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Bloomsday and Dublin
* 16 June-" Bloomsday ": the day on which the action of James Joyce's novel Ulysses ( 1922 ) takes place in Dublin.
Enthusiasts often dress in Edwardian costume to celebrate Bloomsday, and retrace Bloom's route around Dublin via landmarks such as Davy Byrne's pub.
In the novel by Enrique Vila-Matas Dublinesca ( 2010 ), part of the action takes place in Dublin for the Bloomsday.
In 2009 an episode of the cartoon The Simpsons, " In the Name of the Grandfather ", featured the family's trip to Dublin and Lisa's reference to Bloomsday.
* BBC: Fans descend on Joyce's Dublin, Celebrations mark Joyce centenary, In pictures: Bloomsday celebrations
Professor Mulvey has been awarded three honorary degrees: in 2006 a Doctor of Letters from the University of East Anglia ; in 2009 a Doctor of Law from Concordia University ; in 2012 a Bloomsday Doctor of Literature from University College Dublin.
He later published Recollections of James Joyce ( 1950 ); published after his death on June 16 (" Bloomsday ") were My Brother ’ s Keeper ( 1957 ) and Dublin Diary ( 1962 ).
* June 16-The first public celebration of " Bloomsday " takes place in Dublin.
The bridge is named for the famous Dublin author James Joyce, and was opened on 16 June 2003 ( Bloomsday ).

Bloomsday and James
* Bloomsday in Ireland and worldwide for fans of James Joyce's Ulysses is June 16
* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".
The date, Bloomsday was purposely chosen in honour of James Joyce.
** James Joyce walks to Ringsend with Nora Barnacle ; he later uses this date ( Bloomsday ) as the setting for his novel Ulysses.
Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce during which the events of his novel Ulysses ( which is set on 16 June 1904 ) are relived.
The Syracuse James Joyce Club holds an annual Bloomsday celebration at Johnston's BallyBay Pub in Syracuse, New York, at which large portions of the book are either read aloud, or presented as dramatizations by costumed performers.
Bloomsday in Melbourne has a proud history of engagement with the work of James Joyce.
In 2004 Vintage Publishers issued Yes I said yes I will yes: A Celebration of James Joyce, Ulysses, and 100 Years of Bloomsday.
James Joyce set much of the action in his novel Ulysses around the bay, from the Forty Foot bathing place — in which the character Buck Mulligan washed on Bloomsday morning — to Howth, where Leopold Bloom made love to his wife Molly under the rhododendrons.
Don Kardong, who founded the Bloomsday race, cites James Joyce's Ulysses as the inspiration for the name Bloomsday.
Every year it celebrates Bloomsday ( celebrating the day featured in James Joyce's highly acclaimed novel Ulysses ).

Bloomsday and Joyce
His love of Joyce is borne out in Dublin's annual Bloomsday celebrations.
Joyce aficionados celebrate 16 June as ' Bloomsday '.
Bloomsday ( a term Joyce himself did not employ ) was invented in 1954, on the 50th anniversary of the events in the novel, when John Ryan ( artist, critic, publican and founder of Envoy magazine ) and the novelist Brian O ' Nolan organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the Ulysses route.
Joyce modelled the character upon his wife, Nora Barnacle ; indeed, the day upon which the novel is set — June 16, 1904, now called Bloomsday — is that of their first date.

Dublin and James
The Spire of Dublin rises behind the statue of James Larkin | Jim Larkin.
It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of James Joyce, including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail.
Members of the Irish Volunteers — led by schoolteacher and barrister Pádraig ( Patrick ) Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly, along with 200 members of Cumann na mBan — seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic independent of Britain.
James Stephens, who was in Dublin during the week, thought, " None of these people were prepared for Insurrection.
Dublin businessman and Quaker, James G. Douglas, for example, hitherto a Home Ruler, wrote that his political outlook changed radically during the course of the Rising due to the British military occupation of the city and that he became convinced that parliamentary methods would not be sufficient to remove the British presence.
* 1916 – James Connolly was sat on a chair and shot dead in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, after his role in the Easter Uprising
In 2008, he received the James Joyce Award of the Literary and Historical Society in Dublin.
* All Ireland winning Dublin GAA players: Barney Rock, Jason Sherlock, James McCarthy, Philip McMahon and Charlie Redmond
Dublin: James Hoey.
Another ballad opera version followed with James Worsdale's A Cure for a Scold which was performed at Drury Lane in 1735 and subsequently in Dublin, and was itself an adaptation of Lacy's Sauny the Scot.
James chose to place his line of defence on the River Boyne, around from Dublin.
After his defeat James did not stay in Dublin, but rode with a small escort to Duncannon and returned to exile in France, even though his army left the field relatively unscathed.
The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens, Hely Thom LTD, Dublin, 1967
* James White ( 1972 ), John Butler Yeats and The Irish Renaissance with pictures from the collection of Michael Butler Yeats and from The National Gallery of Ireland The Dolmen Press Dublin.
The Textual Diaries of James Joyce ( Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1995 )
Dublin is where the voice of " Darth Vader " James Earl Jones grew up.
The first Provost of the College was the Archbishop of Dublin, Adam Loftus ( after whose former college at Cambridge the institution was named ), and he was provided with two initial Fellows, James Hamilton and James Fullerton.
Al Pacino, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and Oliver Stone as well as numerous Dublin bands.
In June 1982 the feud with the INLA flared again after OIRA member James Flynn, the alleged assassin of Seamus Costello, was shot dead by the INLA in Dublin.
After selling his house in Raheny, in 1969 Haughey bought Abbeville, located at Kinsealy, north County Dublin, an historic house – once owned by Anglo-Irish politician John Beresford ( d. 1805 ) for whom it had been extensively re-designed by the architect James Gandon in the late 18th century.
A member of the Anglo-Irish elite of Protestant background, Grattan was the son of James Grattan MP, of Belcamp Park, County Dublin ( d. 1766 ), and Mary ( 1724 – 1768 ), youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Marlay ( 1691 – 1756 ), Attorney-General of Ireland, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench ( Ireland ).
Grattan's father was James Grattan ( d. 1766 ), a Recorder and then MP for Dublin City, who married a daughter of Thomas Marlay.
The rift prompted a nine-year old Dublin schoolboy, James Joyce, to pen a poem called Et Tu, Healy ?.

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