Bloomsday 2025 Around the World
It's Bloomsday today, celebrated around the world every June 16 which is the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses is set in 1904.
The James Joyce Centre in Dublin, Ireland, has been the official organiser of the Bloomsday Festival since 1994 in partnership with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and Fáilte Ireland. This year it is partnering with Olhausen’s Sausages, the pork butcher's into which Bloom nips under a downcoming rollshutter, emerging a few moments later carrying a parcel. There will be readings and songs from Ulysses at the festival’s flagship event at Meeting House Square in Temple Bar from 3pm to 6pm plus film screenings, art exhibitions and walking tours of the city.
Among events elsewhere on the planet are the celebrations held at The Rosenbach Museum and Library, home of Joyce’s manuscript. It will be putting on a day-long public reading with musical performances, and free admission to view portions of the manuscript in its new exhibition, 18 Reasons to Read Ulysses. Bloomsday is FREE and open to the public.
Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is expanding its annual Bloomsday programme with its Bloomsday and Beyond project to include all Irish creative writers, present and past. More than 60 Embassies and Consulates across the globe will host events celebrating the breadth of Irish writing, from James Joyce to contemporary authors, poets and playwrights.
The Bloomsday and Beyond programme also includes a specially commissioned short video featuring writers and readers from Indonesia, India, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Mexico, France, Canada and China speaking about their favourite Irish writers, and how Irish literature connects with their own culture.
