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Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Library service host a varied programme of events throughout the year, some of which we record, including a series of literary events called dlr Library Voices and an annual literary festival called Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival run in collaboration with dlr Arts Office. Our books podcast Need To Read is where authors, professionals and avid readers share their favourite books across their area of interest, expertise or obsession.

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Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Library service host a varied programme of events throughout the year, some of which we record, including a series of literary events called dlr Library Voices and an annual literary festival called Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival run in collaboration with dlr Arts Office. Our books podcast Need To Read is where authors, professionals and avid readers share their favourite books across their area of interest, expertise or obsession.

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English


Episodes
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One Dublin, One Book: The Role of the Sea in Contemporary Irish Literature

5/14/2024
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 Stop, a tumultuous relationship comes to blows on a beach in Donegal. The sea is a constant presence in Aingeala Flannery’s The Amusements, which explores the lives of the characters in the seaside village of Tramore, while in Snowflake; the One Dublin, One Book choice for 2024, Louise Nealon’s characters find solace on a fictional island of their own. In the gorgeous Studio space of dlr LexIcon, the writers will meet to discuss their relationship with the sea, their literary influences and more.

Duration:01:21:12

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Reading Eavan: A Tribute to the Poet Eavan Boland

5/14/2024
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 Boland) Susan Connolly - The Lost Land Evelyn Conlon - The Grape Pickers Katie Donovan - The Pomegranate Anne Fitzgerald - That the Science of Cartography is Limited Catherine Phil MacCarthy - The Journey Mary Milne - In Our Own Country Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - The Oral Tradition Mary O'Donnell - A Woman Painted on a Leaf Gerard Smyth - Unheroic Louise C Callaghan - Margin Joseph Woods - Quarantine Máiride Woods - Love Sarah Casey - Eviction Musicians: Róisín Ward Morrow & Breifne Holohan - The Wounded Hussar and Cailín as Contae Lú

Duration:01:21:12

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Ireland Reads Day 24 February 2024 - Rick O’Shea in conversation with Elaine Feeney and Paul Murray

3/23/2024
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 consequences of a single moment that can change the direction of life. Elaine Feeney is a writer from the west of Ireland. Her 2020 debut novel, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O'Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize, and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. Feeney has published three collections of poetry including The Radio Was Gospel and Rise, and her short story ‘Sojourn’ was included in The Art of The Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories, edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Feeney lectures at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Paul Murray is the author of An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void. An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and nominated for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies was shortlisted for the Costa Novel award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Mark and the Void won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2016. He lives in Dublin. Rick O’Shea is a broadcaster with RTE, currently weekdays on RTE Gold. He was previously a presenter on RTE2FM and of The Book Show on RTE Radio 1. He runs Ireland’s largest book club - The Rick O’Shea Book Club on Facebook, hosts and curates public author interviews at festivals, and chooses the Eason Must Reads lists 4 times a year. He is a member of the An Post Irish Book Awards voting academy. Currently, Rick is literary curator for the annual UCD Festival and a board member of Fighting Words NI in Belfast. He’s a former judge of the Costa Book Awards and Dalkey Literary Awards, and a previous curator of the Waterford Writers Weekend.

Duration:01:01:36

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Ireland Reads Day 24 Feb 2024 - Miriam Mulcahy in conversation with Vincent Hyland and Maureen McCoy

3/19/2024
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 Year Explorer’s Guide, Stories and Memoir by wildlife film maker, naturalist and outdoor educationalist Vincent Hyland is a visual natural history of the Skellig Coast, and an invaluable record of the area’s changing biodiversity. The forthcoming The Complete Book of Wild Swimming in Ireland by Maureen McCoy, complete with spectacular photos by Paul McCambridge, is a comprehensive guide to discovering dramatic and lesser known locations around Ireland for swimming, diving and snorkelling. Maureen McCoy, from Hillsborough, County Down, is an award-winning open-water swimmer, having swum in the sea, loughs and rock pools with her brothers since she was a small child. In 2009, just after her fortieth birthday, she fulfilled her childhood ambition to swim the English Channel. Maureen enjoys outdoor swimming throughout the year and always keeps a swimsuit in her car - just in case. Miriam Mulcahy is a writer and journalist living in Kildare. She contributes to the Irish Times, writing for the property section every week, and last year curated the Surrealist Gallery at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Visual Arts. This is My Sea, published by Eriu/Bonnier in August 2023 was an Irish no 1 bestseller, was nominated for an An Post Irish Book Award and was one of the Irish Times books of the year for 2023. This is My Sea comes out in paperback this May. Vincent Hyland is a multi-award-winning underwater filmmaker, publisher and digital broadcaster. He was an early adopter of digital technology, establishing Ireland's first digital design bureau in the mid-1980s. He spent ten years working in technology at Microsoft. He established and published Ireland's first Wildlife magazine "Wild Ireland", has filmed the underwater marine life of Galapagos and Antarctica and worked for the BBC's Natural History Unit. He has appeared on BBC, RTE, TV3 and TG4 television including directing and narrating the recent series "Call of the Wild" for RTE One television. His practice combines music, art and outdoor education. His recent discoveries include night-time fluorescence in underwater temperate marine life. He has just published his life's work "Wild Derrynane" - a Visual Natural History of the Greater Skellig Coast. He is nominated in the 'Eco Individual of the Year' category in the Outsider.ie annual awards that will take place in February 2024. He lives with his partner Mo and son, Neil in Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry.

Duration:01:02:53

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SEA MOTHER – on milk and tears and ice

3/4/2024
Alice Kinsella and Easkey Britton in conversation with Kerri ní Dochartaigh on climate emergency, care-giving and the sea as the original mother.

Duration:00:50:36

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Tales of the Otherworld – Anne Doyle In Conversation with Deirdre Sullivan

3/4/2024
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.

Duration:01:17:29

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History Girls Emily Hourican and Hazel Gaynor with Zainab Boladale

11/28/2023
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.

Duration:00:46:04

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Against the Odds Nuala Moore with Prof Ian Robertson

11/28/2023
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.

Duration:00:49:02

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Good Friday Agreement Reboot Martin Doyle with Carlo Gébler

11/28/2023
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.

Duration:00:57:43

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Desert island Books Martina Devlin with Martin Doyle, Emily Hourican and Carlo Gébler

11/28/2023
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.

Duration:00:51:10

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The Women Science Forgot Prof Luke O'Neill with Anne Cassin

11/28/2023
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.

Duration:00:54:43

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Creative Brainwaves Week 5 2023

11/15/2023
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 therapist and author Kevin Quaid and Dementia advocate Helena Quaid.

Duration:01:41:37

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Creative Brainwaves, Week 4 2023

11/10/2023
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 Hyland. This event took place on Wednesday 1 November, 2023 at the Studio, dlr LexIcon. Release date: 10 Nov 2023

Duration:01:40:58

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Creative Brainwaves Week 3 2023

11/6/2023
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.

Duration:01:08:32

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Louis de Bernières in conversation with Martina Devlin

10/24/2023
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.

Duration:01:05:33

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Creative Brainwaves Week 2 2023

10/24/2023
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 Trinity College Dublin. Olwyn Lyons, who is a choreographer, dance artist and community dance facilitator who has worked extensively with arts and older people and Dr Anusha Yasoda-Mohan is a perceptual neuroscientist and Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health with a special interest in hearing loss and tinnitus.

Duration:01:47:38

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Creative Brainwaves Week 1 Part 1

10/18/2023
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, and musician, composer and choral conductor Norah Constance Walsh. This event took place on Wednesday October 11th at the Studio, dlr LexIcon.

Duration:00:58:56

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Creative Brainwaves Week 1 Part 2

10/18/2023
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, and musician, composer and choral conductor Norah Constance Walsh. This event took place on Monday October 11th at the Studio, drLexIcon.

Duration:00:36:38

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Lexicon St Brigids Day: Wild Women

2/27/2023
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 discussion chaired by broadcaster Flor MacCarthy featuring RTÉ’s Zainab Boladale, Senator Eileen Flynn, bestselling writer Sarah Webb and Irish Times columnist Justine McCarthy. - Extract from Call Me Madame, a black comedy about Countess Markievicz by Martina Devlin, read by acclaimed actor and scriptwriter Lise-Ann McLaughlin. The two are in conversation afterwards. Photo credit: Ger Holland

Duration:01:48:50

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Ulysses 101 In The Lexicon

2/27/2023
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".

Duration:01:57:46