Named after Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Joyce, observed annually on 16 June, the day Ulysses takes place in 1904.
On Bloomsday (June 16 2022), Dr Clare Hutton and the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin) collaborated to deliver an afternoon of Joycean celebration. Audiences gathered for guided tours of the exhibition Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses and a lecture by Hutton: “‘a gaud of amber beads’: Ulysses, Feminism and Biography”.
Following this, the audience enjoyed an exclusive film screening of BBC Arena’s feature-length documentary: James Joyce’s Ulysses.