Saturday, June 16, 2007

Happy Bloomsday!

Today is Bloomsday, when we honor James Joyce and the novel Ulysses. From RTE:

It is considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century.

All the events in James Joyce's epic Ulysses happen on a single day - 16 June 1904 aka Bloomsday.

A week's worth of celebrations have been taking place throughout Dublin, but Bloomsday itself is still the one that matters.

Dublin 1904, as Leopold Bloom knew it, comes to life as you can eat, walk, swim, listen to, re-enact, or watch the eclectic mix of Bloomsday events.

Here are just some of the events taking place ...


Read all about it here.

Bloomsday is my favorite literary holiday, along with J. Alfred Prufrock Day and Michaelmas.

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