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Bloomsday Honors Irish Author James Joyce

by Rob Gifford, NPR
June 17, 2009

Once again, fans of Irish author James Joyce have celebrated Bloomsday. Thousands of people descend on Dublin each June 16 to celebrate Joyce's epic novel Ulysses by re-creating the events in the book. The novel chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on a single day — June 16, 1904 — a day, as Bloom says, that's a "chapter of accidents."

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  • Morning Edition, June 17, 2009
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