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It’s hard to believe that later on this year sees the 30th anniversary of grunge exploding onto the music scene. While all bands on the Seattle scene apart from Pearl Jam had released albums prior to 1991, it was the release of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana in September of that year that made Seattle the centre of the rock music scene.

Laura Ingalls Wilder can be remembered this month. She was born in the state of Wisconsin.

We had a look last week at a selection of online research and reference tools available for you to use at a time and a place and a pace that suits you, and all for free with your Dublin City Library card.

If you’re an advocate of ‘Dress Up Fridays’, the following reads on Borrowbox might be right up your runway!

As most of us are spending more time at home these days, there is a tendency to reminisce about bygone days and this book fits that bill. A sort of memoir of the 60s, the title of the book refers to the two most common games played by children of that era.

During lockdown many people have spoken about discovering, or rekindling, their relationship with nature. This was very apparent during the first lockdown in
March 2020 as spring was blooming and birds were singing and feathering their nests.

Welcome back. Last week we accessed the website, www.irishgenealogy.ie and by clicking on Useful Links we were able to find the 1922 Irish Army census. The record entry we highlighted was for Aidan McLeod from Gorey.

Their names might not be instantly recognizable, and the identity of their murderer may have eluded detectives and historians throughout the years, but there is no mistaking the infamy of Jack the Ripper.

In 2020 Professor Frank Shovlin of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool delivered a lecture on “John McGahern’s Dublin” and this has now been published by Dublin City Council. The lecture uncovers the influence of Dublin on the life and work of the late writer John McGahern.

On Friday, 2nd October 2015, a Dublin City Council commemorative plaque honouring artist and portrait painter Leo Whelan was unveiled in Dublin 7.