What was your favourite read of 2024? Westmeath Libraries staff share some of their favourite reads from last year. All the colours of the dark by Chris WhitakerCheck the catalogue Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of local teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, […]
'Sustainability Horizons' exhibition was officially opened on Thursday 21st November in Castlepollard Library by local multi-disciplinary artist, Andrea Cullen. Andrea is well known for her work with Cúige Studios in Mullingar, and further afield thanks to her recent success as artistic director for Bressie’s “Where is My Mind’ tour. The works on view in this show […]
A Novel Idea book club met on Halloween, to discuss their latest read - Elly Griffith's A Girl Called Justice. The group gave a resounding thumbs up and described it as 'intriguing' and a book that 'kept you guessing'! Cúan said it was a really good mystery, and Orla, our youngest and very perceptive member […]
Athlone Book ClubAidan Heavey Library, Athlone 7th November at 6.30pm This month's book is The Lost Bookshop by Evie WoodsRequest a copy On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found. For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three […]
The Battle of Wits is a Table Quiz for Transition Year students in Westmeath, Longford, Offaly, and Laois. Please contact dearbhla.sheridan@westmeathcoco.ie for more details, or if you are a TY teacher in a Westmeath school and would like to participate. Teachers from other counties should contact their local library for more information. The Battle of […]
The Allstars book club in Mullingar Library read Nina Carberry's Pony Camp Chaos in September 2024 Duncan rated the book 5 stars (out of 5). He said: I loved this book so much. It was very funny and exciting and I didn't know what would happen next. I liked it even more than Nina Carberry's first […]
For Heritage Week 2024 Moate Library hosted an exhibition on local business Snowcream and its history in Moate, compiled by Kathleen Cleary. The Beginning In the mid-1950s, Micheál Malone local farmer and his friend Pat Clavin from Streamstown recognised that the day of untreated milk being sold directly to consumers was coming to an end […]
To help children to navigate starting school, libraries have put together a bag with a book just for them that can be collected at any Westmeath library from June 2024. We hope that once they visit the library to pick up their book bag, our new library members and their families will come back regularly […]
Athlone Book Club read Alice Winn's In Memoriam in September 2024. They said 5 Stars A stunning debut novel; heartbreaking, brilliant and thoroughly researched. It provoked a lively discussion for the book club. In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting […]
Every child who signs up to our Summer Stars 2024, reads and returns a book gets the chance to win in our prize draws. These are happening in all our libraries, every single week over the summer. Call in today and join our collection of winners.