Events
Events
MoLI hosts a programme of events across the museum, including performances, readings, talks and workshops. Join our newsletter below to hear about upcoming events, or become a member to benefit from advance booking.
Upcoming events at MoLI

Storytime Sundays
26 March 2023 | 11.00 | The LitLab
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).

March Director’s Book Club
28 March 2023 | 17.00 | Online
For our March Director's Book Club – on Tuesday, 28 March, at 5pm on Zoom– we will be reading Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy, with writer Patrick McCabe 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.

Past/Present/Pride – Declan Toohey
30 March 2023 | 19.00 | Old Physics Theatre, MoLI
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.



Bright Sparks Presents: Little Love Lessons Family Story and Art Workshop with Tarsila Kruse
1 April 2023 | 11.00 12.30 | LitLab (MoLI)
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



Storytime Sundays
2 April 2023 | 11.00 | The LitLab
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).



Launch of The Book of Trivialities
13 April 2023 | 19.00 | Old Physics Theatre (MoLI)
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.



May Director’s Book Club
30 May 2023 | 17.00 | Online
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.
Previous events at MoLI



May Director’s Book Club
30 May 2023 | 17.00 | Online
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.



Launch of The Book of Trivialities
13 April 2023 | 19.00 | Old Physics Theatre (MoLI)
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.



Storytime Sundays
2 April 2023 | 11.00 | The LitLab
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).



Bright Sparks Presents: Little Love Lessons Family Story and Art Workshop with Tarsila Kruse
1 April 2023 | 11.00 12.30 | LitLab (MoLI)
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



Past/Present/Pride – Declan Toohey
30 March 2023 | 19.00 | Old Physics Theatre, MoLI
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.