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You can access this course on Universal Class and it is an essential training programme for anyone working with the public. It is one of over 500 free online courses available on DCC libraries website.

What do Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Brendan O’Carroll, Tom Hollland and Roald Dahl all have in common? Dyslexia. Word Blindness, as it was previously called, only became an issue when needing literacy skills became important.

As adult non-fiction buyer for Dublin City Libraries, a key part of my role is to comb through the staggering annual publishing output of new adult non-fiction releases, across all the genres, to pluck out the ‘gems’ among them, and ensure they are available for our library patrons. 

The first book in this series called The Darkness, is penned by Ragnar Jonasson and it is an atmospheric thriller set in the stark, bleak yet bewitching and enchanting landscape of Iceland. The impact of the isolation on the people lends itself to be the ideal setting for a crime novel.

Last week in an attempt to find James McCormack’s birth certificate I looked at the church records for marriages in St. Mary, Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, October 1903.

My favourite story from 'Voices : An Open Door Book of Stories' is 'Careful Lady Driver' by Ciara Geraghty.

Universal Class has over 500 online courses and I chose one from the Alternative Healthcare series called the Art of Breathing. Who would have thought that we would need lessons on how to breathe?! But as we get older we develop habits we didn’t even know we had, bad habits that are physical, mental and emotional.

Level 3 restrictions might make the world seem smaller but there are plenty of ways to scratch that travel itch without leaving your home. These books set around the world will tide you over until it's finally time to dust off your passport.

In a brutally honest and frank biography, Christy Dignam looks back at his remarkable life and his passion for music. He grew up in Finglas in North Dublin where his two passions were birds and music. In 1973 at the age of thirteen he saw David Bowie on Top of the Pops and knew he wanted to be a rock star.

On the afternoon of Friday, 3rd May 2019, an official Dublin City Council commemorative plaque unveiling took place at the site of Séamus Ennis’s boyhood home in Finglas, which was demolished during the 1960s.