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Pop up library
8 August 2025
Dublin City Libraries are delighted to be holding three Outdoor POP UP Libraries in Wolfe Tone Square this August. Join us on the 16th, 23rd and 30th August from 11am to 4pm.

Creepy haunted ghost mirrors

Mirrors, despite their ubiquity in our homes and workplaces have always retained something of the eeriness that came with their origins.
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29 October 2021

Haunted Dublin

Halloween originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.
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28 October 2021

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

Recorded on 3 February 2021 as part of our Healthy Ireland at Your Library Online Webinar Series. 
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20 October 2021

City Surveyor’s Maps Collection 1695-1827 now available

We are pleased to announce that the City Surveyor’s Maps Collection 1695 – 1827 is now available to the public as part of our presence on the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI).
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19 October 2021

Mindful Parenting

Louise Shanagher is a child therapist, a psychology lecturer and a mindfulness teacher.
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11 October 2021

Sustainable Construction

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.
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19 September 2021

Water Conservation

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.
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17 September 2021

Building Healthy Home

Building Healthy Homes, written by Joseph Brady and Ruth McManus, and published by Dublin City Council, is a commemoration and an analysis of the early schemes from the 1880s to the late 1920s.
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16 September 2021

Sustainable Living

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.
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15 September 2021

Energy

Part of the Climate, Energy, and Sustainability Collection from Kevin Street Library.
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13 September 2021