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Bloomsday 2024 at the Burgess Foundation

You are warmly invited to attend a Bloomsday celebration on 14 June 2024, celebrating Anthony Burgess’s favourite book, James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Joyce’s novel is set in Dublin on a single day: 16 June 1904. ‘Bloomsday’ is so called because two of the book’s protagonists are called Leopold and Molly Bloom.

Anthony Burgess wrote two non-fiction books, a stage musical and many articles in response to the work of James Joyce. He even wrote the forward to a Joyce-themed cookery book. His 1980 novel Earthly Powers features Joyce as a character and includes a performance of Blooms of Dublin, his musical based on Ulysses.

For scheduling reasons, this year’s celebratory event will take place on Friday 14 June.

The event runs from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm on 14 June at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY.

The Bloomsday social will include music, speeches, a short film, and traditional Irish hospitality.

Tickets for the Bloomsday social are free, but numbers are strictly limited, so please sign up on this Eventbrite page.

The image above is a drawing of James Joyce by Anthony Burgess.

This event is generously supported by the Consulate General of Ireland.