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Join us on Zoom tomorrow for a social gathering. That's Wednesday 6th, at 10.30am, on Nollaig na mBan, everyone is welcome. Please get in touch with the library at [email protected].

On Friday, 4th September 2015, a Dublin City Council plaque commemorating the founding of Shelbourne Football Club was unveiled in Dublin 4.

We are pleased to offer a wide range of children’s books as Gaeilge in our Cúinne Gaeilge in Cabra Library. I would like to give you a snapshot of the kinds of children’s books that are available for borrowing from the libraries. 

After a year with no Bohemian Football Club matches in Dalymount Park, and no browsing in Phibsboro library, the library invited Boh's captain, Keith Buckley,  and Poet in Residence John Cummins, as well as Chief Operating Officer Daniel Lambert into the library to discuss all things football and poetry. 

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.