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Why you should try and visit your local library more often in 2019
Now that they’ve scrapped fees, you can go back without fear of judgment.
Poll: Right so, how many books do you own?
Just how many is too many?
Dublin City Council has scrapped all library fines - even if you have an outstanding balance to pay
The new measure kicked in yesterday.
Jimmy Magee's personal library of almost 1000 books to be auctioned off for charity
The Memory Man’s collection includes books and magazines from as far back as the 1960s.
Dublin City Council to pay €45m to fund proposed Parnell Square library
That amounts to just under half of the estimated cost for the Cultural Quarter.
Council presses ahead with plans for multi million euro Dublin City Library
It is expected the council will apply for planning permission later this year with plans to open the new library in 2022.
Poll: Should fines for returning a library book late be scrapped?
The government is considering proposals to scrap the late fines.
Late returning a library book? The government wants to scrap late fines
It’s part of a proposal to increase the number of people using libraries.
Half a million books to be moved and €10m spent to preserve National Library collections
Current storage conditions put some collections at fire risk.
Colombian bin man finds book in garbage. 20 years on, he has library with 25,000 discarded books
From his first find of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Jose Alberto Gutierrez has amassed thousands of books.
Here are the designs for Barack Obama's $500 million presidential library
The former US president wants the library to “create an institution that will train the next generation of leadership”.
11 memories you'll have if the library was your favourite place as a kid
Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card!
Cork community library shut on 90 minutes notice is closed 'indefinitely'
Politicians say they have been assured the library will reopen, but no date has yet been set.
Book returned to Tralee Library 67 years late
The borrower avoided a €1,200 fine.
Oireachtas committee to investigate the funding of Mary Robinson Library
The library is due to be built in Mary Robinson’s family home in Ballina.
A little boy ripped a page in his library book and wrote the cutest apology
Honesty is the best policy.
What does it take to become a children's entertainer? We asked one to find out
It is not an industry for the faint hearted.
'Anti-homeless' spikes turned into bed and mini-library
What do you think about the idea?
Recognise anyone? These mysterious photos were found in a library today
The RIA wants to reunite them with the family involved.
Council libraries are using JobBridge for 'free labour', says Sinn Féin
One intern said he was told almost immediately that there was no chance of a job.
Plans to merge libraries criticised as 'wholly shoddy and unacceptable'
Will your county be affected?
18 libraries every book-lover should visit in their lifetime
From Baroque masterpieces to stark timber and glass structures — these incredible buildings are certain to distract you from whatever you’re reading.
One day I was broke... then I got a call that changed everything
Colm Keegan is the new writer-in-residence at DLR Lexicon library in Dun Laoghaire.
Student 'study-in' forces UCC to let people swot in library later at night
Students had refused to leave the library for three successive nights – and it worked.
What were the most borrowed books from the library last year?
What a well-read bunch!
Students stage 'study-in' at UCC library over opening hours
The students’ union president has said that studying at home simply isn’t an option for some students.
"How slowly... Love, Sam": Read Beckett's intriguing postcards to his friends
Trinity has acquired the largest collection of Samuel Beckett letters ever for public sale.
National Library at 'critical point' due to funding cuts putting collections at risk
Visitor numbers to the NLI are up 42% on last year.
Here's who worried about prostitutes, thieves and riots in Irish cinemas in 1910...
Worries on the big screen.
This could be Ireland's library of the future - but why the controversy?
The Lexicon is costing €36.6m to build.
Read 90 letters James Joyce wrote to his family
Spoiler: Lots of the letters were about Finnegan’s Wake. And they weren’t all in English. Classic Joyce.
Co Carlow has the sassiest librarians in the country
Look at this poster. Would YOU want a fine off this crowd?
One of the oldest surviving copies of all four Gospels is in Dublin
The manuscripts are believed to have been discovered in Egypt in 1929.
Poll: Do you still read books?
E-book readers are growing in popularity but are you happier when you can actually turn the pages on that page-turner?
National Library evacuated after basement fire
But all is ok now and no collections were damaged.
11 inarguable reasons real books will always be better than e-books
We laugh in the face of your technological advances.
10 books to read before their film versions are released this year
Look like a smarty pants in front of your mates, and get ahead of the curve.
Protests at plan to turn 109-year-old library into dole office
Residents of the Dublin suburb of Balbriggan say plans to move the town’s Carnegie library will be a massive blow to the area.
Man arrested in connection with book theft at National Library
A large number of books and pamphlets, some of which are of historical value, were discovered at a house in Clonsilla.
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