Bloomsday has been marked with traditional gusto in Dublin, starting with an early-morning performance of the opening scenes from James Joyce’s Ulysses in Sandycove and stretching across the city to an afternoon garden party in Áras an Uachtaráin – with much more in between.
Named after the book’s protagonist Leopold Bloom, the day celebrates the date on which Joyce’s 1922 novel is set: June 16th, 1904.
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