The Ennis Book Club Festival, in association with Clare County Library, is delighted to announce that our 2010 ‘Book Club of the Year’ award goes to the National Council for the Blind of Ireland Audio Book Club from Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Congratulations to them and to Carmel Kelly at Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown library service who works with them. The book club will be guests at the festival from 5th to 7th March in Ennis.

The winning entry can be seen at www.ennisbookclubfestival.com

A huge thank you to all who entered the competition.

The DCU School of Physical Sciences is pleased to announce “Eye on the Sky”, an astronomical digital photography competition open to the public. There will be three categories (Schools, General and DCU) with three prizes per category. The Schools category will allow participation of school students either as individuals or as a class. A special prize is available for class work. The competition closes for entries on September 30, 2009. Contestants must be resident on the island of Ireland (North or South).

Details on participation and prizes can be found at http://www.astrophysics.dcu.ie/eyeonthesky.php

The international bestselling series of books by Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, has inspired PlayStation®3 to launch an exciting new photographic competition for kids and teens in association with the Library Council and Penguin Books.
The initiative will appeal to 8 – 16 year olds who are encouraged to get their hands on a digital camera and get snapping over the next few weeks and bring their love of the 7 million-selling series of books to life in a photo.
The competition invites children across Ireland to capture an image they feel best represents their favourite Artemis Fowl book. The creative and educational dimension to this initiative does not stop there however. All photos will be uploaded by the PlayStation® team onto the PlayStation®3 console in participating libraries throughout Ireland in August where they will be stored for the judges to see.
The PlayStation® team will be visiting participating public libraries in towns throughout Ireland (see below for details) from Wednesday August 06 – Tuesday August 26 to accept and process all entries. On the day, budding photographers should bring their digital cameras containing their photo along with them and the PlayStation team will look after the rest.

Winners will be announced in September and will be selected by a judging panel made up of representatives of the Library Council, Penguin Books and PlayStation®. One winner will be chosen from each participating county council. As well as winning a Playstation® 3 console, each of the winners will also receive a once in a lifetime prize of a limited edition copy of an Artemis Fowl book with their own winning image on the cover.

Schedule
Wednesday 6th August
Malahide Fingal 10.00am – 8.30pm
Balbriggan Fingal 10.00am – 5.00pm
Blanchardstown Fingal 10.00am – 5.00pm

Thursday 7th August
Ennis Clare 10.00am-5.30pm
Scarriff Clare 10.00am – 5.30pm

Saturday 9th August
Wexford Town Wexford 11.00am – 5.00pm
New Ross Wexford 11.00am – 5.00pm

Thursday 14th August
Loughboy Kilkenny 10.30am – 5.00pm
Friday 15th August
Kilrush Clare 10.00am – 5.00pm
Shannon Clare 10.00am – 5.00pm

Saturday 16th August
Enniscorthy Wexford 11.00am – 5.00pm
Bunclody Wexford 11.00am – 5.00pm

Wednesday 20th August
Castlecomer Kilkenny 10.00am – 5.00pm
Graiguenamanagh Kilkenny 10.00am – 5.00pm

Thursday 21st August
Navan Meath 12.00pm – 5.00pm

Friday 22nd August
Ashbourne Meath 12.00pm – 5.00pm

Saturday 23rd August
Trim Meath 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Tuesday 26th August
Bishopstown Cork 10.00am – 5.30pm
Midelton Cork 9.30am – 5.30pm
Mallow Cork 9.30am – 5.30pm

Wednesday 27th August
Tallaght South Dub. 9.45am – 8.00pm
Lucan South Dub. 9.45am – 8.00pm