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UCD Library Collection Spotlight: Dublin One City One Book 2019
Dublin One City One Book website
Explore the official One City One Book website and download a programme of events at https://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie.
Edna O'Brien reads from her memoir 'Country Girl'
Books from our Collection
This year's Dublin One City, One Book is The Country Girls Trilogy, by Edna O'Brien. This trilogy encompasses the title volume (1960), Girl with Green Eyes (1962) and Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). UCD Library holds many works by Edna O'Brien, and during the month of April we are highlighting these as well as essays, biographies and related works from our collection.
Feel free to browse and borrow the books that are on display next to the stairs in the James Joyce Library. Below are just some of the titles being highlighted.
The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien
Call Number: 823 IR OBRISBN: 9780571352906Publication Date: 2019Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
Call Number: 823 IR OBRISBN: 9780571269433Publication Date: 2012Conversations with Edna O'Brien by Alice Hughes Kersnowski (Editor)
Call Number: 823 IR OBR/KISBN: 9781617038723Publication Date: 2013-12-02Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction by Ellen McWilliams
Call Number: 823.09 IR MCWISBN: 9780230285767Publication Date: 2013-04-11Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth
Call Number: 813 ROTISBN: 9780099428435Publication Date: 2001The Irish Novel, 1960-2010 by George O'Brien
Call Number: 823.09 IR OBRISBN: 9781859184950Publication Date: 2012-08-31Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story by Elke D'Hoker
Call Number: 823.09 IR DHOISBN: 9783319302874Publication Date: 2016-08-08
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- LGBT+ History Month
- Veganuary
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- Solidarity with the Palestinian People
- Cló-Iar Chonnacht
- Halloween!
- Dublin Festival of History 2022
- Leabhair Ghaeilge!
- Plastic Free July!
- Pride 2022
- Dublin Literary Award 2022
- Nora: One Dublin One Book 2022
- Saint Patrick - An Icon of Irishness
- International Women's Day - #BreaktheBias
- Laureate for Irish Fiction
- New Year, New Books
- Have a very Green Christmas!
- Dublin Book Festival 2021
- Parent and Carer Collection
- Dublin Book Festival 2019
- Horror!
- Dublin Festival of History 2019
- Library Staff Picks 2019
- Time for Travel!
- International DUBLIN Literary Award 2019
- Mindfulness, Exams and You
- Dublin One City One Book 2019
- International Women's Day 2019 - #BalanceforBetter
- Recent Irish themed books
- Year of Indigenous Languages
- Nollaig Shona 2018
- Armistice 100
- A selection of our new books 2018
- UCD Exams - Books to Keep You Afloat!
- International DUBLIN Literary Award 2018
- Dublin: One City One Book 2018
- Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2018
- A selection of our new books 2018
- Bliain na Gaeilge
- New Year, New You 2018
- Jonathan Swift Festival
- Kavanagh Reconsidered
- Halloween
- Dublin Festival of History 2017
- Study Skills for New Students
- Heritage Week 2017: Patrick Kavanagh Reconsidered
- Time for Travel 2017
- International Dublin Literary Award 2017
- UCD Library Staff Picks
- Dig our Gardening Collection!
- Sporting Biographies
- Recent Publications from UCD Authors
- The Stu Daultrey Donation
- Some Irish Women Painters
- New Year, New You!
- Christmas 2016
- The American Election
- Female Playwrights
- Halloween!
- Bí ag léamh i nGaeilge
- Dublin Festival of History 2016
- 1916 - 2016
- Reading 1916
- UCD Press Titles
- Taisteal as Gaeilge
- It's Revision Time!
- One City One Book
- The Irish at the Oscars
- Irish Folklore in UCD Library
- First Fortnight
- Nollaig Shona - Chrismas 2015
- The Ireland Chair of Poetry
- Library Ireland Week 2015
- DVD Collection Focus
- The Man Booker Prize 2015
- Russia on the Eve of War and Revolution
- Dublin Festival of History 2015
- Yeats 150
- The 2015 IMPAC Award Shortlist & Winner
- James Joyce and Bloomsday 2015
- Irish Drama featuring Christopher Murray
- National Dawn Chorus Day: the UCD Library Ornithology Collection
- The Irish Short Story
- Earth Day 2015
- Dublin: One City, One Book - The Barrytown Trilogy
- The Health and Wellbeing Collection
- The New Laureate for Irish Fiction
- Irish Authors on Film
- Chinese New Year - Year of the Goat
- The Laureate for Irish Fiction Nominees
- Writers With Pride
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- Man Booker Prize 2014
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Edna O'Brien Papers
UCD Special Collections holds the papers of Edna O'Brien. Find out more, and download a list of the papers in the collection.
More featured books
Impure Thoughts by Michael G. Cronin
Call Number: 823.09 IR CROISBN: 9780719086137Publication Date: 2012-11-30The Role of Irish Women in the Writings of Edna O'Brien by Helen Thompson
Call Number: 823 IR OBR/TISBN: 9780773436725Publication Date: 2010-07-01London Irish Fictions by Tony Murray
Call Number: 823.09 IR MURISBN: 9781846318313Publication Date: 2012-10-04The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien
Call Number: 823 IR OBRISBN: 9780571316281Publication Date: 2015
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