Stop that!
Enchanting but very dangerous.
This afternoon.
Duke Street, Dublin 2.
Bloomsday celebrations continue outside Davy Byrne’s, a pub which features in the Lestrygonians chapter of Ulysses.
Earlier: Chemists Rarely Move
Tag Archives: Bloomsday
This morning/afternoon.
Lincoln Place, Dublin 2.
Joyce fans in period costume, some masked, celebrate Bloomsday at Ulysses-featuring Sweny’s Pharmacy.
Earlier: Buck Starts Here
Meanwhile…
Happy socially distanced Bloomsday. Obviously Joyce the eternal modernist would think we're all saps and take the piss out of our nostalgiafest but knowing it would annoy him is one of the thrills, ha. pic.twitter.com/wrFHgLjT8e
— Donal Fallon (@fallon_donal) June 16, 2020
This morning.
Forty Foot, Sandycove, County Dublin.
Niall Burgess, Secretary General at the Department of Foreign Affairs, begins Bloomsday in scrotum-tightening manner.
In fairness.
Meanwhile…
Put on some decent clothes too, don't forget you're going to Paddy Dignam's funeral later. "We come to bury Caesar, his ides of March or June"! pic.twitter.com/u8Z9SBgcrD
— Gerry Molumby (@GerryMolumby) June 16, 2020
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Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised photo taken on June 16 1954, the first Bloomsday, featuring poets Patrick Kavanagh & Anthony Cronin at the church – and Goggin’s pub – in Monkstown [County Dublin] with the carriage in which they’d been traveling about Dublin in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
Previously: Rob Cross on broadsheet
From top: The first Bloomsday, 1954, from left: John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Tom Joyce; Patrick Kavanagh and John Ryan with the door of No. 7 Eccles Street, Bloomsday, 1967.
For the day that’s in it.
As Father’s Day falls on June 16, I would like to take this rare opportunity to acknowledge my late dad John Ryan (beloved of Deirdre) painter, writer, editor and one-man Arts Council to impoverished genius and chancer alike.
Happy Bloomsday.
Pics: National Library of Ireland/Leslie Mallory
PJ Murphy (right), proprietor of Sweny’s, Lincoln Place, Dublin 2 – the chemist featured in ‘Ulysses’ – where rent has doubled
The Whiskey distillery behind the Writers’ Tears brand has provided ‘significant’ financial support to Sweny’s pharmacy.
Bernard Walsh, managing director and co-founder of Carlow-based Walsh Whiskey – maker of Writers’ Tears and The Irishman whiskeys – said the company made a “significant contribution” to the pharmacy’s rent, after finding out that it had recently doubled.
…This coming Sunday – Bloomsday – Sweny’s will also be giving out drams of Writers’ Tears to visitors.
In fairness.
Hic.
The Joycean pharmacy and Writers’ Tears: why a whiskey maker is helping keep Sweny’s open (Fora)
Previously: Help Small Pharma
This Sunday.
Phibsboro Library, Blacquiere Bridge, North Circular Road, Phibsboro, Dublin 7.
The first Bloomsday in Phibsborough, a neighbourhood steeped in Joycean connections.
Organised by journalist and local resident Eamon Delaney and hosted by Phibsboro Tidy Towns.
With readings, music, dance and snacks – and a climate change angle.
Long overdue, in fairness.
Poetry Brothel Dublin tweets:
Join the Poetry Brothel this Bloomsday eve for Midnight Mass in the bowels of a former eighteenth-century church. Traverse the guilty and shameful pleasures of Joyce’s mind to find solace and liberation in the sensuality of the arts.
Steady on.
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Book tickets here.
This morning.
North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1
James Joyce played by actor John Shelvin celebrates the annual Bloomsday Breakfast at the James Joyce Center marking June 16, 1904 the day in which the events of Ulysses take place.
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Meanwhile…
Here they come #Bloomsday2017 pic.twitter.com/BIAMIvrWch
— Sibyl Adam (@Sibyl_Adam) June 16, 2017
The Bloomsday Messenger bike rally gets underway this morning.
SPLUTTER!
Gasp.
Rarr.
Last night.
The Liquor Rooms, Wellington Quay, Dublin
Eamonn Farrell writes:
After a Bloomsday of big breakfasts, celebrity readings, gentle strolls through Dublin City, sidewalk lunches in Sandycove and Burgundy wines and Gorgonzola cheese, punters got down to the real business of the day, as night descended with a visit to the Poetry Brothel in ‘Nighttown\.
The Bloomsday After-Party transformed the Liquor Rooms into a late night, early morning, Nighttown Brothel scene, with ladies of the night, writers, poets, artists, radicals and performers, all kept in disorder by master of ceremonies, John Farrell [pic 6].
According to Mr. Farrell, the Brothel experience restores a sense of intimacy and fun in poetry and is quickly becoming a worldwide phenomenon with satellite poetry brothels in Paris, Barcelona, New Orleans and Portland.
This was the first time in Dublin and hoping to become a regular feature of Bloomsday, the event was themed on Bloom and Stephen’s sojourn into Dublin’s once notorious red light district…
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