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Dublin City Libraries & Archives

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Dublin City Libraries & Archives episodes

  • Bernadette Boland reading Farewell to Chico
    Bernadette Boland of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group reads from her work. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    3 min
  • Bernadette O'Reilly reading her poems Evoke, Life On The Shelf, Dreamwork and Unsung Hero
    Bernadette O’Reilly of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group reads some of her poems. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    3 min
  • He Hanged Himself Today (poem written for world suicide day) by Marie Partridge
    Marie Partridge of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group reads one of her poems. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    2 min
  • Mary Oyediran reading her poem story The Park Bench I Need Transformat
    Mary Oyediran of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group reads one of her poems. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    5 min
  • Mary McCall and Nancy Matchton Owens reading an extract from their play 'How Safe are Your Secrets?'
    Mary McCall and Nancy Matchton Owens of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group read an excerpt from a play they co-wrote. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    7 min
  • Nancy Matchton Owens reading her poem 'More Than Love'
    Nancy Matchton Owens of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group reads one of her poems. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    2 min
  • Seán Ó Flóinn reading The Royal Book Club
    Seán Ó Flóinn of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group reads from his work. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    5 min
  • Sean O'Donoghue reading his poems My First Memory and When Will They go?
    Seán O'Donoghue of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group reads some of his poems. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    4 min
  • Trish Kennedy reading her poems Sleep, Lie to Me and Dad
    Trish Kennedy of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group reads some of her poems. Recorded in Ballymun Library in spring 2014.
    Dublin is a city that is famed for its poets, writers and storytellers - it is a city of literature after all. In Dublin City Public Libraries members of writers' groups meet informally to talk about their writings, improve their skills, and to offer encouragement to one another, facilitated by Orla Ní hAonigh.
    Listen to some short stories and poems written by members of Ballymun Library Creative Writing Group. The group meet once a week for further details Tel. 01 842 1890 or email [email protected] for further details
    3 min
  • Andrew Carnegie, The Library Man
    Marking the centenary of Rathmines Library, local historian Brendan Langley talks about the fascinating life of the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
    Brendan Langley is a local historian with a long association with the Rathmines, Ranelagh and Rathgar Historical Society.
    Recorded in front of a live audience in Rathmines Library on 15 October 2013.
    54 min

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