Bloomsday
in Dublin 2014
It was a century to the day, June 16 1904,
after Leopold Bloom,
James Joyce's fictional character
in Ulysses walked through the streets of Dublin,
and Pat Keenan enjoyed his native city's
day of celebration ... he took his camera along
Photos: Pat Keenan
Photos: Pat Keenan
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Sweny Chemist Shop "Mr Bloom raised a cake (of soap) to his nostrils. Sweet lemony wax. - I'll take this one, he said." Ulysses, J. Joyce (1922) |
Swenys Chemists, 1 Lincoln Pl, Dublin 2 www.sweny.ie/
Finn's Hotel
Just 50 yards from this shop was Finn's Hotel where Nora Barnacle worked and where she stood him up on June 14, 1904. Two days later she succumbed and so June 16 would go down in literary history as the day of Blooms walk in Ulysses
Lunch
Meeting House Square in Temple Bar
The James Joyce Centre hosted an afternoon of readings and songs from Ulysses with writer and director Peter Sheridan as Master of Ceremonies.
The James Joyce Centre, promotes the life and work of James Joyce,
35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1, Ireland Web: http://jamesjoyce.ie/
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| Peter Sheridan: Rooney Prize for Literature (1977), two Arts Council Bursaries (1982 and 1986) -writer in residence Abbey Theatre 1980 and with brother Jim - founded the Project Theatre Co. |
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| Peter Sheridan |
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| Aine Lawlor: radio and television broadcaster -co-hosts Morning Ireland RTÉ Radio 1 |
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| Clelia Murphy_plays Fair City's Niamh Cassidy |
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| MorganCrowley_tenor |
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| Phelim Drew, actor - son of the Irish folk singer Ronnie Drew. |
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| Deirdre Masterson_soprano |
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| Declan Gorman |
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| Katie O’Kelly: performance of extracts from 'Joyced' |
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| Declan Gorman |
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| Sinead Murphy and Darina Gallagher |
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| David Wray |
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| Elayne Harrington, aka: Temper-Mental, aka, MissElayneous |
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| Artist Robert Ballagh: his portrait of James Joyce graced the old Irish £10 note |
Sources & Further Reading:
Ellmann, Richard: James Joyce– New and Revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Feshbach, Sidney: ‘June 16, 1904: Joyce’s Date with Nora?’ in James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Summer 1984.
Joyce, James: Letters of James Joyce, vol. I, edited by Stuart Gilbert, London: Faber & Faber, 1957; vol. III, edited by Richard Ellmann, London: Faber & Faber, 1966.
Selected Letters of James Joyce, edited by Richard Ellmann, London:Faber & Faber, 1975.
Maddox, Brenda: Nora – A Biography of Nora Joyce, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988.