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16th June....Bloomsday takes place every year in Dublin. The "inclined" young and old folk need no encouragement to don their Edwardian gladrags , and take to the streets of Dublin for fun and frolics, as they celebrate " James Joyce " with other Joyceans across the globe. " Bloomsday Poster " on Mountpleasant Park railings, Ranelagh, Dublin 2012 But a little bit about Bloomsday.. Bloomsday celebrates the day on which the action of James Joyce’s novel  Ulysses  takes place, 16 June 1904, the day on which (we believe) Joyce first went out with his future wife, Nora Barnacle. The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the central character in Ulysses . The novel follows the life and thoughts of Leopold Bloom and a host of other characters – real and fictional – from 8am on 16 June through to the early hours of the following morning.  One of the earliest Bloomsday celebrations was a  Ulysses  lunch, organised by Sylvia Beach, publisher