 Irish Arts Center Book Day 2011
On
March 17 we partnered with Speaker Christine Quinn and the New York City Council
for the inaugural Irish Arts Center Book Day, passing out thousands of
books by Irish and Irish American authors to New Yorkers in all five boroughs
of the city during the morning rush hour.
"I want to thank you for your Book Day celebration. A delightful group
of young people offered me a free book as I was entering the 72nd Street Subway
on Broadway. I got on the train with a smile on my face and a copy of Flann O’Brien’s “Complete
Novels.” I’m several pages into “At Swim-Two-Birds” and
I’m hooked (I had never read him before).Thank you, thank you for this
generous and random act of culture. It completely beats green beer."
—Marjorie
Rutimann |
Credit: James Higgins
Speaker Christine Quinn and Eamonn Gilmore handing out books
at 72nd Street in Manhattan. |
Watch footage from
our book distribution
station in Queens as
captured by NY1 news.
Click
here for pictures
from book distribution stations across all five boroughs. |
Read
about Book Day at dnainfo.com
Read
about Book Day at wnyc.org
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Featuring Hundreds of Titles
by Authors Including
Claire Keegan
Colum McCann
David Monaghan
Eamon Grennan
Edna O'Brien
Flann O'Brien
Frank Delaney
Frank McCourt
Frank O'Connor
Gerard O'Donovan
Greg Delanty
Ivana Lull
John Connolly
Joseph O'Connor
Joseph Woods
Kevin Holohan
Maeve Binchy
Malachy McCourt
Mary Pat Kelly
Michael Patrick McDonald
Oscar Wilde
Pete Hamill
Peter Quinn
Robert Sullivan
and more! |
Irish Arts Center Book Day
March 17, 2011
In association with
Speaker Christine Quinn/New York City Council
Imagine Ireland, as part of Culture Ireland
Ireland Literature Exchange
Solas Nua
Special Thanks to Sponsors and Partners
New York State American Irish Legislators Society
American Irish Historical Society
Glucksman Ireland House – New York University
New York Irish Center
Poetry Ireland
52nd Street Project
Deborah and Brian Henry
Book Distribution Locations
MANHATTAN
72nd Street and Broadway (Entrance to the IRT 1,2,3) North east corner of Dyckman/Broadway
in Inwood (Entrance to the subway at Dyckman/200th Street)
BRONX
Parkchester #6 Subway Station
QUEENS
Jackson Heights Post Office, 78-02 37th Avenue Station at 78th Street
BROOKLYN
Northeast Corner of 7th Ave and 9th Street F Station
STATEN ISLAND
St. George Ferry Terminal, 1 Bay Street
Thank you for the generous support of our sponsors Akashic Books, Atria
Books, Beacon Press, Bloodaxe Books, Bloomsbury, Bradshaw Books, Council Oak
Books, Eterna Credencia Editora, Everyman’s Library, Free Press, Harper
Perennial, Harper Paperbacks, Knopf, Little, Brown and Company, The Overlook
Press, Poetry Ireland, Random House, Scribner, Simon & Schuster, Stinging
Fly Press & Magazine and Tigh Filí Arts Centre
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