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Events for the month of May are listed below or see the Calendar of Events
Wednesday, 12 May 9.30am – 1pm
Learn how to use Sources and the National Library’s other digital resources. The National Library’s digital resources can be of enormous help to your research. For example, our Sources resource, allows you to search 180,000 catalogue records for Irish manuscripts, and for articles in Irish periodicals.
National Library staff will be on hand on the morning of Wednesday 12 May to show you how to get the most from these resources (databases, catalogues and other research tools) and to answer your questions.
The workshop will take place in the Main Library Building between 9.30am and 1.00pm.
All are welcome and booking is not necessary.
Thursday 13th May 2010 7.30pm
Lecture: Mary Crooke: Rara Avis by Carol Maddock of the National Library of Ireland.
Venue: National Print Museum, Garrison Chapel, Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.
Admission: Free
Mary Crooke was unique as a woman working at a very high level in Dublin’s nascent print trade, operating as effective King’s Printer in Ireland from 1670–85. However, this lucrative patent was officially held in the name of her brother, Benjamin Tooke, a high profile London publisher and bookseller, and this fact has obscured the true volume of her print output, and has led to her underestimation in the annals of Dublin’s early print history until quite recently. This talk will celebrate the career of Mary Crooke, an intriguing figure in late seventeenth century Dublin.
Carol Maddock worked for some years in Dublin’s print trade, before completing a Masters in Library and Information Studies at UCD in 2008, where her thesis focused on Mary Crooke. In 2009, she was awarded the John Dean Medal and the Wilson Foundation Award (MLIS) by UCD. She currently works in the Ephemera Department of the National Library of Ireland.
Tuesday 18 May at 1pm
I’ll live ‘til I die – A celebration in talk, story and song of the iconic Delia Murphy.
The event will include song favourites such as The Spinning Wheel and If I were a Blackbird, sung by actress and singer Maureen O’Donovan. Recollection of the life and times of Delia Murphy by Carmen Cullen, niece of Delia Murphy and music by Cearbhall O’Meadhra.
Admission is free, all are welcome.
Thursday 20 May at 1pm
A Personal Choice: the stories of Mary Lavin read by Nuala Hayes, Doireann Ní Bhriain and Elizabeth Peavoy.
Admission is free, all are welcome.
friday 21 May at 1pm
Irish Countrywomen’s Association Panel Discussion: President Anne Maria Dennison, Elizabeth Wall, Honorary National Secretary
Kitty Harlin, Former National President and Ina Broughal, Former National President discuss the role that creative arts have played in the organisation and the influence of the ICA on Irish society.
Wednesday 26 May at 8pm
Library Late: Playwright and film writer Mark O’Rowe in conversation.
Admission is free but booking is essential. Call +353 1 603 0317 to reserve your place.
In the final event of the National Library’s current series of Library Late Mark O’Rowe will be interviewed by Sophie Gorman, Arts Editor of the Irish Independent. Mark O’Rowe is an award-winning playwright and film writer. His plays include From Both Hips (Fishamble 1997), Howie the Rookie (Bush Theatre 1999), Made in China (Peacock Theatre 2001), Crestfall (Gate Theatre 2003) and Terminus (Peacock Theatre 2007). Screenplays include Intermission (2003) starring Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney and Cillian Murphy, Boy A (2007) an adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Trigell and Perrier’s Bounty (2010) directed by Ian Fitzgibbon and starring Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent and Brendan Gleeson.
Exhibition of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association papers held in the National Library of Ireland
The Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA) evolved from the United Irishwomen (UI), founded in 1910, with the aim of promoting ‘better living’ for rural women. From the outset the organisation was concerned with issues such as family health, education and horticulture.
The records of the ICA were donated to the National Library of Ireland in 2000. To celebrate the centenary of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association, the National Library of Ireland will host an exhibition of the papers of the ICA to take place during the Bealtaine festival 2010.
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