Happy Bloomsday

Poststructural Pub
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:wink:

For an Irish person of my generation, people wishing each other a happy St.Patrick’s Day used to seem like a corny Americanism, and we would only do so in jokey mode. This year, for the first time, I was struck by how many people in Brussels were doing it without irony. Maybe we’ve been expats too long.

So I suppose it’s only a matter of time before “Happy Bloomsday” becomes another regular greeting. Certainly some contributor to Wikipedia is under the mistaken impression that it’s already a public holiday in Ireland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday

http://www.irishabroad.com/Culture/literature/writers/bloomsday/

Interesting that the following table was drawn up by the great chancer, toucher and wordsmith himself - schema for Ulysses for thick people:
http://www.irishabroad.com/Culture/literature/writers/bloomsday/schema.asp


And of course, thanks to Waldo if I’m not mistaken, there’s also
Ulysses](http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ulysses.html>Ulysses) for dummies</a href>

(Thanks to Waldo for the reference, that is, but don’t you think that there is a familiar air about the graphic style? :smiley: )

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Nice links.

I wonder can I find any Gorgonzola in theses parts.

Oh to be in Dublin on Bloomsday, drinking pints of good black Guinness in Conways. I never cared for Davey Byrnes, too many Trinity heads :wink:

Slan,
D.

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Shower of shapers.

That would doubtless be the very same Conway’s to which NPU members would, in my formative years, repair on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings after classes in Parnell Square for further tuition in the form of informal tutorials by Brendan Breatnach and Pat Mitchell, with frivolous interjections from Dan O’Dowd.

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I have a tradition, on Bloomsday, to re-read certain passages of the Dalkey Archives. :slight_smile:

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:laughing:

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And lest we forget, the date of the third policeman’s dissappearance rapidly approaches.

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:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Long time since I heard that one.




There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
James Joyce

The original, all singing, all dancing Quare Fella :wink:

Nice one Roger..

Slan,
D. :wink:

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Official Bloomsday in Dublin was cancelled due to Haugheys funeral!!! :astonished:

see http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/templates/text_contents.aspx?page_id=332


We usually have disgusting coddle for dinner at work on Bloomsday, so i suppose thank goodness for small mercys!