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Children's Book Festival 2011

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Casey and Laura make Beast Quest Book Bags

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Author and artist Dolores Keaveney visits Hollyhill Library

Where's Wally Month September 2011

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Children make Where's Wally magnetic bookmarks in Hollyhilll Library

Summer Festival 2011

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Luke, winner of our Football Quiz August 2011

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Casey, our Colouring Champion for August 2011

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Liam, winner of our Big Big Books Picture Quiz, July 2011

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Gavin, our Colouring Champion for July 2011

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Superbrain Adam! Winner of our SuperBrain Challenge, July 2011

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Two of the participants in our Summer Poetry Tree workshops during July 2011. Pictured with Thomas McCarthy.

Know Your Library Treasure Hunt, 16 April 2011

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Art Exhibition Award Ceremony

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Winners of the One Book One Community Art Competition with Director of Services, Kevin Terry. To see the winning entries visit www.onebookonecommunity.ie

Angel Crafts

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Casey, Lydia, Laura and Shanelle make Christmas Angels in the library.

Elephant Train Workshop

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Children take part in an elephant train workshop during October 2010

Children's Book Festival 2010

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Casey, Colouring Champion October 2010

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Enjoying an art workshop at Hollyhill Library

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Old Father Story with a little help from the audience

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Cook Up A Comet at Hollyhill Library in association with Blackrock Castle Observatory

Quiz Champion

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Johnathon - winner of our Big Picture Quiz 2010

Colouring Champions!

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Colouring Champion Summer 2010 - Amy.


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Children participating in Hollyhill Library's Colouring Championship August 2010

Hollyhill Book of the Summer eBook

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One of the participants in the Hollyhill Book of the Summer eBook project.

Download the eBook by clicking the following link:
Hollyhill Book of the Summer (PDF file 1.1 MB)

Christmas in the Library

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Ms. Claus and kids enjoy Christmas stories and crafts

Children's Book Festival 2009

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Enjoying Glitter na Gig Puppet Theatre


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Children make scary Halloween mummies.

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A winner in our Astrosaurs Colouring Competition

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Fun at the Fancy Dress

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Sarah Rees Brennan, author of The Demon's Lexicon, reading to students at Terence MacSwiney Community College 2 October 2009

Super Quiz
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 Monique Laing (third from right) represents Hollyhill Library at the Super Quiz in Central Libary, Grand Parade on 28th August 2009

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Monique, right, during the Super Quiz.

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Hollyhill reader enjoying storytime in the library

Past Events

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See the winning entries for our Designs on Reading Book Illustration competition here.

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7 - 9 years

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10 years and over

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The FAI Cup visits the library

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The children of the library meet Cork City FC star player John O'Flynn and get their photographs taken with the FAI Cup. 12 February 2008.   Thanks to Cork City FC for visiting our library.

Chess Tournament

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Winners of the recent inter-branch chess tournament, 17 November 2007.  
Left to right: Emmet Cat, Jack Kirby, Stephen O'Brien and David Goldsmith.

Caring For Your Animals

Albert Kleyn of the Animal Care Society visits Hollyhill Library
Albert Kleyn of the Animal Care Society speaks to children in Hollyhill Library on Friday, 2 November 2007,
as part of Children's Book Festival activities.

Animal Roadshow

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A young reader enjoying the Animal Roadshow in Hollyhill Library, 11 October 2007

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Bel Mooney reads to children in Hollyhill Library

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Children's writer Bel Mooney reads from one of her Kitty and Friends book for children at Hollyhill Library, 5 October 2007.

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Cork City players visit Hollyhill Library

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Cork City FC players Neal Horgan and Sean Kelly visit Hollyhill Library during Soccer Crazy Week in August 2007. 

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Author Dervla Murphy with Thomas McCarthy in Hollyhill Library
Renowned travel writer Dervla Murphy visits Hollyhill Library in May 2007. Pictured with writer, Thomas McCarthy. Photograph by kind permission of Ken Lynch.

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Hip-hop artist GMC launches teen music section in Hollyhill Library to celebrate Teen Day on 19 April 2007.
He performed five tracks to a lucky limited audience of local teenagers.

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Children's writer and illustrator, Oisin McGann, visits Hollyhill Library

Chess

Chess Tournament winner Aoife Cat 

Recent chess tournament winner, Aoife Cat. For chess club information, click here.

Paul Tubb

Poet Paul Tubb at Hollyhill Library
Poet Paul Tubb visits Hollyhill Library for Roald Dahl Day.

Music

Hollyhill teens buy CDs for the library 

Hollyhill teenagers spend €4,000 on music CDs on behalf of the library.

Having fun in the Library

Children enjoying Hollyhill Library

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