Bloomsday 9 – 16 JUNE 2008

by infomatique | June 4, 2008 at 04:40 am

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If you are thinking of paying a visit to Ireland you should consider being here for Bloomsday.

Dublin's in bloom all week long for the Bloomsday Festival, which gets under way tonight.

The festival runs until 16 June, which marks the day in 1904 on which all the action of James Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' takes place.

Events will take place in the city centre and south Dublin.

Laura Barnes, Director of the James Joyce centre, says there is something for everyone in the celebrations, which are getting bigger every year.

The line-up of events includes performances from the critically acclaimed musical 'Himself and Nora', alongside the traditional Bloomsday breakfast of Guinness and rashers and theatrical readings by Senator and Joycean scholar David Norris.

The show tells the love story of Mr Joyce and his wife and muse Nora Barnacle, with leading Broadway actors Matt Bogart and Kaitlin Hopkins lined up to take part.

Other traditional events include the Joycean bike tour, Ulysses walking tours and readings at a number of venues.

Organisers are trying to bring the Bloomsday celebrations further across Dublin with events planned for Dún Laoghaire and Temple Bar as well as the more traditional North Great Georges Street.

Organisers have also enlisted Spanish scholars to explain to literature buffs the impact that Joyce has had on the Hispanic world.

Speaking at the launch of this year's festival last month, Ms Barnes said embassy staff in the capital have been determined to keep 16 June free for ambassadors.

'I happened to see one of the Ambassador's diaries and Bloomsday was pencilled in long before we had the events decided - as many ambassadors who are in town will attend,' she said.

'The diplomatic corps will do readings in their national language. Joyce scholars are universal and the idea here is to get a little taste of Ulysses as it is heard across the globe.'

Source: rte.ie

Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The day is a secular holiday in Ireland. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.

The day involves a range of cultural activities including Ulysses readings and dramatisations, pub crawls and general merriment, much of it hosted by the James Joyce Centre in North Great George's Street. Enthusiasts often dress in 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 first celebration took place in 1954, and a major five-month-long festival (ReJoyce Dublin 2004) took place in Dublin between 1 April and 31 August 2004.

The Rosenbach Museum & Library, in Philadelphia, United States, is the home of the handwritten manuscript of Ulysses and celebrates Bloomsday with a street festival including readings, Irish music, and traditional Irish cuisine provided by local Irish-themed pubs.

The Syracuse James Joyce Club holds an annual Bloomsday celebration at Johnston's BallyBay Pub in Syracuse, New York, at which large portions of the book are either read aloud, or presented as dramatizations 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 to Syracuse University, whose press has published or reprinted several volumes of Joyce studies.

Bloomsday has been celebrated since 1994 in the Hungarian town of Szombathely, the birthplace of Leopold Bloom's father, Virág Rudolf an emigrant Hungarian Jew. The event is usually centered around the Iseum, the remnants of an Isis temple from Roman times, and the Blum-mansion, commemorated to Joyce since 1997, at 40–41 Fő street, which used to be the property of an actual Jewish family called Blum. Hungarian author László Najmányi in his 2007 novel, The Mystery of the Blum-mansion (A Blum-ház rejtélye) describes the results of his research on the connection between Joyce and the Blum family.

Bloomsday 2008 Events
Ulysses lives at the Rosenbach...

Every June 16, the Rosenbach Museum & Library—home of James Joyce's manuscript for Ulysses—celebrates Bloomsday with a series of readings on Delancey Place and a special exhibition of Joyce materials.

What is Bloomsday?
Bloomsday is the day on which protagonist Leopold Bloom made his "odyssey" through Dublin in Ulysses. Every year, the Rosenbach joins with Joyce lovers throughout the world to celebrate "Bloomsday" on June 16. Hundreds gather on Delancey Place for this event, which features readings from Ulysses by notable Philadelphians from the steps of the museum. An exhibition of Joyce materials is also on view inside the museum, which is open to visitors all day.

Questions? Call 215.732.1600 or email info@rosenbach.org.

A Philadelphia Tradition
Philadelphia's Bloomsday at the Rosenbach is one of the cultural highlights of the season, drawing hundreds of friends, neighbors, Joyce enthusiasts, book-lovers, and curious passersby to Delancey Place throughout the day. June 16, 2008 marks the 16th annual Bloomsday at the Rosenbach—an event that is not to be missed!

Please note, the museum will not open to the public until 12pm on June 16th. Tours of the historic house will not be available, however the current exhibition will be able to be viewed. If you are planning to visit the museum, please plan around this.

Pavilion Theatre and the James Joyce Centre presents
Do You Hear What Im Seeing?
A Performance by Senator David Norris

In his performance of 'Do You Hear What I'm Seeing?' Senator Norris takes the audience through Joyce's works from the early short stories through to the linguistic mosaic of 'Finnegans Wake'. His own theatrical brilliance brings Joyce's language alive in a way that evokes the writer's humour and humanity.

Running time: 50 mins

"An exhilarating celebration of the life & works of James Joyce. David Norris is superb"
Irish Times

Bloomsday luncheon will be available in the GastroPub after the event for €12.95
For reservations ring Gastropub on 2145772
Menu Includes:
Kidneys, Liver, Bacon Sausage, Egg & Tomato served with GastroPub Fries Monday, 16th June 2008
Time: 1pm
Tickets: €10/8

EVENTS ORGANISED BY THE JAMES JOYCE CENTRE (Dublin)

MOLLY BLOOM From James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Paris 1922
Produced in association with Big Hand Little Hand Productions
Starring Eilin O'Dea as Molly Bloom
Directed by Liam Carney/Patrick J. Byrnes
Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the James Joyce's Ulysses is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature. It has been used as the basis of songs, re-appeared in movies, quoted in other literary works and in terms of its effect on Irish culture was, as the award-winning writer Eavan Boland puts it, "a liberating signpost to this country's future". Sensuous, compelling and at times hugely funny, this soliloquy is the only time in Joyce's seminal novel where Molly's voice is heard. In it, we hear the otherwise silent character bear her soul on life, love, sex and loneliness.
“Absolute Artistic Genius” USA Weekly News

Date: 9th June – 21st June, 2008
Time: 8.00pm nightly, matinee Saturdays 3.00pm
Venue: Smock Alley Studio, Essex Street, Temple Bar
Tickets: €15 / €12 conc.
Booking: Required. Contact James Joyce Centre: 01 878 8547
Running time: 90 minutes

***For Ticket Info Call 353 1878 8547***

BARRY McGOVERN
'Among the deepening shades': an approach to reading 'Hades'

Barry McGovern offers a very special talk focused on a single episode of Joyce's Ulysses. Known as 'Hades', the sixth episode follows Leopold Bloom as he attends the funeral of Paddy Dignam in Glasnevin Cemetery, late in the morning of 16 June 1904. Join us as we journey into the world of the dead with Barry McGovern as our guide ... like Bloom himself, you will surely discover that there is "Plenty to see and hear and feel yet" when it comes to Joyce's epic of the everyday.

Date: 11th June 2008
Time: 1.00pm
Venue: Dublin Writers Museum, Parnell Square
Tickets: Free event
Booking: None required; limited seating

15th MESSENGER BIKE RALLY & LUNCH in association with Shaws

Start: Wolfe Tone Statue on the north- east corner of St. Stephens Green.

This year’s Bloomsday Messenger Bike Rally, in aid of the Irish Youth Foundation, takes place on Thursday 12th June. 50 cyclists in Joycean garb will ride through the streets of Dublin on old messenger bikes retracing the steps of Leopold Bloom. The cyclists meet up with 300 other enthusiasts at the Mansion House for lunch, Joycean renditions and a charity auction. The funds raised help support projects working with vulnerable children and young people in Dublin.

Start: Wolfe Tone Statue on the north- east corner of St. Stephens Green.
Date: 12th June 2008
Time: 9.30am
Booking: Irish Youth Foundation, Tel: 01 858 4520 or visit www.iyf.ie

“JOYCE IN JUNE” by Stewart Parker
Performed by Rough Magic Theatre Company
Rough Magic, one of Ireland's leading independent theatre companies, presents a reading of "Joyce in June" by Stewart Parker, a fantasy in two parts.

The first depicts incidents in Joyce’s life, principally the burgeoning love affair with Nora Barnacle; the second is an imagined postscript to Ulysses, in which Molly Bloom and Blazes Boylan embark on a concert tour to Belfast. Using myth and a work of art - in this case Don Giovanni which provides some of the material for the concert - to frame the narrative, Stewart Parker counterpoints the real with the fictional in a homage to the master. The moment which links the two parts is the instant in which Joyce was photographed by Constantine Curran in 1904.

The reading will feature Rough Magic's ensemble cast currently performing in a double bill of Stewart Parker plays ("Spokesong" and "Pentecost"). This is a rare opportunity to see this work performed live.

Date: 12th June, 2008
Time: 4.00pm
Venue: The Empty Space, Wood Quay, Temple Bar
Tickets: Free.
Booking: Required. Contact James Joyce Centre: 01 8788547
Running time: 70 minutes

***For Ticket Info Call 353 1878 8547***

A TRIBUTE TO JOYCE BY SPANISH & IRISH WRITERS:
A Bloomsday Roundtable, Presented by the Instituto Cervantes de Dublin
Through his literary works, James Joyce entered the Spanish consciousness, forging a secret connection between Spain and Ireland. His writing left a lasting impression on the hearts and minds of many creators. For Bloomsday 2008 renown writers Jordi Soler, Edwardo Lago and Antonio Soler will join Ciaran Cosgrove, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Hispanic Studies Department, Trinity College Dublin and David Butler, Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Carlow College to explore these indelible traces through a roundtable discussion on Joyce’s work and his reception with the Hispanic world.

The Lincoln Inn, famed for its Joycean connection to Finns Hotel where a young Nora Barnacle worked as a chambermaid, will host all participants and audience members of the Bloomsday Roundtable, to a drinks reception following the event! The Lincoln Inn is located at 18/19 Lincoln Place across the road from the Cervantes Institute.

Date: 13th June 2008
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes de Dublín, Lincoln House, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2
Tickets: Free event
Booking: None required; limited seating

DENNY BLOOMSDAY BREAKFAST
Straight from the pages of Ulysses, the most historic breakfast in Dublin is being served at the James Joyce Centre... for 3 days! Come celebrate Leopold Bloom’s morning feast featuring a full Irish breakfast complete with Denny Gold Medal sausages and rashers as well as a glass of Guinness! As breakfast is being served actor will delight one and all with readings and song.

Date: 14, 15,16th June 2008
Time: 9.30am & 11.00am sittings (14th/15th June); 8.00am, 9.30am &
11.00am sittings (16th June)
Venue: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
Tickets: €26.00
Booking: Required. Contact James Joyce Centre: 01 8788547

***For Ticket Info Call 353 1878 8547***

MARKS & SPENCER BLOOMSDAY TEA
Enjoy a gorgeous afternoon tea of finger sandwiches and scones as songs of Joyce’s bygone era fill the air. "Love’s Old Sweet Song" and "The Lass of Aughrim" are just the beginning of a musical odyssey destined to delight one and all.

Date: 14,15,16th June 2008
Time: 2.00pm & 4.00pm
Venue: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1
Tickets: €18
Booking: Required. Contact James Joyce Centre: 01 878 8547

***For Ticket Info Call 353 1878 8547***

HIMSELF AND NORA – A Musical Reading
The critically acclaimed new musical, Himself & Nora, is the love story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid from Galway, who remained his rock, teacher, and portable Ireland throughout their lives in exile.

After a sold out presentation of highlights from the show last year at the Joyce Centre in Dublin, composer Jonathan Brielle will now present a reading of the entire musical with some of Broadway’s leading actors including Matt Bogart (star of Aida, Miss Saigon, Smokey Joe’s Café) as Joyce, Kaitlin Hopkins (Anything Goes, Noises Off) as Nora, and Jim Price (The Civil War) as Joyce’s father.

Upon it’s premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe, America’s Variety said, “Joyce was hell-raising, hard-drinking, sexually uninhibited wild man, and Matt Bogart layers these elements with devil-may-care charisma.”

Date: 15,16,17 June, 2008
Time: 8.00pm nightly; matinee 3.00pm on 15 June 2008
Venue: Mill Theatre Dundrum
Tickets: €20/€18 conc.
Booking: Required. Contact the Mill Theatre Dundrum: 01 2969340 or
online at www.milltheatre.com
Running time: 2 hours

BLOOMSDAY READINGS
NEW LOCATION!
In partnership with Temple Bar Cultural Trust
The Joyce Centre is pleased to continue its long tradition of dramatic readings by local celebrities, esteemed politicians and international diplomats. Join us at Meeting House Square in Temple Bar to watch and hear the characters and story of Ulysses come alive. Stay for a moment or an hour. Just enjoy the music of Joyce’s language. Seating is available.

Date: 16th June 2008
Time: 11am – 2.00pm
Venue: Meeting House Square, Temple Bar
Tickets: Free event
Booking: None required

Rejoice’n Art!

The Basin Club is a community resource centre for people with mental health difficulties. It is part of Schizophrenia Ireland--The Lucia Foundation, which is named for James Joyce’s Daughter, Lucia, who suffered from schizophrenia. The members of The Basin Club’s art group have created twenty works of art in various styles and media. Works of art are available for purchase from the exhibition.

Date: 16th – 20th June, 2008
Time: 10.00am – 5.00pm
Venue: The Basin Club, 39 Blessington Street, Dublin 7
Tickets: Free Event
Booking: None Required.

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SEEING? A Performance by Senator David Norris
Senator David Norris is one of most significant figures in Irish political and cultural life today. Among his many talents is his mastery of James Joyce's works. In his performance of Do You Hear What I'm Seeing? Senator Norris takes the audience through Joyce's works from the early short stories through to the linguistic mosaic of Finnegans Wake. His own theatrical brilliance brings Joyce's language alive in a way that evokes the writer's humour and humanity.
"An exhilarating celebration of the life and works of James Joyce. David Norris is superb." --The Irish Times

Date: 16th June 2008
Time: 1.00pm
Venue: Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire
Tickets: €10 / €8 conc.
Booking Required. Contact the Pavilion Theatre: 01 2312929
or online at www.paviliontheatre.ie
Running Time: 50 minutes

JAMES JOYCE MUSEUM, Joyce Tower, Sandycove
On Bloomsday, The Joyce Tower in Sandycove, where Ulysses opens, will be open from 8.00am to 6.00pm for readings and commemorations. Barry McGovern will this year read the first half of the ‘Circe’ episode. Visitors are invited to contribute to the celebrations and to take inspiration from the museum’s wonderful collection of original Joycean material.

Date: 16th June, 2008
Time: 8.00am – 6.00pm
Venue: Joyce Tower, Sandycove, Co. Dublin
Tickets: Adults: €7.25 / €6.10 conc.; Children: €4.55; Family: €21
Booking: None Required. For more information visit www.visitdublin.com

JOYCE CENTRE GUIDED WALKING TOURS
As always, the Joyce Centre will be offering a selection of exciting and informative walking tours.

DUBLINERS

Start: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George's Street
Duration: ca. 90 minutes
Finish: Duke Street

Join our guide on a ramble through the city of Joyce's most accessible work, Dubliners. Completed when its author was just 25 years old, Dubliners skilfully treats both turn-of-the-century Dublin and Joyce's surroundings in Continental Europe. Over the period of an hour and a half we will unpack Joyce's relationship with the city during his life here, the varied angles from which Joyce chose to remember Dublin and the ways in which Dublin has chosen to remember her famous son. Joyce's Dublin was one of politics and intrigue, of religious devotion and disaffection; a city in which the pressures and ties of family and society were never far from mind. The tour will visit Joyce's alma mater, Belvedere College; The Gresham Hotel, setting for the climactic scene in “The Dead”; the site of Nelson's Column and sites of importance to each of the stories in Joyce's first major work.

Date: 9-13 June, 2008
Time: 11.00am (9th & 12th); 2.00pm (11th); 4.00pm (10th & 13th)
Venue: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
Tickets: €10 / €8conc.
Booking: Required. Contact James Joyce Centre: 01 8788547

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF LEOPOLD BLOOM

Start: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George's Street
Duration: ca. 90 minutes
Finish: National Museum, Kildare Street

This tour explores the background to Joyce’s Ulysses and to Bloom’s thoughts as he crosses the city in search of something to eat in the ‘Lestrygonians’ episode. The episode humorously contrasts the well-fed and the under-fed, and the city architecture noticed by Bloom reinforces these contrasts. The presence of police constables reminds us of the realities of Dublin as a colonial city and the central issue of food in social, cultural and political life in 1904.

Date: 9-13 June, 2008
Time: 11.00am (10th & 13th); 2.00pm (9th & 12th); 4.00pm (11th)
Venue: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
Tickets: €10 / €8conc.
Booking: Required. Contact James Joyce Centre: 01 8788547

A JOYCE CIRCULAR

Start: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George's Street
Duration: ca. 90 minutes
Finish: James Joyce Centre

On our andante dander around the Hibernian metropolis we take in Earl Street and the prick with the stick; the house where Oliver “Buck Mulligan” Gogarty was born; the setting of the Dubliners story The Boarding House; the house in which Sean O’ Casey was born; 7 Eccles Street, home of the Blooms; and Belvedere College, which Joyce attended in the 1890s.

Date: 9-13 June, 2008
Time: 11.00am (11th); 2.00pm (10th & 13th); 4.00pm (9th & 12th)
Venue: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
Tickets: €10 / €8conc.
Booking: Required. Contact James Joyce Centre: 01 8788547

BLOOMSDAY WALK

Start: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
Duration: 60 minutes
Finish:

A special walk incorporating the best of Joyce’s Dublin.

Date: 14-16 June, 2008
Time: 11.00am; 12:00noon; 2.00pm; 3.00pm; 4.00pm
Venue: James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street
Tickets: €8
Booking: Required. Contact James Joyce Centre: 01 878 8547
See the 'Walking Tours' section of our website for additional details!

***For Ticket Info Call 353 1878 8547***

For more information to make your visit to Dublin and Ireland fun filled, visit

Dublin Tourism http://www.visitdublin.com
and
Failte Ireland http://www.discoverireland.ie

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Caoimhin1

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at 12:04 on June 4th, 2008

infomatique, I like this story. It's good stuff.

djcaliban

at 10:16 on June 10th, 2008

Pretty simple shot really, from the top of a hop on, hop off tour bus. It was a good day in Dublin, and even the winds of serendipity were blowing in our favor.

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francesca mazzucato

at 11:05 on June 10th, 2008

It was a lot of time I wanted to go. See His grave. The grave of a genius. Give homage. Stay in silence in front of the statue. This happened last month, in Zurich. There was a lot of energy in the small corner of the little Fluntern Cementery. James was with Nora Barnacle, so important for his life and his work and with other members of his family

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infomatique

at 11:33 on June 10th, 2008

Thanks everyone for the comments and the photographs.

Alan F Hickman

at 11:43 on June 10th, 2008

When visiting Dublin in March, I turned a corner and almost ran into James Joyce. Here he is.

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Roger Cummiskey

at 11:53 on June 10th, 2008

Bloomsday 2008.

Mr. Bloom

Bloomsday - June 16th - is an annual celebration among James Joyce fans throughout the world, from Fort Lauderdale to Melbourne. It is celebrated in at least sixty countries worldwide, but nowhere so imaginatively, of course, as in Dublin, Ireland where Joyce was born and about which he wrote extensively.
The novel, Ulysses, by James Joyce recounts the hour-by-hour events of one day in Dublin - June 16, 1904 - as an ordinary Dubliner, Leopold Bloom, wends his way through the urban landscape, the odyssey of a modern-day Ulysses. This year celebrates the 104th anniversary.
ReJoyce Dublin 2008!

Dedicated and not so dedicated followers of James Joyce and his writings have some fun on Bloomsday – which now can stretch to Blooms week – dressing up in garb of the period, reading passages from Ulysses, knocking back copious amounts of alcohol and chatting about probably one of the best known novels in the World, few people have read and many not understood! Daft but fun!

Friends International June Luncheon
June l8, 12:30 PM
Rosmarino della Piazza, Elviria, Marbella, Spain. Tel: +34 952 850 148

Roger Cummiskey will be our speaker http://www.rogercummiskey.com

"James Joyce and visual Art on the Costa del Sol".

The Dublin Connection
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The International Connection - Ulysses
The Andalusian Connection - The AIA-Group
The Puerto Banus Connection - Summer Bliss at Sanyres

Rosmarino restaurant is a beautifully stylish Italian restaurant in Elviria. The restaurant was designed by Graziela Lianza. Rosmarino gives you the sense of a trendy and upscale restaurant you may find in Barcelona or New York. The service is impeccable, the food is fantastic , the atmosphere sophisticated.

Inish*

at 12:41 on June 10th, 2008

I'm very happy to join with you to rember this beautiful celebration in Dublin...It's a pleasure for me to contribute some photos to this useful page!

I was in Dublin last year and I still rember the emotions felt at the musical readings at Joyce Centre or during the walking tours on the streets hearing the characters and story of Ulysses come alive...really don't miss the oppurtunity to live the Bloomsday, it's a magic experience, you will not forget it!

I mean, does anybody know another country where the first date of a loving couple has still been celebrated after a century by so lots of people? I don't.

aca99elj

at 12:41 on June 10th, 2008

This statue of James Joyce can be found in Stephen's Green, a beautiful park in the heart of Dublin. It's a great place to relax and escape for a while, from the hustle and bustle of the city.

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Roger Cummiskey

at 13:08 on June 10th, 2008

ARTROGER

"James Joyce and visual Art on the Costa del Sol". Lunch time talk to Friends International, Rosmarino Restaurant, Elveria, Marbella, Spain - 18 June, 12:30. Contact Dorothy at 952 77 40 92.

ARTROGER

www.rogercummiskey.com

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aimmarie

at 13:13 on June 10th, 2008

Thanks for asking for my photo of myself with my literary hero, James Joyce. Did the walking tour, went to the James Joyce House at 15 Usher Drive and to Nora Barnacle's house as well (don't remember the address off the top of my head; it's in Galway). I had a lovely time. A dream came true. What a beautiful country, beautiful people--people who celebrate their literature in fine style. I'm in love with Ireland!

koncetta

at 13:25 on June 10th, 2008

I knew that statue from the pictures I've seen on James Joice, back from the time at school when I read some of his books. I always wanted to be there and take that picture. And that's what I did last October when I went for the first time to Ireland.

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andrewau2

at 14:33 on June 10th, 2008

"...and yes I said yes I will Yes."

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zenlapin

at 15:24 on June 10th, 2008

Visited Dublin and wandered around, a new and fresh view on every corner, and lots of interesting history and people. Here I am with James Joyce. He wasn't very talkative, but perhaps it was too early in the morning.

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markfolse

at 16:58 on June 10th, 2008

The "Yes!" sign on Royal Street in New Orleans in the Farbourg Marigny is part of the NoLa Rising public art project. It was originally posted on Toulouse Street - Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans by the Wet Bank Guy.

Bloomsday in New Orleans will be observed at the Garden District Book Shop.

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Maireid Sullivan

at 16:49 on June 10th, 2008

We've our own annual Bloomsday event here at home, – watching the totally brilliant 2003 film "BLOOM" with Stephen Rea and Angelina Ball.

A thoroughly delicious way to experience the story.

Maireid Sullivan

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at 16:49 on June 10th, 2008

infomatique, I like this story. It is a great report!

irq506

at 23:42 on June 10th, 2008

I bought this book used because I think Ulysses is a book that should be passed around. I bought one originally back when I still lived in Ireland, and that copy is now long since gone. This one I got for $5.95 in Seattle. The inscription on the inside is from a daughter to her dad for his birthday and many years of being a wonderful dad. A passing window on someone else's life.

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Roger Cummiskey

at 23:53 on June 10th, 2008

The only statue to Molly Bloom in the World is in the Alameda gardens in Gibraltar where Molly attended the local Loretto Convent. This ststue was commissioned for the bi centenial of the Gibraltar Chronical in 2004.

Want to see a photo? let me know. artroger@gmail.com

John of Dublin

at 02:22 on June 11th, 2008

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 dress up in Edwardian costumes as would have been worn in 1904. The first chapter in Ulysses was set in a tower in Sandycove 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.
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karen6059

at 03:35 on June 11th, 2008

The people of Dublin are so gracious and welcoming I highly recommend a trip to the Emerald Isle. There is history at every turn, not to mention a good time city-wide.

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maxivideo

at 08:53 on June 11th, 2008

thx to take my joyceshot it was in trieste...do u know?

thx and enjoy bllomsday!

videomax

gutenblerg

at 09:25 on June 11th, 2008

I was very impressed by a travelling Exhibition about James Joyce originating from the University of Glasgow
installed at the University of Otago promoted by Irish Studies there currently. Consisting of about twenty, two metre freestanding hangs it chronicles the life of the controversial Irish writer.
Amongst family effects over three generations we have a copy of Ulysses still in its brown paper wrapper such was the censorship or sense of covert shame in owning a copy in the early twentieth century. I was so interested I read every one but I could not read the small Gaelic sections.There were numerous low resolution images and serif and sans serif font styles in the format of the blend canvas hangs.The book on the left is a typical example of the book Ulysses and the image of Joyce is comprised of text in various font sizes and weights to give shading. When I posted this image I recieved hits from as far afield as Rio De Janiero and the Great Lakes of North America. Attributed as the only true artist of the twentieth century Joyce was inspired by the events of the day he met his wife Nora. He broke with normal publishing conventions as he refused to change real names and polaces when requested by publishers. He had to get private funds to publish and this took some time.I thoroughly recommend this travelling exhibition about James Joyce as it is very inspiring from numerous points of view.

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gutenblerg

at 09:27 on June 11th, 2008

Apologies for my rushed syntax and spelling errors .. ( :

keely girl

at 09:32 on June 11th, 2008

It was a beautiful day in Dublin:)

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franklinm82

at 09:52 on June 11th, 2008

This photograph of the famous James Joyce statue was taken on Grafton Street in Dublin, Ireland.

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franklinm82

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at 09:54 on June 11th, 2008

Infomatique-- wonderful article. I was so happy to lend my photo to it!

infomatique

at 11:11 on June 11th, 2008

I would normally thank everyone individually but as I have received more than 160 messages (not including the spam) it is not practical to do so in this instance.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all.

Alatryste

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at 11:35 on June 11th, 2008

Enough information to enjoy a wonderful festival!

François D. §

at 15:16 on June 11th, 2008

This is a manuscrit of Ulysse by James Joyce in the first french traduction by Auguste Morel. Sylvia Beach and others writers ( Valery Larbaud, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway ...) help by souscription for realise this work and publication.
The bookshop is standing Rue de l'Odéon, quartier Saint Germain des Prés, Paris 5 §

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NK Eide

at 18:55 on June 11th, 2008

Trieste, Italy (Friuli-Venezia) honors James Joyce, a native of Dublin, with a statue near the harbor. Joyce and his wife lived there on and off from about 1904–1920.

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