Ireland Literature Exchange, in cooperation with Dublin City Public Libraries,  presents In Other Words . . . a month-long exhibition of more than 100 Irish books which have been translated into 33 different languages with the support of Ireland Literature Exchange. The exhibition will be on display in the Dublin Central Library in the ILAC Centre, Dublin  1 during the month of November.
To complement the exhibition, ILE and DCPL will present a series of talks and readings. Siobhán Parkinson, Ireland’s first Children’s Laureate, will open the exhibition. Other speakers will be writers John Boyne and Hugo Hamilton, and Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, Irish-language publisher of children’s picture books.
Many of the books on display…

are included in the Rosetta Collection, part of the World Books section of the Library.  In Other Words . . . will include a selection of over 100 Irish books in languages as diverse as Polish, Russian, Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Latvian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese from classic and contemporary Irish writers such as John Banville, Seamus Heaney, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Boyne, Claire Kilroy, W.B. Yeats, Eavan Boland, Hugo Hamilton, Edna O’Brien, Lady Augusta Gregory, John Boyne, Claire Keegan and Kevin Power.
Readings/Talks:
Siobhán Parkinson – Wednesday, 3 November @ 6:30pm
John Boyne – Wednesday, 10 November @ 11:30am
Hugo Hamilton – Wednesday, 17 November @ 6:30pm
Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin – Wednesday, 24 November @ 6:30pm
All readings/talks will take place in the Central Library, ILAC Centre, Dublin 1.
* Admission to the exhibition is free.
** Events are free but booking is recommended through the Open Learning Centre, Central Library, openlearning@dublincity.ie, tel: 01 873 4333

The Oldman Prize Committee would like to invite nominations for the C.B. Oldman Prize. The prize is an annual award of £200 for an outstanding work of music bibliography, music reference or music librarianship by an author resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. Nominations are invited for works published in 2009.

If you are aware of any publications you think ought to be considered for the prize, please contact Liz Wells before the end of November.

James McGuire, MRIA will deliver a paper entitled Law as a ‘field of interest’ in the Dictionary of Irish Biography at 6 pm in Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2  on November 4 2010.
RSVP Hugh M Fitzpatrick, Solicitor / Library and Information Consultant, 9 Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2.
Phone: 01-2692202 e-mail: hmfitzpa@tcd.ie

Dublin’s Lord Mayor, Gerry Breen, in the company of the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, Mary Hanafin T.D., formally announced Dublin’s designation as UNESCO City of Literature today (Monday July 26 2010). Dublin is one of only four cities in the world with the designation of UNESCO: City of Literature. The sought after accolade was bestowed by the Director General of UNESCO and recognises Dublin’s cultural profile and its international standing as a city of literary excellence.
* Dublin UNESCO City of Literature website; * Read the full press release; * Dublin’s writers tell us why Dublin is a city of literature.
The UNESCO City of Literature award is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network launched in 2004. Dublin joins Iowa City, Melbourne and Edinburgh on the UNESCO list.
View the Video Of Congratulations from Iowa City, USA:

The Mountains to Sea dlr Book festival will take place from September 7th to 12th 2010. The festival takes place in various venues in Dun Laoghaire, and is comprised of a series of different literary events.
Tickets go on sale from August 4th and are available via the website or the booking line +353 1 231 2929.
In 2009, The Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival enjoyed a fantastic debut thanks to the support and enthusiasm of local book-lovers and, thankfully, not a few first-time visitors to Dún Laoghaire. One writer praised the inaugural festival as “of international standard, with a great local tilt”. On a glorious weekend, the Festival welcomed over 5000 guests who revelled in near-Mediterranean sunshine while strolling from venue to venue.
This year we have aimed to build on that initial success by expanding the programme and the range of events on offer. Among the authors appearing will be no less than four former Booker Prize-winners (five, if you count the late JG Farrell who is honoured in a special appreciation event). Fans of crime fiction, sport and politics are also catered for while the children’s programme is vastly expanded with a Children’s Author Lunch among the highlights. Leviathan Political Cabaret and the DLR Literary Tour return and to deliver The Beckett Address we are pleased to welcome one of Ireland’s finest actors and directors, Alan Stanford .
Also appearing will be Kate Atkinson, DBC Pierre, Joseph O’Connor, Jennifer Johnston, David McWilliams, former Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald, Waterstone’s founder Tim Waterstone and the great Australian novelist, Alex Miller.
For more information on this year’s event visit www.mountainstosea.ie or phone 01 231 2929.