Readers Day2004 Plaza Hotel Tallaght
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Mayor Robert Dowds will Officially open Reader’s Day 2004 in the Plaza Hotel Tallaght at 10am on the 6th November.
‘There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?’
Marina Tsvetaeva, 20th Century Russian poet
Each time a book is read it becomes something different as the new reader infuses it with their own colour and nuance. However enriching the reading experience is, it is still a solitary one. South Dublin Arts and Libraries present our third Reader’s Day on 6th November 2004 in the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght. This day offers readers and writers an opportunity to interact, talk and engage and share ideas. The line-up will include some of Ireland’s most respected writers as well as new and emerging talent. Dermot Bolger will take the chair as MC once again, and he will host all of the writers listed below in a copy of the programme. Programmes are available in the Libraries and at reception in South Dublin County Council HQ, Tallaght. Information available from Georgina Byrne/Betty Stenson Tel 01 459 7959 or 01 459 7834
Reader’s Day 2004
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 General introduction and welcome
10.15 – 11.15 The Voices in My Head – Three of the most exciting recent voices to emerge in Irish fiction, Christine Dwyer-Hickey – author of the current best-selling book Tatty (and from Palmerstown in South Dublin) June Considine and Noelle Harrison read from their work and discuss the process through which the characters which began as voices in their heads grow to take on lives of their own on the printed page.
11.15 – 11.45 Coffee
11.45 – 12.30 Sebastian Barry one of Ireland’s most successful playwrights and poets, reads from his work and discusses with Dermot Bolger how several short poems written about long dead family gradually grew into a series of plays staged around the world.
12.30 – 1.00 Theo Dorgan – a reading by this acclaimed Irish poet
1.0 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 2.30 Pat McCabe – author of the Butcher Boy, whose novel ‘Breakfast on Pluto’ is currently being made in to a film
2.30 – 3.00 Anthony Cronin is one of the most important living Irish writers. He looks back with Dermot Bolger over a career half a century and discusses his recently published Collected Poems .
3.00 – 4.00 Workshops
(participants should choose one workshop when booking)
John Waters A Matter of Opinion:The newspaper columnist in Irish Society
Niall MacMonagle Beyond Harry Potter:Opening your children’s Imaginations with Books
Anne Haverty This Writing Life: Writing Fiction
Jimmy Murphy From First draft to production Writing for Theatre
4.00 – 4.30 Songs of Rejoycing – a musical celebration commemorating the centenary of Bloomsday
4.30 Wrap up with Dermot Bolger
A glass of wine will be available to finish off the day