Happy Bloomsday!

I will be unable to attend.

I wasn't ware that this was Bloomsday. As a matter of fact, I've never heard of it even though I read James Joyce's Ulysses. It is time to let the people know about Bloomsday!

Named after Leopold Bloom.

if you go to google, they have an illustration of joyce there. i liked that, seeing as they usually do decorative things for holidays...

Bloom. Are you the Messiah?

You said it.

The FootSteps of Leopold Bloom
Festival Events

Walking Tour - The Footsteps of Leopold Bloom

Sponsored by The James Joyce Centre

In Joyce’s Dublin, Nelson’s Pillar marked ‘The Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis’. Follow the footsteps of Leopold Bloom from the nearby offices of the Freeman’s Journal as he crosses the river in search of lunch. Passing over O’Connell Bridge and on by Trinity College and the old Irish Parliament, we follow Bloom to Davy Byrne’s pub, where he has his famous glass of Burgundy and gorgonzola sandwich. Then on to the National Museum and National Library, where Stephen Dedalus holds forth on Shakespeare and Hamlet.


Every Tuesday from April to August and every Friday for the month of June.



Date:
01/04/2004 to 31/08/2004

Time:
Departs at 2 p.m. from the James Joyce Centre

Price:
€10.00

Venue:


The James Joyce Centre
35 North Great George’s Street
Dublin 1

Country:
Ireland

Email:
[email protected]

Web:
http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/templates/text_contents.aspx?page_id=410



Event Sponsor: The James Joyce Centre

Joyce's Bloom headed for heart attackWed 16 June, 2004 17:58

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Dublin throws party for 100th "Bloomsday"


By Kevin Smith

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Leopold Bloom, the offal-loving hero of James Joyce's epic "Ulysses", ate a diet dangerously high in fat and lacking in "greens" and was almost certainly on course for a heart attack, an expert says.

As Joyce fans follow in Bloom's footsteps to mark the centenary of the world's most famous fictional date -- June 16, 1904, the day on which Ulysses is set -- many will also succumb to the "Bloomsday" menus on offer in Dublin's many hostelries.

"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls," Joyce wrote.

"He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."

Bloomsday traditionally kicks off in Joyce's native Dublin with Bloom's breakfast of fried kidney -- although less adventurous modern fans tend to opt for sausages and bacon.

Lunch in the book consists of a gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of burgundy followed up later in the afternoon with liver and bacon accompanied by mashed potato.

Coffee and a bun, and a "cake of Fry's plain chocolate" complete the advertising salesman's intake for the day.

Margot Brennan, an expert at the Irish Nutrition and Diatetic Institute, expressed alarm both at Bloom's predilection for sweetbreads and his eschewal of fruit and vegetables.

"Nowadays this would not be considered a healthy diet, absolutely not," she said.

"This is a diet high in fat, particularly saturated fat, and there are no protective factors here with the exception of a glass of red wine, which would not be enough to prevent him getting heart disease if he were susceptible."

Brennan noted high offal intake could be a trigger for gout, a painful condition -- typically manifesting itself in the big toe -- caused by a build-up of uric acid in the joints.

Offal would also not be recommended for people with high cholesterol, she said, and noted the absence of fruit and vegetables, along with the lack of a fibre source, which can be a contributory factor in bowel disease.

"Good old Leopold would definitely have been an Irish Heart Foundation candidate by the time he was finished, I would think," Brennan said.