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My Open Library: Raheny

24 February 2023
My Open Library is an unstaffed, self-service library, available at Raheny Library every day of the year! During My Open Library Hours you can borrow and return items, print, photocopy, use the Internet, access Free Wifi and use our study space.
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The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir

Several acquaintances have confided in me that one of their New Year’s resolutions is to start reading again. When asked for any tips my advice is always the same: start with something short. In that vein, one of the books I have read since the beginning of the year is Simone de Beauvoir’s The Inseparables, a novel supposedly considered “too intimate” to be published during the author’s life. 
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I shoot Mussolini in the nose

On 7 April 1926 an Irish woman stepped out from a crowd in Rome and fired a shot at one of the 20th century's most infamous dictators. One bullet grazed the nose of Benito Mussolini, but the Italian leader survived the assassination attempt.
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Women in Music

The topic of women in music has historically been a somewhat fraught one, for various reasons
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Guerrilla Poetics and Pearse Street Library

Guerrilla poetry involves publishing poetry in unexpected and unconventional ways in unexpected and unconventional places. Guerrilla poets like to choose unusual media or materials for their poems. They avoid publishing their poems using black text on a white page.
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Women at Work

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
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Not your usual swooning Valentine's Day picks

This isn't the most traditional Valentine's Day reading list: a collection of intimate reads, ranging from traditional swooning romances to innovative novels.
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The English writer best known for Swallows and Amazons

One would be forgiven for experiencing the feelings of bafflement and surprise when reading a biography of the author of Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome.
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Utter Disloyalist: Tadhg Barry and the Irish Revolution

Tadhg Barry was born in Cork in 1880 and educated locally before obtaining work as an asylum attendant. After a spell in England, he returned to Cork and worked with the newly established Old Age Pensions Board. By this time, Barry had Gaelicised his name and immersed himself in Cork’s Irish-Ireland movement and separatist organisations such as Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
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The most borrowed library books in 2021

We’ve pulled together a few top 10 lists of titles borrowed last year by you, our wonderful Dublin City library members.
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Staff Picks 2021: Children, Teens and Young Adult

Dublin City Libraries staff recommend their favourite books of the year - all available from our catalogue!
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