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The university of the people: celebrating Ireland's public libraries : the Thomas Davis Lectures 2002.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin : An Comhairle Leabharlanna, 2003.Description: xi, 195 p. : 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 1873512104
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 027.0415
Contents:
Archbishop Marsh and the first public library in Ireland / Muriel McCarthy -- Haunt of the idler or centre for learning? Public libraries 1849 - 1949 / Nodlaig Hardiman -- Carnegie libraries in Ireland / Brendan Grimes -- Decades of aspiration: public libraries 1947 - 87 / Deirdre Ellis King -- The public library: a national imperative / Noel Dempsey -- The post-war public library service: bringing books "to the remotest hamlets and the hills"? / Diarmaid Ferriter -- The Library and imaginative freedom / Declan Kiberd -- The young reader and the public library / Robert Dunbar -- Something stirring: the extraordinary in the ordinary day of the public library / Fionnuala Hanrahan -- Information and empowerment through the public library / Liam Ronayne -- A rich and diverse treasure: special collections in public libraries / Máire Kennedy -- Unrealised potential: the relationship of schools with the library service / John Coolahan -- Local access, global reach / Sean Philips -- Reading, writing and rebelling: growing up with public libraries / Fintan O'Toole.

Includes index (pp.188-195)

Archbishop Marsh and the first public library in Ireland / Muriel McCarthy -- Haunt of the idler or centre for learning? Public libraries 1849 - 1949 / Nodlaig Hardiman -- Carnegie libraries in Ireland / Brendan Grimes -- Decades of aspiration: public libraries 1947 - 87 / Deirdre Ellis King -- The public library: a national imperative / Noel Dempsey -- The post-war public library service: bringing books "to the remotest hamlets and the hills"? / Diarmaid Ferriter -- The Library and imaginative freedom / Declan Kiberd -- The young reader and the public library / Robert Dunbar -- Something stirring: the extraordinary in the ordinary day of the public library / Fionnuala Hanrahan -- Information and empowerment through the public library / Liam Ronayne -- A rich and diverse treasure: special collections in public libraries / Máire Kennedy -- Unrealised potential: the relationship of schools with the library service / John Coolahan -- Local access, global reach / Sean Philips -- Reading, writing and rebelling: growing up with public libraries / Fintan O'Toole.

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