Congrats to Brian Friel on being awarded the Ulysses Medal at UCD, on Bloomsday.
16 June was when James Joyce first went out with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle (cracking name) in Ringsend.
Bloomsday is a celebration of Joyce's life and works, and folk all round Dublin relive the events in the novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in 1904.
The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, after whom Gene Wilder's character in Mel Brooks's "The Producers" was named.
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