As part of Culture Night this Friday 23 September, the Arts Council is gifting over 4,500 books to passengers travelling on select Irish Rail and Bus Éireann services through a new project called Read Mór.
From 2pm, special 'book conductors' will be positioned at a number of bus and rail stations ready to gift passengers free copies of popular books from a wide selection of Irish and Irish-based authors, including Marian Keyes, Colm Tóibín, Nithy Kasa, David O’Doherty and more.
Passengers can choose from 21 different titles, including fiction, poetry, young adult and children’s books. Two Irish language titles, Madame Lazare by Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin and Beag Bídeach by Sadhbh Devlin, are included in the selections and audiobook versions of a number of books will also be available.
Anyone gifted a book is encouraged to share the joy of reading when they have finished, by regifting the book to a friend or family member.
Irish Rail intercity passengers should look out for book conductors on the platforms at Heuston Station and Connolly Station in Dublin, Kent Station in Cork, and Ceannt Station in Galway.
Bus Éireann Expressway passengers at Sligo Bus Station, Waterford Bus Station and Dublin’s Busáras will also have the chance to stop by the book trolley and pick up a free book.
The full list of books available on the day:
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The full list of books available on the day:
Bebe Ashley - Gold Light Shining (Banshee Press)
Colin Barrett - Young Skins (The Stinging Fly)
Pat Boran - Local Wonders: Poems of our immediate surrounds (Dedalus Press)
Sadhbh Devlin - Beag Bídeach (Futa Fata)
Helena Close - The Gone Book (Little Island)
Wendy Erskine - Dance Move (The Stinging Fly)
Jarlath Gregory - What Love Looks Like (O Brien Press)
Chris Haughton - Maybe... (Argosy Books)
Nithy Kasa - Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho (Doire Press)
Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These Fiction (Kennys Bookshop)
Marian Keyes - No Dress Rehearsal (New Island Publishing)
Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin - Madame Lazare (Futa Fata)
Rosaleen McDonagh - Unsettled (Skein Press)
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - The Girl who Married the Reindeer (Gallery Press)
Annemarie Ní Churreáin - Bloodroot (Doire Press)
Doireann Ní Ghríofa - A Ghost in the Throat (Books Upstairs)
David O'Doherty, illustrated by Chris Judge - The Summer I Robbed a Bank (Argosy Books)
Kevin Power - The Written World (Lilliput Press)
Colm Toibín - Brooklyn (Argosy Books)
Annie West - Yeats in Love (New Island Publishing)
Sophie White - Corpsing: My body and other horror stories (Tramp Press)
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Read Mór is an initiative of the Arts Council's 70th anniversary programme, Arts Council at 70. Find out more here.
