Castleisland Library hosted a Felt Making Workshop with the assistance of Martyn Bell. The event marked the Bealtaine Festival 2015 at the library and it was subtitled Celebrating Creativity As We Age. The Currow Active Retirement Group attended both workshops and really enjoyed the experience. “Castleisland Library provides a great service to everyone in the…
Cllr. John Brassil, Cathaoirleach of Kerry County Council will launch the new Kerry Library Toy & Sensory Resources collection at Castleisland Library on Wednesday, 6th May at 11a.m. The collection includes games, learning and sensory resources and is designed to offer support to children with learning difficulties, disabilities or more significant needs. Although based at…
Castleisland Family Resource Centre has been running a book club for children from schools in the area for the past three years. Castleisland Library staff choose the books for the group to read each month. On Thursday, March 12th the final reading club of the year took place and the children were presented with their…
A statement by Brendan Griffin TD (FG) and welcomed by party colleague, Cllr. Bobby O’Connell. KERRY Fine Gael TD, Brendan Griffin, has just received confirmation of the provisional allocation of €10,000 by the Department of Children for use at Castleisland and Killarney libraries. The funding will be used to establish a library of toys and…
Castleisland branch library staff-members were delighted to announce the donations of the entire and pristine collection of In and about Castleisland. Under the stewardship of Gina McElligott, this was a publication which chronicled the happenings of the town in pictures and words during the years of its run from 1994 to 2010. “Castleisland Library is extremely pleased to announce…
It would be a crying shame and a frightful mark of indifference and neglect against the present generation of Castleisland residents if we let the ‘Old Library’ fall into disrepair. After all the struggles this noble, old building has been through, its demise has been greatly sped-up by the recent, hurricane-force winds. Redmond Roche, who…
