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Bloomsday
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. It is observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere. Joyce chose the date as it was the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle; they walked to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. The name is derived from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of ''Ulysses''.
The English compound word ''Bloomsday'' is usually used in Irish as well, though some publications call it Lá Bloom.〔http://www.dast.gov.ie/publications/release.ie.asp?ID=100101〕 The 2006 Bloomsday festivities were cancelled, the day coinciding with the funeral of Charles Haughey.
==First celebration==
The first mention of such a celebration is to be found in a letter by Joyce to Miss Weaver of 27 June 1924: "There is a group of people who observe what they call Bloom's day – 16 June."〔Stuart Gilbert, ed., ''Letters of James Joyce,'' New York 1957, p. 216〕
On the 50th anniversary of the events in the novel 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. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce (a dentist who, as Joyce's cousin, represented the family interest) and AJ Leventhal (Registrar of Trinity College, Dublin). Ryan had engaged two horse drawn cabs, of the old-fashioned kind, which in ''Ulysses'' Mr. Bloom and his friends drive to poor Paddy Dignam's funeral. The party were assigned roles from the novel. Cronin stood in for Stephen Dedalus, O’Nolan for his father, Simon Dedalus, John Ryan for the journalist Martin Cunningham, and A.J. Leventhal, being Jewish, was recruited to fill (unknown to himself according to John Ryan) the role of Leopold Bloom. They planned to travel round the city through the day, visiting in turn the scenes of the novel, ending at night in what had once been the brothel quarter of the city, the area which Joyce had called Nighttown. The pilgrimage was abandoned halfway through, when the weary pilgrims succumbed to inebriation and rancour at the Bailey pub in the city centre, which Ryan then owned, and at which, in 1967, he installed the door to No. 7 Eccles Street (Leopold Bloom's front door), having rescued it from demolition. A Bloomsday record of 1954, informally filmed by John Ryan, follows this pilgrimage.〔Link to an account of this day: (An account of the first Bloomsday )〕〔http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/the-first-bloomsday.html〕
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