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One Dublin One Book 2025: Dublin, written in our hearts

11 March 2025

One Dublin One Book aims to encourage everyone in Dublin to read a book connected with the capital city during the month of April every year. This annual project is a Dublin City Council initiative, led by Dublin City Libraries and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, which encourages reading for pleasure.

Shelf Life: From Page to Screen

Welcome to our new Dublin City Libraries book blog, Shelf Life! We will bring you the best of our library catalogue and help you find your next great read.

Staff Pick: Frankie by Graham Norton

Review of Graham Norton's novel Frankie. A super life story.

Staff Pick: The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

Suddenly his meaningless life is turned upside down and he is faced with the biggest questions: what is important to him and what will he take to get it?

Libraries: a lifeline for local communities

Libraries are one of THE most important gathering places in our communities. Not only are they places of learning and personal growth but leisure.

Library in the Community

The section’s main aim is to go out into the community and let people know about all the amazing things available in their library, both in branch and online.

Comics Plus. Download the app TODAY

With Comics Plus, you have unlimited, simultaneous access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga.

Roghanna na Foirne: Leabhair páistí

Tá na léirmheasanna leabhair seo do léitheoirí óga scríofa ag John ón Lár Leabharlann. Bhain John sásamh as na scéalta breátha Gaeilge seo le déanaí.

Robin Williams’ favourite book

With an apparent affinity for sci-fi that was as bright and insistent as the stars themselves, Williams’ most cherished literary treasure was ...

The Pride of books in Dublin City Libraries

This June, check out Pride Reads on our catalogue and a selection of LGBTQI+ eBooks and audiobooks on BorrowBox.

Five Things To Know About Reading With Your Child

Being able to read is no doubt an important life skill. Reading is seen as a valuable activity, as something that is good for your child. And it is! But like with anything that is beneficial to our children, we parents tend to, consciously or unconsciously, put ourselves under pressure to “get it right”.