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Bloomsday
Read more about Bloomsday, the annual June 16th commemorations of James Joyce set on the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904.
Bloomsday: Ringsend reclaims its Joycean heritage but, alas, no ‘superior tawny sherry’
More than most places in Dublin, Ringsend is pivotal to Ulysses, as the focal point of the first date between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle
In pictures: Dublin celebrates Bloomsday 2026
People have been marking the literary occasion with Edwardian dress and re-enactments from James Joyce’s Ulysses in the capital
Stories from Dubliners review: Back for Bloomsday, Joyce’s stories get a dollop of comic energy
Jim Roche and Liam Hourican of Volta Theatre Company stage their adaptations of Two Gallants, A Little Cloud and Counterparts
On Bloomsday, if you take just one message from Ulysses then it should be this one
James Joyce didn’t trade in false hope, but he reminds us how political optimism, even if foolish, is never wasted
Bloomsday: If I lived in Ireland I may never have started this slightly insane art project
Irish artist Natalie Forrester’s is painting each page of Ulysses, and has just reached a Guinness milestone
Beery Men and Peatsmoke: For Bloomsday, an Irish perfumer in Paris creates the smells of Ulysses
Meabh Mc Curtin is bringing to life 14 scents from Joyce’s novel, from Molly Bloom’s perfume to the ointments of Sweny’s Pharmacy
Surprise(d) guest: Frank McNally on the mysteries of Irish-English and the story behind the world’s greatest collection of Joyceana
Invited to join a conversation on Irish-English, I found my biggest challenge was to shut up
All about the Bass – Frank McNally on a Joycean angle to a million-pound question
No small beer for winner of TV quizshow’s jackpot
Dublin’s spoofers? Rugby fans and Bloomsday experts
Something that makes not an ounce of sense to anyone – least of all themselves
Trinity College Dublin issues €1m pest control tender to help tackle rats, bed bugs - and ‘booklice’
Plus Rex Ryan, son of the late Gerry Ryan, plays the Monk, the new Beanie Babies and a grass-cutting row
Bloomsday: Aficionados enjoy a Full Joyce for breakfast then devour extra helpings of Ulysses
But Dorset Street is still too busy being itself to celebrate being immortalised in fiction
Bookish breaks: Get inspired with these literary destinations, from Castletownshend to the French Riviera
To celebrate Bloomsday on June 16th, we explore spots that inspired famous writers to create their classics
James Joyce: ‘For a boy of his age in a Dublin day school, he seems to have had considerable sexual experience’
In a Word ... Precocious
President Higgins has ‘no intention’ of remaining silent while democracy ‘under threat’
Michael D Higgins uses last Bloomsday speech in office to denounce treatment of people in Gaza and decry ‘dangerous authoritarianism’ in US
Bloomsday was a sporadic, boozy and ill-mannered affair before becoming an annual event in 1994
In 1954 Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin embarked on a drunken pilgrimage including public urination on Sandymount Strand
Reading Ulysses: Splendid literature that can suck the life out of you and your family
Six pages of James Joyce’s masterpiece every night for five months, that shouldn’t be too hard. Right?
Killiney WhatsApp chats ablaze again with a new debate about goats
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‘Free money, free love in a free lay state’: Leopold Bloom’s politics
Bloom and his creator James Joyce were finely attuned to Irish ideological currents of their day
In Pictures: Bloomsday 2024
Performances and fun across Dublin for commemoration of the 120th year since the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses is set
Bloomsday: Minister and Sinn Féin leader among Dubs lining out for ‘Joycean Olympics’
Among €25 T-shirts for sale at James Joyce Centre, those reading ‘Stately Plump Buck Mulligan’ sold out quickly
Protecting libraries from far-right attacks not just a job for gardaí, says President
Michael D Higgins tells Bloomsday gathering those who intimidate library staff and tear up books ‘must be called out’
‘Come back to me when you have an idea nobody has ever attempted before’
My five-year-old and I are heading home to Hungary after a weekend visiting family in Lucan. Our bag is full of chocolate and paints
In a Word....Rejoice
Imagine the attention were Ireland to have a public holiday celebrating a fictional character
Plan your Bloomsday weekend: What’s on and will I have to eat pork kidneys?
Joycean events to mark the 120th anniversary of Leopold Bloom’s many steps across Dublin are being held across the capital and beyond
Celebrating James Joyce and those fearful Jesuits
Rite & Reason: Joyce knew far more about Catholic dogma than many of his detractors
Yes to Molly Bloomsday weekend: Four days of women-led spectacle in Derry and Donegal
The Ulysses European Odyssey stretches across 18 European cities that have produced artistic responses to the novel
Locals ‘bring Ulysses to life’ in Bloomsday celebrations under shadow of Martello tower
Hundreds of James Joyce enthusiasts flock to Sandycove and surrounds for readings, song and more
Why Ireland should declare Bloomsday a public holiday to honour its most famous Jew
In a Word: Two public holidays so close together? That’s nothing: the French had five last month
James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: Richly layered, erudite chapters that repay close reading
The Easter Rising is seen as a catalyst for global processes of decolonisation, in the same way as Joyce is a catalyst for literary modernism
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