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Creative Brainwaves Week 2
A five-part series of talks and workshops exploring how engaging in creative arts can improve your brain health. These talks, led by Karen Meenan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), will feature neuroscientists, researchers and especially creative artists who work to improve brain health.
This week we hosted Professor Sven Vanneste who is a neuroscientist, Global Brain Health Institute facility member and Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin.
Olwyn Lyons, who is a choreographer, dance artist and community dance facilitator who has worked extensively with arts and older people and Dr Anusha Yasoda-Mohan is a perceptual neuroscientist and Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health with a special interest in hearing loss and tinnitus.
This event took place in dlr LexIcon on Wed 18 October 2023.
Louis de Bernières in conversation with Martina Devlin
Louis de Bernières, internationally acclaimed author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, for an unforgettable evening of book chat, laughter and music.
Louis, whose latest novel is Light over Liskeard, will be in conversation with author Martina Devlin. It's a book which takes a penetrating but lighthearted look at what really matters in life.
Louis is also a talented musician, and will duet with guitarist Seán Whelan.
Creative Brainwaves Week 3
A five-part series of talks and workshops exploring how engaging in creative arts can improve your brain health. These talks, led by Karen Meenan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), will feature neuroscientists, researchers and especially creative artists who work to improve brain health.
Week 3 hosted Neuropsychologist, Professor Ian Robertson. Poet, Ron Cary and Singer, Frances Elliott.
This event took place on Wednesday 25 October at the Studio, dlr LexIcon.
Creative Brainwaves Week 4 2023
A five-part series of talks and workshops exploring how engaging in creative arts can improve your brain health. These talks, led by Karen Meenan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), will feature neuroscientists, researchers and especially creative artists who work to improve brain health.
This week features Chief Operations Officer of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) Dr Anne-Maire Glynn, Poet Tony Curtis and illustrator Caroline Hyland.
This event took place on Wednesday 1 November, 2023 at the Studio, dlr LexIcon.
Release date:
10 Nov 2023
Creative Brainwaves Week 5 2023
A five-part series of talks and workshops exploring how engaging in creative arts can improve your brain health. These talks, led by Karen Meenan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), will feature neuroscientists, researchers and especially creative artists who work to improve brain health.
This event took place in the Gallery, dlr LexIcon on Wed 8 November, 2023
The final week in the series hosted Professor Agustin Ibánez, Director if the Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Roisin Hayes, music therapist and author Kevin Quaid and Dementia advocate Helena Quaid.
Readers Day 25 November 2023
Readers’ Day in The Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon Saturday 25 November
Programmed by writer Martina Devlin on behalf of dlr Libraries, it features a sparkling range of writers and thinkers.
History Girls
Emily Hourican and Hazel Gaynor talk about the remarkable true stories behind their bestselling books, both fast-paced novels full of love and danger.
Emily’s An Invitation to the Kennedys shines a light on socialite Kathleen Kennedy, sister to JFK, who married into the British aristocracy.
Hazel Gaynor’s The Last Lifeboat, shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, tells of a young teacher who escorts evacuees through dangerous waters in World War 2.
Chair: Zainab Boladale of RTÉ’s Nationwide
Against The Odds
She swims, not for glory, but to find the person inside willing to risk everything.
Endurance swimmer Nuala Moore, who has done a relay swim around the Irish coast and swum through ice in Siberia, discusses self-belief, overcoming adversity and realising your potential in her memoir Limitless.
In conversation with neuroscientist, clinical psychologist and author Prof Ian Robertson.
Good Friday Agreement Reboot
An exciting début reflecting on the Troubles in the 25th anniversary year of the Good Friday Agreement.
In his memoir Dirty Linen, Irish Times literary editor Martin Doyle, shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, looks back on a life spent under the long shadow of violence.
Chair: writer and academic Carlo Gébler
The Women Science Forgot
There’s no one like Prof Luke O’Neill for demystifying science. But in his new book To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science, he also explores overlooked women scientists and the important contribution made by them.
In conversation with Anne Cassin, journalist and broadcaster.
Desert Island Books
What do writers read? Martina Devlin hosts a lively conversation in which authors recommend their favourite books.
Panel guests: Martin Doyle, Emily Hourican and Carlo Gébler
Tales of the Otherworld – Anne Doyle In Conversation with Deirdre Sullivan Tues 31 October 2023
There’s another side to Anne Doyle – an affinity for the ghoulish, unexplainable and supernatural. Reincarnated as the mistress of macabre, the grande dame of the dark, Ireland’s beloved newsreader delights in presenting her fabulously frightful anthology of Irish ghost stories, which have excited, unnerved and, for better or worse, stayed with her over the years.
Halloween 2023, in celebration of the publication of Tales of the Otherworld: A Frightful Collection of Irish Ghost Stories, we joined Anne for a special evening in dlr LexIcon in conversation with writer Deirdre Sullivan.
Anne Doyle is a former journalist, broadcaster and newsreader – a face and voice known around the country for fronting RTÉ One’s main evening news. Originally from County Wexford, she now lives in Dublin with her partner. Photo Credit: Steve Langan.
Deirdre Sullivan is an award-winning writer and teacher from Galway. She has written eight acclaimed books for young adults, including Savage Her Reply (Little Island, 2020), Perfectly Preventable Deaths (Hot Key Books, 2019), and Tangleweed and Brine (Little Island, 2017). She was the recipient of the CBI Book of the Year Award in 2018 and 2021, and the An Post Teen and Young Adult Book of the Year in 2017 and 2020. Her debut short story collection for adults, I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay (2021), was published by Banshee Press. Her short story ‘Little Lives’ won the An Post Irish Book Award for Short Fiction in 2021, and has been optioned for film. Weave, a collaborative collection of short fiction and folklore, co-written by Deirdre and Oein DeBhairduin and illustrated by Yingge Xu was released in 2022 by Skein Press.