16/06/2022
🌟Bloomsday 2022🌟
Today, Thursday June 16th, Bloomsday is celebrated throughout the World, but most importantly here in our native city Dublin, the backdrop for Leopold Bloom’s perambulations on that date in 1904.
This year’s celebration is truly remarkable as it marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses which is recognised internationally as one of the all-time greats of modern literature.
Joyce’s attempts to have Ulysses published proved to be a difficult task, being rejected by many of the major publishing houses of the day. We have Sylvia Beach to thank, owner of Shakespeare & Company, a Paris bookstore, who, with no previous publishing experience, undertook the momentous task of putting Joyce’s work into print and released the now famous work to the world that we celebrate each year on Bloomsday.
I appreciate that many of you will not have read Ulysses, or maybe didn’t manage to finish it, but with a little bit of research I’m sure, like me, you will discover a landmark, in this wonderful City, that features one of the events in this great story that you can take to your heart.
