Congratulations to the students from Dominican College Griffith Avenue, St Vincent's Secondary School and Trinity Comprehensive who took part in our History in Your Hands project this year!
Prizes were awarded to nine students for their history research study reports at an awards ceremony yesterday.
Huge thanks to our guest speaker, journalist and environmentalist Frank McDonald, whose exhibition 'Frank McDonald and the Destruction of Dublin' is currently on display in Cregan Library.
The project team would like to thank the students & teachers who took part this year and those who have supported the project over the last 3 years. Not forgetting @kobpix for the brilliant awards ceremony photos!
Learn more about the project in our History in Your Hands guide - link in bio
Last autumn Colm and Emily from our help desk team took part in a LIR digital skills workshop on the fundamentals of creating a podcast.
As part of this training, they submitted a final piece to the LIR Group for review with the top three receiving a
prize and a showcase on the LIR website.
Colm and Emily took 2nd
place!
Here's Colm taking part in a Q&A at the LIR Annual Seminar, discussing how he found the process and learnings from it.
Huge congratulations to both!
Last night, DCU Library was delighted to celebrate the launch of The Policeman’s Helmet Soup Journal, a new undergraduate open access journal developed in collaboration with the School of English.
The journal gives undergraduate students the chance to publish their work, build real experience in academic writing, and engage with the scholarly publishing process.
As an open access journal, their research can be shared and read far beyond the university community
Read more about it, and access Issue 1, via our website (link in bio!)
The DCU exams might be over, but there’s another big exam on our minds this week… the Leaving Cert!
Over the past three days, we’ve welcomed sixth year students to our St. Patrick's campus for our Higher Level Leaving Cert Masterclasses in English, Maths & Irish.
A huge thank you to the brilliant Dave Rudden, Eoin O’Mahony and Aisling Sheerin for sharing their expertise and encouragement.
One piece of advice that really stood out? “You know more than you think you do.” A great reminder from Dave Rudden to trust the work you’ve already put in.
There’s still time for sixth year students to sign up for our Leaving Cert Study Scheme, running from May 11–June 23 Check the link in our bio for more info.
*NOW FULLY BOOKED*
Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey is DCU Book Club's pick this May!
Christine joins us as a special guest for an in conversation event at the Presidents Lounge, DCU Glasnevin Campus on Thursday, 21st May.
Our London Lives offers a rich and moving portrait of an ever-changing city, and a profound inquiry into character, loneliness and the nature of love. Following two Irish outsiders over the decades and interweaving their paths from time to time, often in one another’s sight, always on one another’s mind, yet rarely together.
Christine Dwyer Hickey was born in Dublin and is a novelist and short story writer. Her recent novel The Narrow Land won two major prizes: the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the inaugural Dalkey Literary Award. 2020 also saw her 2004 novel Tatty chosen for UNESCO's Dublin One City One Book promotion. Her work has been widely translated into European and Arabic languages. She is an elected member of Aosdana, the Irish Academy of Arts.
🔗 This event is now fully booked! If you would like to join our waiting list, visit link in bio.
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From Tuesday, May 5th, Woodlock Hall will be operating on Summer hours:
9:30am - 1:30pm, Monday to Friday
Full opening hours for all three libraries in the link in our bio!
We are happy to report that the lift in Cregan Library is working again.
The first‑floor bathrooms and some teaching resources and study areas on that floor are still unavailable.
Please ask at the help desk if you need anything from the first floor, or if you require any assistance.
We are working to resolve these issues as quickly as possible and appreciate your patience.
Join us for the 2026 National Drop Everything and Read Challenge at 12 today!
Borrow one of the books from our DCU Book Club displays in our Cregan and O'Reilly Libraries and bury your head in a brilliant book at noon. Don't forget to join us for the next DCU Book Club session with Christine Dwyer Hickey - link in bio.
Every year DEAR Ireland invites people across Ireland to put down their work, switch off their TVs, close their textbooks and read quietly, or be read to, for twenty minutes. The goal with this challenge is to promote literacy through reading for your own personal enjoyment.
More details at dropeverythingandread.ie #LetsGetIrelandReading #DEARIrl
Due to a burst pipe, all toilets in Cregan Library are currently unavailable except for those on the third floor. Toilets are also available in F Block.
In an unfortunate coincidence, the lift is also out of order.
Some first‑floor teaching resources are temporarily unavailable, as well as some study areas. Please ask at the help desk if you need anything from this floor, or if you require any assistance.
We are working to resolve these issues as quickly as possible and appreciate your patience.
A massive thank‑you to the students who jumped in to help yesterday when water began pouring down the stairs. You are legends!
May your pillow always be cold, and may every topic you studied appear on your exam papers💛
***Competition Closed***
Return your books between 21–30 April, send us your return‑receipt, and we’ll pop you into a draw to win a €10 Londis voucher + a DCU Library tote bag. A little thank‑you for bringing your stuff back before you go. 💛
How to enter:
📸 Screenshot or forward your return‑receipt email
📬 Send it to [email protected]
🎉 You’re in the draw!
Winner announced: 1 May
Prize collection deadline: 8 May
T&Cs:
Open to DCU students only. One entry per student. Valid return‑receipt must show items were returned between 00:00 21/04/2026 and 23:59 30/04/2026. By sending your receipt, you consent to us using the information only to run this competition. All entry data will be deleted after 8 May.
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