Leanie Joubert Exhibition ‘Summer Walks’

Leanie Joubert Exhibition ‘Summer Walks’ Tuesday 1st August - Friday 1st September My name is Leanie Joubert and I live in Celbridge where I work from my studio in my back garden. My work often centers around themes of the natural world. I regularly paint forests and landscapes in all seasons or I make more detailed studies of plants like roses or wild grasses.

Dogman – Police Station. Can Dogman Keep Petey in Jail?

Dogman workshop for children aged 6 - 9 years

Pawn to King: Learn to Play Chess

Learn to play chess in this fun, interactive workshop from Red King Chess. Step-by-step, learn the starting position, movement and capture rules for all pieces. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to play a full game of chess

Knitting Group (Kilcock)

Bring your project to our casual knitting group.

Purls of Wisdom

Knitting Group Meeting every Tuesday 11am – 1pm. Accepting members

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle Maynooth

Fáilte roimh chách chun do Gaeilge a chleachtadh gach Dé Máirt ó 11:00am - 12:00pm. All are welcome to practice their Irish every Tuesday from 11:00am - 12:00pm.

Story Time & Sing Along Nursery Rhymes

Join us for Storytime and Rhymes in the Library.

Age Friendly event: Coffee Morning for the over 55s

Coffee Morning for the over 55s

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Wed)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Ciorcal Comhrá at Athy Library

Ciorcal Comhrá at Athy Library

Baby and Toddler Stay & Play Group

If you have a young baby or toddler and would like to meet other parents in the area, come to our stay and play group every Thursday morning at 10am. Bring a coffee and chat to other parents while your babies play with the toys and books provided. No need to book, just drop in!

Knitting Group

Knitting Group

Saving the Natural World - Climate Action Workshop

Children's climate action workshop.

Ciorcal Comhrá

Caint agus Comhrá le Leabharlann Baile Chill Dara

Future Tapestry Exhibition

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality-based art experience exploring the history, legacy, and contemporary currency of Irish wool production. VR experience lasts approximately 5 minutes. Ages 16+

Get Crafty - Kildare Town Library

Adult craft group

The Military Archives

Daniel Ayotis, Director of the Irish Military Archives, will tell the story of this institution

Story-Time for 1-5 year olds

An open story and song session for ages 1-5. There'll be a few short stories, and some popular Action Songs to support the different stages of literacy development and engage younger attendees. Places are limited and one ticket is required per child. All children must be supervised during this session.

EmployAbility Services

Free employability service

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Fri)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Carmel's Storytime!

Carmel’s Storytime - Song, dance and stories for the 0 – 5-year old’s

Age Friendly Coffee & Conversation Morning at Leixlip Library

Join us every Friday morning at 11am for tea/coffee and a chat! Make a friend, read the papers......drop in and say hello. Everyone is welcome! No Booking required

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle

Irish language conversation circle

Lego Club and Lego Pit

Lego Club and Lego Pit

Breastfeeding support group with Public Health Nurse

The group will be facilitated by the Public Health Nurse (PHN). All mothers who are breastfeeding are welcome to attend. No booking needed, just drop in.

Bilingual Comic Workshops with Artist Adrian Courtney/ Ceardlann Greannán le Aidan Courtney

Bilingual Comic Workshops with Artist Adrian Courtney/ Ceardlann Greannán le Aidan Courtney

Future Tapestry Exhibition

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality-based art experience exploring the history, legacy, and contemporary currency of Irish wool production. VR experience lasts approximately 5 minutes. Ages 16+

Knitting Group (Kilcock)

Bring your project to our casual knitting group.

Purls of Wisdom

Knitting Group Meeting every Tuesday 11am – 1pm. Accepting members

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle Maynooth

Fáilte roimh chách chun do Gaeilge a chleachtadh gach Dé Máirt ó 11:00am - 12:00pm. All are welcome to practice their Irish every Tuesday from 11:00am - 12:00pm.

Biodiversity in your Garden: Gardening Workshop for Families

How to prepare your garden for the Autumn & Winter season including crops to grow, ideas to help biodiversity and how to restore the soil for the following year. Suitable for all the family.

Gardening and Biodiversity Workshop with Judith O’Connor

Gardening and Biodiversity Workshop with Judith O’Connor

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Wed)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Ciorcal Comhrá Léim an Bhradáin

Irish Conversation Group at Leixlip Library! All levels welcome.

Baby and Toddler Stay & Play Group

If you have a young baby or toddler and would like to meet other parents in the area, come to our stay and play group every Thursday morning at 10am. Bring a coffee and chat to other parents while your babies play with the toys and books provided. No need to book, just drop in!

Irish Sign Language Conversation Group

Get together to practice your Irish Sign Language in a free, safe and fun community space.

Get Crafty - Kildare Town Library

Adult Craft Group

Am Scéalaíochta | Storytime in Irish Join Eibhlín in the library for a fun storytime session as Gaeilge

Am Scéalaíochta | Storytime in Irish Join Eibhlín in the library for a fun storytime session as Gaeilge Oiriúnach do pháistí 5-7 blian | For ages 5-7

Employ Ability Services

Free employability service

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Fri)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Mini Makers with Laura

Come along to mini makers at Newbridge library! Inviting children from 2-5 years old to engage in creative play-based learning.

Carmel's Storytime!

Carmel’s Storytime - Song, dance and stories for the 0 – 5-year old’s

Age Friendly Coffee & Conversation Morning at Leixlip Library

Join us every Friday morning at 11am for tea/coffee and a chat! Make a friend, read the papers......drop in and say hello. Everyone is welcome! No Booking required

Creative Use of Waste & Space workshop with The Rediscovery Center

Introduces the concept of waste reuse and includes a wide range of hands-on arts and crafts activities reusing waste materials such as fabric, scrap paper, food cans and tetra packs. Reading challenge element + small Space element e.g. will incorporate elements like making rockets, learning about constellations, and incorporate elements related to climate change.

Creative Waste Workshop with Rediscovery Centre

Join us for a hands-on introduction to creative reuse of waste materials with a wide range of arts and crafts activities

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle

Irish language conversation circle

Heritage Week at Celbridge Library: Beekeeping Drop-in Family Workshop

Beekeeping Drop-in Family Workshop as part of Heritage Week

Future Tapestry Exhibition

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality-based art experience exploring the history, legacy, and contemporary currency of Irish wool production. VR experience lasts approximately 5 minutes. Ages 16+

Magic Wand Felting with Tamzen Lundy

Magic Wand Felting with Tamzen Lundy

Finger Puppet Felting with Tamzen Lundy

Finger Puppet Felting with Tamzen Lundy

Heritage Week / Climate Action workshops: Natural Dyeing and Spindle Spinning Workshop

Natural Dyeing and Spindle Spinning Workshop

Family Friendly Summer Fermenting Workshop

Beginners’ guide to fermentation and pickling, with a focus on lacto-fermentation and light summer pickles. Please Select for link.

Celtic Illuminated Letters for National Heritage Week 2023

Taking inspiration from the ancient illuminated letters and Celtic artwork in the Book of Kells we will draw and paint our own illuminated letter.

Heritage Week: Science of Sound and Music

In this workshop with Anyone4Science, children will investigate the origin of sound and sound waves, and how these are eventually interpreted as sound by the brain Please Select for more info and link.

Knitting Group (Kilcock)

Bring your project to our casual knitting group.

Purls of Wisdom

Knitting Group Meeting every Tuesday 11am – 1pm. Accepting members

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle Maynooth

Fáilte roimh chách chun do Gaeilge a chleachtadh gach Dé Máirt ó 11:00am - 12:00pm. All are welcome to practice their Irish every Tuesday from 11:00am - 12:00pm.

Local Folklore Stories for all the family with Storyteller Michelle

Local Folklore Stories for all the family with Storyteller Michelle T

Phoenix Foróige Youth Club: August

Volunteer-led youth club for young people aged 12 - 18

Autumn/Winter Gardening and Biodiversity Workshop

How to prepare your garden for the Autumn & Winter season including crops to grow, ideas to help biodiversity and how to restore the soil for the following year. Suitable for all the family. Children attending this workshop must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Wed)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Build and Create Lego Drop in: August

We provide the Lego, you provide the ideas!

Future Tapestry Exhibition

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality-based art experience exploring the history, legacy, and contemporary currency of Irish wool production. VR experience lasts approximately 5 minutes. Ages 16+

Baby and Toddler Stay & Play Group

If you have a young baby or toddler and would like to meet other parents in the area, come to our stay and play group every Thursday morning at 10am. Bring a coffee and chat to other parents while your babies play with the toys and books provided. No need to book, just drop in!

Early Years Workshop with Music Generation Kildare in Celbridge Library

Music Generation workshop for 3-5 year olds in Celbridge Library

Lughnasa Letterpress Family Workshop National Heritage Week 2023

Family workshop. Max. groups of 4, children 8 years old & up. In our Lughnasa Letterpress workshop we create bookmarks, postcards or mini prints with our poetry or words inspired by biodiversity, nature’s lifecycle and heritage week. The workshop is designed around intergenerational groups of 4 working collaboratively on a composition. Using vintage metal type on a mobile 1942 Adana letterpress, we set the type upside down and backwards, to print a short line from a poem, a phase or word or ve

Creating a Mandala

Creating a Mandala Workshop for children aged 8 - 12years

Storytime Special with Carmel for Heritage Week!

Storytime for children aged 0 - 5 years

Carmel's Storytime!

As part of ‘Heritage Week’ Carmel will host a heritage themed story time. Song, dance and stories for the 0 – 5-year old’s

Ciorcal Comhrá

Caint agus Comhrá le Leabharlann Baile Chill Dara

Storytime with Lorraine

Join Lorraine for a fun-filled storytime at Leixlip Library! Please Select for link.

Get Crafty - Kildare Town Library

Adult craft group

Employ Ability Services

Free Employ Ability Services

Little Makers Morning

Let their imaginations run wild! Join us for a morning of making for 1 - 4-year-olds. Practice fine motor skills while having fun! Build amazing creations using construction toys such as Magna-Tiles, Duplo, Mega Bloks, Blockaroo, puzzles and more. While not all activities will be suitable for all ages – there will be something for everyone! 

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Fri)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Carmel's Storytime!

Carmel’s Storytime - Song, dance and stories for the 0 – 5-year old’s

Family Friendly 80s Classic Movie Morning in Celbridge Library

Classic 80s Movie Morning upstairs on the Mezzanine

Age Friendly Coffee & Conversation Morning at Leixlip Library

Join us every Friday morning at 11am for tea/coffee and a chat! Make a friend, read the papers......drop in and say hello. Everyone is welcome! No Booking required

Heritage Week Magic Wand felted Pencil Workshop

In this fun felt session, children will learn the basics of wet felting, the world’s oldest form of textile making. This is a fabulous introduction to a very sensory craft, suitable for beginners. There will be plenty of soapy bubbles and soft fibres. Roll up your sleeves and rub a dub dub! Children under the age of 8 attending this workshop must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Mindful Mosaics and Zentangles

Mindful Mosaics and Zentangles

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle

Irish language conversation circle

Pop-Up Nature Forest School for Families with Dúlra Forest School

2 Sessions 10:30 - 12:30 Parent & infant (0 - 5 years) 14:00 - 16:00 Parent & child (6 - 12 years) To celebrate National Heritage Week, we are delighted to collaborate with Kate Maher of Dúlra Forest School. Participants will meet in the Library and be brought by Kate to their Forest School in Newbridge Linear Park where they will learn about native flora and fauna through games and interactive resources. They will learn about the food and medicinal uses of native plants, and make some small cr

LEGO Freeplay

Pop in to Leixlip Library and become a ‘Master Builder’! Suitable for all the family.

Natural dyeing Spindle Spinning Workshop

In this workshop participants will learn how plants, roots, lichens and trees were used in the dyeing of fibre in ancient Ireland, plus introducing plants that can be used today from our own home. Each participant will be given the opportunity to dye fibre using mason jars.

Family Library Movie Screening

We welcome you to join us for a surprise screening of a family friendly film rated PG on the BIG screen in Leixlip Library. No Booking Required.

Board Games Session: August

Board Games on the mezzanine

Breastfeeding support group with Public Health Nurse

The group will be facilitated by the Public Health Nurse (PHN). All mothers who are breastfeeding are welcome to attend. No booking needed, just drop in.

Creative Places Athy

Creative Places Athy

Knitting Group (Kilcock)

Bring your project to our casual knitting group.

Purls of Wisdom

Knitting Group Meeting every Tuesday 11am – 1pm. Accepting members

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle Maynooth

Fáilte roimh chách chun do Gaeilge a chleachtadh gach Dé Máirt ó 11:00am - 12:00pm. All are welcome to practice their Irish every Tuesday from 11:00am - 12:00pm.

Online Teen Writers Group

Open to Teens and Tweens to enjoy writing, Maynooth Teen Writers Group meets online for an hour, once to twice a month. This is a relaxed and friendly environment to talk about writing, get some feedback if they wish and also very important quiet writing time. Contact Maynooth Library at maynoothlib@kildarecoco.ie or 045 980 493 for more information.

Phoenix Foróige Youth Club: August

Volunteer-led youth club for young people aged 12 - 18

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Wed)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Design Your Own Book: Online Event with author Paddy Donnelly Summer Stars 2023

Extinct animals are fascinating! Award-winning author and illustrator Paddy Donnelly will join us from his home in Belgium to look at some different interesting species as inspiration for your own story, then draw them as a character and design a cover.

Ciorcal Comhrá Léim an Bhradáin

Irish Conversation Group at Leixlip Library! All levels welcome.

Creative Junk Modelling!

Creative Junk Modelling!

Baby and Toddler Stay & Play Group

If you have a young baby or toddler and would like to meet other parents in the area, come to our stay and play group every Thursday morning at 10am. Bring a coffee and chat to other parents while your babies play with the toys and books provided. No need to book, just drop in!

Scéalaíochta le Lorraine

Bígí linn le haghaidh Am Scéalaíochta lán spraíúil i Leabharlann Léim an Bhradáin! Oiriúnach do aois 4-7 bliana. (Cuir in áirithe ticéad amháin do gach páiste, le do thoil). Táimid ag tnúth libh a fheiceáil! Please Select for link.

Future Tapestry Exhibition

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality-based art experience exploring the history, legacy, and contemporary currency of Irish wool production. VR experience lasts approximately 5 minutes. Ages 16+

Get Crafty - Kildare Town Library

Adult craft group

Classic Film Screening

On Thursday 24 August, we welcome you to join us for a famous classic film on the big screen at Leixlip Library. No Booking Required

Employ Ability Services

Free employability service

Toddler Time in the Library: August

A chance for 2-5 year olds to play, draw and meet other toddlers

Am Scéalaíochta | Storytime in Irish Join Eibhlín in the library for a fun storytime session as Gaeilge

Am Scéalaíochta | Storytime in Irish Join Eibhlín in the library for a fun storytime session as Gaeilge Oiriúnach do pháistí 5-7 blian | For ages 5-7

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Fri)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Carmel's Storytime!

Carmel’s Storytime - Song, dance and stories for the 0 – 5-year old’s

Age Friendly Coffee & Conversation Morning at Leixlip Library

Join us every Friday morning at 11am for tea/coffee and a chat! Make a friend, read the papers......drop in and say hello. Everyone is welcome! No Booking required

Story-Time for 1-5 year olds

A story-time specifically tailored for children aged 1-5. There'll be a few stories, and some popular Action Songs to support their stage of literacy development. Places are limited and one ticket is required per child. All children must be supervised during this session.

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle

Irish language conversation circle

Arts & Crafts with Aoife

Join Aoife in the Leixlip Library gallery space for some arts and crafts fun. Suitable for ages 4-7 years Please Select for link.

Summer Stars 2023 Celebration Party!

Well Done to all our Summer Stars for taking part in our summer reading challenge! We were so impressed with the children of Newbridge, the amount of books read and the wonderful book reviews we received!

Summer Stars Party with Genie Mackers!

Summer Stars Party with Genie Mackers!

Family Boardgame Afternoon

Pop into Leixlip Library, where we will have boardgames out to entertain all the family! Suitable for Families with Children aged 5+.

Podcast and storytelling workshop with Lost Kids Storytime

Come in for a fun podcast and storytelling workshop with David!

Autumn Seed Saving Session for Families

Kildare Seed Library: Autumn Seed Saving Session

Knitting Group (Kilcock)

Bring your project to our casual knitting group.

Purls of Wisdom

Knitting Group Meeting every Tuesday 11am – 1pm. Accepting members

Ciorcal Comhrá / Conversation Circle Maynooth

Fáilte roimh chách chun do Gaeilge a chleachtadh gach Dé Máirt ó 11:00am - 12:00pm. All are welcome to practice their Irish every Tuesday from 11:00am - 12:00pm.

Poetry Café

Want to meet for, chat about, and create poetry? Come along to the poetry café for adults in Maynooth Community Library from 6pm - 7pm. No booking required, just drop in!

Phoenix Foróige Youth Club: August

Volunteer-led youth club for young people aged 12 - 18

Women's Ex-Pats & Friends Group

Calling all women who have relocated to Ireland, returned from abroad, or local ladies interested in welcoming expats! Our Women's Group offers a meeting place at the library to chat, make new friends, and share stories about transitioning to Ireland. Join us for an enriching experience of community, support, and connection.

Future Tapestry VR exhibition: Celbridge Library (Wed)

Future Tapestry is a virtual reality (VR) experience and an artistic response to the history, legacy and contemporary currency of Irish wool production.

Baby and Toddler Stay & Play Group

If you have a young baby or toddler and would like to meet other parents in the area, come to our stay and play group every Thursday morning at 10am. Bring a coffee and chat to other parents while your babies play with the toys and books provided. No need to book, just drop in!

Knitting Group

Knitting Group

Get Crafty - Kildare Town Library

Adult craft group

Starting ‘Big School’ Presented by Dr Mary O’Kane

In this session, Dr Mary O’Kane offers some very practical advice on the most important skill sets for children during this transition, and how best to support your child over the summer in developing these skills.