Upcoming events

To join in the Artist Trading Cards fun in Dalkey Library you can create any number of artworks, at home, on 6.3cm x 8.9cm sized card relating to the theme "Windows".

You can then start to build your own collection of cards by bringing the cards you created to the meet up and swap them with other members of the group at a social event.

The theme for July is "Windows" and at this meeting we will select the theme for the following month.

Email dalkeylib@dlrcoco.ie for further information, or come along to the meet up to find out how it all works!

Every Friday in Dalkey Library at 10.30am-11.15am, for ages 18mths to 3yrs

Join us with your toddler to meet other children and their guardians to socialise and connect with others in the library setting. Music or storytime will be scheduled from time to time at the Toddler meetup, otherwise it is a free play session as led by the children!

Join us at Dalkey Library for our Lego Challenge Club - a fun, creative session where imagination takes the lead! Explore and free‑play with our huge Lego collection and see what amazing creations you can build.

Join Library staff on Mondays, upstairs in the Junior Library for stories with library staff, then some free time to play with toys in Dundrum Library.

12.30pm-1.00pm: Stories, songs and rhymes

1.00pm-2.00pm: Free play

Places are limited, so be sure to book online!

Please book for each child, there is no need to book for accompanying adults. Strictly one adult accompanying each child only.

Join us with your baby to meet other children and their guardians to socialise and connect with others in the library setting. Storytime will be scheduled from time to time at the baby meetup, otherwise it is a mingle session and a chance to meet and chat with others and their babies!

For 0-18mths.

This group takes place every 2nd Wednesday in Dalkey Library

"Harry Potter Science"🪄in Dalkey Library 

Join Anyone 4 Science to learn about Magnets and Magnetism and make a “magic wand" at this Summer Stars library event.

For ages 8yrs +

Practice speaking Irish in a relaxed art filled workshop.

We will use Geli plates to make fun abstract prints that are vibrant and full of colour. Through Irish I will introduce you to all the materials involved in Geli plate printing. We will use water based paint but it can get messy so dress for a mess!

This adult event is aimed at learners of Irish at all levels. Through some fun facilitated art activities as well as some free speaking time all participants are encouraged to learn and share Irish together. Most importantly the focus of the workshop is speaking practice. Helpful conversation phrases will be on the tables.

No art background necessary.
All materials provided.

Bígí linn don am scéalaíochta dátheangach i Leabharlann Dhún Droma, le scéalta as Gaeilge agus as Béarla gach deireadh Lá Déardaoin sa mhí ag 15:00. Scéalta agus spraoi, ar oscailt don páistí le gach leibhéal Gaeilge. Níl sé riachtanach spás a chuir in áirithe. 

Join us for a bi-lingual story time on the last Thursday of every month, with stories in Irish and English this event is open to all levels of Irish. No booking required. At 15:00 in Dundrum Library. 

Every Friday in Dalkey Library at 10.30am-11.15am, for ages 18mths to 3yrs

Join us with your toddler to meet other children and their guardians to socialise and connect with others in the library setting. Music or storytime will be scheduled from time to time at the Toddler meetup, otherwise it is a free play session as led by the children!

Calling all Scrabble enthusiasts! Join our Scrabble Club in Dundrum Library and test yourself against Dundrum's fellow Scrabblers!
The group meets every two weeks 2-4pm. We hope to see you there.

Contact/info: dundrumlib@dlrcoco.ie / 012047220

Get Creative! An Interactive Writing Workshop for Children with Award-Winning Children’s Author, Sarah Webb

For ages 10-12yrs

If your child likes creating characters and settings and coming up with original ideas, they will love this fun interactive workshop with Sarah Webb. During the workshop, the young writers will dream up their own bookshop, café or hang out space and write a story, poem or comic strip about it. Will it be a bookshop run by cats, or a climbing wall with its own donut café? They will decide!

Sarah Webb is an award-winning Irish children’s author, creative writing teacher and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs children’s bookshop, Greystones. Her books include Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and The Weather Girls, which was inspired by real WW2 events in Ireland. Her new children’s book, The Bookshop Sisters, set in Dublin in 1956 was published in May by The O’Brien Press. 

Booking essential for this Summer Stars Event!

Join Enid for an intergenerational event where you will get to create your own decoupage glass jar!

For children ages 11+ along with an accompanying adult

This is an all the family "intergenerational" event where a child and an adult can participate together. So if you are a Parent, Guardian, Grandparent, Aunt or Uncle (or even a child minder) you can sign up for yourself and your child to attend this event.

Booking is essential. Please book a ticket for both yourself and your child.

This decoupage workshop is for children over the age of 11yrs and will be using napkins and mod podge to create a decorative glass jar. If you have some nice paper napkins, and in order to be sustainable, do bring the napkins with you. However there will also be pretty napkins supplied at this event.

Join us at Dalkey Library for our Lego Challenge Club - a fun, creative session where imagination takes the lead! Explore and free‑play with our huge Lego collection and see what amazing creations you can build.