Libraries

For Partir en Livre Festival, the CCI’s Médiathèque is putting on a games night for the first time, in partnership with the neighbouring Bibliothèque Buffon.

Enjoy an afternoon of readings and workshops at the Médiathèque to discover Irish tales and legends.

As part of the Festival of Ideas, the Médiathèque is offering a selection of resources relating to the themes covered over the three-day event.

During her residency at the CCI, Victoria Kennefick will read extracts from her first novel in the Médiathèque.

Join us for a poetry writing and perfume workshop on Valentine's Day that will consider the themes of love and grief through our sense of smell.

As part of the Nuits de la lecture event, come and visit our Old Library with its three illuminated manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages.

Discover the treasures of the CCI’s Old Library and the temporary exhibition Conquering the Unknown

Travel accounts by explorers and missionaries were an important means of expanding geographical and scientific knowledge. This fascinating exhibition in our Old Library spans documents from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

Visit our Old Library with its three illuminated manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages.

This fascinating lecture sheds new light on the roles played by Irish veterans of the Great War… their trajectories as well as their hopes, expectations and uncertainties.

The 2020 and 2021 winners of the Liam Swords Foundation bursary present their research, respectively, on war poetry and the Napoleonic expedition to Ireland in 1798.

Malcolm Walsby explains this evening how he can interpret clues hidden in a volume to reconstitute how generations of woman and men used them.

As great admirer of James Joyce, Leo. J.M. Koenders collected a fascinating array of artists' books and objects inspired by the writer's work.