And wow, only 6 months to go, folks! And why not… it takes that long to read the bleeding book! However, Joyce was a genius. A genius who kept a lady’s stocking in his pocket, but a genius nevertheless. Come on now, folks, recite after me…. “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan….”
Don’t know if you have factored this into your schedule yet, but 16 June is the Bloomsday centenary. And what a day for rejoycing that will be. Check out the Bloomsday Centenary Committee’s site. It’s impressive. Lot’s of Joyce events planned between April and August, including a free Bloomsday breakfast for 10,000 people in Dublin’s O’Connell Street on 13 June. That should certainly test the appetite for offal. And then there’s the Davy Byrne New Irish Writing Award, which is open to all citizens of, or residents in, the island of Ireland. The deadline for entries is 2 February and the first prize is a handsome 20,000 euro, which will be handed over in Davy Byrnes Pub in Duke Street, mentioned, of course, by Joyce in Ulysses. But you knew that, didn’t you?
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