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

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.

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

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.

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

With school now in full swing, growing houseplants from kitchen scraps makes a fun science project to enjoy with your kids or grandkids.

Anthony Bourdain was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian, who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, giving you not only the latest content from the full Oxford English Dictionary but also the Historical Thesaurus of the OED

Set up by journalist and Ballymun resident Seamus Kelly, Ballymun Concrete News circulated from 1998 until 2006 telling the good news stories of Ballymun, a large suburb in Dublin which was undergoing enormous change at the time.  Seamus kindly donated copies of the newspaper to Dublin City Library and Archive several years ago and the staff created PDFs of the 87 editions and made them available online ensuring they can be read all over the world.

New Dublin City Council publication Vindicating Dublin by Aodh Quinlivan tells the story behind the controversial dissolution of Dublin Corporation in 1924