The CHERISH Project is delighted to announce the launch of The CHERISH Project: Climate Change and Coastal Heritage exhibition which took place outside at dlr LexIcon Library, Moran Park on 18 August 2021 at 6.30pm. The exhibition is on display for the first time in Ireland at the dlr LexIcon Library, Dún Laoghaire and will continue until 26 September 2021.

This guest blog post has been written by Mary Burnham who facilitates dlr Libraries Online Book club as well as chooses interesting books that tend to generate great discussions.  Follow Mary on FB for more wonderful book recommendations here. 

We have a great line-up of authors and illustrators who will be ‘zooming’ in to dlr Libraries for Children’s Book Festival this October! 

For families, there will be exclusive videos from Alan Nolan, Oisín McGann, Paddy Donnelly, Shane Hegarty & Sheena Dempsey available on the dlr YouTube channel throughout the Festival month.

Keep an eye on our website and our social media for information about staff storytimes, arts and crafts workshops and other events celebrating CBF in October.

Resumption of Library Services

Resumption of Library Services

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