ON THIS CANCELED BLOOMSDAY, LIFE IMITATES ART BUT SOME CALL LACK OF FESTIVITIES UNFAIR TO HAUGHEY, JOYCE

The Boston Globe | June 16, 2006| | Copyright

In what some see as a mark of respect, and some Joycean purists consider sacrilege, official commemorations marking Bloomsday, the single day in 1904 that forms the narrative in James Joyce's great novel "Ulysses," have been canceled today in Dublin because they coincide with the funeral and burial of Charles J. Haughey, Ireland's most colorful and controversial prime minister.

Bertie Ahern, a Haughey protege who is now Ireland's longest- serving taoiseach, or prime minister, issued a statement saying it was appropriate that Haughey would be laid to rest on Bloomsday.

"His affinity with the ...

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