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...room at the Arms." The time may be of little consequence to most readers, but some will not be able to ignore that, by coincidence or design, the author begins his plunge into Irish history with a suggestion of the most famous date in modern literature. That would be Bloomsday (June 16, 1904), the day of James Joyce's Ulysses...
...Bach's hometown of Leipzig on his actual birthday, March 21, can sample Bach festivals in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, as well as the nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing the steps of the hero of Ulysses from church to pub and onward...
...impetus for all this activity is the centennial of Joyce's birth, on Feb. 2, 1882. This year also marks the 78th anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day commemorated in Ulysses and a sacred date on the calendar of all Joyceans. Some 550 scholars assembled then for the eighth international James Joyce symposium. The President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery, and the mayor of Dublin, Alexis Fitzgerald, were on hand for official ceremonies; scores of people in turn-of-the-century costumes took to the streets to act out scenes from the novel. One who declined an invitation...
...bronze bust did not come from the Irish government but from American Express, to provide an additional lure to the swarms of foreign tourists who annually pay homage to the master. Many Irish natives remain unimpressed. Jerry Davis, a local artist who played the role of Bloom on Bloomsday, says of Joyce: "He was an impudent whacker. I don't really want to be identified with him." Symphorosa Daybell, a student at Trinity College with a name that could have appeared in Finnegans Wake, calls his work "bloody rubbish. It's just dressing the whole thing...
...Bloomsday Election. Some sentimental Irishmen were pleased that, whether deliberately or not, Cosgrave chose the anniversary of Bloomsday for the election: June 16, 1904, was the date on which the events in James Joyce's Ulysses took place. The fact that Fianna Fáil-the party of Eamon de Valera and other Independence heroes-returned to power delighted Irish republicans. There were worries in Belfast and London that Lynch's party was a bit soft on the Irish Republican Army, and that a Fianna Fáil government would repolarize the situation in Ulster by stirring...