Blooming festival; Larger than life: A Leopold Bloom actor at Joyces statue in Dublin.

The Daily Mail (London, England) | April 25, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: CHARLES LEGGE

QUESTION How long have the Bloomsday celebrations for James Joyce beenrunning and what plans are there for this years event?

THE first Bloomsday was celebrated on June 16, 1954, exactly 50 years after theday in the life of Leopold Bloom, which was immor-talised in Joyces opus,Ulysses.

The first Bloomsday was decidedly low-key: a group of Joyceans, headed byJoyces brother Tom, Patrick Kavanagh, Flann OBrien, John Ryan and AnthonyCronin, assembled in front of the Martello Tower at Sandymount, Dublin, beforeretiring for copious ...

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