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 […]
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 […]
Athlone book club read Snowflake by Louise Nealon in July 2024. They thought Mixed feelings were experienced by members of the group. Some didn’t enjoy it. The majority did. The characters are recognisable and there was a lovely relationship depicted between the uncle and niece. Every 3rd level lecturer should read this. 3.75 Stars. Eighteen-year-old […]
In June 2024 the Athlone Book Club read Purple hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. They thought
This May as part of the Bealtaine festival we celebrated the arts and creativity. Our last event was the coffee and crafts class where we chose to decorate greeting cards with flowers of late Spring and early Summer. Greatly inspired by the wonderful wildflower meadow right outside our window in the libraries creative space, we […]
On the 18th May Mullingar Library welcomed Mullingar Climate Action Network to the library for a "special event "Green Gather" event. "Sustainability through repair" was the main theme of the day, with speakers on biodiversity, food waste, upholstery and you repair among others. Many thanks to those that came along, and especially to Mullingar Climate […]
Africa Day is an annual celebration of the people and cultures of this wonderful continent. This year it was celebrated on 25th May, and to mark the occasion Moate Library are hosting an exhibition by Lesley Wingfield "Faces of Africa", depicting some of the rich and diverse African cultures living in our community. Lesley Wingfield […]