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June 16th 2009

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On June 16, 1904 James Joyce began his romantic involvement with Nora Barnacle. Later Joyce used the date to set the action of his great one-day novel Ulysses…

All over the world fans of the novel and revellers in general celebrate June 16 as “Bloomsday” - attend readings of the novel, walk the route through Dublin Leopold Bloom traversed, or just have a general piss-up in Joyce’s name…

Image: One of the rejection slips Joyce received for The Dubliners…

Posted at 10:20pm.

On June 16, 1904 James Joyce began his romantic involvement with Nora Barnacle. Later Joyce used the date to set the action of his great one-day novel Ulysses… All over the world fans of the novel and revellers in general celebrate June 16 as “Bloomsday” - attend readings of the novel, walk the route through Dublin Leopold Bloom traversed, or just have a general piss-up in Joyce’s name… Image: One of the rejection slips Joyce received for The Dubliners…
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