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Easter Public Holiday Arrangements

27 March 2023
Dublin City Libraries will be closed from Friday, 7 April to Monday, 10 April 2023 (inclusive). Libraries will reopen on Tuesday, 11 April 2023. 
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Library in the Community

The section’s main aim is to go out into the community and let people know about all the amazing things available in their library, both in branch and online.
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Music: Medici.tv

Medici.tv is the world's leading classical music channel featuring hundreds of concerts, operas, and ballets.
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TeenBookCloud on eResources

We have some great news for you! We have a subscription with TeenBookCloud, an online resource for our young adult library users. It's available online twenty-four-seven. There's no login, no downloads, so there's no waiting!
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Lose yourself in the library

This November we're inviting you to lose yourself in the library! A warm welcome awaits you! Borrow and return fantastic books from any library in the country.
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The Lima Bean Monster

Celebrate Halloween and the Children’s Book Festival with Dublin City Libraries. There are a lot of books to enjoy from our TumbleBook collection.
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Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance

Celebrate Halloween and the Children’s Book Festival with Dublin City Libraries. There are a lot of books to enjoy from our TumbleBook collection.
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A Brief History of Dublin Coddle

A traditional Irish cold weather treat, (all year round basically in Ireland), Dublin Coddle is considered food for the working class. Dubliners will tell you coddle is best enjoyed with a pint of Guinness and plenty of soda bread to soak up the juices. It was reputedly a favourite dish of the writers Seán O'Casey and Jonathan Swift, and it appears in several references to Dublin, including the works of James Joyce.A hearty coddle is made from leftovers and therefore is without a specific recipe (this leads to heated debate from purists and the new fusion brigade) and typically consists  of roughly cut spuds, sliced onions, rashers and sausages. A traditional coddle did not use carrots. The word “Coddle” derives from the French term “Caudle” which means to boil gently, parboil or stew.Apparently, coddle dates back to the first Irish famine in the late 1700s where anything to hand got thrown into the pot. The famine of 1740–41 was due to extremely cold and then dry weather in successive years, resulting in food losses in three categories: a series of poor grain harvests, a shortage of milk, and frost damage to potatoes. At this time, grains, particularly oats, were more important than potatoes as staples in the diet of most workers.Families would use up any leftover meat on a Thursday, as Catholics couldn’t eat meat on Fridays. Country people who moved into Dublin to find better work opportunities brought hens and pigs with them to raise for food. After a pig was slaughtered and sold the remains were used to make sausages. The sausages and streaky rashers were boiled up with root vegetables to make a cheap and nutritious meal.Indeed, before takeaways existed, it was a typical Dublin thing to cook up a pot of coddle early in the day and let it cool down for later. The dish could be reheated for supper after work, or a night out at the pictures, or the pub. Derek O'Connor from the Sunday Tribune wrote, "the fact that Dubliners have rejected it in favour of kebabs and takeaway pizza is a searing indictment of their moral and spiritual decay."I am inclined to agree.Why not check out our eResource RBdigital for Food & Cooking magazines. Register for RB Digital magazines or via the Rbdigital app:  Google Play - Android | iTunes - iOS | Kindle Fire. Watch our how to video for more information. Or reserve one of our many books of Irish Cookery via our catalogue.Or download the library app on your smartphone, check out the new Self-Service function in the app to borrow and return books in Borrow and Browse branches.
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Infobase Learning Cloud

Unlimited access to more than 400 online traning courses on the newest software to improve your skills and social media know-how.
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World Book Online: Back to School

World Book Online is an engaging and trustworthy resource which offers an immersive learning experience to learners at every level. It provides access to over 30,000 articles, 6,000 web links, 400 interactive maps and much, much more.
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Back to School Resources

To use a library resource, and to use it from home, you may need your library card and password.
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