Bailiúchán: Adult Reference

In 1987, art students Jay Roche and John Carter created murals, 19 panels, chronicling Bray's history at Bray DART Station. They were the winners of a competition set up by community arts organiser Anne Hennessy. The original artists, and their colleague Anthony Kelly, began the 'mural to mosaic'...

; This book from Purple House, Ireland’s first community-based cancer support centre features the inspiring stories of individuals who have faced cancer and highlights the importance of minding your mental health. The book aims to raise awareness and support for cancer patients and their familie...

A blended factory study and oral history of Industry Yarns Ltd. Little Bray. It examines the working lives of those employed, with testimony from 15 former employees both management and worker.

'Tales from a Wicklow Tea Room' is the story of a tiny cottage in Glencree in the Wicklow Mountains and the tea room run there by the McGuirk family, which gained a remarkable reputation between the 1880s and the 1960s. Over this most formative period in Irish history, the cottage became a meetin...

'Irish-English Thesaurus' is the stunning culmination of Garry Bannister's life's work and a milestone in engagement with the Irish language and its culture. Exploring nearly 700,000 words, it is a reference book like no other, a meticulously researched record which captures the beauty, agility, ...

A synopsis of the book states: ‘The Irish Forestry Society was founded in 1902 by Dr Robert T Cooper, a successful Irish physician based in London, who was greatly concerned by the level of deforestation in Ireland during the late 19th and early 29th centuries. He was soon joined by others who sh...

Andrew J. Kettle was born in September 1833 in Drynam House, Swords, Co. Dublin. A well-known champion of tenant farmers' rights and land reform, Andrew J. Kettle (1833-1916) was a co-founder of the Land League with Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell, an advocate of Irish Home Rule, a pr...