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Why Bloomsday Is Special This Year
This weekend I am traveling to a dual celebration, of a great Irish writer and of copyright freedom. For June 16 is Bloomsday, the day in 1904 captured through the eyes of Leopold Bloom by James Joyce in his epic novel Ulysses. Each year in Dublin fans of Joyce gather to celebrate the work in a day of public readings conducted at locations across the city that are featured in the book.
2012 is a special year for these Joyceans. The 71st since Joyce’s death, it marks the first — across the EU at any rate — that his work may be shared freely among them, without needing permission — for public readings, performances, or re-interpretations — from his estate. This is no small matter: since inheriting the estate in 1982, Joyce’s grandson Stephen Joyce has gained a reputation as the most controlling literary executor in history.
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Why Bloomsday Is Special This Year
This weekend I am traveling to a dual celebration, of a great Irish writer and of copyright freedom. For June 16 is Bloomsday, the day in 1904 captured through the eyes of Leopold Bloom by James Joyce in his epic novel Ulysses. Each year in Dublin fans of Joyce gather to celebrate the work in a day of public readings conducted at locations across the city that are featured in the book.
2012 is a special year for these Joyceans. The 71st since Joyce’s death, it marks the first — across the EU at any rate — that his work may be shared freely among them, without needing permission — for public readings, performances, or re-interpretations — from his estate. This is no small matter: since inheriting the estate in 1982, Joyce’s grandson Stephen Joyce has gained a reputation as the most controlling literary executor in history.
Read more. [Image: AP]
Happy early Bloomsday, book nerds!
Posted on June 15, 2012 via The Atlantic with 123 notes ()
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— Bloomsday is so great in Dublin (said to the surprise of no one). It’s times like these that I miss living there :(
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I have never read “Ulysses” so I really don’t know much about this. Not much of a Joyce person, though I haven’t read...
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I will be moving house on Bloomsday this year (pity; I was hoping to go to the JHU festivities), but heartily looking...
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Hi. I'm Sarah. I'm using this as a place to show off things I find interesting through-out my day. Bio: Crafty biblio/info -phile, libraries, gardening, current events, thinker, dreamer and random blog poster.
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