Book-lovers' day

President Robinson will be guest of honour at a spring seminar for book-lovers on Saturday, March 1st, In the Writers' Centre, Parnell Square, Dublin. The newly-formed Children's Books Ireland, incorporating the Children's Literature Association of Ireland and the Irish Children's Book Trust, is to be launched at the seminar. Speakers will include Alice Taylor, of To School Through the Fields fame; Brian Jacques, the award-winning children's author and Dr Emer O'Sullivan, lecturer and authority on education and children's literature. The fee is £20 (£15 for members). Details from Clare Ranson, Administrator CBI, at the Writers' Centre at 8725854 or Liz Morris, membership secretary, at 8308348.