Bloomsday, James Joyce's Ulysses celebration

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Communities in Dublin and around the world mark Bloomsday on June 16 with readings, guided walks, pub performances and theatrical tributes to James Joyce's Ulysses. Ulysses chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he moves through Dublin on June 16, 1904, and many events recreate chapters or stage public readings of key episodes. Nora Barnacle first met James Joyce on June 10, 1904, and their second meeting on June 16 inspired Joyce to set the novel on that date. Bloomsday matters because Ulysses reshaped modernist fiction and the festivities turn a famously challenging text into a public way to experience Dublin's history and language.

Bob Wood National Program Director of the CHUM Group

@rubot.ie

A friend of mine used to work in a south Dublin wine bar/cafe and he said Bloomsday was by far the worst day he ever worked. “It was like a Hieronymus Bosch painting” He had never seen such levels of adult drunkenness “and there was a ukulele orchestra”

2004h ago

Morag Friel7

Another user, @jennylyons.bsky.social, described it as “Halloween for wankers” 😂 (I hope was ok to share that.)

Mark Dignam MDANT5

In fairness, a Bosch painting is silent…

Peadar Dhámhonatóirach3

The first part seems very much in the spirit that Flann O'Brien intended, the second decidedly less so

Rose 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸2

The ukelele orchestra is not traditional, the rest though? Yeah.

Dictionary of Irish Biography

@dib.ie

#BloomsDay. On 10 June 1904 Nora Barnacle first met James Joyce while walking in Nassau St. Dublin. He was supposedly so attracted to her that he walked up and presented himself. Their second meeting was on 16th June, the date immortalised by Joyce in 'Ulysses'. www.dib.ie/biography/ba... #DIBLives

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Simon Knott

@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social

It's Bloomsday, the day on which the events of James Joyce's Ulysses take place, 16 June 1904. My dad's copy of Ulysses, which I took with me when I left home in 1980. It remains for me the greatest novel written in the English language.

725h ago

Simon Knott9

2/3 A plaque on the former Shakespeare & Company bookshop, 12 Rue de l'Odéon, Paris. Ulysses was published here on Joyce's birthday in 1922. Sylvia Beach was an American so the shop remained open at the start of WWII, but closed after the USA entered the war, and did not reopen.

piers-allan.bsky.social3

I must have a 5th go at trying to finish it.

Anja Bogger2

I'm on train to Gatwick to fly to Dublin for the great day itself...so excited

meconism.bsky.social2

I read a little every night, joyous literature.

Ian Rankin

@ianrankin1.bsky.social

Happy Bloomsday to all those who celebrate it! Here I am with Mr Joyce in Trieste last year…

611h ago

Project Gutenberg

@gutenberg.org

Let's celebrate, today is Bloomsday! Read the whole article in our June newsletter: www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/ Ulysses by James Joyce at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300 #Books #Literature

First edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, published by Paris-Shakespeare, 1922. The colour of the cover was meant to match the blue of the Greek flag.

Plain Aegean-blue cover with white serif lettering: "ULYSSES / by / JAMES JOYCE" — the iconic first edition cover (Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)#/media/File:JoyceUlysses2.jpg

293h ago

Matthew Dowd

@matthewjdowd.bsky.social

Today is Bloomsday, "celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, day is named after Leopold Bloom, protagonist of Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, the events of which take place on Thursday, 16 June 1904." “Think you're escaping & run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

331h ago

Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1

@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social

Happy Bloomsday to readers, ramblers, reverent Joyceans and the mildly bewildered! I'm going to read a little of Declan Kiberd's excellent Ulysses and Us, where he talks about reading Ulysses is how you learn to read Ulysses and I am going to find an excuse to have a glass of red!

163h ago

Gerard Cunningham

@faduda.bsky.social

It being Picard Day/Bloomsday (16 June) today, once again calling on all Trekkies to get into the spirit of things by showing up in Dublin in Starfleet uniforms to cosplay the crew arriving in the Edwardian era after encountering a subspace anomaly

Star Trek: Next Generation. Riker, Troi and Data in Starfleet costumes, with Mark Twain, an elderly man dressed in late 19th century clothing

225h ago

timoconnorbl.bsky.social

@timoconnorbl.bsky.social

Bloomsday has no other origin than a bunch of Dublin drunks trying to get wrecked in pubs where they might have the misfortune to meet Patrick Kavanagh and trying to invent a way to lose him en route to being barred from the next one in turn.

214h ago

ipcollins.bsky.social3

And trying to keep Flann O’Brien sober enough to finish his Myles na gCopaleen column.

Fiach Mac Aodha3

The origin, from a brilliant BBC documentary of 1990 or so: youtu.be/PfNozMdMr3Q?...

Bloomsday Festival

@bloomsdayfestival.bsky.social

May you have a very happy Bloomsday where ever you are celebrating today. ❤️📖 #bloomsdayfestival #bloomsday In collaboration with The James Joyce Centre and supported by Fáilte Ireland and The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

93h ago

University College Dublin

@ucddublin.bsky.social

📗✨ Happy Bloomsday! Today we celebrate the enduring legacy of James Joyce (BA 1902), UCD's most celebrated graduate, and his groundbreaking work, Ulysses. #bloomsday #jamesjoyce @ucdlibrary.bsky.social