Bloomsday lecture: Why Ulysses is the perfect Dublin guidebook

We invite you to be a part of a great Dublin festival Bloomsday and get ready to it with our special talk delivered by a tour guide Junona Dikareva. She runs Joycean tours around Dublin and walks directly into the pages of Ulysses. Explore Dublin through the eyes of an writer. Fun and interactive way to read Ulysses without actually reading it.

What is Bloomsday? (In case you don't know)

Bloomsday is an Irish annual one-of-a-kind festival celebrating June 16th 1904, the day immortalised in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses set in Dublin. The day is named after the main character Leopold Bloom. It includes readings, performances, reenactments, tours, exhibitions, lectures, children’s events, a film festival. People dress up like the characters in Edwardian fashion and

You will learn:

• about Bloomsday traditions and way to celebrate the the festival
• where you can still buy that ‘sweet lemony soap’ that Bloom did in 1904
• where to eat a gorgonzola cheese sandwich like in an epic launch from the book
• what is hidden under the clothes of Greek statues in the National Library of Ireland
• what was in the center of O'Connell Street before The Spire
• the perfect place for a marriage proposal with views over Dublin

and many more intresting facts and places.

Open Entrance: thanks to the EU funding we’re able to make it for free and cover rent-related costs.

A community atmosphere rooted with love and acceptance.