Bloomsday
Annual commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the first Sunday in May road race in Spokane, see Lilac Bloomsday Run.
Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place on a Thursday in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle,[1] and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.