How James Joyce’s Ulysses, Greek mythology, and the image of the labyrinth reflect our search for meaning—and escape—in the ...

Today is Bloomsday – and an exclusive picture released to the Irish ­Independent echoes the main theme of James Joyce’s Ulysses, acclaimed as the greatest ­novel of the 20th century.

It was the usual high-cholesterol Bloomsday in Dublin, with at least half a dozen venues offering the Full Joyce for breakfast, complete with inner organs of beasts and fowls. For a man who spent ...

Ulysses is, essentially, a record of one day in the life of Leopold Bloom, his thoughts, meetings, observations and ...

Bloomsday is simply Bohemian bowler hat heaven in our beloved Dublin. The first Bloomsday took place way back on 16 June 1954, to mark the 50th anniversary of the day depicted in James Joyce's ...

This Bloomsday, pick up Ulysses in a form accessible to you, in print or in audio, and follow Bloom and company into a journey round Dublin that you will be glad you went on. Straw boater optional.

Bloomsday is a kind of unofficial holiday celebrating Leopold Bloom, an Irish Jewish character who is one of the protagonists in Joyce’s landmark novel, Ulysses, published in 1922. Bloomsday ...

Bloomsday, the celebration of James Joyce’s literary masterpiece Ulysses, was celebrated in Dublin today. Named after its anti-hero, Leopold Bloom, and based on his all-day meanderings around ...

Bloomsday isn’t only for bibliophiles or literature professors. It’s a celebration of the everyday: walking, eating, thinking, mourning, laughing. Whether you join Dubliners, join a reading group, or ...

Bloomsday, named after the book's protagonist Leopold Bloom, sees people dress as characters from the book, act out parts of the story and retrace the ...

First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time Watch famous Dublin writers revel in their own, slightly disastrous, Bloomsday tour, 1954. The first Bloomsday ...

If the standing room only crowds at Monday’s Bloomsday celebration are any indication, Santa Barbara’s love of literature is still alive and well and blooming — at least when there’s booze and snacks ...