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Tuesday 21 March 2023 Dublin: 9°C

# one city one book

Last year
2022
# Competition
WIN: One of three literary goody bags from One Dublin One Book
We have three to give away – they contain books, a notebook and tickets to the Museum of Literature Ireland.
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Apr 1st 2022, 11:17 AM
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# echoland
A spy novel set in Dublin during the 1940s Emergency chosen as this year's One City One Book
Echoland, by Joe Joyce, follows novels such as Dubliners, Dracula and Strumpet City to be chosen for the festival.
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Mar 22nd 2017, 10:01 AM
# book extract
"Sackville Street was a scene of wreckage. The air still smelled of fire"
Read an extract from the book here. We also have 10 copies of the book to give away.
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Mar 28th 2016, 8:00 PM
# one city one book
Roddy Doyle's latest project was launched in the most fitting way
His Barrytown Trilogy will be part of a book initiative in Dublin next month.
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Mar 25th 2015, 8:45 PM
# imelda quirke's arse
7 wonderful gifts Roddy Doyle has given the world
His Barrytown Trilogy has so much to offer.
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Aug 22nd 2014, 9:23 PM
# the rabbittes
Here's why we'll all be reading (and watching) The Commitments next year
And The Snapper, and The Van…
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Aug 19th 2014, 10:16 AM
# From the Archives
Pics: Black and white archive photos of Dublin, as seen in Strumpet City
Dublin City Public Libraries has taken old photographs of Dublin and juxtaposed them with quotes from James Plunkett’s seminal novel about the 1913 Lockout. Take a look…
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Apr 13th 2013, 5:00 PM