One for the Records: Remembering Bloomsday 2012
June 16, 2023 11:24 am Leave your thoughtsIn anticipation of this year’s Bloomsday celebrations – kicking off this Friday in venues across Dublin City – we at the Irish Writers Centre are looking back on a very special day in our building’s history. Guinness Book of World Records Certificate 2012 Text reads: “The most authors reading consecutively is 111 at the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin , Ireland on 15-16 June 2012. The 111 writers read from their work in slots of 15 minutes each over 28 continuous hours before an aggregate audience of 1280.” On the 16th June 2012, in celebration of the Irish Writers Centre’s 25th anniversary, we were delighted to play host to a Guinness World Record-setting event. The event, which began at 10am on Friday the 15th and ended at 2pm the following day, constituted a new world record for the most... Read Moreread more.