What is observed annually on June 16 in Dublin to celebrate the life of James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses?
"June. A 2009 episode of the cartoon ""The Simpsons"", ""In the Name of the Grandfather"", featured the family's trip to Dublin and Lisa's reference to Bloomsday. U2's 2009 song ""Breathe"" refers to events taking place on a fictitious 16 June. On Bloomsday 2014, it was announced that the chemist shop Swenys on Lombard Street, at which Bloom called to buy lotion for his wife, might soon close. Bloomsday Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his novel ""Ulysses"" takes place in 1904,"
"out all the stops to commemorate ""Ulysses"", the famous novel of Irish author, James Joyce, during its Annual Bloomin’ Beerfest. The festival includes live Irish music, a costume contest – come dressed as your favorite character from the novel or from the time period - musical selections based on the novel in the library, and live readings from the groundbreaking and scandalous novel Ulysses. The beerfest typically showcases a great selection of Local Craft, Irish and Scottish Beers and a souvenir Bloomsday tasting cup. There have been many Bloomsday events in Trieste, where the first part of ""Ulysses"" was written."
"quite impossible to imagine any other masterpiece of modernism having quite such an effect on the life of a city."" On Bloomsday 1982, the centenary year of Joyce's birth, Irish state broadcaster RTÉ transmitted a continuous 30-hour dramatic performance of the entire text of ""Ulysses"" on radio. A five-month-long festival, ReJoyce Dublin 2004, took place in Dublin between 1 April and 31 August 2004. On the Sunday before the 100th ""anniversary"" of the fictional events described in the book, 10,000 people in Dublin were treated to a free, open-air, full Irish breakfast on O'Connell Street consisting of sausages, rashers, toast,"
"Dalkey, Ireland, although there are those who believe it also comes from James Joyce’s last novel, ""Finnegans Wake"". The knights of the Order of Finnegans must venerate James Joyce’s novel ""Ulysses"" and, if possible, attend Bloomsday each year in Dublin on the sixteenth of June. This is a long day that culminates, at dusk, at the Martello tower in Sandycove (where the novel begins) with participants reading sections from ""Ulysses"" and then walking to Finnegans pub in the neighbouring village of Dalkey. His work has so far been translated into thirty languages, including French, English, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Arabic,"
"writers as Charles Kickham, William Carleton, and (in collaboration) Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin. The playwright and poet Oscar Wilde, noted for his epigrams, was born in Ireland. In the 20th century, Ireland produced four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. Although not a Nobel Prize winner, James Joyce is widely considered to be one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. Joyce's 1922 novel ""Ulysses"" is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature and his life is celebrated annually on 16"
"long event, the Center hosts readers of Ulysses, screens a documentary, and sponsors a play, punctuating the Joycean word with Irish dancers and a performance by Dublin balladeer Eddie Delahunt. This has been an annual event since its inception. Syracuse, New York – The Syracuse James Joyce Club holds an annual Bloomsday celebration at Johnston's BallyBay Pub, at which large portions of the book are either read aloud, or presented as dramatisations by costumed performers. The club awards scholarships and other prizes to students who have written essays on Joyce or fiction pertaining to his work. The city is home"
"The Joyce Museum Trieste, opened on 16 June 2004, collects works by and about James Joyce, including secondary sources, with a special emphasis on his period in Trieste. Since 2005 Bloomsday has been celebrated every year in Genoa, with a reading of ""Ulysses"" in Italian by volunteers (students, actors, teachers, scholars), starting at 0900 and finishing in the early hours of 17 June; the readings take place in 18 different places in the old town centre, one for each chapter of the novel, and these places are selected for their resemblance to the original settings. Thus for example chapter 1"
"James Joyce Award The James Joyce Award, also known as the Honorary Fellowship of the Society, is an award given by the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) of University College Dublin (UCD) for those who have achieved outstanding success in their given field; recipients have ranged from respected academics, lauded political figures, skilled actors and, like James Joyce himself, writers. It is the highest award that an Irish University society can give. It is named after one of the society's most distinguished alumni, James Joyce, the author of ""Dubliners"", ""Ulysses"", ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" and"
"abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. ""Ulysses"" in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of ""Ulysses"", he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, ""For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."" On 2 February 1882, Joyce was born at 41 Brighton Square,"
"James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for ""Ulysses"" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's ""Odyssey"" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection ""Dubliners"" (1914), and the novels ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" (1916) and ""Finnegans Wake"" (1939)."
"Ulysses (novel) Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal ""The Little Review"" from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called ""a demonstration and summation of the entire movement"". According to Declan Kiberd, ""Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking"". ""Ulysses"" chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of"
"observe what they call Bloom's day – 16 June"". On the 50th anniversary of the events in the novel, in 1954, John Ryan (artist, critic, publican and founder of ""Envoy"" magazine) and the novelist Brian O'Nolan organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the ""Ulysses"" route. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce (a dentist who, as Joyce's cousin, represented the family interest) and AJ Leventhal (a lecturer in French at Trinity College, Dublin). Ryan had engaged two horse-drawn cabs, of the old-fashioned kind, in which in ""Ulysses"" Mr. Bloom and his friends drive to"
"to Syracuse University, whose press has published or reprinted several volumes of Joyce studies. Detroit, Michigan – There was a marathon reading of Joyce's ""Ulysses"" on 15 June 2013, at Casey's Pub in the Historic Corktown neighbourhood. Los Angeles – The Hammer Museum hosts an annual Bloomsday celebration including: live Irish music, a Guinness happy hour, a public reading of the ""Lestrygonians"" episode, and a dramatic reading of ""Sirens"". Cleveland, Ohio – The Nighttown Restaurant/Jazz Club holds an annual read of the novel on Bloomsday as well performed by local enthusiasts. Wichita, Kansas – Bloomsday is honoured by a presentation"
"Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the ""Odyssey"", and the novel establishes a series of parallels between the poem and the novel, with structural correspondences between the characters and experiences of Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus, in addition to events and themes of the early 20th-century context of modernism, Dublin, and Ireland's relationship to Britain. The novel is highly allusive and also imitates the styles of different periods of English literature."
"Glasthule Glasthule (; ) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is along Dublin's East Coast, between Dún Laoghaire and Dalkey. Every year it celebrates Bloomsday (celebrating the day featured in James Joyce's highly acclaimed novel Ulysses). The James Joyce Tower is located in nearby Sandycove. The Presentation Brothers maintain a house in Glasthule and operated Presentation College Glasthule, a secondary school for boys, until 2006. It is the main setting for Jamie O'Neill's 2001 novel ""At Swim, Two Boys"". In Sandycove and Glasthule, all on a street of one kilometre (shorter than Grafton Street in Dublin): Butchers, grocer, supermarket,"
"in Joyce's mind. At school he wrote an essay on the character, entitled ""My Favourite Hero"". Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature. He thought about calling his short-story collection ""Dubliners"" (1914) by the name ""Ulysses in Dublin"", but the idea grew from a story written in 1906 to a ""short book"" in 1907, to the vast novel that he began in 1914. The action of the novel takes place from one side of Dublin Bay to the other, opening in Sandycove to the South of the city and closing on Howth Head"
"Sandycove and Glasthule railway station opened on 11 October 1855. Sandycove is also serviced by Dublin Bus numbers 59 and 111, and lies close to Dún Laoghaire harbour. The writer James Joyce lived for a week as a young man in the Martello Tower situated beside the Forty Foot bathing place at Sandycove. The opening scene of Joyce's ""Ulysses"" is set in this tower. It now hosts a small Joycean museum, open all year round. Bloomsday is celebrated in Sandycove in Joyce's honour on the 16th of June every year. Near to the tower, on the seafront, is the unique"
"foreword by J. P. Donleavy: As one reads his words, dressed in their wonderful finery of irony, the world he speaks of reblossoms to be back again awhile. To see, feel and smell the Dublin of that day... a masterpiece of reminiscence. BLOOMSDAY (a term Joyce himself did not employ) was invented in 1954, the 50th anniversary, when John Ryan and the novelist Flann O'Brien organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the Ulysses route. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce (a dentist who, as Joyce's cousin, represented the family interest) and AJ Leventhal"
"and Dublin actor Brian Keagan reading from Ulysses. Currently this three-hour show is hosted by the Thirsty Dog, on Karangahape Rd. Guest Molly Blooms have included top NZ performers Robyn Malcolm, Noelle McCarthy, Carmel McGlone, Lucy Lawless, Geraldine Brophy and Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A five-day Bloomsday festival has been celebrated in Montreal since 2012 with readings, academic workshops, films, concerts and musical galas, cabarets, walking tours of Irish Montreal, Irish pub events, and guest lectures by internationally known Ulysses experts. Major partners include the Concordia School for Canadian Irish Studies, McGill University Continuing Education, The Jewish Public Library, Westmount and Atwater"
"Libraries. Bloomsday has been celebrated annually since 1993 in Prague, near the grove with a pond (an unrelated monolith was erected near the place several years ago) just below the Strahov Monastery. BBC Radio Four devoted most of its broadcasting on 16 June 2012, to a dramatisation of ""Ulysses"", with additional comments from critic Mark Lawson talking to Joyce scholars. In the dramatisation, Molly Bloom was played by Niamh Cusack, Leopold Bloom by Henry Goodman, Stephen Daedalus by Andrew Scott, and the Narrator was Stephen Rea. The Paris Bloomsday Group (five Paris-based Irish Joyceans) performs texts and songs from the"
"the literary technique known as ""stream of consciousness"", best exemplified in his famous work ""Ulysses"". Joyce also wrote ""Finnegans Wake"", ""Dubliners"", and the semi-autobiographical ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"". ""Ulysses"", often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is the story of a day in the life of a city, Dublin. ""Finnegans Wake"" is written in an invented language which parodies English, Irish and Latin. Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, was born in Dublin but later moved to France. He wrote thereafter in French and English."
"in its entirety for the duration of the day by authors, volunteers, and other Joyce lovers. Worcester, Massachusetts - long running annual celebration with readings from Ulysses at 7 sites around the city. Organized annually by the Worcester County Poetry Association. Tulsa, Oklahoma - The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Booksmart Tulsa, and the Guthrie Green hold an annual Bloomsday Pub Crawl in the Brady Arts District of downtown Tulsa. Each stop on the pub crawl is typically accompanied by live readings from or performances of selections from ""Ulysses"". Phoenix, Arizona - the Irish Cultural Center and McClelland Library pull"
"Ulysses (broadcast) The ""Ulysses"" broadcast occurred on Bloomsday 1982 when the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatised performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of James Joyce's epic novel, ""Ulysses"", to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882). The broadcast was carried by live relay internationally and won a Jacob's Broadcasting Award in recognition of its achievement. The novel ""Ulysses"" contains about 265,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,030 words. This record-breaking and historic literary broadcast was originally released on 20 audio cassettes in 1982 and later"
"spread out along the course. Six Joycean works have been selected, and the story being told changes each of the six miles of the race. The works, in the order in which they are read are: Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Dubliners, and The Dead. In 2014, to celebrate the 100th Centennial of the publishing of Dubliners, three dozen actors all read from this book of short stories by Joyce. In conjunction with the James Joyce Ramble, there is an event called “Take a Walk” to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute."
"Air"" was modelled on Leopold Bloom. Leopold Bloom also serves as an archetype, due to his non-identity and political indifference, for the nihilistic and apathetic mass in contemporary society in the French radical fringe publication ""Tiqqun"". Grace Slick's song ""Rejoyce"", from the album ""After Bathing at Baxter's"" concerns the novel ""Ulysses"", and Bloom is mentioned in the song. Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the ""Odyssey"". The"
"on James Joyce (often by Dr. Marguerite Regan) as well as readings from ""Ulysses"" and Irish folk music, sponsored by the Wichita Irish Cultural Association. Norfolk, Virginia – The Irish American Society of Tidewater, Virginia, held a Bloomsday Happy Hour at Smartmouth Brewery, on Saturday, 14 June 2014. Live Irish music was provided by the band Glasgow Kiss, and IAS members attended dressed in Joycean accessories (fedoras, round glasses, eye patches, etc.). Portland, Maine – Readings from ""Ulysses"" at the Irish Heritage Center, corner of Gray and State Streets. Portland, Oregon - Powell's Books hosts a reading of the novel"
"reminiscences of literary Dublin entitled ""Remembering How We Stood"", featuring stories of his friends including Behan, Kavanagh, J. P. Donleavy (q.v.) and Anthony Cronin along with the many Dublin characters who patronised his famous pub, The Bailey, in Duke Street. He was also a patron to many artists. First Bloomsday Celebration: Bloomsday (a term Joyce himself did not employ) was invented in 1954, the 50th anniversary, when John Ryan and the novelist Flann O'Brien organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the ""Ulysses"" route. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce (Joyce’s cousin and the"
"grandson and executor of his literary estate. On 1 January 2012, those restrictions were lessened by the expiry of copyright protection of much of the published work of James Joyce. In April 2013 the Central Bank of Ireland issued a silver €10 commemorative coin in honour of Joyce that misquoted a famous line from ""Ulysses"". Finnegan Stephen Dedalus Posthumous non-fiction publications Joyce Papers, National Library of Ireland Electronic editions Resources James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is"
"Joyce, live in the Île de Ré in France. They have no children; Stephen is James Joyce's sole living descendant. Stephen Joyce and Seán Sweeney are the joint trustees of the Estate of James Joyce. Stephen Joyce has taken an active role in all legal matters relating to Joyce's works. He has brought numerous lawsuits or threats of legal action against scholars, biographers, and artists attempting to quote from Joyce's literary work or personal correspondence. In 2004, Stephen Joyce threatened legal action against the Irish government when the ""Rejoyce Dublin 2004"" festival proposed public reading of excerpts of ""Ulysses"" on"
"is one of the most significant novelists of the first half of the 20th century, and a major pioneer in the use of the ""stream of consciousness"" technique in his famous novel ""Ulysses"" (1922). ""Ulysses"" has been described as ""a demonstration and summation of the entire Modernist movement"". Joyce also wrote ""Finnegans Wake"" (1939), ""Dubliners"" (1914), and the semi-autobiographical ""A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"" (1914–15). ""Ulysses"", often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is the story of a day in the life of a city, Dublin. Told in a dazzling array of"
"digitally remastered on CD in two formats: as a 32-CD boxed set, and as a three-CD set of MP3 audio files, released in 2004 (OCLC 315482641 and 605276262). Narrators Cast Production personnel Ulysses (broadcast) The ""Ulysses"" broadcast occurred on Bloomsday 1982 when the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatised performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of James Joyce's epic novel, ""Ulysses"", to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882). The broadcast was carried by live relay internationally and won a Jacob's Broadcasting Award in recognition of"
"Waste Land"", 1922 was a key year in the history of English-language literary modernism. In ""Ulysses"", Joyce employs stream of consciousness, parody, jokes, and virtually every other literary technique to present his characters. The action of the novel, which takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, parodically contrasted with their lofty models. The book explores various areas of Dublin life, dwelling on its squalor and"
"hairdressers, pharmacies, car sales garages, cake shop, bakery, bookmakers, auctioneers, public houses, beauty salons, florists, curtain and drapery shop, boutiques, wine merchants, dentists, doctors, bookshop, veterinary surgeon, post office, restaurants, cafés, late night shops, solicitors, dry cleaners. An Aircoach service links the area with Dublin Airport 24 hours a day. Glasthule Glasthule (; ) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is along Dublin's East Coast, between Dún Laoghaire and Dalkey. Every year it celebrates Bloomsday (celebrating the day featured in James Joyce's highly acclaimed novel Ulysses). The James Joyce Tower is located in nearby Sandycove. The Presentation Brothers maintain"