Book Shops, Literature & Writing
Ballincollig Library
Village Shopping Centre
021 4873024
ballincolliglibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday: 9.30 am to 5.30 pm
Activities / Ongoing Events:
A Music Morning on the last Tuesday of each month.
A readers Group on the last Wednesday of each month.
Regular exhibitions.
Seasonal events for children.
Special Storytime for preschoolers every friday morning at 11a.m. with Breda Rodgers
Ballyvourney Library
Vocational School
Ballyvourney
026 45058
Opening Times:
Monday: 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Wednesday: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Friday: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Saturday: 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Closed Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday
Bandon Library
Shopping Centre, South Main Street
Bandon
023 44830
bandonlibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday: 10.00am to 6.00pm
Activities / Ongoing Events: Storytelling - Every Saturday at 11:00am, for ages 3 - 8 years
Bantry Library
Bridge Street
Bantry
027 50460
Fax: 027 51389
bantrylibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 am - 6.00 pm (Closed: 1.00 - 2.30 pm except Thursday)
Activities / Ongoing Events:
Bantry Library Reading Club
Business Information Service
Children's Storytelling
Leabharlann Oilean Chléire - Cape Clear Library
cleirelibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Wednesday-Saturday 2pm - 4pm and Thursday 7pm - 9pm
Activities / Ongoing Events: Storytelling - Every Saturday at 11:00am for ages 3 - 8 years
Carrigaline Library
Main Street
Carrigaline
021 437 1888
carrigalinelibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday 9.30 pm to 5.30 pm (Closed: 1.00 to 2.00 pm)
Services: Three PC's with Internet access only are available in the Library. These can be booked for a period of one
hour per day by library members. The service is free but printing costs 10p for black and white and 50p for colour
sheets. The service is available from 10.00 a.m.- 5.00 p.m. (lunch 1.00-2.00)
Activities / Ongoing Events:
Gramophone Recitals 11.00 a.m. on the third Thursday of each month.(Sep. - May.)
Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 11.00 a.m.
A wide range of events take place for the children, details are available from the Library.
Castletownbere Library
The Square
Castletownbere
027 70233
castletownberelibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times:
Tuesday: 6.00 to 8.00 pm
Wednesday: 2.00 to 6.00 pm
Thursday: 11.00 am to 1.30 pm
Friday: 10.30 am to 12.pm &3.00 to 6.00 pm
Saturday: 10.00 am to 1.00 pm
Clonakilty Library
Old Mill, Kent Street
Clonakilty
023 34275
clonakiltylibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Tuesday - Saturday: 10:30 am to 6:00 pm
Activities / Ongoing Events:
Get on the Net - A talk on the basics of the Internet
Kids Create - Arts and Crafts for pre-school children
Storytelling starts again on Saturday 19th January at 11.00am. All children welcome.
Clonakilty Library Book Discussion Group - meets every second Wednesday of month; New members and visitors welcome.
Clonakilty Library Writers' Group - meets again on Wednesday 16th January 2002 at 11.00am.
Meet every second Wednesday at 11.00am at the library. New members and visitors welcome. Writers, Poets and Lecturers occasionally visit the group.
Book Lending
Poetry Readings
Occasional Lectures
Musical Evenings
Exhibition - ESB Environmental Award Winning Photographs
Business Information Service
Dunmanway Library
The Square
Dunmanway
023 - 55411
dunmanwaylibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times:
Tuesday: 2.00 to 8.00 pm
Wednesday - Friday: 2.00 to 5.30 pm
Saturday: 10.30 am to 5.30 pm
(Closed: 1.00 to 2.00 pm)
Macroom Library
Briery Gap, Cultural Centre, Main Street
Macroom
026 42483
macroomlibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday: 10.00 am to 5.30 pm
Tuesday & Friday: 10.00 am to 7.30 pm
Kinsale Library
Methodist Hall
Kinsale
021 477 4266
kinsalelibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Tuesday - Friday: 2.00 to 6.00 pm Saturday: 11.00 am to 6.00 pm (Closed: 1.00 to 2.00 pm)
Passage West Library
Community Centre
Passage West
passagewestlibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times:
Tuesday: 6.00 to 8.00 pm
Wednesday & Thursday: 12.00 to 4.00 pm
Friday: 2.00 to 6.00 pm
Schull Library
21, Upper Main Street
Schull
028 28290
schull@indigo.ie
Opening Times:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 3.00 to 6.00 pm
Wednesday: 10.00 am to 12.00 pm & 3.00 to 6.00 pm
Sunday: 11.30 am to 1.30 pm
Skibbereen Library
North Street
Skibbereen
028 22400
skibbereenlibrary@eircom.net
Opening Times: Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00 am - 5.30 pm
Activities / Ongoing Events:
Book and Audio tape lending
Internet Access: Available at library during opening hours - for a mere £2.00 membership fee, Visitors and
holidaymakers are welcome to become members also. Advance booking is advisable.
Skibbereen Library Reading Club - meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 2pm - 4pm.
Reading groups are an opportunity to get together with other book enthusiasts.
Two books are discussed each month in a relaxed and sociable manner. All adults welcome - admission is free.
Children's Art Workshops
Sherkin Island Library
Community Centre
Sherkin Island
028 20336 (Only to be used for faxes, otherwise please use e-mail address stated below.)
sherkinisland@eircom.net
Opening Times:
Monday: 2.00 to 5.00 pm
Wednesday: 3.00 to 6.00 p.m
Friday: 6.00 to 10.00 pm
Adult Literacy Tutor Training
Skibbereen
028 23502
training commences 10 March
Anam Cara Writer's & Artist's Retreat
Eyeries
027 74441
027 74448
anamcararetreat@eircom.net
Year-round residential retreat for novice to professional writers and artists
overlooking Coulagh Bay on the Beara peninsula
Ballea Writers Club
Ballea Castle, Carrigaline, Co Cork, Ireland
phone: 086 174 1137
Ballea Writers operate on four arms: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and journalism.
They hold worshops on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, from
7.30-9.30, in the Carrigaline Court Hotel, Their material can be viwed on their website.
Bantry Bookstore
New Street
Bantry
027 50064
027 52042
bantrybk@iol.ie
Cape Clear Storytelling Festival
Cape Clear
Chuck Kruger
028 39157
September
Carrigaline Adult Literacy Scheme
Carrigaline Social Centre
Carrigaline
021 437 7993
Courtmacsherry Storytelling Festival
Courtmacsherry
John Young
023 46170
September
Macroom Adult Literacy Group
Nora
026 42074
now providing tutoring as gaeilge, tutors required
Pilgrim Books
Pilgrim's Rest
The Square
Rosscarbery
Cal & Joan Hyland
023 48063
fax: 023 48658
calbux@iol.ie
open Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Irish Interest, Catalogues issued
Read Ireland - Irish Books Online
Rosscarbery Art & Literature Festival
c/o Pilgrim's Rest, the Square
Rosscarbery
Grainne Hyland
023 48063
annual event, second weekend of May
Schull Books
Ballydehob
Jack & Barbara O'Connell
028 37317
fax: 028 37317
schullbooks@eircom.net
Selling out of print and antiquarian books on all subjects, including Irish interest, by mail order and
from our summer shop at Main Street, Ballydehob, Monday to Saturday, 11 - 5.
We also publish books on the history of the Disbanded Irish Regiments of the British Army and on the
involvement of the Irish in the Great War.
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