Dublin: One City, One Book

 Why not take our latest quiz, and test your knowledge of The Picture of Dorian Gray! Just follow the link to answer the 10 questions and see how well you can do. Next week we will have a new quiz to keep you on your toes!
 
Complete Quiz #2

View photos from the 2010 Dublin: One City, One Book launch and subsequent events on our Photo Gallery, or on flickr.

Right: Oscar Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, at the official launch of "Dublin: One City, One Book", Thursday, 8 April, Dublin City Library  and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin.  Click image for larger view.

Good stories get told again and again in different ways. It might just be one of those strange or funny things you notice one day and mention to your friends, that becomes a little story they pass on to others. Or, it could be one of those great epics that start as an idea, which becomes a book or a comic, a film or a computer game. The best stories last and, as time passes, the way they're told changes to suit each new audience.

'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is one of those stories. A story of a man who wanted every pleasure life could offer, and gave up his soul to have them all.

Author Oisín Mc Gann discusses the graphic novel based on “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. (Adapted by Ian Edginton, illustrated by Ian Cubard, published by Self Made Hero.)
Part of the One City One Book programme
Ballymun Library 6th May at 11.30am
Booking essential at Ballymun Library

 Dublin: One City, One Book is very much in the media this April. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the book of choice this year, and its author,  Oscar Wilde is forever of interest for his writings, his wit and his personal life.
 
Read what the media have to say about Oscar, his only novel and the Dublin: One City, One Book festival.

"Considering his leanings towards theatricality and excess, Oscar Wilde brought unexpected artistic discipline to ‘ The Picture of Dorian Gray ’, this year’s choice for the Dublin: One City, One Book campaign."
 
"The story, with its echoes of Baudelaire and Poe, is shocking and ironic."
 
"The Picture of Dorian Gray is the culmination of the Irish Gothic."
 
Read more from Eileen Battersby in the Irish Times, Wednesday, 7 April. 

Location: Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
 
An entertaining and informative background exhibition about The Picture of Dorian Gray. Aims to explore the book's origins and inspiration, the Aesthetic Movement in art and literature, Society Portraiture, the lifestyle and costume of the "Victorian Dandy" and a view of "Dorian in the modern world".
The exhibition includes informative displays and works by contemporary artists and students from the National College of Art and Design.
The newly painted portrait of Dorian will also be featured in a studio setting and  its "hidden" corrupted version showing Dorian's secret life by means of digital imagery will also be on show in Dorian's attic nursery.
Dramatised excerpts of the book will take place throughout the festival on specified dates along with lectures by guest speakers.
 
Open Monday - Thursday, 10am - 8pm, Friday & Saturday, 10am - 5pm. Running until Tuesday, 27th April. Admission free