Press release are flying around the internet as people gear up for Bloomsday events across the globe. Got some events of your own planned for June 16th? Drop in a link on the comments section or contact us and we’ll get it up here for people to see.

Here’s a few to get it started;

In Sydney, Australia? How about this?

New York City? This is always a great event.

And, of course, our own hometown event here in Philadelphia.

We’ll be in Buffalo, New York for the North American James Joyce Conference this year, and you can find out abut that city’s annual Bloomsday event here.

We’ll be posting more of them here on this page (and, yes, I realize Dublin itself isn’t in there yet), but that’s a good start. Got anymore in your own hometown to talk about? Love to hear about them.

The exactitude of Joyce’s language in the novel is backed up by a clear vision of Dublin and it’s people he has on that particular day in 1904. While I hope to bring some of that accuracy to this project frankly, I could use some help.

Do you have any idea about what the room looks like in Martello tower? What kind of tea service or frying pans the boys might have had? well, I’d be happy for any links.

Same is true of clothing and street scenes in Dublin from this period. One of the hallmarks of making a good period piece in film is authenticity, but in film there’s scores of people doing that research for you. My training is in painting, not costume design, so I’d be happy for any experienced help I can get.

Links are appreciated.

Pretty much all of the work on ULYSSES was done while Joyce was living as an expatriate Irishman. Interestingly, quite a lot of that time was spent recording a day in Dublin, his home, from the position of a poet living dangerously close to the tensions of Europe at war. Joyce was able to draw upon his fantastic and detailed memory of the home he loved, but also upon a copy of the “Thom’s Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland” for street listing, business and people. The Thom’s was an almanac of the day. Many of the people and places in Joyce’s novel were real or fictionalized from the real. I figure this might be a good thread to link in photos or period illustrations of some of the real people, actual locations and  historical settings mentioned and appearing in the novel.

This is going to cover a lot of territory and probably some debate. Leave any reviews, suggestions, critics or links in the “comment” section below and, as discussion grows, we’ll move them up as posts in this section. Or, if you’ve got an idea for a review on this theme that you’d like posted here on the site, drop us a line.