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Chinese New Year 2014 - The Year of the Horse
Established in 2008 the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival (DCNYF) showcases the best of Sino Irish Culture in Ireland. This year the festival as always will be delivering a high profile cultural...
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The 17th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Lecture
Alleys, annals and anecdotes: a new look at Gilbert's History of Dublin given by Séamas Ó Maitiú, on Thursday 23rd January 2014 at 6.00pm, at Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2....
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Creative Writing in Dublin City Public Libraries
'In other towns, clever people go out and make money. In Dublin, clever people go home and write their books.' Anne Enright Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it...
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Commemorating Clontarf: The Battle and its Legacy
2014 is the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, which took place on Good Friday 23 April 1014. Commemorating Clontarf: the battle and its legacy was the theme of the City Hall lunchtime lecture...
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Irish Carnegie Libraries, An Architectural History
Between 1897 and 1913, Andrew Carnegie donated over £170,000 to fund the building of eighty libraries in Ireland. Sixty-two of those libraries have survived to the present day including Rathmines...
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Andrew Carnegie, The Library Man
In 1902, Rathmines and Rathgar Urban District Council applied for a grant to Andrew Carnegie who was at that time dispensing large sums of money for the building of libraries, the world over. The...
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Rathmines' Literary Heritage: A Sense of Place
Rathmines can boast a rich literary heritage having played host to many leading literary figures including James Joyce, William Carleton, George Russell and Paul Durcan. "A Sense of Place", a literary...
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Celebrating 75 years of Finnegans Wake
May 2014 marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Finnegans Wake. To celebrate Dublin City Public Libraries hosted the wonderful Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher performing Here's Comes...
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Dublin: a City Made of Stories?
What do we think of when we think of Dublin? How has the history and physical shape of the city influenced its poems, songs and stories? How do poems, songs, stories, history and the built environment...
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The 18th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Lecture
"Dublin as a global city: through time and space", the 18th Annual Sir John T. Gilbert Lecture, was given by Kevin Whelan at the Dublin City Library and Archive on Thursday, 22 January 2015, at 6:00pm....
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