Seachtain na Gaeilge 5th - 17th March 2010

Scéalta as Gaeilge/ 

Storytime in Irish

for 2-6 year olds

Thursday 11th March @ 3pm

followed by 

St Patricks Day Crafts

for 4-7 year olds

Free to attend!

First come first served

Children must be accompanied by an adult

World Book Day: AHHHH! A show for early years

All 18 months to 4 Years Welcome!

Thursday 4th March 11am

The Irish Times - Review

.....Wordless enactment is also a feature of Ahhhh! , a show for children aged between 18 months and four years.

...The lone actor, Jay Ryan, proudly shows us his toys and plants, letting the children give his pet piggy a kiss. He blows bubbles, and cleans our shoes with a feather duster. Everyone present is charmed; indeed, two toddlers take to the stage to get a closer look at Jay’s toys. Produced by PigNut Productions, this is a thoroughly enjoyable – and aptly named – performance.

....fascinating to observe how their creators experiment with visual storytelling, a feature of theatre-making internationally. This makes theatre accessible to children who either haven’t learned to talk yet, or who are learning a second language.

PATRICK LONERGAN

The Kate O'Brien Weekend 26, 27 & 28 February 2010

Kate O'Brien Weekend 2010

Kate O'Brien was born into a prosperous Limerick family in 1897. She began her writing career in 1926 and Without My Cloak, a novel written in 1930, was her first best seller. Other works include The Ante Room, That Lady, The Land of Spices and The Last of Summer. Although frequently returning to Limerick, the inspiration for much of her work, Kate O'Brien spent the latter part of her life in England. She died in 1974.

The Kate O'Brien Weekend kicks off the 2010 Spring Calendar of literary events on Friday, February 26th. The theme of the twenty sixth Kate O'Brien Weekend is Outsiders.

 For more information on the Kate o'Brien Weekend, visit the website here

The Most Frightening Book in our Collection?

We have been reliably informed by one of our members that this book is the most frightening and unsettling book in our collection. Beware!

River Shannon: Ardnacrusha to Limerick

Studying Shakespeare

Shakespeare quartos online

The Guardian reports that four early editions of Hamlet owned by the Bodleian Library will soon be digitised and will join other quarto copies of the play on a free online resource. The Shakespeare Quartos Archive will in time reproduce at least one copy of every edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in quarto before the Puritans closed the theatres in 1642.

 The site currently has 32 copies of Hamlet, all of which are manipulable. You can annotate the text (keeping your notes private or making them public for others to view), tag lines and even overlay a speech from one edition on top of the same speech from another. An Oxford lecturer, Ben Burton, said he had already used the website with undergraduates to encourage them to think about differences between texts and the way early modern literature is interpreted: they were asked to edit the 'to be or not to be' soliloquy, looking at different versions and making their own decisions. 'Used in this way,' he explained, 'the archive can help enliven a form of textual analysis that many students find dry and esoteric.'


http://www.quartos.org/

 

Arts & Crafts: Valentine's Day - We Wove Norweigan Hearts!

If you would like to also do this craft project, go to this website for the instructions

*New* Watch House Cross Library Video Diary

Please check out our new video diary! Some of our younger patrons discuss why they come to the library, what they like to do at the library and what books they enjoy reading!


Why not take part yourself? We are looking for library patrons to give us their thoughts and views on WHC library. Please leave your details at the desk, filming usually takes place on Tuesdays after 3pm.

*New* World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The principal objectives of the WDL are to:

• Promote international and intercultural understanding;
• Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
• Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
• Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

Watch the promotional video on Youtube.
Read the news report here
Enjoy!

Unfringed: The Cleaner - held in WHC Library kitchen!

Performer: Medb Lambert
Director: Donal Gallagher

Co-produced with the Kilkenny Arts Office
(Production enabled by kind support from Áras Éanna Arts Centre, Inis Oírr and Boomerang, Cork).

Premier - Kilkenny Arts Festival, 2006.

Cork Midsummer Festival, 2008 - kitchen of the Uniterian Church, Princes Street.

"...delightfully clever..." The Irish Times.

"...charming... enchanting... this sweet little piece of work is, above everything else, a play about the magic of theatre." Irish Theatre Magazine.

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