Culture Night comes to St Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny

A number of events, workshops, plays and tours to celebrate the very best of Irish culture will take place across Kilkenny later this evening. 

Celebrating the values of openness, discovery and belonging, all activities on Culture Night 2023 are FREE.

Directed by the Arts Council, Culture Night is brought to the people in partnership with local authorities, HSE Healthy Ireland and cultural organisations throughout the country. 

Patients in St. Luke’s Hospital will also have an opportunity to participate in the night's celebrations.

People staying in the hospital will be offered the choice of 29 different books to read, each written and produced by Irish based authors and publishers as part of the Read Mór book gifting project, now in its second year. 

The Read Mór 'Book Doctors' and their teams will be prescribing over 3,600 free books from their library trolleys as they visit the wards and public spaces in St. Luke’s Hospital and six additional hospitals across the country, with rounds beginning at 3pm.

Director of the Arts Council, Maureen Kennelly said: "In a world filled with technological distractions, the joy of reading a physical book remains an invaluable resource. Read Mór is all about the public engaging with stories, ideas, and emotions that transport us to different realms of our imagination."

"We could not have done this without the enthusiastic support of so many writers and publishers. We are especially grateful to our partners in HSE Healthy Ireland for their support in making Read Mór happen in hospitals across Ireland this Culture Night," she concluded.