We had a pop-up library for National Storytelling Week in the Nagle Rice Hall. It was great to bring some of our great library material out to the main campus areas and get to talk to students and staff about what material they have been finding useful. People were particularly interested in our puppets which can be borrowed from the library of things at this link.
Our second pop-up library of the year was for #IrelandReads day. Ireland Reads is an initiative of the Government of Ireland to celebrate the joy of reading. It is funded by Healthy Ireland and supported by public libraries and many organisations that promote reading, literacy and the arts.
Did you know all MIE staff can join the library? We have lots of bestsellers, prizewinners and MIE staff bookclub picks in our fiction section. You can apply for a library account by going to the Application for Library account section on our guide for new staff members.
International Women's Day - see our booklist here
St. Brigid’s Day
National Grief Awareness Day
Valentine’s Day
Martin Luther King Day
Seachtain Na Gaeilge
School Placements (See our guide to school placements too!)
We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting a workshop for staff and students with Award winning children’s writers Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb. Together they recently edited the book I am the Wind, a beautifully illustrated collection of Irish poems for children. As the workshop is mainly aimed at Post Graduate Masters in Education students, capacity will be limited. If you are a student in a different course or a staff member you can register for a free ticket here
Date: 9th April 2024
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
Location: Edmund Rice Hall
Dublin 1911 When Eliza Kane and her brother Jonty move from the leafy suburbs of Rathmines to a tenement flat on Henrietta Street they are in for a shock. Pigs and ponies in the yard, rats in the hallways and cockroaches or 'clocks' underfoot! When they meet their new neighbour, Annie, a kind and practical teenager and her brothers, and a travelling circus comes to town, offering them both jobs, helping Madam Ada, the bee charmer, and Albert the dog trainer, things start to look up. When a tragedy happens in the tenements, Eliza, Jonty and their new friends spring into action. A tale of family, friendship and finding a new home, with touch of magical bees!
Beloved Irish poets including: Eavan Boland Seamus Heaney W.B. Yeats Paula Meehan Thomas Kinsella Frank O'Connor Gabriel Rosenstock Spike Milligan Michael Longley Áine Ní Ghlinn Oscar Wilde Pat Ingoldsby Brendan Kennelly sit along old medieval poems and diverse contemporary voices including: Nikita Gill Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan Yeva Skalietska Polina Cosgrave You'll find thoughtful, surprising and powerful poems here. Poems about love and skateboarding, about feeling lonely and making friends, about jellyfish, magic, school, snowdrops, monsters, blackbirds... and lots, lots more. Chosen with love by the acclaimed children's poet Lucinda Jacob and award-winning children's writer and bookseller Sarah Webb. A book to treasure now and always.
A beautifully illustrated collection of nursery rhymes to treasure, and songs, poems and rhymes to share. Enjoy Irish favourites like 'Brian O'Linn' and 'I'll Tell Me Ma', classics such as 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean' and 'Monday's Child', silly rhymes that every child will love like 'Beans', 'Pardon Me' and 'On Top of Spaghetti', as well as magical verses for children written by Oscar Wilde, Oliver St John Gogarty, James Joyce and others.
Meet the inspiring young Irish people taking on the world! Follow beach-cleaner FLOSSIE DONNELLY on her quest to save the oceans, and join ADAM KING in changing the world one hug at a time. Hit the track with star athlete RHASIDAT ADELEKE, and swim to victory with Paralympian RÓISÍN NÍ RÍAIN. Tune into RTE to catch award-winning journalist ZAINAB BOLADALE, explore the wonders of nature with writer DARA MacANULTY and restore our planet's biodiversity with beekeepers ELIZABETH BYRNE & RIAN SOMERS. From activism to sport, the creative arts to science and innovation, discover the amazing young people who are making a waves. It's never too early to achieve your dreams - why not start today?
When baby Julia is brought out to the garden to play, she finds all sorts of objects, from mud to butterflies, to amuse and tickle her senses.
A book for everyone who dreams of changing the world. From fearless aviator, Lady Mary Heath, the first woman in the world to parachute from an aeroplane, to Margaret Bulkley, the 18th-century surgeon who lived as a man, meet 28 remarkable Irish women who have taken the world by storm. You may have already heard some of their names, like Countess Markievicz and Mary Robinson, but others, like Anne Sullivan, Lilian Bland or Anna Haslam, may be new to you. Packed with fun, fascinating facts and stunning, full-page illustrations, this book celebrates the trail blazers who have shaped the world we live in. Ready to walk in their footsteps? A world of bravery and discovery awaits you. Made by two remarkable women, author Sarah Webb and illustrator Lauren O'Neill.