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Údar, foilsitheoir agus ceoltóir iomráiteach Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin ag comhrá leis an craoltóir agus scríbhneoir ildánach Cathal Póirtéir, faoina chéad úrscéal ‘Madame Lazare’.

Author, musician and publisher Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin in conversation with writer and broadcaster, Cathal Poirtéir about his award winning first novel ‘Madame Lazare’.

An art exhibition inspired by modern Czech history and major Czech personalities. Illustrations by students from Ladislav Sutnar Faculty, West Bohemian University, Pilsen.

Exhibition is open from 18th May to 30th June 2022, at level 3, dlr LexIcon.

Recording from Friday 8 April; a bumper book launch celebrating the release of 5 new exciting titles from Arlen House.

It is a celebration of over 150 years of women’s writing, featuring important titles of classic literature that will now be made available to a new generation.

We heard from Caitríona Clear (on Kate O’Brien and Annie Smithson), Catherine Dunne (A Name for Himself), Marian Thérèse Keyes (on Anna Maria Hall), Lia Mills (Another Alice) and Arlen House publisher Alan Hayes.

Recording of the talk Peter Pearson gave in the Studio, dlr LexIcon on the 23rd of March 2022.

Peter Pearson is well-known as a passionate advocate for the conservation of Ireland's architectural heritage and also as a historian and highly regarded painter. He is the author of numerous publications including Dún Laoghaire/Kingstown and Between the Mountains and the Sea. His new book The Granite Coast (O'Brien Press) will be published later in 2022. This exhibition is a celebration of his wide-ranging work.

dlr Libraries were delighted to welcome Ola Majekodunmi and Jessica Traynor for a discussion on books, poems and music that inspire them.

Please note that the discussion contains adult themes.

If you are interested in borrowing any of the books mentioned, please visit the national library catalogue here: https://bit.ly/35Dt78m

Books and Poems Mentioned are:

"Questions for Ada" by Ijeoma Umebinyuo

"Insistence" by Ailbhe Darcy

"Fill Arís" Poem by Seán Ó Ríordáin

"The Right To Sex" by Amia Srinivasan

"It Is Obscene" Essay by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Night Bitch" by Rachel Yoder

"Meascra Ón Aer" by Marcus Mac Conghail

"As You Were" by Elaine Feeney

"Snow Party" Poem by Derek Mahon

"We Live Happily During The War" Poem by Ilya Kaminsky

Poet- Rupi Kaur

Music: Denise Chaila- EP "Duel Citizenship

Podcast Ulysses Tales From The Tower 1 Feb 2022 by dlr Staff

Some Light in Darkness

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We are thrilled to bring you a series of four of Tim’s very special Monday Morning Music sessions. He will introduce music which he has enjoyed during Lockdown – and some Christmas music too. These sessions took place in the Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon. If you would like further suggestions by Tim, see last year’s Darkness to Light booklet featuring Tim’s recommendations: https://libraries.dlrcoco.ie/events-and-news/library-news/darkness-light-recommended-listening-tim-thurston

dlr Libraries are enormously grateful for the many CD donations Tim Thurston has given to dlr LexIcon for all to borrow and enjoy.

Uploaded at dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire on Thursday 16 December 2021.

Some Light in Darkness

Monday Morning Music with Tim Thurston 13 Dec 2021

Anon. Puer Natus Est. Theatre of Voices – Paul Hillier. Harmonia Mundi HMU807565.

John Sheppard. Verbum Caro. Stile Antico. Harmonia Mundi HMU807517.

Giovanni Gabrieli. Quem Vidistis Pastores. Gabrieli Consort and Players – Paul McCreesh. DARCHIV 471333=2.

Johann Sebastian Bach. Jauchzet – from Christmas Oratorio. Hanover Boys Choir – Jorg Breiding. Rondeau ROP5003 DVD.

Francis Poulenc. 4 Motets Pour Le Temps de Noel. Rias Kammerchor – Hans-Christoph Rademann. Harmonia Mundi HMC902170.

Anon - Trad. In Dulci Jubilo, Coventry Carol, Gaudete. The Gesualdo Six – Owain Park. Signum Hyperion CDA68299.

Harold Darke, Elizabeth Poston. In the Bleak Midwinter, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree. Merton College, Oxford – Benjamin Nicholas. Delphian DCD34192.

If anyone has any questions or comments, Tim will be delighted to respond from [email protected]

A Gloria listener has persuaded RTÉ to make available many of past Gloria programmes. They may be found at https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/gloria/episodes/?page=1

We are thrilled to bring you a series of four of Tim’s very special Monday Morning Music sessions. He will introduce music which he has enjoyed during Lockdown – and some Christmas music too. These sessions took place in the Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon. If you would like further suggestions by Tim, see last year’s Darkness to Light booklet featuring Tim’s recommendations: https://libraries.dlrcoco.ie/events-and-news/library-news/darkness-light-recommended-listening-tim-thurston

dlr Libraries are enormously grateful for the many CD donations Tim Thurston has given to dlr LexIcon for all to borrow and enjoy.

Some Light in Darkness

Monday Morning Music with Tim Thurston 6 Dec 2021

• Benjamin Britten. From Ceremony of Carols. Westminster Cathedral, David Hill. Hyperion CDA66220.

• John Taverner. Dum Transisset Sabbatum 1. Tallis Scholars – Peter Phillips. Gimmell CDGIM046.

• Anthony Holborne. 2 Works for Viols, Sweet was the Song. Fretwork, Helen Charlston - Soprano. Signum SIGCD680.

• Henry Purcell. Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary. Collegium Vocale Gent – Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi HMG508463.

• Johann Sebastian Bach. From Christ Lag in Todes Banden – BWV4. Taverner Consort and Players – Andrew Parrott. Virgin 545011-2.

• Igor Stravinsky. Fête Populaire from Petrouchka - 1913. Les Siècles – François-Xavier Roth. Musicales Actes Sud ASM15.

• Berlioz, Chillcot. The Shepherd’s Farewell, The Shepherd’s Carol. King’s College, Cambridge – Stephen Cleobury. BBC Opus Arte OA815D DVD.

If anyone has any questions or comments, Tim will be delighted to respond from [email protected] A Gloria listener has persuaded RTÉ to make available many of past Gloria programmes. They may be found at https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/gloria/episodes/?page=1

These 4 sessions by Tim Thurston will be available on podcast at https://libraries.dlrcoco.ie/online-library/library-podcast by mid December 2021.

In association with the exhibition All Right on the Night, Anne Makower gave a talk on the Makower family and how they came from Poland to set up a textiles business in London in the mid 19th century. Anne’s grandfather Stanley Makower was a writer/journalist and Anne discussed the correspondence between Stanley and Oscar Wilde who was highly enthusiastic about Stanley’s most celebrated novel, The Mirror of Music.

This talk took place as part of a series of events coinciding with the exhibition All Right on the Night celebrating the work of Anne Makower and Christopher Fitz-Simon in theatre, opera, television and radio. The exhibition can be enjoyed online at https://libraries.dlrcoco.ie/events-and-news/online-exhibition#all-right-on-the-night

Uploaded at dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire on Thursday 2 December 2021.

We are pleased to present a talk by Christopher Fitz-Simon on Jane Francesca Elgee, later Mrs William Wilde, later still Lady Wilde, who was born in Wexford 200 years ago. A poet who wrote inflammatory patriotic verse for The Nation newspaper, she was better known in the world of literature during their lifetimes than her now much more celebrated son – upon whose life she cast such an extraordinary spell.

This talk took place as part of a series of events coinciding with the exhibition All Right on the Night celebrating the work of Anne Makower and Christopher Fitz-Simon in theatre, opera, television and radio. The exhibition can be enjoyed online at https://libraries.dlrcoco.ie/events-and-news/online-exhibition#all-right-on-the-night

Uploaded at dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire on Thursday 2 December 2021.