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All Together Now! Song Sheets in Dublin City Library and Archive

Some of the song sheets have titles that have a broad appeal and refer to features common to lots of places in Ireland. There was space for comedy too and one can imagine these being popular for sing-songs at many gatherings of Irish people living abroad.
10 December 2025

Good Sports at Dublin City Library and Archive

Are you experiencing withdrawal symptoms following this year’s Euros? Will you be glued to the screen when the Paris 2024 Olympic Games start? Whatever the occasion, whatever your tribe, sport thrills us to the bone - the roar of the crowd, a sea of supporters in team colours, holding banners aloft or waving flags for all to see.
25 July 2024

Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture

Dublin City Library and Archive is pleased to present the annual Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture which will be held on 29th May 2024 with a talk by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer entitled, ‘The lived experiences of women in early modern Dublin’.
30 May 2024

Women's Voices 1914 - 1918

Maeve Cavanagh was born in South Frederick Street in Dublin City Centre in 1878. Cavanagh was an extremely active member of all branches of the nationalist movement; she was a member of the Gaelic League, Cumann na mBan and Irish Citizen Army.
22 March 2024

Historians in Residence 2024

Dublin City Council’s Historian in Residence programme welcomes two new historians. Elizabeth Kehoe and Katie Blackwood will be working in the Dublin Central and Dublin North Central areas respectively. Mary Muldowney, Cormac Moore, and Catherine Scuffil return to the programme. Dervilia Roche continues as the Historian in Residence for Children.
18 January 2024