Cork City Libraries Events Guide March April 2024

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Contents The City Library..............................................1 Music Library ..................................................4 Children’s Library ..........................................6 Ballincollig .......................................................7 Bishopstown....................................................8 Blackpool..........................................................9 Blarney ...........................................................12 Douglas.......................................................... 13 Glanmire......................................................... 14 Exhibitions.............................................. 16-17 Hollyhill........................................................... 18 Mayfield ......................................................... 21 Tory Top..........................................................23

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March | Monday 4 | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Cork Scrabble Adult Scrabble Club, new members welcome. First Monday of each Month March | Thursday 7, 21, | 2 pm – 3:30 pm | Elder Writers Life stories of the extraordinary ordinary. How to write your life story. March | Friday 8 | 11 am | Margaret Goulding Buckley, an extraordinary life. On International Women’s Day, Anne Twomey will give a fascinating talk on the life of Cork born Margaret Buckley, the first female leader of a political party in Ireland, a trade unionist, journalist, founding member of Cumann na mBan and a Dáil court judge. March | Friday 8, 22 | 11.00 am – 12.30 pm | Craft & Chat Do you knit, crochet or sew? Bring your project to the City Library and chat with other crafters while you work. Everyone is welcome. March | Saturday 9, 23 | 10 am – 11:30 am | Peann agus Pár Ceardlann Scríobhneoireachta Gaeilge le Colm O Ceallacháin. Filíocht agus Prós. An dara Satharn de gach mí, saor in aisce agus failte roimh cách! March | Thursday 14, 28 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm | Non-Fiction Writers Eclectic writing group. Welcomes new members. March | Tuesday 19 | 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm | Witch in Mourning: A Bilingual Reading Clyde Moneyhun reads from his translations of Maria-Mercè Marçal and Anna Dodas. Clyde is an associate professor at Boise State University, where he teaches writing and translation. Descended from Catalan-speaking ancestors, he translates twentieth-century and contemporary Catalan poets including Ponç Pons, Dolors Miquel, and Maria-Mercè Marçal. Organised by Cork City Library and the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin America Studies (UCC), with the support of the Institut Ramon Llull

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