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LAST JUNE 16 was Bloomsday. Not only that, but the centenary of the day, June 16, 1904, on which the whole action of James Joyce's famous novel which follows the adventures of his hero, Leopold Bloom, takes place. There were celebrations all over the world of that day which has become known as Bloomsday. Few people have in fact read Ulysses and fewer still have understood and enjoyed it. Yet it has become a kind of international symbol of Irishness, and above all the Irish literary tradition.
There has grown up around Joyce's life and work a huge academic literary industry, and a kind of social network of those who treat Bloomsday as an occasion for celebration ...