Author of Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Finnegan's Wake.June 16th is BLOOMSDAY, the day in 1904 on which all the action of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses happens.
It is celebrated each year on 16th June by Joyceans in Dublin and all over the world.
In Dublin, where Ulysses is set, Bloomsday celebrations go on for a week from the 10th to the 16th June, with most of activity taking place on the day itself. Many lovers of Joyce's work like to dress up in the costume of the period and go out for the day, visiting the locations of the book and taking part in readings, walks and activities of all sorts which are in some way connected to Ulysses, its author and its world.