Readings, talks and workshops at Dublin City Public Libraries

Are you keen to get started on social media? Would you like to learn to tweet, comment on YouTube, share your photos and maintain your privacy on facebook? Are you looking for tips on how to protect your children online? Then this information session with teacher Tony Riley on 'how to use social media in a safe and fun way’ is for you. This session will guide you on use of everyday apps and help you to be in control of what information you decide to share. Listen to Tony share practical tips on safe browsing and communicating with your children about online safety and limiting use of devices. Recorded at Pearse Street Library on Saturday 13 June 2015.

Christine Broe reading from her poetry collection Lifting Light: Poems and Artwork in Pearse Street Library on Wednesday 14 October 2015. Christine accompanied her reading with a presentation of her artwork from Lifting Light.

'A Poet in Bits', poetry reading by Ronan Brown at Pearse Street Library on 19 August 2015.Ronan Brown was born in Manchester and grew up in Dalkey in the 50s and 60s. He worked as a chartered surveyor but has been writing poetry since the 1970s. His work has been published in anthologies.

Ross Donlon lives in Castlemaine in Australia. His poems have been widely published in Australia and Ireland. The Blue Dressing Gown was published in 2011 by Profile Poetry. Tightrope Horizon (Five Islands Press) was published in 2003. Shh and Other Love Poems and My Ship were published by Mark Time Books in 2009. Shh has been anthologised in Poems for All Occasions and elsewhere. In 2014 Ross published Awakening: Poems from the collection of the Castlemaine Art Gallery and Light Travelling: a sampler of new and collected poems. His latest book is Sjøvegan (The Sea Road).

Happy Deaths and Urban Dangers: The Darker Side of Children's Literature by Timothy Young at Dublin City Library and Archive on 28 September, 2015.

'Girls of the Globe' was a poetry reading by Rosemarie Rowley held at Pearse Street Library on 17 June 2015.

The life of 19th century mathematician and poet, William Rowan Hamilton, told through a sequence of sonnets by poet Iggy McGovern and friends Paula Murphy and Noel Duffy. Pearse Street Library on Thursday, 26 February 2015

May 2014 marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of Finnegans Wake. To celebrate Dublin City Public Libraries hosted the wonderful Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher performing Here's Comes Everybody! a musical journey through Finnegans Wake.

Dublin: a City Made of Stories? Poets, folklorists, historians and city geographers discuss how poems, songs, stories, history and the physical space create our sense of Dublin as a city.

A Sense of Place, a literary evening held at Rathmines Library, honouring the rich literary life of the area. Local writers Evelyn Conlon, Adrian Kenny, Siobhán Parkinson and Fintan Vallely read selected pieces of their work and discussed the locality and how it may have influenced their writing. The evening was chaired by Niall MacMonagle.

Kevin McCarthy reading from Peeler and Irregulars.

Michael Russell reading from The City of Shadows and The City of Strangers.

Joe Joyce reading from Echoland.

Ireland's Property Market - how did it come to this and where to next, a talk by Ronan Lyons with questions and answers.

The Irish banks and Eurozone stability: Learning from the past, looking to the future, a talk by Professor Gregory Connor with questions and answers.

Anglo Irish Bank and the part it played in Ireland's economic collapse, a talk by Simon Carswell, Finance Correspondent with The Irish Times, with questions and answers.

Declan Burke reading from Absolute Zero Cool, with questions and answers.

Johnny Connolly discussing drugs and crime in Ireland, followed by questions and answers.

Cormac Millar reading from An Irish Solution, with questions and answers.

John Lonergan talking about his time as Governor of Mountjoy Prison, followed by questions and answers.

Paul Murray reading from Skippy Dies, followed by questions and answers. Introduction by Rita McCann, Irish Literature Exchange.

Kevin Barry reading from City of Bohane, followed by questions and answers. Introduction by Aoife Walsh, Irish Literature Exchange.

Carlo Gébler reading from his novel The Dead Eight, followed by questions and answers. Introduction by Sinéad Mac Aodha, Irish Literature Exchange.

John Boyne reading from The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas and Noah Barleywater Runs Away.

Hugo Hamilton reading from Hand in the Fire.

Becoming John Gray: the beginning of celebrity culture, a talk by Dr Jerusha McCormack on John Gray and celebrity culture.

Creative Writing Workshop full of practical advice centred on elements of successful children's literature and the publishing and marketing process.

Akhil Sharma, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award 2016, for Family Life, in coversation with Niall Mac Monagle. Family Life tells the story of eight-year-old Ajay, whose family move from Delhi to America in 1978. America to the Mishras is everything they could have imagined and more: life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Recorded at Dublin City Library and Archive on 17 June 2016.