Bloomsday
Photograph of the Reading Room, pre 1895. Call number NPA NLIRR1.
Celebrate Bloomsday with a visit to the iconic Main Reading Room.
Bloomsday celebrates the 16th of June 1904, the day depicted in James Joyce’s world famous novel Ulysses, and is named after the book’s central character Leopold Bloom. The National Library of Ireland celebrates our connection to Ulysses and James Joyce every year. The National Library and its beautiful Reading Room featured in Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis of Ulysses, in which Leopold Bloom visits the library between approximately 2pm and 3pm.
The Main Reading Room will be open to the public on Bloomsday between 5pm and 7:30pm. NLI staff member Aryton O’Brien will be reading passages from Ulysses in the Reading Room at 5:30pm, 6pm, and 6:30pm.
No advance booking is required.
More Joyce Activities |
For more of the festivities, join us at the Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition on Westmoreland Street for a special Bloomsday tour, Now Strike Your Note, on Saturday 14th June at 1pm to discover all the indelible connections between these two masters of the pen.
The NLI also looks forward to participating in the Bloomsday Passport, more information will be posted closer to the date.
Aryton O’Brien reading passages from Ulysses.
Bloomsday 2024 in the Reading Room.
Visitors in costume at the Library on Bloomsday 2024.
Drawing from Bloomsday of Aryton reading Ulysses.
If we can be of further assistance, please contact us at learning@nli.ie
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