dlr Libraries were pleased to partner with Dublin Book Festival and host three events showcasing some of the best writing Ireland has to offer. Join Michael Longley in conversation with journalist and writer Olivia O’Leary. Michael Longley’s Ash Keys: New Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape) looks back on his extraordinary career, showing how his themes, genres and forms have evolved and interlaced since the 1960s. Love, violence, the natural world, art, psychodrama, family, the Great War, the Homeric...
Nov 20, 2024•51 min
dlr Libraries were pleased to partner with Dublin Book Festival and host three events showcasing some of the best writing Ireland has to offer. Join Máiría Cahill in conversation with journalist and writer Olivia O'Leary. Rough Beast (Apollo) is Máiría Cahill‘s harrowing story, told here for the first time in full detail and with unsparing honesty. It is a story of unimaginable trauma and political corruption, but above all it is the story of one young woman’s defiance of those wielding power to...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 6 min
dlr Libraries were pleased to partner with Dublin Book Festival and host three events showcasing some of the best writing Ireland has to offer. Join Sinéad Gleeson in conversation with arts journalist Paula Shields. From acclaimed author Sinéad Gleeson comes Hagstone (4th Estate) a haunting and atmospheric fiction debut. Exploring themes of art, landscape, folklore and the feminine, Hagstone takes in the darker side of human nature, and the mysteries of faith and the natural world. Artist Nell l...
Nov 20, 2024•55 min
Creative Brainwaves returned for a three-part series of talks and workshops, exploring how our engagement in various creative arts can benefit our brain health. The sessions included brain health specialists, therapists, people living with and working with those affected by acquired brain injury, and a range of artists, musicians and writers. The series was curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity Colleg...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 34 min
Creative Brainwaves returned for a three-part series of talks and workshops, exploring how our engagement in various creative arts can benefit our brain health. The sessions included brain health specialists, therapists, people living with and working with those affected by acquired brain injury, and a range of artists, musicians and writers. The series was curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity Colleg...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Creative Brainwaves returned for a three-part series of talks and workshops, exploring how our engagement in various creative arts can benefit our brain health. The sessions included brain health specialists, therapists, people living with and working with those affected by acquired brain injury, and a range of artists, musicians and writers. The series was curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity Colleg...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 54 min
On September 26 2024, dlr LexIcon welcomed legendary and bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson to talk about her first adult book, Think Again, in conversation with Aoife Barry.
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 22 min
On Saturday 28 September 2024, to mark what would have been the 80th birthday of renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland, dlr Libraries were delighted to host this event to celebrate the life and work of the much-loved and much-missed poet who died in April 2020. The event featured the poetry of Eavan, readings by her friends and family plus some music. Readers included members of the WEB women's writing group, established following a series of workshops for women writers facilitated by Eavan for publi...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 30 min
On Saturday 21 September 2024, to mark what would have been the 80th birthday of renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland, dlr Libraries were delighted to host this event that featured her poetry, readings by her friends and family plus some music. The late poet lived in Dundrum in South County Dublin, worked a lot with writing groups in the area, and was prominent in the cultural life of the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, in addition to being feted nationally and internationally.
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 55 min
Part of the One Dublin, One Book programme of events for 2024, join Louise Nealon in conversation with Sheila Armstrong, Olivia Fitzsimons and Aingeala Flannery as they meet to discuss the role of the sea in their lives, both on and off the page. At the beginning of Sheila Armstrong’s Fallen Animals, a body washes up on the Northwest coast of Ireland, and the search for his identity causes a ripple effect in the lives of people he would never meet. In Olivia Fitzsimon’s The Quiet Whispers Never ...
May 14, 2024•1 hr 21 min
As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2024, we came together to celebrate the life and work of poet Eavan Boland, who died in 2020. A selection of invited writers read their favourite of Eavan's poems, and shared a memory of their connection with her. There was also music, contributing to what was a friendly and inclusive evening to commemorate the beloved poet. MC: Evelyn Conlon Readers: David Butler - Mise Éire Mary Rose Callaghan - An Irish Childhood in England:1951 Ella Barry - Legends (for Eavan Bo...
May 14, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Join broadcaster Rick O’Shea in conversation with authors Elaine Feeney and Paul Murray. Nominated for An Post Irish Book Awards – Book of the Year, How to Build a Boat is the beautiful novel about a young boy whose mission transforms the lives of his teachers and brings together a community. Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards – Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Nero Prize, The Bee Sting explores the failures and vulnerability of the Barnes family and the consequ...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 2 min
The benefits of the natural world for our mental and physical wellbeing have long been recognised, but perhaps never more so than in the last few years. Writer, journalist and author of This is My Sea, Miriam Mulcahy, is joined in conversation by two nature experts as they explore how our desire to reconnect with nature has resulted in a surge in popularity of activities in the outdoors, as well as a drive towards sustainability and a commitment to ‘leave no trace.’ Wild Derrynane: A Wildlife Ye...
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Alice Kinsella and Easkey Britton in conversation with Kerri ní Dochartaigh on climate emergency, care-giving and the sea as the original mother.
Mar 04, 2024•51 min
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.
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 17 min
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.
Nov 29, 2023•55 min
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.
Nov 29, 2023•51 min
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.
Nov 29, 2023•58 min
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.
Nov 29, 2023•49 min
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.
Nov 29, 2023•46 min
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. The final week in the series hosted Professor Agustin Ibánez, Director if the Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Roisin Hayes, music th...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 42 min
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...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 41 min
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.
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 9 min
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.
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 6 min
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 Trin...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 48 min
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 featuring site director of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) Professor Brian Lawlor, writer, musician and performer Mike Hanrahan, an...
Oct 19, 2023•37 min
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 featuring site director of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) Professor Brian Lawlor, writer, musician and performer Mike Hanrahan, an...
Oct 19, 2023•59 min
WILD WOMEN - A St Brigid’s Day Celebration dlr LexIcon 31st January 2023 Recording of an event held to celebrate St Brigid's day 2023 in dlr LexIcon library. Learn about some of the unconventional and unruly women who followed in Brigid’s footsteps and broke the mould. Meet the women today inspired by them – and her. - Activist Ailbhe Smyth talks about Brigid/St Brigid – pagan goddess and Christian saint. She discusses this fearless, powerful woman who was healer, poet and warrior. - Panel discu...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Ulysses 101 dlr LexIcon 2nd February 2023 In collaboration with www.joycetower.ie Recording of an event which was held by the James Joyce Tower and Museum to celebrate James Joyce birthday and the 101st anniversay of the publication of Ulysses. Professor Sam Slote shared a presentation titled "Ulysses at 101". This was followed by a recital from Morgan Cooke on James Joyce's piano, and then Karen Kelly read an extract from "Sirens".
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 58 min
This talk for parents of children with ADHD and adults with ADHD alike will explain what is ADHD and will also explode some of the popular myths and misconceptions around this condition, which affects 5% of the population. Think of it as a crash course in the condition! Ken Kilbride is the CEO at ADHD Ireland. Ken has over 25 years experience in senior management positions in a wide range of both very large and very small not for profit organisations in Ireland. His role with ADHD Ireland is to ...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 21 min
