Popular Library Events

Between the Red Lines: Wooden Heart’ Shadow Puppet Theatre Project and Competition

Join Children’s Writer & Theatre Artist Margaret Callan Bergin from Garbo Productions on a creative journey to write a new Shadow Puppet Theatre play.

Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series: The IRA’s Guerrilla Campaign 1919-21

Historian Lorcan Collins takes us through the IRA's campaign during the War of Independence

Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series; The other great pandemic: Spanish flu

Join historian Dr Ida Milne for a talk on the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ireland

Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series: The War in the Shadows

Join Dr Myles Dungan for a talk on Michael Collins, the Squad and the IRA versus British Intelligence

Decade of Centenaries Lecture Series: Women & the Campaign for Independence

Dr Sinéad McCoole presents on the role of women of the campaign for independence.

RLBF 2020: The Art of the Glimpse with Sinéad Gleeson, Melatu Uche Okorie & Blindboy Boatclub

This event, chaired by poet Jessica Traynor, will see the collection’s editor Sinéad Gleeson speaking with contributors Blindboy Boatclub and Melatu Uche Okorie. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this.

RLBF 2020: Making Zines with Sarah Maria Griffin

Creator of Wordfury Zines, author Sarah Maria Griffin will run a workshop on the world of Zines.

RLBF 2020: Writing Popular Fiction Workshop with Carmel Harrington & Zoë Miller

This workshop with international bestseller Carmel Harrington and award-winning author Zoë Miller will focus on the process of completing a first draft.

RLBF 2020: Writing Nature Workshop with Elspeth Wilson

This workshop will consider how we engage with nature as writers and readers in the time of climate crisis. We will explore our own personal relationships with nature and consider places as characters which we can give life and agency to through writing.

RLBF 2020: Time Leap 2.0 with E.R Murray & Alan Early

Do you love weird facts, outer space, or time travel? Are you a fan of stories? Then join authors E.R. Murray and Alan Early on an exciting creative writing adventure for primary school children.