The Read Mór book gifting project has returned for a second year. This time patients in selected hospitals across the country will have an opportunity to participate in Culture Night and escape to the furthest reaches of their imagination with a choice
of 29 different books by Irish based authors and publishers. In 2023, the Arts Council is proud to partner up with HSE Healthy Ireland. Read Mór will ensure that more people in more places can enjoy Culture Night.
L-R: Tristan Rosenstock, Rossa Ó Snodaigh, Maureen Kennelly, Molly Twomey, Alan Nolan, Majed Mujed, Martina Devlin and Sam Thompson at the Read Mór launch
On the 22 September the Read Mór ‘Book Doctors’ and their teams will be prescribing more than 3,600 free books from their Library Trolleys as they visit the wards and public spaces in 7 hospitals across Ireland including: Connolly Hospital, Dublin; Letterkenny University Hospital, Donegal; Portiuncula University Hospital, Ballinasloe, Galway; St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny; Naas Hospital, Kildare; Ennis Hospital, Clare; and Croom Hospital, Limerick on Culture Night. The Book Doctor’s rounds will commence nationwide from 3pm onwards.
Recipients are encouraged to share the joy of reading by re-gifting the book to another once they have read it. Audiobooks for selected titles will also be available.
Reading Guides
Download the Read Mór Reading Guide – English
Íoslódáil an Treoir Léitheoireachta Read Mór – Gaeilge
| Title: |
Author: |
Genre: |
Audience: |
I Don't Want to Talk about Home
|
Suad Aldarra |
Memoir
|
General |
The Singularities
|
John Banville |
Fiction
|
General |
|
The Slug and the Snail
|
Oein DeBhairduin (illustrated by Olya Anima) |
Children's |
Children (4–8 years) |
| Edith
|
Martina Devlin
|
Historical Fiction
|
General |
| Exciting
Times
|
Naoise Dolan
|
Fiction
|
General
|
| Haven
|
Emma Donoghue
|
Historical Fiction
|
General |
| Muireann
agus na Deilfeanna*
|
Malachy Doyle (illustrated by Andrew Whitsun)
|
Children's
|
Children (3–6 years)
|
| The
Amusements
|
Aingeala Flannery
|
Short Story
|
General |
| Nothing
Special
|
Nicole Flattery
|
Fiction |
Young Adult
|
| The Pages
|
Hugo Hamilton
|
Fiction/Historical Fiction
|
General |
| Trespasses
|
Louise Kennedy
|
Fiction |
General |
| Eat or We Both Starve
|
Victoria Kennefick
|
Poetry |
General |
| Catfish
Rolling
|
Clara Kumagai
|
Fiction |
Young Adult
|
| Blank
Pages and Other Stories
|
Bernard MacLaverty
|
Short Story |
General |
| An
Slipéar Gloine*
|
Fearghas Mac Lochlainn (illustrated by Paddy Donnelly)
|
Children's |
Children (3–6 years)
|
| A
Girl is a Half-formed Thing
|
Eimear McBride
|
Fiction |
General |
| The
Book of Trivialities
|
Majed Mujed (translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid)
|
Poetry
|
General |
| Eoinín
agus a Chairde*
|
Muireann Ní Chiobháin (illustrated by Roísín Hahessy)
|
Children’s
|
Children (0–3 years)
|
| The
Fifty Minute Mermaid**
|
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (translated by Paul Muldoon)
|
Poetry
|
General |
| The
Sackville Street Caper
|
Alan Nolan
|
Children’s
|
Children (10+ years)
|
| Trouble
|
Philip Ó Ceallaigh
|
Short Story
|
General |
| My
Father's House |
Joseph O'Connor
|
Historical Fiction
|
General |
| Cad
a Chuirfeadh Sceon ar Leon?* |
Rossa Ó Snodaigh (illustrated by Wayne O’Connor)
|
Children’s |
Children (6–10 years) |
| Bandit
Country |
James Conor Patterson
|
Poetry |
General |
| All
this happened, more or less |
Jayne A. Quan
|
Essay collection
|
General |
| Some
Integrity |
Padraig Regan
|
Poetry |
General |
| Inis
Mara |
Tristan Rosenstock
|
Children's |
Children (10–14 years) |
The
Fox’s Tower
|
Sam Thompson (illustrated by Anna Tromop)
|
Children’s |
Children (9–11 years) |
| Raised
Among Vultures |
Molly Twomey |
Poetry |
General |
* Irish Language
** Published as parallel text in Irish and English
Read Mór 2022
On Culture Night 2022, we gifted 4,500 books by Irish and Irish based authors to passengers travelling on Irish Rail Intercity and Bus Éireann Expressway services to mark our 70th anniversary year.
Watch highlights of the 2022 book-gifting project below: