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Have you registered for the 2026 National Drop Everything & Read Challenge on Friday April 24th-with DEAR Ambassador @pforde123.bsky.social? Full details & registration form: dropeverythingandread.ie
Share widely & let's all take time out to read!
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#LetsGetIrelandReading

Everyone is invited to participate in our 2026 National Drop Everything & Read Challenge on Friday April 24th. Full details & registration form on our website: dropeverythingandread.ie
Share widely & let's all take time out to read!
#DEARIrl #LetsGetIrelandReading

The stats are in! There were a total of 25,041 checkouts from our Digital Library during March 2026. Check out our top #eBook #Audiobook & #DigitalMagazine checkouts for the month below.
#JCSPdigital #LoveReading #SchoolLibraries

National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2026 DEAR Challenge Join us at 12 noon on Friday 24th April 2026 for our annual National Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge. DEAR is open to everyone, click HERE to register. The JCSP Library Project, which provides professionally staffed library services in 30 post-primary schools around Ireland, are delighted to announce the eleventh year of the challenge. Every year, we ask as many people as possible to put down their work, to switch off their TVs, to close their textbooks and choose a book, magazine, newspaper, e-book, audio book, etc.

National Drop Everything and Read Challenge 2026

DEAR Challenge Join us at 12 noon on Friday 24th April 2026 for our annual National Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge. DEAR is open to everyone, click HERE to register. The JCSP Library Project, which provides professionally staffed library…

Delighted to be hosting South East Third Year History Quiz - 16 teams, 7 schools from Waterford & Kilkenny @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

The closing date for submission of entries to our 2026 SNAP Photography Challenge is fast approaching. JCSP/DEIS schools can submit up to 5 entries in each of the 3 categories: Junior, Senior and Special Needs. Closing date-March 13th.
Full detaild and entry form: bit.ly/JCSPsnap

Scenes from Ireland including countryside and Dublin City of children playing out-of/doors and interacting with their environment and nature. Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann

Image of dandelion seed heads ‘clocks’ in an untamed margin of a road in Ireland. Museum of Childhood Ireland, Músaem Óige na hÉireann.

Hello!👋We’re back! Excited to launch a fundraising campaign for ’That Wilder Bond’ book on childhood/nature/environment for Intergenerational dialogue. To be donated to libraries. Help support here: www.spacehive.com/thatwilderbond
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museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-...
#MuseumOfChildhoodIreland

JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge 2026
PROMPT 9: RED - See red! Stop signs, sunsets, fire engines, roses, tomatoes, flags, lipstick, strawberries, robins, traffic lights. Red alert! Capture bold, fiery moments full of emotion. 😡📸❤️

#JCSPsnap2026

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Thank you to #ChorusProject #UCD
for our creative kit which arrived this week. Looking forward to exploring it & seeing what we can engineer! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Calling all JCSP/DEIS schools. Join our SNAP Photography Challenge. Full SNAP details at bit.ly/JCSPsnap where you will find lots of support materials

Need some inspiration? Take a look at these stunning photos from CJ Nash our Photographer in Residence for prompts TINY and COLD!

#JCSPsnap2026

JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge for JCSP/DEIS schools-details at bit.ly/JCSPsnap

PROMPT 7: OPEN - Get out in the open! Opportunity awaits: open books, open doors, open spaces. It's wide open! Show the hidden, the revealed, the unexpected. What's waiting to be discovered?

#JCSPsnap2026

Young Voices, Timeless Stories Celebrating a New Historical Story Collection by First Year students in Thomond Community College Student authors with JCSP Librarian Jane Bingham-Shee There’s something powerful about seeing history through young eyes. This week, the JCSP Library in Thomond Community College, Limerick proudly launched a remarkable new book — a collection of historical stories written entirely by First Year students in our school.

Young Voices, Timeless Stories

Celebrating a New Historical Story Collection by First Year students in Thomond Community College Student authors with JCSP Librarian Jane Bingham-Shee There’s something powerful about seeing history through young eyes. This week, the JCSP Library in Thomond…

Ms. McMullen's class had a great day at Make a book, Cork. They worked really hard on their book "The Art of Friendship". Lots of digital and editing skills learnt to produce their book! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

So proud of the students @staidanscs.bsky.social speaking at Make A Book 2026 about the podcast they created, scripted, produced and edited for the school radio station #SACSFM @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Students from schools across Waterford & Wexford deep in concentration at our JCSP Libraries South East Super Spellers Challenge in the beautiful Carrickpherish Library Waterford. #SuperSpellers #SpellingChallenge

Join the JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge 2026 Join the JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge this February! Unleash creativity with prompts and exciting prizes. Enter by March 13, 2026!

Our JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge 2026 runs throughout February. Open to all JCSP/DEIS schools. 3 categories - Junior/Senior/Special Needs. Full details & wide range of support materials available on our website - bit.ly/JCSPsnap
#JCSPsnap2026

JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge 2026 An exciting photography challenge has just been launched by The JCSP Libraries this February! This inclusive challenge can be enjoyed by students in all year groups. The aim is to support young people to develop their artistic practice, creativity, originality and self-expression through the medium of photography. The main idea behind this challenge is to provide a creative outlet for students to express their ideas and perspectives visually.

JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge 2026

An exciting photography challenge has just been launched by The JCSP Libraries this February! This inclusive challenge can be enjoyed by students in all year groups. The aim is to support young people to develop their artistic practice, creativity,…

Back to basics! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

JCSP Libraries Chess Tournament 2026 29th January saw Trinity Comprehensive in Ballymun host the annual JCSP Library Team Chess Tournament once again. Eight schools battled across Dublin traffic and the M50 for the chance to compete in both the Swiss-paired event, and the uniquely JCSP “Chess Bingo”. The participating schools were: Clogher Road Community College, Kylemore College, Presentation Secondary School Warrenmount, Ellenfield Community College, Trinity Comprehensive, Beaufort College, St.

JCSP Libraries Chess Tournament 2026

29th January saw Trinity Comprehensive in Ballymun host the annual JCSP Library Team Chess Tournament once again. Eight schools battled across Dublin traffic and the M50 for the chance to compete in both the Swiss-paired event, and the uniquely JCSP “Chess…

Multicultural Day, an opportunity to learn from one another. Diversity makes our classrooms richer, friendships stronger and our school a safe positive & caring community! #SOSIreland @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

COMING SOON: ✨New JCSP Libraries SNAP Photography Challenge 📷SNAP ten photos in February 2026 using our new prompts 📷
#JCSPsnap2026

Lots of new #Manga titles & series added to our Digital Library on #Sora - incl #KomiCantCommunicate & #BlueBox. Free membership for JCSP/DEIS schools.
Details at jcsplibraries.com/jcsp-digital...

"My library is well-furnished: books, a chair, and a cat." (Mark Twain) Maple came to visit today! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Delighted to be participating in the Friendship Project @ National Library as part of Jane Austen 250 Celebrations. Then a quick visit to the National Museum! @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Celebrating student success in the Accelerated Reader Literacy Program by going to see the film Wicked: For Good lots of tears and delight as the story unfolded 🎥👏🍿#ReadingForPleasure @staidanscs.bsky.social @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

On this day... Anna Haslam, Pioneering Suffragette. Thank you to heritage in schools program. Carmel Kelly visited us to share Anna's story. Bringing history alive & making it relevant. @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Celebrating College Awareness Week 2025 with ‘Past Students Speed Meetings’ in the Library 6th year & TY students got lots inspiration fantastic event @staidanscs.bsky.social @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Well done to all those first year students who submitted a project for SciFest 2025 as part of Science Week Celebrations. @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

Thanks so much to school librarian & researcher Dr Jean Henefer for sharing her knowledge & passion for school libraries this week as part of our Leadership in Libraries module @ulsteruni.bsky.social #OnlineLearning #LibraryLeadership #SchoolLibraries #Reading #Inclusion @jcsplibraries.bsky.social

It’s time to make your voice heard!

The 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards celebrate the very best of Irish writing — and now it’s YOUR turn to choose this year’s winners! 💚

From powerful debuts to unforgettable favourites, every vote counts.

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