On Thursday 2nd October Thurles Library will be filled with the sounds of Jim Reeves, James Last and Charley Pride. We are hosting a ‘Joys of Vinyl’ evening for Positive Ageing Week. So if you would like a trip down memory lane and a chance to share your own favourite songs on vinyl, bring your LPs to the library on Thursday 2nd October at 7 p.m. Record player and refreshments will be supplied by the library.
The next meeting of Carrick-on-Suir Book Club will be from 7-8 pm on Monday 6 October at the library. We are currently reading the novel ‘Tipperary’ by FrankDelaney and ‘The People’s Act of Love’ by James Meek. Newcomers are always
Cathy Cassidy will be visiting Carrick-on-Suir on Monday 6 October to speak about her very popular children’s books. It all started when Cathy wrote illustrated stories for her brother when she was eight years old, and she hasn’t stopped since! Cathy has been a teacher and a magazine editor (for ‘Jackie’) and she wrote the problem page for Shout Magazine. She lives in Scotland with her husband, children and many animals. Among Cathy Cassidy’s most borrowed and bought books are: Dizzy, Indigo Blue and Driftwood. Seven of her books are currently available.
Storytime has resumed at Cashel library! Come along Monday mornings at 11:00am. Let your kids enjoy a story while you sip on a cup of tea!.…
Best-selling novelist Frank Delaney is due to visit eight libraries in Tipperary as part of Tipperary Libraries’ one book project. The aim of Tipperary Reads is to bring the whole county together by reading the same book. We have chosen Tipperary- a novel’ by Frank Delaney. The novel is set primarily in the south of the county during the period 1860-1930. It features many well-known Irish characters such as Oscar Wilde and Charles Stewart Parnell
Recent ‘Juvenile Fiction’ additions:Adventure at the Castle by W. Murray
Alice Again by Judi Curtain
All Mates Together by Cathy Hopkins
The Black Book of Secrets by FE Higgins
Blind Beauty by KM Peyton
Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf by Jenny Nimmo
Cybernation by Erica Blaney
Ditherus Wart – (accidental) Gladiator by Alan McDonald
Dress to Impress by Coleen McLoughlin
Fancy Dress Ponies by Katie Price
Recent ‘Juvenile Non-Fiction’ additions:
The Book of Witches: A Spellbinding Guide by Tim Dedapulos
I wonder why there is a hole in the sky: and other questions about the environment
Mates, dates & saving the Planet by Cathy Hopkins
The Fabulous story of Fashion by Katie Daynes
The Story of Cars by Katie Daynes
Dragons & Fantasy Beasts by Finlay Cowan
Congratulations to the 160 children who took part in this summer’s Tipperary Reading Tree promotion at Nenagh Library. On Saturday 13th September certificates and commemorative medals were presented to the children by Mr Marney O’Regan (Bank of Ireland Manager). The Reading Tree was once more kindly sponsored by the Bank of Ireland. Another special guest on the day was star Tipperary senior hurler, Shane McGrath.
On Tuesday 16th September a group of 13 chief librarians from Wales visited Cashel and Thurles libraries. The group were in Ireland to view the innovative developments that have taken place in library building practice over the past 10 years. Their tour visited contemporary libraries in places such as
On the evening of Monday the 15th of September the presentation night took place for those children who took part in the Summer Reading Challenge. During the course of the summer about 150 children took part in the Reading Tree. On the night there were over 80 children present,