Bloomsday: The Wrong Day to Visit Dublin [Dublin]
Posted on March 18th, 2008 in Ireland Travel News
As anyone who ever has sat through an endless world literature class in college can probably tell you that tomorrow is Bloomsday. It’s the 101st anniversary of the day when the protagonist of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” spends a day single-handedly destroying Dublin’s entire future tourism industry.
In Paris tomorrow, English-language bookstore Shakespeare And Co. hosts its yearly Bloomsday celebration, which mainly consists of academics whispering into a microphone and some kind of dance routine (seriously). We haven’t been able to locate any major “celebrations” in Dublin, save for the tourism bureau director banging his face into a wall.
Shakespeare And Co. [Official Site]
Bloomsday [InfoPlease]
(Update: A reader informs us that we are a moron — which we knew already, thanks — and that there is, in fact, a Bloomsday celebration in Dublin. We still wouldn’t want to go; seems like a depressive affair.)
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