Dublin City Libraries & Archives

Listen back to Sheela Keane, from our Central Library, discussing 'Knowing Dublin - Know Your City Council' on NearFM's Northside Today programme on 12 October 2017: http://nearfm.ie/podcast/?p=23766

Many thanks to NearFM for permission to upload and share this recording.

Knowing Dublin – Know Your City Council is a simple introduction to the work of Dublin City Council and the role of the elected representatives in the life of the city. It is a nuts and bolts piece, told in plain language, designed to inform those with little or no knowledge of the many services that the Council provides. As such, it is relevant for young adults, new citizens, immigrants, and anyone who wants to know more about how Dublin City functions. It is also a useful tool for teachers as a basis for class lessons.

Download a copy of the guide from http://www.dublincity.ie/story/knowing-dublin-%E2%80%93-know-your-city-council

The guide describes in detail the work of the local government elected representatives. There is a strong emphasis on voting: how to vote and why it is so important that citizens use their vote.

Listen back to local Historian and well-known author Bernard Neary from Cabra West as he brings us on an interesting tour of Dublin 7, including the people, places and buildings of interest. Find out where the writer Iris Murdoch was born, where the poet Austin Clarke grew up and where Matt Kiernan made his Uilleann Pipes. Discover interesting facts about local landmarks including the Royal Canal, Broadstone Railway Station and The Four Courts. Reminisce about skipping and conkers games played by children and the picturehouses that dotted the area.

Bernard’s new book Dublin 7, published by The Lilliput Press, is available to borrow from your local library and at bookshops.

Recorded at Cabra Library Wednesday 23 August 2017 as part of Heritage Week.

This talk by Peter Clarke covers 225 years of the Royal Canal's history, from its origins in 1789 through all its phases to the present day. The talk traces the planning and construction of the canal and references many places, people and events of historical interest along the course of Dublin’s beloved Royal Canal.

Recorded at Phibsboro Library on Monday 21 August 2017 as part of Heritage Week 2017.

Peter Costello is an author and editor, described by the American critic Robert Hogan in the Greenwood Dictionary of Irish Literature as “a contemporary embodiment” of the “tradition in Irish literature of the independent scholar, who has an erudition embarrassing to the professional academic”. He is one of Ireland’s leading Joyceans and has written, edited or contributed to some thirty-seven books and his interests are wide-ranging – from Irish cultural, political and business histories to research on the Piltdown Man hoax and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He has published a book on Dublin Churches, and a new edition, with an introduction, of Chesterton's Christendom in Dublin, on the Eucharistic Congress of 1932.

Part of the Living in Victorian Dublin seminar which explored a wide range of contrasting topics relating to this influential era in Dublin’s history including architecture, tenements, bourgeoisie homes, and homelessness.

Recorded at Council Chamber, City Hall on 26 August 2017, as part of Living in Victorian Dublin, Dublin City Archive’s Heritage Week Seminar.

Elizabeth Smith is an authority on Belgrave Square in Rathmines and she has spoken on this topic to many local history societies in Dublin. She also completed a Certificate in Local History at Dublin City Library & Archive when she was the inaugural winner of the Lord Mayor’s Prize for best dissertation. She is founder of the Local History Alumni Group, also at DCLA, and this has gone from strength to strength.

Part of the Living in Victorian Dublin seminar which explored a wide range of contrasting topics relating to this influential era in Dublin’s history including architecture, tenements, bourgeoisie homes, and homelessness.

Dr Jacinta Prunty is Head of the History Department at Maynooth University. She has written extensively on the Dublin Slums and her book of that title is a work which has been welcomed by geographers and historians alike. It gives a comprehensive and insightful account and analysis of Dublin’s inexorable transformation into a slum city; it provides a template for researchers in Irish urban history; and it awakens social historians to what they have to learn from the historical geographers.

Part of the Living in Victorian Dublin seminar which explored a wide range of contrasting topics relating to this influential era in Dublin’s history including architecture, tenements, bourgeoisie homes, and homelessness.

Recorded at Council Chamber, City Hall on 26 August 2017, as part of Living in Victorian Dublin, Dublin City Archive’s Heritage Week Seminar.

This talk by Turlough O’Donnell marked the 800th anniversary of the connections between Dublin and the Camino de Santiago which was celebrated in 2016.

Turlough O’Donnell is chair of the Camino Society Ireland CLG and has walked many parts of the Camino.

Recorded at Cabra Library on 6 October 2016 as part of Dublin Festival of History.

Photo: El Camino de Santiago en Logroño (La Rioja - España) by Juanje 2712 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camino_de_Santiago_en_Logro%C3%B1o.JPG

Listen back to bestselling author Anthony Horowitz in conversation with author and RTÉ correspondent Sinéad Crowley, recorded in Dublin City Library & Archive, Pearse St on Thursday 14 September 2017 at 7pm. He read from, and talked about his latest novel The Word is Murder, which is the first of a brilliant new detective series set in London featuring Detective Michael Hawthorne.

This event was organised by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature in partnership with Penguin Random House Ireland.

Recorded at Dublin City Library & Archive on 14 September 2017.

Michael Barry author of 'Victorian Dublin Revealed' gives an overview of Dublin city, demonstrating how many buildings, both public and domestic, have remained from the Victorian era and introducing them through his own splendid photography.

Part of the Living in Victorian Dublin seminar which explored a wide range of contrasting topics relating to this influential era in Dublin’s history including architecture, tenements, bourgeoisie homes, and homelessness.

Recorded at Council Chamber, City Hall on 26 August 2017, as part of Living in Victorian Dublin, Dublin City Archive’s Heritage Week Seminar.

In 1922-23, over 200 people were killed and 3,500 imprisoned in Dublin as rival pro and anti-Treaty factions of the nationalist movement came to blows. John Dorney will talk about urban guerrilla warfare, prisons, executions and assassination during this tumultuous period.

Image: Ferguson Raid, from ‘Ireland’s Tragic Week’ a special supplement to the Irish Life newspaper, published on 14 July 1922

John Dorney is a historian and editor of the Irish Story website. His forthcoming book on the Irish Civil War in Dublin will be published by Merrion Press in 2017.

Recorded at Inchicore Library on 5 October 2016.