Join MoLI and UCD’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programme on Thursday, 30 March, at 7pm for a live recording of the seventh episode of Past/Present/Pride. For the event, Dr Paul D’Alton will speak to writer Declan Toohey. Toohey was born in Paisley, Scotland and raised in County Kildare, Ireland. His work has appeared in Channel, Soft Punk, and the anthology Queer Love, among other outlets. In 2021 he was a co-winner of the IWC Novel Fair, and he is the 2022 recipient of the Maeve Binchy Travel Award. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at University College Dublin, where he worked on a novel under the supervision of Anne Enright.

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Join author-illustrator Tarsila Krüse on Saturday, 1 April, in a collective colourful art-making session for all the family, filled with dreams and magic! Inspired by her latest book Little Love Lessons, you are all invited to contribute to this collective art piece, adding your own doodles, drawings and colourful cut-outs on a giant roll of paper!
11am - 11.45am for 0-4yr olds
12.30pm - 1.15pm for 4-6 yr olds, with ISL Interpreter for the Deaf Community

Individual ticket €5
Family ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children) €15

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Join us for Storytime Sundays every Sunday at 11am: hear stories from Irish children’s authors, presented by our wonderful learning team. Suitable for babies, toddlers and children (accompanied by an adult). Entry is included with your museum ticket (or free for MoLI members).

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Join us on Friday, 7 April, from 6pm to 9pm for First Fridays. The museum will be open late, until 9pm, with free admission and a range of programmed events, including a performance by Varo and a reading by Audrey Magee.
Please note all events are limited capacity and first come, first served. The Commons Café will also be open late.

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Join Skein Press, in partnership with MoLI, for the launch of The Book of Trivialities by Majed Mujed, Kareem James Abu-Zeid (trans.), on Thursday, 13 April 2023 at 7pm. In a series of evocative vignettes, celebrated Iraqi poet Majed Mujed lyrically traverses the fraught landscapes of beauty, longing and resistance in a country at war. Intricately fusing political and personal histories, The Book of Trivialities speaks to the universal, undying quest for freedom that knows no borders or bounds. For this event, Majed Mujed and translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid will be in conversation with writer Paul Perry, accompanied by a performance by oud player Hussein Al Zahiri.

Presented with the support of the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

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For our May Director's Book Club – on Tuesday, 30 May at 5pm on Zoom– we will be reading Anne Enright's novel, The Gathering, with the author joining us to discuss the book. Check the latest MoLI Members' Bulletin for details, or become a member today to join the book club. We also have a number of copies of the book available in the MoLI shop, as well as a book bundle featuring the books for the first three book club sessions.

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