Irish Writers’ Centre: Read For The World: Breaking a Guinness World Record

 
It's getting closer! This record breaking readathon will begin on Friday, June 15th at 10am and run right through until Bloomsday: Saturday, June 16th at 2pm. Yes, that's 111 Writers over 28 hours. If you can't make it, you can still watch, as the event will be broadcast live online. The programme of readings is a mighty impressive one.

Programme of Readings

Session 1 – June 15th 2012 – 10am until 2pm, Chair: Jack Gilligan

Introductory Speech at 10am by Senator David Norris

10.15 – 10.30: John Boyne reading from The Absolutist

10.30 – 10.45: Patrick Deeley reading from The Bones of Creation

10.45 – 11.00: Liam Carson reading from Call Mother a Lonely Field

11.00 – 11.15: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading from Selected Poems

11.15 – 11.30: Áine Ní Ghlinn ag léamh as Brionglóidí

11.30 – 11.45: Sarah Webb reading from Ask Amy Green: Boy Trouble

11.45 – 12.00: Jean O’Brien reading from Dangerous Dresses

12.00 – 12.15: Evelyn Conlon reading from Telling

12.15 – 12.30: Catherine Foley ag léamh as An Cailín Rua

12.30 – 12.45: Anne Le Marquand Hartigan reading from Unsweet Dreams

12.45 – 13.00: Mike McCormack reading from Notes from a Coma

13.00 – 13.15: Joan McBreen reading from Winter in the Eye

13.15 – 13.30: Mary Costello reading from The China Factory

13.30 – 13.45: Juliet Bressan reading from Snow White Turtle Doves

13.45 – 14.00: Noel Duffy reading from In The Library of Lost Objects

Session 2 – June 15th 2012 – 2pm until 6pm, Chair: Máire Nic Mhaoláin

14.00 – 14.15: Ríona Nic Congáil ag léamh as Saol an Mhadra Bháin

14.15 – 14.30: Helen Soraghan Dwyer reading from Beyond

14.30 – 14.45: Marjorie Quarton reading from Breakfast the Night Before

14.45 – 15.00: Jean Flitcroft reading from Mexican Devil

15.00 – 15.15: Gabriel Rosenstock ag léamh as Clann na nÉan. Ríocht na Cailce

15.15 – 15.30: Martin Malone reading from The Mango War

15.30 – 15.45: Iggy McGovern reading from Safe House

15.45 – 16.00: Maurice Harmon reading from When Love Is Not Enough

16.00 – 16.15: Mia Gallagher reading from Hellfire

16.15 – 16.30: Margaret Nohilly reading from April Promise

16.30 – 16.45: Kieran Furey reading from Going against Gravity

16.45 – 17.00: Michael J. Farrell reading from Life in the Universe

17.00 – 17.15: C.E. Murphy reading from Urban Shaman

17.15 – 17.30: Muriel Bolger reading from Intentions

17.30 – 17.45: Anna Heussaff ag léamh as Buille Marfach

17.45 – 18.00: John Givens reading from The Plum Rains & Other Stories

Session 3 – June 15th 2012 – 6pm until 10pm, Chair: Andrew Clarke

18.00 – 18.15: Seán Mac Mathúna reading from The Atheist

18.15 – 18.30: Mark Granier reading from Fade Street

18.30 – 18.45: Anne Tannam reading from Take This Life

18.45 – 19.00: Pádraig Ó Laighin ag léamh as Ní Iontas go bhFuil an Spideog ag Gearáin

19.00 – 19.15: Carlo Gébler reading from The Dead Eight

19.15 – 19.30: Pádraig J. Daly reading from Afterlife

19.30 – 19.45: Anne Haverty reading from The Free and Easy

19.45 – 20.00: Laurence O’Bryan reading from The Istanbul Puzzle

20.00 – 20.15: John F. Deane reading from Eye Of The Hare

20.15 – 20.30: Ed O’Loughlin reading from Toploader

20.30 – 20.45: Dermot Bolger reading from External Affairs

20.45 – 21.00: Paul Perry reading from The Last Falcon and Small Ordinance

21.00 – 21.15: Liam Mac Cóil ag léamh as An Litir

21.15 – 21.30: Conor Kostick reading from Edda

21.30 – 21.45: Ferdia Mac Anna reading from The Rocky Years

21.45 – 22.00: Pat Boran reading from The Invisible Prison

Session 4 – June 15th/16th 2012 – 10pm until 2am, Chair: June Considine

22.00 – 22.15: John Maher reading from The Luck Penny

22.15 – 22.30: Seamus Cashman reading from That Morning Will Come

22.30 – 22.45: Pat Quigley reading from Borderland

22.45 – 23.00: Mary Guckian reading from Perfume of the Soil

23.00 – 23.15: Joe Jackson reading from Troubadours and Troublemakers

23.15 – 23.30: Paul Grattan reading from Daytime Astronomy

23.30 – 23.45: Ivy Bannister reading from Magician and other stories

23.45 – 00.00: Nessa O’Mahony reading from In Sight of Home

00.00 – 00.15: June Considine reading from Deceptions

00.15 – 00.30: Ross Hattaway reading from Pretending To Be Dead and other entertainments

00.30 – 00.45: Mary Rose Callaghan reading from A Bit of a Scandal

00.45 – 01.00: Eleanor Hooker reading from The Shadow Owner’s Companion

01.00 – 01.15: Anthony Glavin reading from Nighthawk Alley

01.15 – 01.30: Christodoulos Makris reading from Spitting Out the Mother Tongue

01.30 – 01.45: Winston Smith reading from Generation F

01.45 – 02.00: Micheál Ó Conghaile ag léamh as An Fear a Phléasc

Session 5 – June 16th 2012 – 2am until 6am, Chair: Mícheál Ó Ruairc

02.00 – 02.15: Sarah Clancy reading from Thanks For Nothing, Hippies

02.15 – 02.30: Richard Halperin reading from Anniversary

02.30 – 02.45: Celine Kiernan reading from Into The Grey

02.45 – 03.00: Karen Gillece reading from Longshore Drift

03.00 – 03.15: reading from Snow at the Opera House Liz McSkeane

03.15 – 03.30: Mícheál Ó Ruairc ag léamh as Daoine A Itheann Daoine

03.30 – 03.45: Paul Casey reading from Home More or Less

03.45 – 04.00: Marcel Krüger reading from Stop Coming to My House

04.00 – 04.15: Randolph Healy reading from Hex

04.15 – 04.30: Alistair Graham reading from War and Want

04.30 – 04.45: Brian Ó Dochartaí ag léamh as Bean I mBiarritz

04.45 – 05.00: Máighréad Medbh reading from Twelve Beds for the Dreamer

05.00 – 05.15: Lissa Oliver reading from Chantilly Dawns

05.15 – 05.30: Lucille Redmond reading from Love

05.30 – 05.45: Alan Nolan reading from Death By Chocolate

05.45 – 06.00: Kate Newmann reading from I Am A Horse

Session 6 – June 16th 2012 – 6am until 10am, Chair: Sorcha de Brún

06.00 – 06.15: Aifric Mac Aodha ag léamh as Gabháil Syrinx

06.15 – 06.30: Henry McDonald reading from Colours: Ireland from Bombs to Boom

06.30 – 06.45: James Martyn Joyce reading from What’s Not Said

06.45 – 07.00: Geraldine Mills reading from The Weight of Feathers

07.00 – 07.15: Tadhg Ó Dúshláine ag léamh as Bleaist Faoistine

07.15 – 07.30: Pauline Fayne reading from Mowing In The Dark

07.30 – 07.45: Jane Mitchell reading from Chalkline

07.45 – 08.00: Seán Carabini reading from American Road

08.00 – 08.15: Paddy Bushe reading from My Lord Buddha of Carraig Eanna

08.15 – 08.30: Ann Leahy reading from The Woman Who Lived Her Life Backwards

08.30 – 08.45: Maggie O’Dwyer reading from Laughter Heard From The Road

08.45 – 09.00: Sarah Rees Brennan reading from The Demon Lexicon

09.00 – 09.15: Declan Collinge reading from Fearful Symmetry

09.15 – 09.30: Ciarán Folan reading from Freak Nights

09.30 – 09.45: Orna Ní Choileáin ag léamh as Ailfí Agus An Vaimpír

09.45 – 10.00: Marie Heaney reading from Over Nine Waves

Session 7 – June 16th 2012 – 10am until 2pm, Chair: Jack Gilligan

10.00 – 10.15: Seamus Heaney reading from Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966 – 1996

10.15 – 10.30: Gerard Smyth reading from The Fullness of Time: New and Selected Poems

10.30 – 10.45: Marita Conlon-McKenna reading from Under The Hawthorn Tree

10.45 – 11.00: Michael O’Loughlin reading from In This Life

11.00 – 11.15: Lia Mills reading from In Your Face

11.15 – 11.30: Celia de Fréine ag léamh as Aibítir Aoise: Alphabet of an Age

11.30 – 11.45: Catherine Dunne reading from Missing Julia

11.45 – 12.00: Kevin Barry reading from Dark Lies the Island

12.00 – 12.15: Colm Breathnach ag léamh as An Fear Marbh

12.15 – 12.30: Gerald Dawe reading from My Mother-City

12.30 – 12.45: Enda Wyley reading from To Wake To This

12.45 – 13.00: Macdara Woods reading from The Cotard Dimension

13.00 – 13.15: Peter Sirr reading from The Thing Is

13.15 – 13.30: Alan Titley ag léamh as Leabhar Nóra Ní Anluain

13.30 – 13.45: Roddy Doyle reading from The Van

13.45 – 14.00: Jack Harte reading from From Under Gogol’s Nose