Resumption of Library Services

Our Summer Stars prizewinners received their prizes in the garden of Dundrum Library last Saturday 25th September with An Cathaoirleach Lettie Mc Carthy on hand to present the prizes!

From dlr LexIcon: 1st Place:  Vanisha Gajjala

From Deansgrange Library: 2nd Place Leah Nic Mhathúna

and from Blackrock Library: 3rd Place Zach O'Rourke

Congratulations to our winners. We would like to remind all participants the prize winners were chosen at random from our prize draw boxes. EVERYONE who participated in Summer Reading 2021 are WINNERS and dlr Libraries salute every single one of you!

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October Bank Holiday 2021

All Right on the Night is an exhibition celebrating the work of Anne Makower and Christopher Fitz-Simon in theatre, opera, television and radio.

Anne and Christopher have lived in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area for 56 years, at Richmond Hill, Monkstown, for 46 years before they moved to a mews house in Dún Laoghaire in 2011.  The exhibition highlights their intriguing family history.  Christopher was born into an extraordinary Irish family with Ulster Presbyterians on one side, and on the other he is a great-great-great-grandson of Daniel O’Connell, ‘The Liberator’.  Not to be outdone, Anne

Stillorgan Library is being redeveloped. While the new library is being built, there is a pop-up Stillorgan Village Library upstairs in the Stillorgan Village shopping centre, which will deliver all core library services, including access to book stock and request services, some study spaces, a children’s section; with incorporated sensory elements into the  space, PC’s, printing/scanning, newspaper access, and friendly, helpful customer service!

Location of new library:  Unit J, Stillorgan village shopping centre, Dublin, A94PR90 (on the first floor, beside Peter Marks)

Opening hours:
Monday to

WonderFest is an online children’s book festival that aims to celebrate and promote Irish books. It was set up in 2020 and is run by a team of Irish children’s writers and illustrators. Wonderfest is supported by dlr Libraries.

WonderFest 2021 will take place from 17th to 21st November with a range of events for schools, families and a new strand called ‘WonderFest Inspires’ which will feature webinars and masterclasses for new and emerging children’s writers. After the success of last year’s online book festival, WonderFest is back, featuring a wealth of Irish talent, including Oliver Jeffers

Cuairt agus Cultúr is a cultural events programme run by dlr Libraries and dlr Arts Office in residential care settings for older people in the County. Running since 2018, the annual programme moved online during 2020 with many live, interactive as well as pre-recorded sessions delivered via Zoom. During summer 2021, we delivered a live programme to four care settings in the County. In December 2021, we are delighted to deliver festive wreaths to all residential care settings along with this festive programme of prerecorded events for all to enjoy, available throughout the month of December.

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