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If you want to learn more about beekeeping or about honey bees, how the honey bees have divided their tasks, why they swarm, why they produce honey, what their role is in our biodiversity, their specific diseases and pests and many about honey bees, the Royal County Beekeepers’ Association (RCBKA)...

Meath County Council invites applications for a Writer in Residence, under the Creative Ireland Meath programme.

The Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) Libraries Development Unit and Age Friendly Ireland have partnered to launch the Digital Ambassador Programme. This programme aims to support older people access online library resources, particularly while physical library services are suspended as part of government measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19...

Curraghtown, July 1922 forms part of Meath County Council’s Decade of Centenaries 2013-2023 programme. The book will be available to purchase from all Meath County Libraries and from Antonia's Bookshop in Trim from July 1, 2022.

Did you know that as a member of MCCLS, you can access the Touch-type Read & Spell (TTRS) course for free? TTRS is a multisensory, structured, online typing course which assists students to learn at their own pace. In addition to developing typing skills, TTRS is designed to benefit students...

Don’t miss this weekend’s exciting Guth Gafa International virtual Film Festival – Doc Day Afternoon, Sunday 13th December.

Copies for sale in all Meath Libraries €10

On Thursday 24th September 2020, Meath County Council held its first virtual event to launch the publication of ‘Trim, September 1920’ in Trim Library. The Chief Executive Jackie Maguire was joined by the Cathaoirleach Cllr David Gilroy and by the authors of the book, Cllr. Noel French and Tom French...

Meath County Council Library Service published Paddy Smith’s Cocooner: A Lockdown Diary in November, with the support of the Creative Ireland Programme, Age Friendly Ireland and Healthy Ireland. The book is available in our libraries throughout the county and can also be purchased (€10) from Antonia’s Bookstore, Trim. A recorded...

Public Libraries are offering more services to the public as outlined in Phase 3 of the Government’s Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business. The following lists the revised opening hours and services for the libraries at Ashbourne, Athboy, Duleek, Dunboyne, Dunshaughlin, Kells, Navan, Nobber, Oldcastle, Slane and Trim. Check out...

Meath County Council Library Service is delighted to have received the Right to Read Award for 2019 in recognition of the implementation of the core programme of Right to Read literacy support services as coordinated by the library service and delivered with the support of the Right to Read Network...

We are living in extraordinary times - a moment in history that will be remembered forever. Just as historians and scientists today have learnt from the contemporary accounts kept during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, we can ensure that the experience of COVID-19 is documented for future researchers. How can...