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What's On Jan-March 2020
What's On: Jan-March 2020 has arrived! You can read it online here or pick up a printed copy in any dlr library from early January. We'll have lots of talks, workshops, exhibitions to keep you occupied during the first quarter of the year.
Your Library - Take a Closer Look
A new national advertising campaign is asking everyone to take a closer look at what their local authority library has to offer.
dlr Libraries and all public libraries around the country are joining in the campaign, which is running for the next four weeks across radio, cinema, TV on demand, digital and social.
The aim of the campaign is to encourage people of all ages to join and use the library.
Speaking about the campaign, a spokesperson said, “People who use the library regularly know how great it is. But there are those who haven’t been in a while or don’t visit very often.
“We want
dlr LexIcon Family Day 01/02/20
The first Family Day of 2020 will be held in dlr LexIcon on Saturday, 1 February! We'll be celebrating St Brigid’s Day, the arrival of spring and the Chinese New Year (2020 is the Year of the Rat!). We'll have yoga, face painting, Polish paper-craft, authors, illustrators, circus skills, music, St Brigid's crosses and lots more. Do join us!
No booking required. First come, first served for all events. See you there!
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2020
Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2020
26th – 29th March
All tickets now on sale!
The theme of this year’s Festival is The State of Us.
Through poetry, novels and non-fiction events, M2C 2020 brings you an entertaining programme of conversations, featuring some of our best-known and loved authors including all the way from the USA, Curtis Sittenfeld and Mary Cregan. James Shapiro joins us to explore Shakespeare in America and the Bard's enduring ability to shed light on human nature. We have rich pickings where novels are concerned with splendid new tales to explore from Anne Enright, Colum
Join us from your comfy couch as dlr Libraries remains open on-line for e-books, comics, magazines, music and even storytelling!
Join us from your comfy couch, or your leaba as dlr Libraries remains open on-line for e-books, comics, magazines, music and even storytelling! Simply go to libraries.dlrcoco.ie and select the Online Library to access your library in the sky, where the options are limitless! These include access to e-books, e-audiobooks, comics and graphic novels, magazines, newspapers, language courses, online courses and a large selection of podcasts.
With your library card and PIN number, you can download Overdrive and Borrowbox, for a large selection of e-audiobooks and e-books. Overdrive can also be
Tim Thurston's music choices for the week of March 30th
Renowned music lecturer Tim Thurston, a favourite with dlr Library members, shares with us his music choices in the hopes that music can provide some calming reassurance and will lift our spirits during this worrying time.
Tim Thurston's music choices for the week of April 6th
Renowned music lecturer Tim Thurston, a favourite with dlr Library members, shares with us his music choices in the hopes that music can provide some calming reassurance and will lift our spirits during this worrying time.
For well over 1000 years some of the most wonderful music has been composed for the services of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday through the intensity of Holy (Maundy) Thursday, Good Friday, the Easter Vigil and then Easter Sunday itself.
Tim Thurston's music choices for the week of April 13th
Renowned music lecturer Tim Thurston, a favourite with dlr Library members, shares with us his music choices in the hopes that music can provide some calming reassurance and will lift our spirits during this worrying time.
Tim Thurston's music choices for the week of April 20th
Renowned music lecturer Tim Thurston, a favourite with dlr Library members, shares with us his music choices in the hopes that music can provide some calming reassurance and will lift our spirits during this worrying time.
St Michael's Church: Gothic Revival splendour in Dún Laoghaire
In July 2020, it will be 55 years since St Michael's Church in Dún Laoghaire burned to the ground.
dlr Archivist in Residence David Gunning has used archival material and photograph albums, donated to dlr Local Studies in 2015, to curate an online exhibition telling the story of the destruction of this vast Gothic Revival church that once stood in the heart of Dún Laoghaire. Find out about the old church and its importance in the town until its destruction by fire in 1965.
dlr Local Studies also holds further archival material relating to the new St Michael's Church, completed in 1973 which