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Celebrate Bloomsday (after work)

June 16, 2005

This great day of the year has finally come. 

 

Today is Bloomsday, the annual celebration among James Joyce enthusiasts across the world. For those who have not read Joyce’s "Irish Bible" Ulysses — from front to back or, possibly, back to front -- it holds only a minor shame because of both its stream of consciousness style and its size. 

 

Today we commemorate the events in Joyce’s novel — primarily the wandering trek made by central character Leopold Bloom, the day’s namesake — all of which took place on a single day in Dublin: June 16, 1904. 

 

Geographically dependant upon where you’re celebrating, the day offers academic, literary lectures on Joyce and his works, life and women; Joyce look-a-like contests; Ulysses readings; re-enactments; and, of course, merry consumption of pork kidneys, sausages, black & white puddings and, of course, the scrumptious Irish stout.

 

The one common denominator: whether you’re celebrating in Dublin or Cork, Boston or New York, anywhere there are Joyce followers — by Daedalus, there will be Guinness! 

 

Last year’s celebration in Dublin went on for five months — how so many Dubliners were still standing is a trick we Irish will never tell. 

 

Having read all of Joyce’s other works (including Finnegan’s Wake — a fact those of us who share wear like a badge of honor), should I finally, after so many years of on-and-off attempts, finish Ulysses?

 

Soon, I feel.

 

Will I be celebrating today?  

 

“yes I said yes I will Yes.”

 

 

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DRB



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