One Dublin One Book 2025: Dublin, written in our hearts
11 March 2025
One Dublin One Book aims to encourage everyone in Dublin to read a book connected with the capital city during the month of April every year. This annual project is a Dublin City Council initiative, led by Dublin City Libraries and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, which encourages reading for pleasure.
Dublin City Council appoints Design Team for Parnell Square Project
Dublin City Council is excited to announce the appointment of a multi-disciplinary Design Team for the Parnell Square Project, which includes the new City Library.
Dublin City Library and Archive is extending its opening hours
From 23 January 2023 the Reading Room is now open to researchers by appointment on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 4.30pm, including through lunchtime. Our study area is now open from 10:00am – 20:00 Monday to Thursday and 10am to 5pm on Fridays and Saturdays
Several acquaintances have confided in me that one of their New Year’s resolutions is to start reading again. When asked for any tips my advice is always the same: start with something short. In that vein, one of the books I have read since the beginning of the year is Simone de Beauvoir’s The Inseparables, a novel supposedly considered “too intimate” to be published during the author’s life.
Dublin City Libraries and Archive Digital Repository
We are moving our digital collections to the Digital Repository of Ireland. You can also browse curated image galleries highlighting aspects of Dublin's history on Dublin City Libraries on flickr.
Portrait of Dublin's First Female Lord Mayor unveiled by City Council
Kathleen Clarke served as Lord Mayor for two terms, standing down as a councillor in 1941 on the grounds of ill health. Continuing to live an active public life until her death on 29th September 1972, she received a State funeral, the third of only three women to be so honoured.
Dublin City Libraries is delighted to partner with the Irish Deaf Society in the ISL StorySign Project, a national project to produce filmed stories for children, signed in Irish Sign Language.
