth McManus, and published by Dublin City Council, is a commemoration and an analysis of the early schemes from the 1880s to the late 1920s.
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16 September 2021

Sustainable Living

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.
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15 September 2021

Learn to paint and draw with our online resources

Whether you’re an absolute beginner or already confident in your artistic skills, we have something here for you. Our amazing array of digital resources includes a wide selection of free courses, a comprehensive choice of magazines and books and, for the student of art and art history, an in-depth and authoritative range of reference resources.
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13 September 2021