Cairde Event: Oein De Bhairduin, The Slug & The Snail
2024-07-09 15:00 - 15:45 UTC
Award-winning author Oein De Bhairduin illustrated a short story about self-acceptance and pride from a member of the Irish Traveller nomadic ethnic minority, drawn from the Irish Traveller oral storytelling tradition, DeBhairduin’s tale, The Slug & the Snail, is a gentle allegory about difference, self-acceptance and different ways of seeing the world.
This inclusive, heartening short story has won Sunday Times Children’s Book of the week, Book Trust Book of the Month and Book Trust Northern Ireland Book of the day.
Oein DeBhairduin is a writer, activist and educator with a passion for preserving the beauty of Traveller tales, sayings, retellings and historic exchanges. He is the Traveller Culture Collections Development Officer with the National Museum of Ireland and seeks to pair community activism with cultural celebration, recalling old tales with fresh modern connections and, most of all, he wishes to rekindle the hearth fires of a shared kinship.

No Booking Required. All Ages Welcome.

Weekly Lego Hour
2024-07-10 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-17 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-24 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-31 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-08-07 15:00 - 16:00
Drop in session – no booking required! Ages 5+

Runs weekly between July 10th and August 7th

Summer Stars Storytime
2024-07-11 11:30 - 12:00, 2024-07-18 11:30 - 12:00, 2024-07-25 11:30 - 12:00, 2024-08-01 11:30 - 12:00
No booking required. Ages 5+

Runs weekly from July 4th – August 8th.

Cairde Event: Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh, Libraries & Liberties
2024-07-11 18:00 - 19:10
Rehearsed Reading of new work in progress by Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh.

No Booking Required. Ages 14+

The tormented protagonist, James, cradles a genuine desire to ignite the library. His internal strife, marked by alienation and disenchantment, fuels a visceral hatred within him. Women spurn him. Leftist politics fails to captivate him. Trans people challenge him. The queer community are happier than him. Foreigners have more than him.
The resilient librarian Helen stands sentinel over knowledge, freedom, and enlightenment. Her apprehension of James’ demand for book censorship becomes pivotal in this unfolding drama. Initially, her attraction to James held promise, but his anger and demands evoke echoes of the book burnings of 1939 in Berlin. Helen finds herself at the epicentre of an escalating inferno, entwined with passion and far-right fascism.
Followed by an In Conversation with Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh hosted by academic, researcher and lecturer in social care at ATU Letterkenny David Friel.
With Joshua Donoghue and Aisling Mannion
Directed by Fiona McGeown
Part of the Hereditas Project funded by the Arts Council of Ireland’s Art:2023 Arts Participation Award.

Toddle Storytime
2024-07-12 10:00 - 10:30 | sligo central
Please join us for Toddle Time Story Time at Sligo Central Library
Friday 12th July @ 10am
Ages 0-4
No Booking Required

Children's Book Club
2024-07-12 15:00 - 15:45, 2024-07-19 15:00 - 15:45, 2024-07-26 15:00 - 15:45, 2024-08-02 15:00 - 15:45
Runs weekly July 5th – August 9th. Ages 9+

Booking Required
Contact 071 911 1675 or sligolib@sligococo.ie

Sligo Library Dyslexia Club
2024-07-13 11:30 - 12:15, 2024-07-20 11:30 - 12:15, 2024-07-27 11:30 - 12:15
No booking required. Ages 8+

Runs Weekly July 6th – August 10th.

Beginner's Chess Workshop with Craig Du Bose
2024-07-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-23 15:00 - 16:00
Ages 8+

Two sessions, choose one: Tuesday July 16th or Tuesday July 23rd.

Booking Required
Contact 071 911 1675 or sligolib@sligococo.ie

Storytime with special guest Éadaóin Dooley
2024-07-18 11:00 - 11:30
No booking required. Ages 5+

Toddle Storytime
2024-07-19 10:00 - 10:30 | sligo central
Please join us for Toddle Time Story Time at Sligo Central Library
Friday 19th July @ 10am
Ages 0-4
No Booking Required

Library Garden Stone Painting Workshop
2024-07-25 15:00 - 16:00
Help us decorate our garden. Ages 7+

Booking Required
Contact 071 911 1675 or sligolib@sligococo.ie

Ballymote Community Library : Recording Voices of the Modern Irish State: Tomás Ó Máille (1880-1938), folklore collector, linguist, newspaper editor, profess
2024-07-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Ballymote Community Library, Teeling Street, Ballymote, Ireland
In conjunction with the exhibition currently on display at Ballymote Community Library, we are delighted to be welcoming Deirdre Ni Chonghaile from University of Galway to speak at 5pm on Thursday 25th July.

All are welcome and no booking is required.

Please contact the library at 071 9111669 if you require further information.

Title of Talk
Recording Voices of the Modern Irish State: Tomás Ó Máille (1880-1938), folklore collector, linguist, newspaper editor, professor

Speaker
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
Curator of the exhibition Culture & Citizenship: Tomás Ó Máille

Abstract
Tomás Ó Máille (1880-1938) was the inaugural Professor of Irish at University College Galway. Born in 1880 in the Maam Valley in Connemara into a prosperous, Irish-speaking family, Tomás trained in Dublin, Manchester, Liverpool, Baden, Berlin, and Freiburg where he was awarded his doctorate in 1909. He was associated with the West Connemara flying column, and his brother Pádraic (1876–1946) was a member of the first Dáil. Belonging to the coterie of radical intellectuals and political and cultural leaders of the War of Independence, Ó Máille’s achievements are rightly considered alongside those of his fellow revolutionaries, his friend Patrick Pearse and fellow academics Thomas McDonagh and Éamon de Valera.

A folklore and song collector, newspaper editor, linguist, and teacher, Ó Máille was in a pioneer in many ways. His greatest foresight was his commitment to the newest technology of his day – audio recording. From 1928, he created over 500 recordings of speech, storytelling, and song from Irish speakers throughout Connacht and Clare, which can now be heard at https://www.universityofgalway.ie/tomasomaille-ga/. Ó Máille also assisted the recording work of other collectors and scholars including Wilhelm Doegen whose Irish recordings are hosted by the Royal Irish Academy at https://www.doegen.ie.

This talk marks Prof. Ó Máille’s contribution – unparalleled in scale and ambition – to the audio heritage of Ireland and coincides with the bilingual exhibition Culture & Citizenship: Tomás Ó Máille touring Ireland throughout 2024.

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Toddle Storytime
2024-07-26 10:00 - 10:30 | sligo central
Please join us for Toddle Time Story Time at Sligo Central Library
Friday 26th July @ 10am
Ages 0-4
No Booking Required

Badge Making & Paper Craft Workshop
2024-07-30 15:00 - 16:00
Ages 7+

Booking Required
Contact 071 911 1675 or sligolib@sligococo.ie

Toddle Storytime
2024-08-02 10:00 - 10:30 | sligo central
Please join us for Toddle Time Story Time at Sligo Central Library
Friday 2nd August @ 10am
Ages 0-4
No Booking Required

PUBLIC HOLIDAY CLOSURE
2024-08-03
All Sligo Library Branches will be CLOSED on Saturday 3rd of August for the Public Holiday.

Library Summer Stars Scavenger Hunt
2024-08-06 15:00 - 16:00
Ages 8+

Booking Required
Contact 071 911 1675 or sligolib@sligococo.ie
