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Waterford City Library, also known as the Central Library, is a public library in Waterford, Ireland. It was the first to be built of Ireland's many Carnegie libraries . The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie , who had previously opened libraries in Scotland and the US, himself laid the foundation stone in 1903.
Also incorporating the Long Room, the Old Library is one of Ireland's biggest tourist attractions and holds thousands of rare, and in many cases very early, volumes. In the 18th century, the college received the Brian Boru harp, one of the three surviving medieval Gaelic harps, and a national symbol of Ireland, which is now housed in the Library.
The National Library of Ireland (NLI; Irish: Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is Ireland's national library located in Dublin, in a building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The mission of the National Library of Ireland is "To collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland ...
Library Association of Ireland; M. Midleton Library; P. Public Libraries (Ireland) Act 1902; R. Russell Library (St Patrick's College) W. Waterford City Library
Brach, Tara (2003). Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.Bantam. ISBN 0-553-80167-8.; Brach, Tara (2012). "Mindful Presence: A Foundation for Compassion and Wisdom", in Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice edited by Christopher K. Germer and Ronald D. Siegel.
The library website was re-designed and the content refreshed in 2011, and a further update completed summer 2014. In 2017 another major redesign took place. A new Library Management System, from Innovative Interfaces, went live in July 2012, and upgraded to the newer Sierra platform in May 2015.
This collection is on permanent loan from the Library Council of Ireland. The books cover the areas of philosophy, religion and sociology. They are shelved separately from the core collections, and contain many books dealing with non-Catholic traditions, including Anglican , Presbyterian , Methodist and other denominational groups.
The Connemara Heritage and History Centre, also called Dan O'Hara's Homestead, is an open-air museum in the village of Lettershea, near the town of Clifden (Irish: An Clochán), County Galway, in the Connemara region, Ireland. [1] [2] It was established in the late 1980s.