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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 1922 novel Ulysses takes place on a Thursday in 1904. So The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Booksmart Tulsa, and the Guthrie Green began an annual Bloomsday Pub Crawl in the Brady Arts District of downtown Tulsa in 2014.
Some ladies enjoy a reading of Ulysses at The Joycean Tower in Sandycove on Bloomsday (16th June) last year.
For those not familiar with the novel Ulysses by Irish writer James Joyce - it was published first in 1922 and is based mainly on the thoughts and experiences of the fictional character Leopold Bloom as he walks around Dublin on one particular summer day - 16th June 1904. Such was the Worldwide acclaim of this revolutionary novel in literary circles that this date in June is now called Bloomsday and is really a bit of a carnival day in Dublin. Many people (including the ladies in this photo) dress up in Edwardian costumes as would have been worn in 1904.
The first chapter in Ulysses was set in a tower in Sandycove (where this photo was taken) and which is now a museum of artifacts related to James Joyce and his famous literary work Ulysses. So on 16th June each year this tower is a wonderful gathering point and an orator reads interesting and amusing passages from Ulysses. There are a few more photos in my Sandycove set from this location.
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A group of ladies enjoy a Bloomsday lunch in Glasthule village near Dun Laoghaire in Dublin - with a vintage car parked in front of them.
Bloomsday (16th June) commemorates the date in 1904 in which the famous literary work Ulysses by James Joyce is set. Many dress up for the day in Edwardian costumes. Glasthule village is beside the Martello Tower in Sandycove where the first chapter of Ulysses is set.
“If Ulysses isn't worth reading, then life isn't worth living.”
Multiple failures to read this book is a prerequisite to completing this book. But the struggle was worth it. These were some videos and books I bought that helped me:
Videos:
Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"?
Stephen Fry on Ulysses
Great Big Book Club - James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Colum McCann Interview: What Ulysses Did to Me
Introduction to Ulysses by James Joyce, Video Series by Chris Reich
Books:
The New Bloomsday Book (highly recommend)
How to Read (and Love) James Joyce's Ulysses: The Least You Need to Know (highly recommend)
Translated Wiki:
Cover art for a recent photo project
Bloomsday is an annual worldwide celebration of the work of James Joyce, with readings from his masterpiece Ulysses - actors, period costumes, humour and music.
16 June 2023.
"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 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom."
Photographer at Bloomsday Celebrations at Meeting House Square, Dublin, Ireland. We had a chat. He takes photos at Concerts. I sent him a copy of the photo
16 June 2025.
"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 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom."
We were in Philadelphia this summer and on Bloomsday we happened on a neighborhood Ulysses celebration and reading in front of the Rosenbach Museum and Library. They have a manuscript... I bought this book from an independent book seller who was there, as I remember the battles over the Gabler edition that came out in the 1980's.
THOUGHTS AFTER FINISHING. I was really impressed with this, it had such wide scope and brought into the narration many aspects I had no idea about. I knew about Joyce's hard work, his eye issues, and the court battles, but I had no idea of how many people worked to see it get into readers' hands. I strongly recommend it. (I was a bit surprised that it spent practically no time on the battles in the 1980's over the Gabler edition, and I think that's more than a quibble - - but it's great nonetheless.)
Now this is the way to start a week! A dog, cars, a very different location, cobbles, tram lines, a spire and buildings. The piece-de-resistance for me is the couple chatting in the middle of the road. Can it be Elinor and Reginald Wiltshire themselves? I note that she is wearing stockings with seams; and not only that but the seams are straight. She may not be best pleased if the man's dog messes that up!
With thanks to today's amazing contributions we've been able to significantly flesh-out the context for this image. The first (and perhaps most important) consensus confirmation is that the lady pictured is the photographer Elinor Wiltshire, whose passing we marked earlier this year. She is very likely captured here by her husband Reginald. The next consensus confirmation is that this image was likely taken slightly before or after the Wiltshires took a series of images of several well-known writers who were marking Bloomsday with a tour of sites and sights from Joyce's Ulysses. Even without that context, this candid image is a great capture, and we're delighted to use it as something of a trigger for a series of Wiltshire Collection images which we may focus-upon for this week...
Collection: Wiltshire Photographic Collection
Date: 16 June 1954
NLI Ref: WIL pk12[6]
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Bloomsday 2022, Dublin, Ireland
Bloomsday is a celebration that takes place both in Dublin and around the world. It celebrates Thursday 16 June 1904, which is the day depicted in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the central character in Ulysses. The novel follows the life and thoughts of Leopold Bloom and a host of other characters – real and fictional – from 8am on 16 June 1904 through to the early hours of the following morning. [source James Joyce Centre}
2022 marks the Centenary of the Publication of Ulysses in 1922
O dia 16 de junho é feriado na Irlanda. Creio que o Bloomsday é o único feriado dedicado a uma obra de arte. A data homenageia o romance Ulisses, de James Joyce, que relata a odisséia do personagem Leopold Bloom durante 16 horas do dia 16 de junho de 1904.
The June 16th is a holiday in Ireland. I believe that Bloomsday is the only holiday dedicated to a work of art. The date commemorates the novel Ulysses by James Joyce, which recounts the odyssey of Leopold Bloom's character during 16 hours of the day June 16, 1904.
bloomsday
[para James e Nora]
enquanto em Dublin os rins de Joyce
eram servidos no Bloomsday
meu fígado estava sendo consumido
em ordinário prato de flandres
não vale a pena ir adiante
quando se crê o mundo perdido
na cega idolatria que eu sei
e não me será imposta a coices
na sobremesa uma fatia de doce
no jantar um novo Decreto-Lei
será inevitavelmente digerido
à noite uma leitura narcotizante
depois o nó górdio de Alexandre
e o oriente ao ocidente submetido
não preciso que se entenda o que digo
nem saber se a estupidez se expande
nas fronteiras além do meu umbigo
ah! aqui faz um belo domingo
somente isto deveria ser importante
não a lembrança de um junho antigo
que, contudo, não me saí da cabeça
porque meu fígado foi digerido
no balcão de um pub irlandês:
Leopold Bloom estava bêbado
e berrava para que todos ouvissem:
“ah! como é gostoso o meu Ulisses”
quando acabou o estoque de uísque
bebeu o meu sangue numa taça
e no meio do disse-que-disse
ainda queria que eu sorrisse
mas não me tirou a mordaça
Fred Matos