"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, the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom. The English compound word ""Bloomsday"" is usually used in Irish as well, though some publications call it . The first mention of such a celebration is to be found in a letter by Joyce to Miss Weaver of 27 June 1924, which refers to ""a group of people who"
"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,"
"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,"
"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"
"James Joyce Tower and Museum The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his novel ""Ulysses"" take place here, and the tower is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday. Admission is free. The tower was leased from the British War Office by Joyce's university friend Oliver St. John Gogarty, with the purpose of ""Hellenising"" Ireland. Joyce stayed there for six days, from September 9 to 14 in 1904. Gogarty later attributed Joyce's abrupt departure to a midnight incident with"
"novel ""Ulysses"" and the date has come to be known and celebrated around the world as Bloomsday. The 1904 rendezvous began a long relationship that eventually led to marriage in 1931 and continued until Joyce's death. Barnacle's and Joyce's relationship was complex. They had different personalities, tastes and cultural interests. Of their first meeting, she recalled: ""I mistook him for a Swedish sailor – His electric blue eyes, yachting cap and plimsolls. But when he spoke, well then, I knew him at once for just another Dublin jackeen chatting up a country girl."" The numerous erotic letters they exchanged suggest"
"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"
"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,"
"on ""Dubliners"" in 1906, Joyce considered adding another story featuring a Jewish advertising canvasser called Leopold Bloom under the title ""Ulysses"". Although he did not pursue the idea further at the time, he eventually commenced work on a novel using both the title and basic premise in 1914. The writing was completed in October 1921. Three more months were devoted to working on the proofs of the book before Joyce halted work shortly before his self-imposed deadline, his 40th birthday (2 February 1922). Thanks to Ezra Pound, serial publication of the novel in the magazine ""The Little Review"" began in"
"April 1937. The novel, set in Dublin in June 1921 during the Irish War of Independence, revolved around a woman torn between an Irish patriot and an English writer with pro-Republican sympathies. It was well received, with one reviewer commenting that ""the novel shows unusual promise"". Soon after, Miles learnt that he had an inoperable brain tumour, and disappeared from Manning's life. Since the affair had been kept secret she had difficulty obtaining information about him, and could not afford to visit him in the Edinburgh hospital where he lay dying. She lost her job at Peter Jones, moved to"
"that a time capsule containing valuable coins had also been discovered fascinated the public for a while, but proved illusory. The destruction of the Pillar brought a temporary glut of popular songs, including ""Nelson's Farewell"", by The Dubliners, in which Nelson's airborne demise is presented as Ireland's contribution to the space race. During its more than 150 years, the Pillar was an integral if controversial part of Dublin life, and was often reflected in Irish literature of the period. James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"" (1922) is a meticulous depiction of the city on a single day, 16 June 1904. At the"
"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"
"Navan and Sligo. The group was sold to Infravia Capital Partners for about €500 million in 2018. The Mater Private Hospital in Dublin is built on the site of No 7 Eccles Street, the home of the main character (Leopold Bloom) in James Joyce's ""Ulysses."" In Joyce's youth, No 7 Eccles Street was the actual home of his contemporary, JF Byrne. The Dublin hospital provides a variety of services and procedures including: orthopaedic surgery, cardio-thoracic surgery, plastic surgery, general surgery, dermatology, dietetics, gynaecology, a sleep laboratory, oncology, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, rheumatology, cardiology, paediatric surgery, aviation medicine, ear, nose and throat surgery,"
"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,"
"a lot of time reading or watching news reports. Newspapers became significant aspects of national and literary culture—as exemplified by James Joyce's ""Ulysses"", which derives from the newspapers of June 16 (and thereabouts), 1904, and represents the newspaper office itself as a vital part of life in Dublin. A 1945 study by sociologist Bernard Berelson found that during the 1945 New York newspaper strike, New Yorkers exhibited a virtual addiction to news, describing themselves as ""lost"", ""nervous"", ""isolated"", and ""suffering"" due to the withdrawal. Television news has become still further embedded in everyday life, with specific programming anticipated at different"
"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"
"site of an important battle during the Easter Rising. The O'Rahilly, one of the leaders of the Rising, lived at 40 Herbert Park. Another resistance leader, Eoin MacNeill, who refused to participate in the Rising, lived down the road at 19 Herbert Park. During the Irish war of independence, Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish National Army and later a government minister, had a study in the house of Miss Hoey at 5 Mespil Road, from where he carried out intelligence work. The date of 16 June 1904, now commemorated as Bloomsday, was chosen by the writer James Joyce for"
"a family called McKernan for a short period. It was from this house that, on 16 June 1904, he set out for a rendezvous with Nora Barnacle, later to be his wife. He commemorated this date by choosing it as the day on which the action of his novel, Ulysses, takes place. The 16 June is now frequently referred to as 'Bloomsday'. Farrington, the protagonist of Joyce's short story, ""Counterparts"", alighted from a tram ""at Shelbourne Road and he steered his great body along in the shadows of the wall of the barracks"" as he made his way home, possibly"
"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"
"Edwardian costume to celebrate Bloomsday, and retrace Bloom's route around Dublin via landmarks such as Davy Byrne's pub. Hard-core devotees have even been known to hold marathon readings of the entire novel, some lasting up to 36 hours. The James Joyce Tower and Museum at Sandycove, site of the opening chapter of ""Ulysses"", hosts many free activities around Bloomsday including theatrical performances, musical events, tours of the iconic tower and readings from Joyce's masterpiece. ""Every year hundreds of Dubliners dress as characters from the book ... as if to assert their willingness to become one with the text. It is"
"stretch of failed attempts to get published and launch his own newspaper, Joyce then took jobs teaching, singing and reviewing books. Joyce made his first attempt at a novel, ""Stephen Hero"", in early 1904. That June he saw Nora Barnacle for the first time walking along Nassau Street. Their first date was on June 16, the same date that his novel ""Ulysses"" takes place. Almost immediately, Joyce and Nora were infatuated with each other and they bonded over their shared disapproval of Ireland and the Church. Nora and Joyce eloped to continental Europe, first staying in Zürich before settling for"
"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"
"County Kildare in June 1892. Field then formed a break-away branch of the Irish Land and Labour Association, called the ""Land and Labour League"" designating himself as its President. He was essentially a ""Labor nationalist"" believing Irish workers and employers shared a common interest in developing Irish industry. The 1911 Census shows him living, unmarried, at 6 Main Street, Blackrock. The ""Nestor"" and ""Cyclops"" episodes of James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"" contain passing references to a cattle traders' meeting addressed by Field, who expresses criticism of the quarantine imposed on Irish districts where cattle are suffering from foot and mouth disease."
"Davy Byrne's pub Davy Byrne's pub at 21 Duke Street, Dublin, was made famous by James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"". Leopold Bloom stops for a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy while wandering through Dublin. The pub is a pilgrimage point for fans of the novel, who, like Leopold Bloom, stop and have a cheese sandwich and a glass of wine. The pub is particularly popular on Bloomsday. Joyce also mentioned the pub in the short story ""Counterparts"" in ""Dubliners"" as a bar visited by the office clerk protagonist named Farrington following an altercation with his senior at the"
"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"
"office. It is also mentioned in ""Green Rushes"", a short story collection by Maurice Walsh. Davy Byrne's pub Davy Byrne's pub at 21 Duke Street, Dublin, was made famous by James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"". Leopold Bloom stops for a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy while wandering through Dublin. The pub is a pilgrimage point for fans of the novel, who, like Leopold Bloom, stop and have a cheese sandwich and a glass of wine. The pub is particularly popular on Bloomsday. Joyce also mentioned the pub in the short story ""Counterparts"" in ""Dubliners"" as a bar visited"
"Monto Monto was the nickname for the one-time red light district in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. Monto was roughly the area bounded by Talbot Street, Amiens Street, Gardiner Street and Seán McDermott Street (formerly Gloucester Street). The name is derived from Montgomery Street (now called Foley Street), which runs parallel to the lower end of Talbot Street towards what is now Connolly Station. It was immortalised as ""Nighttown"" in the ""Circe"" chapter of James Joyce's famous work, ""Ulysses"", where the central protagonists Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus together visit a brothel. In its heyday from the 1860s - 1920s,"
"of Ireland. The last two acts are set during the Easter Rising, in April 1916. Residents of the tenement house: Additional characters: The first act is a representation of normal working-class life in early twentieth century Dublin. The majority of major characters are introduced. The act opens with gossip from Mrs Gogan, a Catholic charwoman. Some other characters introduced are: Fluther Good, a trade unionist and carpenter; ""the Young Covey"", an ardent communist and fitter; Jack Clitheroe, the Covey's uncle and a former member of the Irish Citizen Army, at that time led by James Connolly. There is also Nora"
"publication. The novel is set in Dublin during the week leading up to the Easter Rising of 1916. All the characters are members of a complexly interrelated Anglo-Irish family. As the story begins Andrew Chase-White is a young Second lieutenant in King Edward's Horse, spending a leave with his family in Ireland before accompanying his regiment to France. Andrew Chase-White grew up in England, the only child of Protestant Anglo-Irish parents. His recently widowed mother Hilda has decided to move to Ireland. Andrew's paternal grandfather was his grandmother's second husband. With her first husband she had two children, Brian and"
"the 1990s. The film was not approved for general release in Ireland until 2000; however, it was screened at the Irish Film Theatre (a private film club) in the 1970s. The large number of characters in the novel is reflected in the large cast of the film. The cast, in order of credit: Ulysses (1967 film) Ulysses is a 1967 British-American drama film loosely based on James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"". It concerns the meeting of two Irishmen, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, in 1904 Dublin. Starring Milo O'Shea as Leopold Bloom, Barbara Jefford as Molly Bloom, Maurice Roëves as Stephen"
"was known as the Irish Literary Revival, where Æ met the young James Joyce in 1902 and introduced him to other Irish literary figures, including William Butler Yeats. He appears as a character in the ""Scylla and Charybdis"" episode of Joyce's ""Ulysses"", where he dismisses Stephen's theories on Shakespeare. Dedalus borrows money from him and then remarks: ""A.E.I.O.U."" His collected poems was published in 1913, with a second edition in 1926. His house at 17 Rathgar Avenue in Dublin became a meeting-place at the time for everyone interested in the economic and artistic future of Ireland: his Sunday evenings ""at"
"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"
"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"