Considered to be Joyce’s masterpiece and a seminal piece of 20th century literature, the modernist novel Ulysses is known for its dense and dialect rich text and tells the story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom.
Bloomsday commemorates the life of Irish writer James Joyce and the day of June 16, 1904, an otherwise nondescript day depicted in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Bloomsday is named after Bloom, the principal character of the novel.