Dublin City Libraries will be closed from Saturday 3 to Monday 5 May 2025 (inclusive). Our online services will continue as usual. We will reopen on Tuesday, 6 May.
Needlework can be tracked through time from the earliest weaving of grasses and palms to the stitching together of furs and animal hides to today’s high street fashion and haute couture.
An inspiring friend who has grown the most beautiful forest garden with her partner over the last twenty eight years had saplings ready for me wrapped in paper and plastic bags with a little soil and water to keep them moist.
These amazing reads are a saga about female friendship set against a background of a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples in the 1950s and winds its way through the lives of the characters through the 60s and 70s.
With spring finally here, our thoughts will be returning to the garden. It's probably more important than ever now that we find ourselves indoors a lot of the time.
The world's leading classical music channel is now available for free with your Dublin City Libraries card. Choose from an extensive selection of concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries and master classes:
Through a single gateway, library members can access and cross-search a number of acclaimed and regularly updated art reference works including The Grove Dictionary of Art and The Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
“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.”
