Bloomsday

Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place on a Thursday in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle,^[1] and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.

^ Louis Menand (2 July 2012). "Silence, exile, punning". The New Yorker. They walked to Ringsend, on the south bank of the Liffey, where (and here we can drop the Dante analogy) she put her hand inside his trousers and masturbated him. It was 16 June 1904, the day on which Joyce set "Ulysses". When people celebrate Bloomsday, that is what they are celebrating.

[1] Louis Menand (2 July 2012). "Silence, exile, punning". The New Yorker. They walked to Ringsend, on the south bank of the Liffey, where (and here we can drop the Dante analogy) she put her hand inside his trousers and masturbated him. It was 16 June 1904, the day on which Joyce set "Ulysses". When people celebrate Bloomsday, that is what they are celebrating.

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