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family · Tuesday 1 September 2026 · 10:30 AM 
Baby Book Club at Dundalk and Drogheda Libraries
At Drogheda Library and Dundalk Library · Drogheda and Dundalk, Co. Louth
At Drogheda Library and Dundalk Library · Drogheda and Dundalk, Co. Louth
The Baby Book Club is Louth Library Service’s monthly session for the very youngest readers, and it runs in both of the county’s largest libraries. Drogheda Library holds it on the first Tuesday of the month at 10:30am. Dundalk Library holds it on the first Wednesday of the month at 10:30am. Both are free and aimed at babies and toddlers with a parent, grandparent or carer.
A baby book club is not a reading group in the adult sense. Sessions are built around board books, rhymes, songs and short shared stories, at a pace that assumes babies will crawl off mid sentence and that nobody minds. The point is early exposure to books and to the library as a normal place to be, plus a fixed monthly slot where parents of small children see each other. Library staff usually pull out age appropriate stock and can sign babies up for their own library card, which is free from birth. Both libraries also run a weekly parent and toddler group on Thursday mornings, so families often use the two together, and children’s storytimes are added during school holidays.
Drogheda Library is on Stockwell Street in the town centre, next to Droichead Arts Centre, with Scotch Hall parking a few minutes away and Drogheda MacBride station about 15 minutes on foot. Dundalk Library is in the centre of Dundalk near Market Square, with the Long Walk and Marshes shopping centre car parks nearby and Dundalk Clarke station roughly 15 minutes’ walk away. Both towns are served by Bus Eireann and Matthews coaches and sit directly off the M1.
Heading to Drogheda Library and Dundalk Library in Drogheda? Louth has plenty more to see. Read the Drogheda area guide, find what else is on, and explore the towns and villages nearby.