Homeland Art

Ah, “them were the good old days”, back when the Guinness barges would trudge up and down the River Liffey, when you could have a game of football on Collins Avenue without being “interupted” by passing cars for up to 20 minutes,
when you coal would be delivered by horse and cart with the coalman covered from head to toe with the black stuff (and I don’t mean Guinness!), when hats would be tipped to passing strangers.

This month Dublin City Libraries, in association with the Heritage Council, will open their extensive archives of the life and times of the capital in an extensive series of talks, films, exhibitions, walking tours, and boat trips as part of ‘Our Heritage - All Our Yesterdays Today’.

The week long trip down memory lane will feature events highlighting local history, architecture, and inland waterways.

Cabra library will host one of the highlights of the week.  A commerative exhibition of the North Strand bombings in 1941 when 4 german bombs were dropped on the area killing 28 people, injuring 90 and destroying 300 homes.

There will be a number of commissioned photographs on show of the damge of the bombs and the major clearance operation that was required.

There will also be an oral history talk in Cabra Library of women’s experiences living through World War II.

For lovers of nature there will be a talk by Eanna Ni Lamhna in the Central Library on the wildlife of the time in the River Dodder, and other parts of Dublin.

There will also be a series of films taking place in the Central Library. Titled ‘Dublin in the Rare Oul’Times’ viewers can enjoy a number of films put together by the Irish Film Institute using the Irish Film Archive of the life and times of our capital city from the 1920’s up until the 1970’s.

All events are free. For more information visit Dublin City Libraries website.

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