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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.

Mindful Parenting

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

The Public History of Slavery in Dublin

Dublin was one of the largest and busiest ports in Britain or Ireland throughout the era of the triangular slave trade and yet slavery barely figures in popular memory or heritage. The following lecture will examine the many reasons for this ‘invisibility'.
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26 July 2021

The Truce in national and international press

The Truce was widely covered by reporting and analysis Irish, English and American newspapers, in the days following the announcement of the cessation of conflict in July 1921.
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23 July 2021

How the Truce came about

In this recorded online lecture, Historian in Residence Cormac Moore tells the story of how the Truce came about.
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22 July 2021

Lord Mayor Laurence O’Neill

Dublin’s Mansion House and its occupant Lord Mayor Laurence O’Neill played a pivotal role in many events of the Irish revolutionary era.
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21 July 2021

The Ballyfermot troop train ambush

On 8th July, 1921 a train carrying troops, military supplies, horses and civilians was ambushed by members of the 4th Battalion Dublin Brigade IRA as it passed under the railway bridge near the then rural hamlet of Ballyfermot.
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8 July 2021

Bloom on Zoom: Opening up Ulysses

The Central Library Dublin (Dublin City Libraries) in association with The James Joyce Centre presents this online event in celebration of Bloomsday 2021.
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16 June 2021

The Bombing on the night of May 30/31 1941

Dublin City Council Historian in Residence Dr. Mary Muldowney and historian Catherine Holmes tell the story of the bombing of North Strand on the night of 30/31 May 1941. This special event to mark the 80th anniversary of the bombing was hosted by Charleville Mall Library on 31 May 2021.
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15 June 2021

What is the Carbon Cost of Your Lunch?

Listen back to a recording of a discussion on global climate action and the food we eat.
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2 June 2021

The Dolphin's Barn Brickworks

Recorded online history talk hosted by Walkinstown Library by Historian in Residence, Cathy Scuffil.
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25 May 2021