National Library of Ireland
Dublin 2
Tuesday, 8 May between 2.00pm to 3.30pm (registration at 1.45 pm)
Bealtaine Festival 2012
‘Memories into Memoir’
An interactive lecture and discussion on Memoir Writing with Irene Graham, Founder and Director of the Memoir Writing Club and The Creative Writer’s Workshop. Bring your ideas and experience to this afternoon session with Irene and discover how to creatively translate life experience into memoir.
Free but booking required. To book a place contact us at learning@nli.ie or 01 603 0259.
Monday, 14 May at 11am
Bealtaine Festival 2012
Learn how to use the NLI
Have you thought about using the NLI? Join us for this introduction where we will show you how to get a reader’s ticket, how to search the library catalogues, how to order materials and much more. Free, no booking required.
Wednesday, 16 May at 7.00pm
History Ireland Hedge School
‘Irish army deserters and the morality of neutrality’
Panel discussion with Professor Brian Girvin (University of Glasgow), Dr Michael Kennedy (Executive Editor of the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy), Professor Geoffrey Roberts (UCC) and Professor Euan O’Halpin (TCD). Free no booking required.
Thursday, 17 May between 11.00 am and 12.30 pm
Bealtaine Festival 2012
Taking care of Your Collection
Join a member of the Library’s Conservation staff for this workshop where you will learn how we care for our collections, and pick up some tips on looking after your own family papers.
Free but booking required. To book a place contact us at learning@nli.ie or 01 603 0259.
Monday, 21 May at 1.10pm
Bealtaine Festival 2012
Poetry Reading with Paul Hetherington and Petra White
Australian Poetry Ltd., Bealtaine Festival and NLI invite you to a reading by poets Paul Hetherington and Petra White. Paul Hetherington is Assistant Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra. Petra White was the joint winner of the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry (2010).
Free no booking required.
Wednesday, 23 May at 7.00pm
Bealtaine Festival 2012
‘Sweet Memories from Irish Childhood’
Join Damian Corless, author of ‘You’ll Ruin Your Dinner: Sweet Memories from Irish Childhood’ as he transports us back to the days when sweet shop windows across the country boasted tempting confectionery displays and when Grafton Street was the sweet shop capital of Ireland.
Free no booking required.
Friday, 25 May (9.30 am – 6.00 pm) to Saturday 26 May (10 am – 1.15 pm)
The third Home Rule crisis: centenary perspectives
The NLI presents this two day conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the Home Rule crisis of 1912. Key note speakers include Professor Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford) and Professor Ronan Fanning (UCD). View the full programme at www.nli.ie.
Free but booking essential as places will be limited. To book a place contact us at 01 603 0200 or www.nli.ie
Wednesday, 30 May at 8 pm
‘As I roved out’: A performance of new traditional songs
Bealtaine Festival 2012, supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
A concert of new songs on the theme of travelling and emigration performed by a group of traditional singers who have been working on a research project facilitated by artists Michael Fortune and Aileen Lambert in the NLI and the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA).
Free but booking required. To book a place contact us at learning@nli.ie or 01 603 0259.
Thursday, 7 June (9.15 am – 5.30pm)
Joyce for the non-Joycean: Introducing James Joyce
Want to prepare for Bloomsday 2012? This one-day immersion course in the library where Joyce loved to learn will introduce you to the man and his work. The course will be delivered by Dr Gerard Dineen.
Cost €30. Places are limited so booking is essential. To book a place call 01 603 0259 or e-mail learning@nli.ie
