Tag: Bloomsday

Food is one of the best ways to get closer to a culture, whether real or fictional, so as part of my social distancing Bloomsday celebrations this year, I wanted to try out some Ulysses-inspired meals. Unlike Mr. Bloom, I do not relish organ meats, but there are plenty of other tempting foods t...

Father’s Day yesterday fell on Bloomsday, a national holiday in Ireland and one of the only ones based solely upon a date in a work of fiction. June 16, 1904 was the setting for all the events in Ulysses, Irish writer James Joyce’s massive doorstop of a novel. I got to say “Happy B...

“`He was courteous but very silent. He was good with children. His eyesight may have been impaired, but he had an ear open to the world.” This is how Alex Leon recalls James Joyce, who, between 1928 and 1939 was an almost daily visitor to his family’s flat on the rue Casimir-Perier...