Dublin City Libraries & Archives

Test the old grey matter with the latest Kevin St Library Quiz. A three round, fully produced, quiz! [Created and Produced by Ciarán Hurley, with voice work by Christopher Nugent, for Dublin City Libraries. Effects from ZapSplat.com. Music from MixKit.com. All copyrights remain with the copyright holders, (c) 2021]

It's the latest Kevin St Library Quiz with your host, keeper of books, wearer of glasses, and the man with an answer for everything...Ciarán Hurley. A three round, fully produced, quiz! [Created and Produced by Ciarán Hurley, with voice work by Christopher Nugent, for Dublin City Libraries. Effects from ZapSplat.com. Music from MixKit.com. All copyrights remain with the copyright holders, (c) 2021...

This brand new Kevin Street Library Quiz brings us the magical stories of Harry Potter. 3 rounds of magic and mischief, and 1 of general knowledge. How well do you know the Weasleys? Can you tell the difference between Snape and Sirius? A three round, fully produced, quiz! [Created and Produced by Ciarán Hurley, with voice work by Christopher Nugent, for Dublin City Libraries. Effects from ZapSpla...

Pencils at the ready...it's a special James Bond edition of the Kevin St Library Quiz with your host, keeper of books, wearer of glasses, and the man with an answer for everything...Ciarán Hurley. A three round, fully produced, quiz! [Created and Produced by Ciarán Hurley, with voice work by Christopher Nugent, for Dublin City Libraries. Effects from ZapSplat.com. Music from MixKit.com. All copyri...

A three round, fully produced, quiz! [Created and Produced by Ciarán Hurley, with voice work by Christopher Nugent, for Dublin City Libraries. Effects from ZapSplat.com. Music from MixKit.com. All copyrights remain with the copyright holders, (c) 2021]

A three round, fully produced, quiz! [Created and Produced by Ciarán Hurley, with voice work by Christopher Nugent, for Dublin City Libraries. Effects from ZapSplat.com. Music from MixKit.com. All copyrights remain with the copyright holders, (c) 2020]

A three round, fully produced, quiz! [Created and Produced by Ciarán Hurley, with voice work by Christopher Nugent, for Dublin City Libraries. Effects from ZapSplat.com. Music from MixKit.com. All copyrights remain with the copyright holders, (c) 2020]

A three round, fully produced, quiz! [Created and Produced by Ciarán Hurley, with voice work by Christopher Nugent, for Dublin City Libraries. Effects from ZapSplat.com. Music from MixKit.com. All copyrights remain with the copyright holders, (c) 2020]

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode, Michelle Read reads the first three stories from The Long Gaze Back,The Purple Jar by Maria Edgeworth, Frank's Resolve by Charlotte Riddell and Poisson d'Aril by Somerville and Ross. Recorde...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode, Jessica Fahy, examines the choices made in the portrayal of significant women from Irish history by leading artists of the day, and how these images may still inform our opinions today. The...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. Join Nuala O’Connor and Lia Mills for an evening of discussion and readings. Nuala reads from Shut your mouth Helene and Lia reads from The Crossing before discussing flash fiction, historical fiction, the t...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode of the DCLA podcast, author Kathleen Hill gives an introduction to the life and work of Maeve Brennan, and how Ranelagh and New York helped inform the themes of exile and loss that run throug...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode, Jessica Fahy, explores the fascinating connection between Irish women artists and the advent of modernism in Ireland from the early 20th century to the 1970s. Like their writer contemporarie...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode of the DCLA podcast, authors Susan Stairs, Nuala O’Connor and Eimear Ryan read and discuss their short stories in The Long Gaze Back. Chaired by Sinéad Gleeson. Recorded at Cabra Library on 2...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode, art historian Jessica Fahy looks at portraits of Irish women authors featured in the Collections of Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane. Recorded at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane on 15 Ap...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode of the DCLA podcast, The Long Gaze Back authors Bernie McGill, Lia Mills and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne talk with Sinéad Gleeson about the anthology, their work, and being a female author in Ireland t...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode, Looking Forward, Gazing Back, writers June Caldwell and Sinéad Gleeson and theatre maker and campaigner Lian Bell of #WakingTheFeminists, movement discuss the practices, processes and contex...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode musician Eileen Gogan responds to stories from The Long Gaze Back and talks to the book’s editor Sinéad Gleeson. Eileen is accompanied by musician Ed McGinley. For rights reasons you will onl...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this the second of a two part episode, "Selected Shorts", we hear a discussion with authors Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, Lia Mills, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Anne Devlin, chaired by Catherine Dunne. If you haven’t...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In the first of a two part episode, "Selected Shorts", we hear actors Rose Henderson, Susie Lamb, Katie O'Kelly and Geraldine Plunkett perform readings from The Long Gaze Back – stories by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne,...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode writers and editors talk about anthologies and gender balance, and read from their very favourite short stories. Featuring Sinéad Gleeson, Alan Hayes, Rob Doyle, Eimear Ryan and Philip St Joh...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode Lisa Coen, Louise Kennedy and Kathleen McMahon discuss the forgotten writings of Charlotte Riddell, Norah Hoult and Mary Lavin, chaired by Sinéad Gleeson. With dramatised readings by actor Ge...

Listen back to Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, when we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. In this episode novelist and journalist Martina Devlin discusses the fascinating letters from Somerville and Ross n the early 1900s. Edith Somerville and her second cousin Violet Martin may have been Victori...

Welcome to the Dublin City Libraries and Archives podcast. Our new season looks back at Dublin: One City, One Book 2018, where we celebrated The Long Gaze Back, and the female voice in Irish literature. This wonderful anthology of 30 short stories is edited by Sinead Gleeson. While the events planned for this year’s Dublin: One City, One Book are postponed, we encourage you to enjoy this year's ch...

A talk by Cormac Moore looking at the history of this local Fairview business as it celebrates 100 years in business in 2017. Started by Elias Edge (Senior) who was born in 1872 the history of this neighborhood hardware shop is also the history of the area. Cormac brings that history to life as he discusses the floods, bombings, escaped lions and further floods which shaped Fairview over the last...