Library Podcast

Welcome to dlr Libraries Podcast page, a new service from DLR Libraries. If you missed some of our events over the past few months you can now get a chance to hear them as they happened thanks to our podcasting page.

Here you can browse the complete collection of podcasts in the series. Each one may be played on the page, or downloaded and saved. Click here to listen via our dlr soundcloud page.

Our Podcast

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin ag comhrá / in conversation with Cathal Póirtéir
23 May 2022

Údar, foilsitheoir agus ceoltóir iomráiteach Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin ag comhrá leis an craoltóir agus scríbhneoir ildánach Cathal Póirtéir, faoina chéad úrscéal ‘Madame Lazare’.

Author, musician and publisher Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin in conversation with writer and broadcaster, Cathal Poirtéir about his award winning first novel ‘Madame Lazare’,

Czech Heroines & Good 100 Launch 17th May 2022
17 May 2022

An art exhibition inspired by modern Czech history and major Czech personalities. Illustrations by students from Ladislav Sutnar Faculty, West Bohemian University, Pilsen.

Jana Van Der Ziel Fischerova interviewing Czech Artist Renata Fucikova.

Exhibition is open from 18th May to 30th June 2022, at level 3, dlr LexIcon.

Arlen House Book Launch 8th April
08 April 2022

Recording from Friday 8 April; a bumper book launch celebrating the release of 5 new exciting titles from Arlen House.

It is a celebration of over 150 years of women’s writing, featuring important titles of classic literature that will now be made available to a new generation.

We heard from Caitríona Clear (on Kate O’Brien and Annie Smithson), Catherine Dunne (A Name for Himself), Marian Thérèse Keyes (on Anna Maria Hall), Lia Mills (Another Alice) and Arlen House publisher Alan Hayes.

Peter Pearson at the LexIcon, 23rd March 22
23 March 2022

Recording of the talk Peter Pearson gave in the Studio, dlr LexIcon on the 23rd of March 2022.

Peter Pearson is well-known as a passionate advocate for the conservation of Ireland's architectural heritage and also as a historian and highly regarded painter. He is the author of numerous publications including Dún Laoghaire/Kingstown and Between the Mountains and the Sea. His new book The Granite Coast (O'Brien Press) will be published later in 2022. This exhibition is a celebration of his wide-ranging work.

International Women's Day 2022- Desert Island Reads with Ola Majekodunmi and Jessica Traynor
08 March 2022

dlr Libraries were delighted to welcome Ola Majekodunmi and Jessica Traynor for a discussion on books, poems and music that inspire them.

Please note that the discussion contains adult themes.