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Bloomsday volunteers pride themselves on producing a safe, exciting and enjoyable experience for all. That goal led to major changes for the2006 race, when the finish line is moved to the north end of the Monroe Street Bridge and a new timing system using transponder chips is implemented.¹

THE date is as well known to students of English literature as the beginning of the first world war is to military historians: June 16th 1904 is “Bloomsday”, the 24 hours into which James Joyce compressed the wanderings of a Jewish Dubliner—a decent, lustful, advertising salesman named Leopold Bloom. He is the principal figure in “Ulysses”, a sprawling, difficult novel that marked the start of the modern movement in English literature.²

THE JAMES JOYCE CENTRE on Bloomsday is ?the heart of the Hibernian metropolis? There are three sittings (at 8.00, 9.30 and 11.00 am), for which tickets cost ?26.00 and advance booking is required.³

Saturday, June 16 is the official celebration of Bloomsday, a whole day of festivities in honor of James Joyce’s pivotal stream-of-consciousness novel, Ulysses. The date isn’t arbitrary - in the book, June 16 is the day on which protagonist Leopold Bloom travels through Dublin, Ireland.⁴

Junior Bloomsday’s sound brings to mind some tasty offerings from the worlds of lo-fi guitar-pop and punk rock. Textures swirl from the electric to the acoustic and back.⁵

The City Institute Library, on Rittenhouse Square, is happy to screen John Huston’s last great film The Dead in celebration of Bloomsday. The film, based on the story by James Joyce, was directed by Huston, written by his son Tony and stars his daughter Angelica.⁶