Blogs

If you are a member of Dubllin City Libraries you can borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks for free, from Borrow Box. This guide takes you through the steps necessary to download eBooks to a computer, and transfer them to an eReader.

His videos have hundreds of thousands of views across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, though he had never heard of any of them. He has inspired a whole new generation of social historians that were born after he died.

Watch a recording of Dr Sylvie Kleinman's talk "Daniel O'Connell and Dublin City Council". Part of the Dublin Transcription Project Webinar series.

The module looked at collections as creative resources, with a focus on digitised collections of the partner institutions

Friday 8th July, 1921 a train carrying British troops; members of the Gordon Highlanders; and military supplies; cars, donkeys, horses, as well as civilians was ambushed as it passed under the railway bridge near the small hamlet of Ballyfermot.

Watch John Montague's presentation about the Wide Street Commissioners on May 24th 2022.

As part of Creative Ireland's Cruinniú na Óg programme, we are delighted to have this online workshop "An introduction to anime style drawing" with illustrator Amy Louise O'Callaghan.

2022 marks the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Considered to be one of the most important and influential novels ever written, this masterpiece of fiction follows Leopold Bloom as he makes his way around Dublin on 16th June 1904.

Listen back as Cathy Scuffil discusses the response to Dublin's housing crisis after the collapse of tenements in Dublin’s Church Street in 1913.

Six Stolpersteine ‘stumbling stones’ were unveiled by Holocaust Education Ireland and Dublin City Council today (01.06.22) to remember each of the Irish citizens who were victims of the Holocaust. The unveiling took place at a commemorative event at St. Catherine’s National School in Dublin 8.