Exhibitions
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MARCH / APRIL
The City Library
Ballincollig Library
Bishopstown Library March | Retired teachers Camera group This photography exhibition features the work of retired teachers. Drop in to our Gallery space and see the beautiful work. Admission free and all are welcome. April | “Hidden gems and forgotten people” Curated by Eamon Leonard this exhibition features our built heritage through the medium of photos. Admission free. All welcome. April | Friday 12 | 10.30am | Storytime Library story time for pre-schoolers. Parents & Carers also welcome! April | Mary Elmes ‘I got things done’. Part of Lifelong Learning Festival. April | Saturday 6 | 3.00pm | Children’s Chess Club Chess for kids aged 6-12. All welcome.
March and April | Tools for Toddlers to Teens An exhibition of reading materials and resources for Children and Young People at The Children’s and Young People’s Library. March | Unfinished Business A century of Women & Women’s Rights March | Like day and Like Night Sonic Poetry exhibition of the work of Rosalin Blue April | Frederick Douglas This fascinating exhibition looks at the life of Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, writer, orator, statesman, champion of human rights, and his connection to Ireland. 10-17 April | Ye Mayoral Booke of Thomas Pembrock, 1733 Over four hundred pages of hand-written information that gives a remarkable glimpse into the life of a resident of Cork city in the first half of the eighteenth century. 10-17 April | Rory Gallagher Music Library The Stanford Centenary Celebrations and its Cork Connections This exhibition is a collaboration between The Stanford Society and Cork City Libraries celebrating the Charles Villiers Stanford centenary. Charles Villers Stanford was a prolific Anglo- Irish composer. The exhibition highlights one of his operas based in a fictional west Cork village, named Shamus O’Brien. The main female role in this opera was given to Cork soprano, Kate ‘Birdie’ Conway. A focus will be given to this extraordinary woman in the exhibition, who went on to become one of the founding members of Cumann na mBan. 10-17 April | Local Studies and Learning Department Grief’s Broken Brow We are delighted to exhibit this fine press book featuring poetry and art inspired by archival material and artefacts from the War of Independence or the Civil War. The book was part of Poetry as Commemoration, a UCD Library project, supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media under the Decade of Centenaries programme 2012-2023, a project in which Cork City Libraries took part.
Blackpool Library
March | Ár seoda leabhar Gaeilge For Seachtain na Gaeilge, come and see a display taken from our collection of rare Irish language books, including some by Pádraic Ó Conaire. March and April | Can you see what I see An exhibition based on a book by Caroline Hyland which seeks to promote living well with dementia while advocating for a society which sees the person first and not the disease.
Blarney Library
March | Blarney Photography Club. This exhibition is a collection of work by advanced, non-advanced and beginner grade photographers from Blarney, and surrounding areas. April | When Cork Drove Fords. This exhibition details The Ford Manufacturing plant and the people of Cork 1917 – 1984, and the titan of business, Henry Ford. A Cork City Libraries Exhibition
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