June 16, 2004 is the 100th Anniversary of Leopold Bloom's Fateful Walk.
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As we go to press and the world is celebrating Bloomsday, plans are already afoot for next year's "Bloomsday Centenary." Ireland's Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism John O'Donoghue has set up the Bloomsday Centenary Coordinating Committee, to plan the event which will hopefully lure James Joyce fans … [Read more...] about Making Ready for
Bloomsday Centenary
Ulysses
Making Ready for
Leopold Bloom Lives On
June 16 has been immortalized by lovers of James Joyce's Ulysses everywhere as "Bloomsday" and has become an annual day of pilgrimage and celebration. Ulysses is the epic hour-by-hour account of one day in Dublin -- June 16, 1904. In the novel, the hero, Leopold Bloom -- an ordinary Dubliner -- is a modern-day Odysseus wandering through the urban landscape which is alternately … [Read more...] about Leopold Bloom Lives On
A Pricey Bundle of Joyce
Also available for viewing for the first time, or at least it was before it was auctioned off, was a previously unknown draft of one of the final chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Eumaeus chapter, described by Joyce critic Hugh Kenner as ‘the book’s most profound tribute to its hero Ulysses,’ has only one other known working draft – the one kept at the State University of … [Read more...] about A Pricey Bundle of Joyce
The Ideal Christmas Gift for Joyce Fans
How's this for a stocking stuffer? On December 14 Christie's New York will offer a newly discovered manuscript of a chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses. The manuscript is an early draft for the Circe episode, the longest and arguably most important of the novel's 18 episodes. It consists of 27 large sheets covered with dense handwriting, with additions on the back in Joyce's own … [Read more...] about The Ideal Christmas Gift for Joyce Fans
Hibernia: Ulysses
Back in Dublin
The original manuscript of James Joyce's Ulysses traveled to Dublin this summer to be exhibited at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle. Entitled "Ulysses in Hand: The Rosenbach Manuscript," the exhibit was organized by the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia.
Ulysses takes place on one day – June 16, 1904 – in Dublin. In fact, Joyce is said to have claimed … [Read more...] about Hibernia: Ulysses
Back in Dublin