June 16th - "Bloomsday" - Celebrating James Joyce and "Ulysses"
June 16th is Bloomsday - the fictitious day on which Leopold Bloom experienced his odyssey through the Dublin of 1904.
Bloomsday in Dublin
The 16th of June will see strange goings-on in Dublin every year - mostly elderly gentlemen and ladies in decidedly old-fashioned garb tramping through town. Reciting literature. These are people celebrating Bloomsday.
The 16th of June will see strange goings-on in Dublin every year - mostly elderly gentlemen and ladies in decidedly old-fashioned garb tramping through town. Reciting literature. These are people celebrating Bloomsday.
James Joyce Attractions in Dublin
If Dublin has a towering literary figure it would be James Joyce. Though not amongst Ireland's four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, even though more discussed than read and even though Joyce himself left Dublin in disgust as early as 1904.
If Dublin has a towering literary figure it would be James Joyce. Though not amongst Ireland's four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, even though more discussed than read and even though Joyce himself left Dublin in disgust as early as 1904.
James Joyce
More on James Joyce on About.com's Classic Literature site.
More on James Joyce on About.com's Classic Literature site.
James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Read more about Ulysses, one of the greatest works of the 20th century.
Read more about Ulysses, one of the greatest works of the 20th century.