Bloom’s BreakfastBloomsday 2020 What did you do to celebrate Bloomsday this year? We hoped that our Romping through Bloomsday Activity Guide gave you lots of ideas. We started our day with a Bloomsday Breakfast of (slightly burnt) kidneys along with toast, eggs and washed down with a mug of tea. We then dressed up for the Continue reading
Category: Ulysses
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Reading Romping through Ulysses
Reading Romping through UlyssesMaking the most of being at home during COVID-19, we decided to make a series of short films based on each of the 18 chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses by reading from our Romping through Ulysses pocket guide. We wanted to capture the fun we inject into our books by dressing up Continue reading
Romping through Bloomsday Activity Guide
The Romping through Bloomsday Activity GuideTo celebrate this year’s online Bloomsday Festival, the James Joyce Centre commissioned us to create a special Romping through Bloomsday Activity Guide which was free to download. It was an opportunity for us to bring you an alternative version of our pocket guide as a fun way to celebrate James Continue reading
At it Again!’s Picks for Bloomsday 2018
Bloomsday 2018 Bloomsday is celebrated around the world in places such as New York, Montreal, Melbourne, Paris, Istanbul, the Costa del Sol, Berlin and Pula in Croatia. You can find out if there is a Bloomsday close to you by looking for the hashtags #Bloomsday and #Bloomsday2018 on social media. If you are in Dublin Continue reading
Top 5 tips to celebrate Bloomsday
James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is set on the 16th June 1904 and has become known as Bloomsday, after the book’s anti-hero Leopold Bloom. Both he and Stephen Dedalus journey across Dublin, experiencing all of life in one day. Meanwhile, Bloom’s wife Molly is in bed entertaining man-about-town Blazes Boylan. Here are our top 5 tips Continue reading