Blogs

Last week we shared with you the top ten lists of books borrowed last year from our citywide network of branch libraries. Today we’re going to take a look at the most popular digital picks on BorrowBox by you, our fantastic Dublin City library members.

Leslie Crowe joined Dublin Fire Brigade in the 30's, married in the early fifties, and moved out to the new suburb of Santry to 60 Lorcan Drive with with his growing family.

To use a library resource, and to use it from home, you may need your library card and password.

Librarians are generally well served within popular culture (albeit with one or two notable exceptions) as information specialists, champions of literacy and all round Good Guys

“I could have been more disciplined but I'm glad I'm not a robot like so many now.” In this sentence Sean O'Brien sums up his attitude to life and rugby in his no holds barred autobiography.

“I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”

Netflix recently announced that Shonda Rhimes production Bridgerton is the most popular drama they have ever screened.

The time alone and the silence of her days do help her revalue her life. She is met with kindness along the way. At times, I was willing her on, as when the going got tough. At other times, I was cheering her on, as when she faced a difficult situation.

It’s four in the morning and I can’t sleep. I reach for the book I received as a Christmas present, Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker. Is someone trying to tell me something!

With the Siberian coldsnap and Russia increasingly in the international spotlight due to political tensions, my thoughts turned to a holiday I spent in Russia two years ago with my family.