Love the hottie in the picture? Who doesn't love James Joyce?
I’m not sure how well-known Bloomsday is, or if anyone else has heard of it, but I just read about it the other day. Bloomsday is a huge celebration to James Joyce and it happens to be June 16th! The day is celebrated because his work Ulysses takes place on June 16th and is about the adventures of one Leo Bloom. I just wanted to give everyone a heads up, and pass along the website because the activities sounds pretty neat. There are a lot of walks around the city with different focuses, and also the performance of a musical about Joyce’s life (read the description on the website, it doesn’t sound as boring as I made it seem!) which will be going to West End in London soon. There are also discussions and lectures on his works, and several musical performances by all different groups. The whole thing sounds cool because it’s not just a celebration of Joyce, but also of his love of Dublin, a city immortalized in his works. Just thought I’d pass it along…
www.jamesjoyce.ie
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Dustin: This is actually a really interesting, occasionally controversial event in Dublin. Last year James Joyce's only living relative, his grandson Stephen Joyce, threatened to sue anyone who even so much as read aloud a single line of Joyce's writing, even at Bloomsday, which is, as Mary Rose stated, a festival celebration of Joyce. He has single-handedly stopped most of the discussion and celebration of Joyce's writing throughout the world, and he is considered one of the greatest threats to academic writing and academic free use in the world, to the degree that many scholars have stated that they are just waiting for him to die.
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