Ireland Reads Day Venue: Pearse Street Library Date: Monday 24th February 2025 Time: 6:45 PM to 7:45 PM Celebrate Ireland Reads Day with our special pop-up online book club! For those of you who can’t get to our regular book clubs in Pearse Street Library,
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We are delighted to share details of our upcoming lunchtime talks in Pembroke Library. These take place at 1pm. Please note, booking is required and is made directly with Pembroke Library: pembrokelibrary@dublincity.ie / (01) 222 8450 Wednesday 12th February:
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Witch Sight is set in the dark heart of contemporary Dublin. The book is a dark fantasy drawing together the myths and supernatural inheritances of the Celtic nations, which are still alive in this modern metropolis.
The universe of Witch Sight is based on our Borderland Mythology.
Wingspan by Eithne Cavanagh, with photographs by Colum Clarke, published by Orla Kelly Publishing (2024). A hybrid of poetry and photos of an ornithological nature. This collection contains 27 beautiful poems with accompanying superb photographs
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At the end of November Ringsend’s Days, Our Poets in Bloom: Telling a 1000 years of Ringsend History was launched in the Ringsend Irishtown Community Centre on Thorncastle Street. The book, produced by the Ringsend and District
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Having a receptive eye to one’s immediate surroundings, and then being able to translate this into words while treating the subject with keen sensitivity is a rare gift, but one which poet Mary Guckian possesses. Originally from Kiltoghert in Leitrim, Mary has travelled the world,
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Supported by the Arts Council and DLR Libraries, Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival, returns to Dublin for its 7th year with a host of not to be missed events, talks, masterclasses and workshops taking place in Dun Laoghaire’s landmark DLR Lexicon
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The notion of presence, synonymous with intimations of eternity is what first struck me when reading Rachael Stanley’s debut offering, Back to Infinity. Thematically expansive, juxtaposing the mundane with the surreal, the ephemeral with the eternal; at times reminiscent of a musical score
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After the success of his first book The Republic of Reality, Irish Author Adam Rowan’s second outing The Crystalline Crucible has just been published. The Crystalline Crucible revolves around the main character, Maxwell Jacobs, a neurodivergent 21-year-old with a passion for
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Many people will look fondly at the works of James Plunkett (born James Kelly) and especially his 1969 classic novel Strumpet City, a story set during the lock-out (between 1913 -14). It is on par with James Joyce’s Dubliners or Brendan Behan’s play The Quare Fellow
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