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Sign in to saveBloomsday (Irish: Lá Bloom) is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June. The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses, the events of which take place on Thursday, 16 June 1904. Joyce chose to set his novel on this date as it was the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle.
Key facts
- Holiday.type
- cultural
- Holiday.holiday_name
- Bloomsday
- Holiday.date
- 16 June
- Holiday.image
- BloomsdayDavyByrnes.jpg
- Holiday.caption
- Bloomsday performers outside Davy Byrne's pub, 2003
- Holiday.relatedto
- James Joyce, Ulysses (novel), Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, Dublin, Davy Byrne's pub, Sweny's Pharmacy, James Joyce Tower and Museum, Sandycove Shakespeare and Company
- Holiday.observedby
- Dubliners and fans of James Joyce worldwide
- Holiday.nickname
- Bloom's Day()
- Holiday.celebrations
- Bloomsday Festival, wearing Edwardian costume, pub crawls, readings and dramatisations, walking the streets of Dublin
- Holiday.significance
- Commemoration of the life of James Joyce
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- world day
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- Dublin
- Official website
- www.bloomsdayfestival.ie
- Image
- BloomsdayDavyByrnes.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bloomsday
- day in year for periodic occurrence
- June 16
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