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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Bloomsday (16 June)
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:56:04 +1200
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"This day celebrates the life and writing of Irish author James Joyce 
(1882-1941), chiefly be retracing the route through Dublin taken by 
Leonard* Bloom, the central character in _Ulysses_....the action of the 
novel takes place entirely on a single day: 16 June 1904, which was also 
the day Joyce first went out with Nora Barnacle, whom he later married."

*That's _Leopold_ Bloom! Two gaffes in two days! This book needed an editor.

Bloomsday is a real thing. A few years ago I went to a Bloomsday 
celebration at a local "Irish pub" called the Dogs Bollix. Some 
professional readings, some amateur singings, and lots of drinkings. 
Good fun.

When I briefly visited Pula, Croatia (at the southern tip of Istria) in 
2009, I was surprised to see a life-size image* of JJ, seated at a table 
outside a local cafe. I knew he had lived in Trieste (which is not far 
away); but before that, for a few months 1904-5, he had a job in Pula 
(then called Pola), teaching English at the Berlitz School, mainly to 
Austro-Hungarian naval officers.

*I wanted to say "statue", but is it a statue if it's sitting? Sitting 
on a horse, OK, but sitting at a table, drinking coffee?

"While he was in Pola he organised the local printing of his broadsheet 
The Holy Office, which satirised both William Butler Yeats and George 
William Russell,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pula