The Irish Writers' Centre is celebrating 25
years since its founding with a world-beating public reading. Over 100 of our
leading writers will participate in a marathon public reading which will
commence at 10.00 am on Friday June
15th and finish at 2.00 pm on Saturday, June 16th - Bloomsday.
If we succeed we will wrest the Guinness World Record for such an event from the Berlin International Literature Festival who managed to muster 75 writers. It will be launched by the great Joycean, Senator David Norris and the readers will include our Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.
If we succeed we will wrest the Guinness World Record for such an event from the Berlin International Literature Festival who managed to muster 75 writers. It will be launched by the great Joycean, Senator David Norris and the readers will include our Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.
This extraordinary programme of readings will continue
for 28 hours
continuously, and will be open to the public. It will also be live-streamed - a
webcam will transmit it to the Internet so that it can be accessed around the
world even as it takes place in the Centre. We will be reading for the world in
every sense. Our record attempt will be monitored by the accountancy firm, KPMG,
and by the university, American College Dublin.
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