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Pop up library
8 August 2025
Dublin City Libraries are delighted to be holding three Outdoor POP UP Libraries in Wolfe Tone Square this August. Join us on the 16th, 23rd and 30th August from 11am to 4pm.

Top Ten Junior fiction 2024

Happy Christmas and happy reading to all of you from all of us here in Dublin City Libraries.
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5 December 2024

Top Ten Junior nonfiction 2024

Happy Christmas and happy reading to all of you from all of us here in Dublin City Libraries.
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5 December 2024

An Post Irish Book Awards 2024

First established in 2006, the An Post Irish Book Awards bring together a vast community passionate about books – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise the very best of new and established Irish writing talent.
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28 November 2024

Family Time at Your Library

Family events and activities take place in all libraries during the month of December to support the involvement of the whole family in children’s reading.
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28 November 2024

New Library for Drimnagh/Crumlin

The public consultation phase of our Part 8 application for a new library at 314-318 Crumlin Road is now open for submissions and observations.
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25 November 2024

Shelf Life: From Page to Screen

Welcome to our new Dublin City Libraries book blog, Shelf Life! We will bring you the best of our library catalogue and help you find your next great read.
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15 November 2024

Staff Pick: Frankie by Graham Norton

Review of Graham Norton's novel Frankie. A super life story.
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13 November 2024

Staff Pick: The Cazalet Chronicles

The five novels, tracing the fortunes of an upper-middle-class family, are set in Sussex and London in the period surrounding the Second World War.
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13 November 2024

Transition Year Citywide Reading Campaign 2024

This project encourages Transition Year students to read The Gone Book by Helena Close. There were two library visits schedules, the first, to showcase library resources for teens and teachers alike, including the benefits of membership.
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13 November 2024

Staff Pick: So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan

This short, compact book is a powerful and occasionally abrasive piece of writing.
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12 November 2024