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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.

The 1953 August Bank Holiday Weekend

This collection of images from the Fáilte Ireland Photographic Collection, held at Dublin City Library and Archive Pearse Street, highlights the surprising and unimagined day of bright sunshine and blue skies that finally emerged on the bank holiday of Monday, August 3, 1953.
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8 July 2025

Education Kits for Children with Down Syndrome

See and Learn kits now available for borrowing from Dublin City Libraries include Saying Words 1, 2 and 3, Combining Sounds, Phrases 1, 2 and 3, and First Counting.
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3 July 2025

Game on! Gaming in the Library

Our new gaming programmes for teens are primarily social events. They are as much about fun, socialising and relationship building as gameplay.
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3 July 2025

Creative Hubs: Children’s Art in Libraries

Fifteen separate events with multiple performances of each will be delivered for children by professional artists in our Creative Hubs during July and August. Events are FREE but registration is required.
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2 July 2025

A Summer Adventure with Summer Stars

Summer Stars runs fromthe 3 of June - 30 of August 2025. Get Reading! Now that school is over you can still spark your imagination, join in activities and take part in our exciting Summer Stars challenge.
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2 July 2025

My Open Library: Drumcondra

My Open Library at Drumcondra library is a self-service library available from 8am - 10pm every day of the year!
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20 June 2025

My Open Library: Walkinstown

My Open Library is an unstaffed, self-service library, available Walkinstown Library every day of the year!
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20 June 2025

My Open Library: Raheny

My Open Library is an unstaffed, self-service library, available at Raheny Library every day of the year! During My Open Library Hours you can borrow and return items, print, photocopy, use the Internet, access Free Wifi and use our study space.
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20 June 2025

My Open Library: Pembroke

My Open Library at Pembroke library is a self-service library available from 8am - 10pm every day of the year!
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20 June 2025

City Architect Horace T. O’Rourke volumes donated to Dublin City Library and Archive

H.T. O’Rourke was City Architect from 1922 until his retirement in 1945 and was responsible for many schemes and works in Dublin including the rebuilding of Upper O’Connell street after the devastation caused by the revolutionary period from 1916 – 1923.
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17 June 2025