![]() ![]() Back then my blog was heavily focused on Irish literature, so I was delighted when Tourism Ireland invited me to celebrate Bloomsday (16 June) in the city in which the story is set. I read it in 2011 when I was in between jobs and had the time and focus to read it in its entirety. It’s challenging and clever, stylistically dense and brilliantly witty - and quite unlike anything that came before it or has followed since. ![]() It chronicles his innermost thoughts as well as his actions, appointments and conversations. The story is set on 16 June 1904 in Dublin and follows a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, an Irish Jew, as he traverses the city on foot. ![]() This modernist novel was published in Paris, France, on Joyce’s 40th birthday and despite a bumpy trajectory - deemed obscene in the US and banned in the UK until 1936 - it’s long been regarded as a masterpiece of English-language literature. Yesterday (2 February) marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. First edition of Ulysses published by Shakespeare & Company, 1922 ![]()
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