The Word Endures

Project Partner:
Cork City Library

Exhibition
Date: 1 – 31 March 2005
Venue: Cork City Library

Seminar
Date: 10 – 11 March 2005
Venue: Millennium

Readings
Date: 11 – 12 March 2005

Project Description:
Seminar and exhibition on how libraries foster cultural expression and freedom of expression and how libraries have suffered in conflicts.

Speakers included Alex Byrne, President-elect of the International Federation of Library Associations and a long-term advocate of freedom of expression; Taghreed Al-Qudsi, a Palestinian librarian working in Kuwait; Sue Cole of the Blue Shield organisation; Michael D. Higgins, TD, published poet and long-time advocate of the importance of intellectual freedom and cultural expression.

Cork City Libraries also organised a 24-hour series of readings of banned books, and texts by authors who have been banned in countries across the world.