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Bloomsday

(ˈbluːmzdeɪ)
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an annual celebration in Dublin on 16 June of the life of James Joyce and, in particular, his novel Ulysses, which is entirely set in Dublin on 16 June 1904
[C20: after Leopold Bloom, the central character in Ulysses]
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"We had over 900 bathers interested in swimming at our event on Bloomsday and it was nearly cancelled due to a sewage leak."
This year, ahead of a pinching-myself lucky work invitation to Vienna to celebrate Bloomsday -- books have enabled me to travel to new places, literally as well as figuratively -- I dipped back into Austrian author Stefan Zweig's shorter stories, full of emotion, which often depict longing in settings such as hotel rooms and train stations, reflective of his status as a Jewish intellectual dispersed during the Second World War.
MICHAEL D Higgins showed who really pulls the strings at Aras an Uachtarain yesterday - as he took part in the fun celebrating Bloomsday.
1904: The novel Ulysses by James Joyce is set on this day, now celebrated in Dublin - where the novel is based - as Bloomsday, after the leading character Leopold Bloom.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., greets walkers at the Lilac Bloomsday Run in Spokane, Wash.
Perhaps Stephen remained an Aristotelian and a Thomist thinker after Bloomsday, but Joyce, Verene argues, found his solution to Plato's quarrel in Vico's notion of sapienza poetica, the poetic wisdom of fables that precedes philosophy.
IT TAKES A WHILE TO PRODUCE a collection of critical essays, but the decade between the celebration of the centenary of Bloomsday by a series of lectures in UCD, from which this collection sprung, to its current larger published form, speaks to the difficulties in dealing with such a diverse and divisive subject.
Launched in November 2012, the RRCA's Race Director Certification Course was created with help from some of the more prominent names in race management, including Dave McGillivray of the Boston Marathon, Phil Stewart of the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler & Road Race Management, and Don Kardong of the Lilac Bloomsday Run.
Participation in traditional leisure travel shows are in addition to our Basecamp Bellingham presence at a variety of races and recreational events throughout the year, including: Recreation NW Expo; Bloomsday Run (Spokane); Vancouver Marathon; Eugene Marathon; Seattle Marathon; Portland Marathon; Seattle Rock & Roll Marathon; Chuckanut Century Bike Ride; Bellingham Bay Marathon; and others.
Every June 16, legions of James Joyce fans celebrate Bloomsday, commemorating the ordinary day that Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus traversed Dublin in Ulysses.
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