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Creative Hubs are an initiative of Dublin City Arts Office and Libraries, that sustain high quality arts experiences for children, schools and families to access in their Library and locality, through partnership and engagement.

April Fools’ Day falls on the first day of April. It received its name from the custom of playing practical jokes on this day, for example, telling friends that their shoelaces are untied or sending them on so-called fools’ errands.

On Monday the 1st of November 1841 the very first meeting of Dublin City Council took place at the City Assembly House in South William Street.

Dublin City Council is delighted to launch a new series of audio guides celebrating the history of some of the city’s most fascinating burial grounds.

Last weekend I visited the beautiful Spanish city of Seville to attend my first La Liga football match, a clash between local side Real Betis and the visiting Atletico Madrid.

Rory O'Farrell's illustrated talk looks at some of the buildings and personages of Dublin in the period 1760-1820

On International Women's Day, we recommend three books written from a female perspective, that look at the particular barriers women face in their careers. #BreaktheBias

Are you curious to know which online courses other people have been doing? If you are, then here’s a look at some of the most popular Universal Class courses taken last year by you, our wonderful Dublin City library members.

In the wake of the Norman Invasion of Ireland, Dublin was seized in 1170 by Richard de Clare, better known as Strongbow.  Watch a recording of a seminar organised by Friends of Medieval Dublin and Dublin City Libraries to mark the 850th anniversary of Henry II’s grant of Dublin to Bristol, 1171–72.

Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) was one of Dublin’s finest portrait painters but she also immersed herself in the political and social fabric of Dublin life, becoming the first female elected as a Dublin City Councillor in 1912.