Libraries

Cork County Council’s Library and Arts Service is inviting everyone to take part in ‘Ireland Reads’, a campaign to get the whole country reading during February, in the lead up to a National Day of Reading on Saturday, the 22nd of February. 

Author and mindfulness coach Marie O’Halloran has taken up the role of Cork County Council’s ‘Reader in Residence’ for 2025, working with pupils in Charleville CBS Boys School and Doneraile National School to nurture a love of reading.

Cork County Council’s Library and Arts Service is accepting submissions to the ‘From the Well’ Short Story competition 2025.

Cork County Council’s Cobh Library has acquired a rare and historically significant Ordnance Survey of Ireland map of the Lower Harbour of Cork, generously donated by Diarmuid Kilcullen the grandson of Cobh barrister Francis J Healy.  The map, which is based on the Ordnance Survey of 1897, showcases Cobh town, the surrounding areas and Haulbowline Island. The map offers a unique glimpse into the strategic importance of the Lower Harbour over a century ago.