Children and Young People
YOU were invited to The Great #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks Tea Party!
This Ireland Reads Day, no less than eight of Ireland's top children's authors and illustrators took over the children's department at the dlr LexIcon Library to throw a magnificent tea party celebrating Irish children's books, curiosity and creativity. What a day we had!
For starters, we doodled Potty Teapots and Cookie Cookies with author and illustrator, Alan Nolan, and designed our own geansaí at the Jumper Jamboree/Geansaithe Gleoite with award-winning author, Sadhbh Devlin!
For main course, we joined famous duo Leona Forde and Karen Harte to make Milly McCarthy’s next adventure at the Magical Milly Doodle Dock, and for the bravest of little ones, we became monsters for the day in our Shapeshifter Station with World Book Day author, Kevin Moran.
For dessert, we were Snug as a Bug on the Story Time Rug with Ireland’s beloved picture book maker, Mary Murphy. Then we popped into the Poetry Factory to have a very special poem written especially for us by Emerging Writer-in-Residence, Ruth Ennis, and enjoyed a spot of Wonderlarking with our Tea Party host and Established Writer-in-Residence, Eve McDonnell.
We finished it all off with a cuppa (of cordial!) and a cookie, and to keep our Ireland Reads Day celebrations going, we brought our library cards or visited the Dubray pop-up shop so we could bring home one of the many brilliant Irish Children’s Books we discovered on the day!
When: 1pm-3pm, Saturday 28th February 2026
Where: Level 4, dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire
Who: Families, children aged 0-12
This is a drop-in family event - no booking required. Please note that children must be accompanied by adults at all times.
This event has now passed.
Brought to you by the dlr Arts Established Writer-in-Residence Eve McDonnell and dlr Libraries, in collaboration with the #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks campaign.
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