Bloomsday, Wednesday June 16, 2021 at 6:00 pm EDT
“in Ulysses, in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist…my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac. Ulysses may, therefore, be admitted … [Read more...] about “Zoomsday”
A Virtual Celebration of
James Joyce’s Ulysses
Ulysses
“Zoomsday”
Oliver St. John Gogarty!
By Sean Kelly, Contributor
November / December 2018
Caricatured as “Buck Mulligan” in Joyce’s masterpiece, Oliver St. John Gogarty was more than just a swashbuckling figure – he was a poet, a playwright, a politician, and a renowned surgeon who operated for free on poor children. ℘℘℘ “The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit . . .” - Hippocrates ℘℘℘ Two famous Irish authors, both Dubliners (and former … [Read more...] about Oliver St. John Gogarty!
Paddy & Aedín Moloney’s “Reflections of Molly Bloom”
By Irish America Staff
June 15, 2016
Just in time for Bloomsday, June 16th, actress/producer Aedin Moloney and her father, Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, are releasing Reflections of Molly Bloom, a two-volume collaborative recording featuring Aedin Moloney’s renowned interpretation and performance of “Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy” from James Joyce’s Ulysses, complimented with music by Paddy. A record release party … [Read more...] about Paddy & Aedín Moloney’s “Reflections of Molly Bloom”
Weekly Comment:
It’s Bloomsday, Would You Buy a $45,000 Signed Edition of Ulysses?
By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June 15, 2017
Each year on June 16, bibliophiles celebrate Bloomsday in tribute to the day of wandering undertaken by the protagonist of James Joyce’s famously dense Ulysses, Leopold Bloom. Though it may be one of the most famous days in literature, a running joke about Ulysses is that it’s the most famous book most people haven’t read. But a well-known rare edition of the book with … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
It’s Bloomsday, Would You Buy a $45,000 Signed Edition of Ulysses?
The Mighty John Quinn, Defender of Ulysses
By Richard and Janis Londraville
June 15, 2017
John Quinn, the New York lawyer, originally from Ohio, has a taste for Picassos, Wyndham Lewises, Rousseaus, Augustus John, and Matisses. He also owned all of Conrad’s manuscripts and the first draft of Eliot’s The Waste Land. But he never forgot his Irish roots and in his support of Yeats, Joyce, and Synge, he was indeed remarkable. Richard and Janis Londraville report on the … [Read more...] about The Mighty John Quinn, Defender of Ulysses