14th Annual Book Day

We celebrate every St. Patrick’s Day with the most cherished of Irish traditions: sharing our stories. The IAC family of volunteers, staff, sponsors and supporters, along with our partners at the New York City Council, will once again be handing out free books at Book Day pop-up stations in all five boroughs. Alongside titles by Irish and Irish-American writers, this year's initiative will also feature work exploring the lives of working people, and histories shaped by labor movements, across communities.

BOOK DAY SITES 

Queens 

• Southwest corner of Roosevelt Avenue and 61st Street at Woodside/61st Street station, 7 train

• Roosevelt Avenue near 74th Street at Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue station, E, F, M, R, and 7 trains

• Beach 116th Street station, A train

The Bronx 

• 238th Street station, 1 train 

Brooklyn 

• Bedford/Nostrand station, G Train

Manhattan 

• 72nd Street and Broadway station, 1 train 

• Chambers Street station, 1/2/3 train

• Irish Arts Center, 726 11th Avenue

• Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (site opens at 9am)

• Corner of 79th Street and 3rd Avenue

Staten Island 

• St. George Ferry Terminal 
  

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IAC Book Day is proud to donate books to the Sober St Patrick’s Celebration.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PROGRAM SPONSORS
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House; Atria Books; Brooklyn Book Bodega; Cartoon Saloon; Catapult; Ecco; Fanta Graphics; Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Picador; Fordham University Press; GILL BOOKS; Graywolf Press; Hachette Book Group; Harper Perennial; Kensington Books; KWR Consulting; Literature Ireland; Mariner Books; Melville House Publishing; New Directions Publishing; Norton Books; Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House; Salmon Poetry; Seven Stories Press; Syracuse University Press; Shreve Williams Public Relations; The O'Brien Press; Tramp Press; Wake Forest University Press; WM Morrow

FEATURING HUNDREDS OF TITLES BY AUTHORS INCLUDING
Catherine Airey, Colin Barrett, Kevin Barry, Sara Baume, Samuel Beckett, Maeve Brennan, Mark Bulik, Edward Cahill, Lucy Caldwell, Louise C. Callaghan, Jan Carson, Anna Carey, Juanita Casey, Micheal Casey, Anne Casey, Steve Cavanagh, Patrick Chapman, Harry Clifton, John Connolly, Helen Corcoran, Mary Costello, Claire Coughlan, Elizabeth Cullinan, Majella Culliane, Gina Daly, Phillip Deery, Austin Duffy, Charlie Donlea, Peter Donnelly, Joanna Donnelly, Kemper Donovan, Michael Egan, Lauren Elliott, Peggy Ehrhart, Anne Enright, Alex Erickson, Wendy Erskine, Glyn Evans, Robert Fanning, Sean Farrell, John D. Feerick, Andrew Feffer, Beth Ann Fennelly, Nicole Flattery, Leonita Flynn, Tess Gallagher, Owen Gallagher, David Gardiner, Karl Geary, Arthur Gourounlian, Mark Granier, Samantha Greene, Eamon Grennan, Vona Groarke, Richard W. Halperin, Hugo Hamilton, Eithne Hand, Rebecca Hannigan, Rachael Hegarty, Kevin Higgins, Rita Ann Higgins, Tony Hoagland, Joseph Horgan, Norah Hoult, Susan Howe, Caoilinn Hughes, Judge Gillian Hussey, Liz Ireland, Frances Jetter, Fred Johnston, Patrick Kahoe, John Kearns, Kevin C. Kearns, Claire Keegan, Louise Kennedy, Alice Kinsella, Larry Kirwan, Mark Kruger, Daniel Lawless, Barbara Leahy, Ann Leary, John Lee, Finn Longman, Paul Lynch, Jane MacAlevey, Deirdre Madden, Audrey Magee, Orla Martin, Melanie Maure, John McAuliffe, Jane McAlevey, Joan McBreen, Eimear McBride, Colum McCann, Mike McCormack, Alice McDermott, Martin McDonagh, Patrice McDonough, Medbh McGuckian, Oisin McKenna, Belinda McKeon, Danielle McLaughlin, Dervla McTiernan, Chloe Michelle Howarth, Susan Millar DuMars, John Montague, Tomm Moore, Zak Moradi, Sinead Moriarty, Paul Muldoon, Niamh Mulvey, John Murphy, Paul Murray, Megan Nolan, Deirdre Nuttall, Edna O'Brien, Eugene O'Brien, Pádraic Ó Conaire, Micheál Ó Conghaile, Jean O'Brien, Nuala O'Connor, Stephen O'Connor, Carlene O'Connor, Joseph O'Connor, Rory O'Connor, John O'Donohue, Edward O'Dwyer, Nuala O'Faolain, Maggie O'Farrell, Geraldine O'Kane, Nessa O'Mahony, Patsy Peril, Paul Perry, Peter Quinn, Keith Ridgeway, Rick Riordan, Sally Rooney, Lauren Rowe, Rachel Rueckert, Eimear Ryan, Hugh Ryan, Donal Ryan, John Sayles, Stephen Sexton, John W. Sexton, Martin Shaw, Bex Sheridan, Peter Sirr, Patti Smith, Michael Stein, Lucy Sweeney-Byrne, Colm Tóibín, Ryan Vine, Cian Walls, Charlotte Walls, Eoghan Walls, Stephen Walsh, Una Woods

NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL
Councilmember Julie Menin, Speaker, Manhattan 
Councilmember Julie Won, Queens
Councilmember Chi Ossé, Brooklyn
Councilmember Shekar Krishnan, Queens
Councilmember Eric Dinowitz, Bronx
Councilmember Joann Ariola, Queens 
Councilmember Virginia Maloney, Manhattan 
Councilmember Gale Brewer, Manhattan
Councilmember Christopher Marte, Manhattan
Councilmember Kamillah Hanks, Staten Island

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, Manhattan 

NEW YORK STATE SENATE
Senator Brian Kavanagh, Manhattan

To volunteer, please email iacbookday@gmail.com.

Publishers and authors wishing to donate books, please contact rachael@irishartscenter.org.

Presented with generous support from Culture Ireland, the Emigrant Support Programme, the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York, and The H. W. Wilson Foundation.