Beidh Leabharlanna Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath dúnta ó dé Sathairn 3 go dtí Luain 5 Meitheamh 2023 (araon san áireamh). Athosclóidh leabharlanna brainse Dé Máirt, 6 Meitheamh.
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.
With books nominated by 80 libraries from 35 countries, four novels by Irish authors are in the running for the €100,000 prize sponsored by Dublin City Council.
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
By some estimates, 49% of the world’s adult population is due to vote in elections in 2024 and what better way to begin the year than with Turchin’s brilliant book about how much trouble some of these same societies are in.
Public libraries are currently delivering the nationwide Healthy Ireland at Your Library programme that will establish libraries as a valuable source within the community for health information.
Dublin City Council will unveil a commemorative plaque for the writer Maeve Brennan at her childhood home (48 Cherryfield Avenue) in Ranelagh on 6 January 2024 at 11am.
The people of Finglas celebrated Christmas early on Saturday 9th December as they came together to mark the opening of Dublin City Council’s newest branch library.
Georges Simenon, who was born 120 years ago in the Belgian city of Liège, lived an eventful life and was a prolific author. He wrote 75 novels and 28 short stories about his most famous character, Jules Maigret or, as everyone (including his wife) calls him, Maigret.