Irish Writers Read for the World - Live Stream Today - 15 June 2012

[C. Flower]

Starting soon, 111 Irish writers will be reading from their prose and poems for 28 hours non-stop - lives streamed from this link -

http://dub.qtelmedia.com/writersEvent

http://www.writerscentre.ie/

111 Writers, 28 Hours, One Venue!!!

The Irish Writers’ Centre will attempt to make history this Bloomsday by claiming the Guinness World Record for ‘Most Authors Reading Consecutively From Their Own Books’.

Senator David Norris will open proceedings in the Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin, at 10am on Friday, June 15th and the first reader will be best-selling novelist, John Boyne. The readings, of 15 minutes each will run for 28 hours, all through the night, culminating at 2pm on Bloomsday. The current record of 75 is held by the Berlin International Literature Festival.

The readings will be open to the public and the worldwide audience can join in too, as the whole event will be streamed live on the Irish Writers’ Centre website. There will be a broad range of texts and tastes, and audience members are invited to stay all night and cheer on the writers reading into the small hours.

To view the schedule of readings, click here>>> http://www.writerscentre.ie/readfort...dprogramme.pdf

[Baron von Biffo]

They should let Sinead O'Connor's brother read for 10 minutes and it would feel like 28 hours.

[C. Flower]

They should let Sinead O'Connor's brother read for 10 minutes and it would feel like 28 hours.

Not soothed by the tone ?

[Baron von Biffo]

Not soothed by the tone ?

My fastest movement each week is to hit the mute button when his slot comes on DriveTime.

[C. Flower]

My fastest movement each week is to hit the mute button when his slot comes on DriveTime.

And Olivia O'Leary ?

[Baron von Biffo]

And Olivia O'Leary ?

When she's not on one of her sexist rants I enjoy her stuff.

[yehbut_nobut]

My fastest movement each week is to hit the mute button when his slot comes on DriveTime.

Hahah, me too! His voice is a raggy uncut fingernail across the blackborad of my soul.

Maybe we should time it... there could be a Guinness World speed record
for turning the radio off when O'Connor comes on.

[C. Flower]

Just got another link to the live stream as the first one is very busy.


http://dub.qtelmedia.com/writersEvent

[C. Flower]

Just got another link to the live stream as the first one is very busy.

http://dub.qtelmedia.com/writersEvent

Nice idea - shame about the lack of bandwidth

[C. Flower]

Has anyone else succeeded in connecting to the stream ? I'm wondering if I have a browser or firewall issue.