The Lord Mayor of Dublin Emma Blain was delighted to unveil the Plaque dedicated to Poet, Journalist and Gaelic Revivalist William Rooney 🎉

Newly elected President of Library Association Lorna Dodd presented broadcaster Rick O’Shea Rick O'Shea (no longer here) with the 2025 President’s Medal. A wonderful recipient who has done so much for reading in Ireland!

I just arrived in Dublin for the Dublin Literary Award and who should I meet when out for a walk? Oscar rakishly perched on a rock. I love this city and I’m so excited for tomorrow’s #DublinLitAward announcement! 📚

My favourite programme is back on BBC Radio 4, but I’m disappointed not to hear adele geras on Round Britain Quiz. I’m sure Jenny will be great, but Adele and Stuart Maconie were a great team. Still, if I was in the UK I’d happily pay the licence fee for RBQ and In our Time!

A plaque unveiling for accomplished #Artist Jonathan Wade this morning on this home on #walkinstown Avenue Dublin 12. He died tragically young at 31 years in a motorcycle accident. He was driving slowly on a small bike we heard this morning from his friend writer and novelist

#RahenyLibrary took in this book recently, and it's 48 years overdue! Better late than never 😁 Just imagine the look on the librarian's face! #longoverdue #AWOL

Interested in the history of Dublin? Here’s a small project I’ve been working on - streetsbroadandnarrow.ie - that’s just gone live. There’s an awful lot more streets to cover, so it’ll keep me busy for a few years :-) Happy to hear any suggestions for improvement.

Looks like a trip to Cork is on the (calling) cards!

Paul is obviously wrong about Monaghan being the best county in Ireland, but his website is a great resource for the history of our capital city. #UptheDubs

#OnThisDay 30 years ago, Irish guitar legend Rory Gallagher died, aged 47. After the funeral, Niall Stokes took a very personal journey back through the music and memories of a friendship with a man he was proud to have known – re-published in full here: hotpress.com/music/remember…

OPEN CALL: We're looking for 6 historians for a 2-year residency with Dublin City Libraries and Dublin City Council Culture Company, engaging with local communities, conducting research and promoting access to our historical collections. Deadline: 31 July Apply: dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie/news/open-call… #jobfairy Dublin City Council

Is it time to put William Smith O'Brien back where he started out?

Carmencita Hederman was the 3rd female Lord Mayor. We were delighted that she was at the unveiling of a portrait of the 1sr, Kathleen Clarke, in 2022. Also there were other female Lord Mayors: Emer Costello; Hazel Chu; Caroline Conroy; Mary Freehill, and Alison Gilliland.

Hearing about Charlotte of Mecklenburg on the Napoleonic Wars pod – Dr Zack White – prompted me to write up the entry for Railway Street, 'Mecklenburgh' being one of its previous names. It's a great window into tenement Dublin and the Monto - streetsbroadandnarrow.ie

A timely one for The Rest Is History given their current series on the War of Independence Dominic Sandbrook Tom Holland

Library in the Community ✨📚 Today, we’re proud to shine a light on the Dublin City Libraries Outreach Team – the heart of our mission to make libraries accessible, inclusive, and welcoming to everyone in our city. 💡 We’ve made a video with 10 ways our outreach service keeps

One more plug for this. This podcast got a great reaction from listeners actually.

Congratulations to Dublin City Historians in Residence Cormac Moore on the launch of his book The Root of All Evil by An Taoiseach

A harsh assessment of public libraries in the UK. Irish public libraries, by contrast, are thriving and we still issue millions of books every year. As I've said before, we should never say that libraries are 'not just' about books. We should say we are about books and more!