Bloomsday centenary: today's highlights
Breakfast: The highlight of the day for many will be the Guinness Bloomsday Breakfast in and around the James Joyce Centre on North Great George's Street, Dublin 1. Enjoy a breakfast roll (of nutty gizzards and mutton kidneys?) and a pint of the black stuff. Last minute Bloomsday revellers will be disappointed, however, as the event was fully booked as of last night. 8 a.m. to noon.
Exhibition: The National Library of Ireland exhibition, James Joyce and Ulysses, continues at the library's new facility at the Kildare Street premises. Free entrance, but a guided tour costs 3.
Spectacle: Enjoy a Bloomsday street theatre spectacle at the Spire (or the Monument of Light) at 8 p.m. tonight. The Parable of the Plums is a community arts project directed by Raymond Keane of Barabbas. It's a street theatre adaptation of the Aeolus episode in Ulysses.
Music and talks: In Blackrock, Co Dublin, the centenary will be celebrated with a day of music and talks, both indoors and outdoors. Writer Anthony Cronin gives the opening speech at noon beside the Blackrock Cross on Main Street.
Film: The IFI will screen Mary Ellen Bute's 1965 film Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake as part of its Joyce Film Series at the IFI, Eustace Street, Dublin 2 at 2.10 p.m. The premier of director Rosemary House's film Bloomsday Cabaret will be screened at 6.30 p.m.
Music: A little Bloomsday musical interlude will be provided at the National Concert Hall this evening. The RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conducted by Proinsias Ó Dúinn, will reflect the mood of 1904 with the Just a Song at Twilight - Some Bloomin' Great Songs for Bloomsday programme. 8 p.m. 8-22. 01-4170000.
Lecture: Brian Arkins of NUI Galway discusses the connections between Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey in the Bloomsday lecture at the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, Galway. 3 p.m. Free.