Keep warm, busy and connected over the coming months with some wonderful winter events from dlr Libraries!

All of these sessions will be delivered online via Zoom. Places are free but limited, so please email librarybookings@dlrcoco.ie to book your place.

Mindful Chair Yoga with Sally Dunne (YTI)

Wednesdays 4, 11, 18 & 25 November, 2.00-3.15pm. Max 12.

Sally takes the class through simple but thorough warm-up movements, adapted poses, a centring practice and breath-work and finishes each session with a guided relaxation.

Open to everyone, each session builds on the previous one, please be available

Cuairt agus Cultúr is a cultural programme run by dlr Libraries and Arts Office in Residential Care settings for older people in the County. This is the third year that Cuairt agus Cultúr has run, for 2020 our programme of events has moved online. We have over 40 online sessions scheduled for 2020, running in 5 nursing homes.

In addition to this dedicated programme we are delighted to offer a selection of recorded cultural activity sessions, that all nursing homes in the county can avail of during winter 2020. There are dancing, storytelling, singing, music and art recordinngs, so plenty for

Join dlr libraries online for some wonderful events connected to our new outdoor reading initiative dlr Scéal Trail. Have you discovered the lovely story walk project located outside dlr LexIcon yet? dlr Scéal Trail is an outdoor story reading project that can be enjoyed by young and old alike, and ideally together as a family unit. Read more about dlr Scéal Trail here.

For those lucky enough to be within the 5km restrictions you can visit dlr LexIcon. For those in other parts of the County the Scéal Trail will be on display up to Christmas and beyond.

Author of Geansaí Ottó Sadhbh Devlin has

Summer may seem like a long time ago but we hope to brighten up this winter's day with the smiles of this year's Summer Stars reading challenge prize-winners!

We are delighted to announce this year's prize-winners:

5 annual passes to Dublin Zoo:

• William Dong
• Erin Duggan
• Daisy Hooper
• Lily-Rose O'Dowd
• Elliot Wright

35 x €30 vouchers for local retailers - Easons, the Art & Hobby Shop, Nimble Fingers:

• Bhavya Arora
• Aisha Asarap Ali
• Dylan Beirne
• Sienna Blowers
• Mark Byrne
• Alice Dong
• Jude Dunne
• Aoife Ferry
• Annie Fitzgerald
• Vanisha Gajjala
• Isla Graham
• Indie Gray
• Cara Greevy
• Siddharth Sundar Karthikeyan
• Denise Liu
• Wenle Liu
• Ya

In 1821 the name Dunleary or Dun Leary was changed to Kingstown to mark King George IV’s visit to this bustling and rapidly developing town. In 1920 it was officially given the name Dún Laoghaire, referring back to the original Irish name for Dunleary. It was a deliberate political act during the War of Independence, an act of defiance against the old order in Ireland. In the years following the establishment of the Irish Free State, the use of Kingstown gradually diminished and was replaced in the consciousness of visitors and residents of the town by variants of the name – Dunleary, Dun

Take a well-deserved break from all the Christmas preparations, and join us online on the evening of Monday 21 December to celebrate the Winter Solstice with a free concert of stunning music and songs of joy, hope and light. The Winter Solstice falls on the shortest day of the year and is considered a turning point by many, a time of reflection but also of looking ahead. We wish to invite all residents of DLR, whether at home or abroad, to light a candle during this time to remember those we have lost in 2020, and to look ahead with hope to 2021.

Our musical ensemble will be led by cellist

Christmas Opening Hours 2021

Branch emails

Blackrock Library: blackrocklib@dlrcoco.ie

Cabinteely Library: cabinteelylib@dlrcoco.ie

Dalkey Library: dalkeylib@dlrcoco.ie

Deansgrange Library: deansgrangelib@dlrcoco.ie

Dundrum LIbrary: dundrumlib@dlrcoco.ie

dlr LexIcon: dlrlexiconlib@dlrcoco.ie

Shankill Library: shankilllib@dlrcoco.ie

Stillorgan LIbrary: stillorganlib@dlrcoco.ie

Library e-bulletin

Keep up to date with all the news and online events from dlr Libraries with our fortnightly e-bulletin.

Online book club

Join in our book club discussion on the last Wednesday of the month via Zoom. For more information on upcoming titles for

dlr LexIcon’s Local Studies Librarian Nigel Curtin has produced two new informative leaflets for local history enthusiasts. The first, Starter for Ten provides suggestions for a general introduction to the history of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and includes such classics as Peter Pearson’s Between the Mountains and the Sea and Christiaan Corlett’s Antiquities of old Rathdown. Several of the chosen titles include links to the online version of the book, perfect for Lockdown reading!

askabout…dlr gives a handy overview of material relating to this area on the AskAboutIreland website, aimed at both