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- proper noun An
annual celebration (on 16 June, inDublin and elsewhere) of the life of Irish writer James Joyce and the events depicted in his novel Ulysses.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps I should say: I have never deliberately taken part in Bloomsday, though I – like everyone and everything else – could be said to participate tangentially.
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Perhaps I should say: I have never deliberately taken part in Bloomsday, though I – like everyone and everything else – could be said to participate tangentially.
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Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904.
June 2007 2007
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Bloomsday is not about the book, I think, but more about indulging our empathetic impulse.
Archive 2005-06-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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Bloomsday is not really a celebration of the text -- it is an attempt to identify AS (not with) the author.
For Blooms-Boxing-Day Richard Nokes 2005
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Bloomsday is not really a celebration of the text -- it is an attempt to identify AS (not with) the author.
Archive 2005-06-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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Bloomsday is not about the book, I think, but more about indulging our empathetic impulse.
For Blooms-Boxing-Day Richard Nokes 2005
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Bloomsday is an odd anachronism, a celebration of an author and his text as such, during an era in which the very idea that author or text exists is out of vogue.
For Blooms-Boxing-Day Richard Nokes 2005
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Bloomsday is an odd anachronism, a celebration of an author and his text as such, during an era in which the very idea that author or text exists is out of vogue.
Archive 2005-06-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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She coined the term Bloomsday to describe the day on which the novel is set.
International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions By DWIGHT GARNER 2010
hernesheir commented on the word Bloomsday
Bloomsday is a world-wide celebration held on June 16th every year by fans of the Irish writer James Joyce. Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses recounts the hour-by-hour events of June 16, 1904 as Leopold Bloom wends his way odyssey-like through Dyblin's urban landscape and into literary history.
May 11, 2010
alexz commented on the word Bloomsday
sounds neato. I've never actually read any Joyce stuff.
June 8, 2016