Every year Dublin City Public Libraries and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature pick a Dublin-focused book for One City One Book. Then, throughout the month of April, cafes and bars around the city host fun free shows, readings and events to celebrate this book. The book chosen for 2013 is "Strumpet City" by James Plunkett. Set in Dublin during the Lockout of 1913, Strumpet City is a panoramic novel of city life. It embraces a wide range of social milieux, from the miseries of the tenements to the cultivated, bourgeois Bradshaws. The aim is to encourage reading a historic book and try to bring it to life through these events.
Previous books included "Dubliners" by James Joyce in 2012, "Ghost Light" by Joseph O'Connor in 2011, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde in 2010, "Dracula" by Bram Stoker in 2009 and "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift in 2008.
To learn more and view a listing of events check out the website:
http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie/
1 comment:
Should we attempt it???
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