On Wednesday, 25th February, Nenagh library was proud to have our reigning Rose of Tralee and local girl, Aoife Kelly, visit us. We had asked her to meet members of our local Active Retirement Group and when she arrived at 11am she brought a sparkle to a grey Ash Wednesday morning,
Alice & Megan forever by Judi Curtin illustrated by Woody Fox
The bag of bones by Vivian French illustrated by Ross Collins
Bonjour Alice by Judi Curtin
Broken glass by Sally Grindley
Bubble trouble by Margaret Mahy illustrated by Polly Dunbar
Buzz off by Gordon Green
The cave of the dark wind by Dave Barry Ridley Pearson illustrations by Greg Call
Clover Twig and the incredible flying cottage by Kaye Umansky
Diabolic downloads by Jim Halligan illustrated by Cartoon Saloon
Dragonfly by Julia Golding
Seachtain na Gaeilge got off to a lively, competitive start in Nenagh library on Wednesday morning. We had 10 rural schools from the surrounding areas…
by Tracy Chevalier
THE STORY:
Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to late 18th-century London. As they move in next door to the radical painter/poet William Blake, and take up work for a near-by circus impresario, the youngest family member gets to know a girl his age. Embodying opposite characteristics – Maggie Butterfield is a dark-haired, streetwise extrovert, Jem Kellaway a quiet blond introvert – the children form a strong bond while getting to know their unusual neighbour and his wife.
Keeping Secrets
by Andrew Rosenheim
Keeping secrets is bad for you, especially if you keep them from your lover. This is the point put forward, with considerable elegance and wit, in Andrew Rosenheim’s fourth novel, which centres on the romance of Jack Renoir (no relation to the painter) and Kate Palmer. It’s a boy-meets-girl story with an Anglo-American twist.
The famous sheep ‘Micky & Jack’, new perspectives on the Rock of Cashel, breathtaking beautiful landscape photographs of the Glen of Aherlow and Poetry, Prose and Blessings combined with photography, that express words that you always wanted to say but never got around too, is the accumulation of Caitriona Kenny’s two year artistic journey that will be displayed in Nenagh Library for the month of March. (Starting on the 5th of March).
Her stunning debut photographic exhibition of the Glen of Aherlow, ‘Aherlow’s Call’ in April 2007, displayed her distinctive, artistic photography style that captured the public’s attention and many of her photographs and greeting cards have been bought and sent around the globe.
Calling all Nenagh Knitters to Nenagh Library Thursday February 26th at 7pm If you want to tie up some loose ends, or have knotting to…
An Exhibition of Paintings by Francis Gleeson, Seamus Hough, and James Gleeson is currently on display in Nenagh Library. Francis works with acrylics and has…
‘Revolution Road’ by Richard Yates, one of the United States’ finest post-war novelists and short story writers, was hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication in 1961. The book is set in suburban America in 1955, amongst that strange post-war generation of young middle class couples who are disappointed and dissatisfied with the life they are leading. It tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler. He is working in a dull and pointless job, made more so by his determination to represent himself as someone who has the ability to do so much more, but what’s the point?
Nenagh Library read Garbriel Garcia Marquez ‘Love in the time of Cholera’ as their book choice for December. Opinions were mixed as to the merit of this book. All of them loved the detail and colourful images that Marquez used to bring this place and this era to life. However, it was felt that this level of detail made for a densely packed story which was at times difficult to follow. While some enjoyed the book and thought it an interesting read others found it slow moving in terms of telling a story. None of the three main protagonists were very interesting or sympathetic and all were agreed that the hero was flawed, his greatest flaw being his lack of action, his general apathy towards events in his life.
