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  Bloomsday, Irish Music
Bloomsday is a traditional Irish band that has been playing across the Midwest since 2002.
Bloomsday will be doing it up St. Pat's style for their monthly homage to the big one.
If any of you were up and listening, Rick Kogan of WGN Radio 720 AM honored Bloomsday by playing some of our new album on his Sunday morning show "The Sunday Papers".
www.bloomsdayband.com   (249 words)

  
  Bloomsday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bloomsday is observed annually on June 16 to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and commemorate the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904.
On the Sunday prior to the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday in 2004, 10,000 people in Dublin were treated to a free open air breakfast on O'Connell Street consisting of sausages, rashers, and fl and white puddings.
The Rosenbach Museum and Library, in Philadelphia, PA is the home of the handwritten manuscript of Ulysses and celebrates Bloomsday with a street festival including readings, Irish music, and traditional Irish food provided by local Irish-themed pubs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bloomsday   (318 words)

  
 Bloomsday   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bloomsday is a secular holiday, celebrated annually on June 16.
Bloomsday Celebration Annual San Diego Irish pub crawl celebrating Ulysees by James Joyce, starting at the Ould Sod and ending at Rosie O'Grady's.
Bloomsday Cabaret Film-site of Canadian documentary maker Rosemary House, who tells the story of music in the life and literature of James Joyce in this 2004 film.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Bloomsday.html   (379 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Bloomsday
On the Sunday prior to the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday in 2004, 10,000 people in Dublin were treated to a free open air breakfast on O'Connell Street consisting of sausages, rashers, and fl and white puddings.
The Lilac Bloomsday Run was born during the running boom that swept the nation in the late 1970s.
Bloomsday has been a member of the ARRA and PRRO Circuits of major U.S. running events, and in 1996 Bloomsday hosted the first PRRO World Road Running Championships.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bloomsday   (951 words)

  
 Bloomsday Buffalo - 16 June, 2003
The event was a luncheon to commemorate both Bloomsday and the publication of the French translation of Ulysses earlier that year.
Bloomsday is an occasion of much celebration for Joyce enthusiasts, whether professional academics or not, the world over.
Bloomsday, then, is not about scholars and their work, it is about the joys of reading, specifically the joys of reading Ulysses.
www.bloomsdaybuffalo.com /about/about_slote.html   (788 words)

  
 Bloomsday in Melbourne - About Us
Bloomsday is the day readers around the world celebrate with Dubliners one of the great novels of the twentieth century, James Joyce's 'Ulysses', set in 1904, and published in 1922.
Bloomsday in Melbourne relishes the grandeur which was Melbourne at the turn of the century.
Bloomsday in Melbourne is a not-for-profit organisation run by a committee of volunteers established as an incorporated society.
www.deakin.edu.au /arts/Bloomsite/About.htm   (252 words)

  
 Bloomsday celebrates legacy of James Joyce - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Today, James Joyce enthusiasts worldwide observe Bloomsday, a day celebrating the work of Joyce and the events from his novel, "Ulysses." This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1904 trek of the fictional Leopold Bloom.
Bloomsday festivities occur in numerous countries -- the June 16 activities vary from public readings of the novel, to retracing Bloom's steps through Dublin, to acting out scenes from "Ulysses" in local pubs and cemeteries.
Bloomsday will be celebrated in Pittsburgh at Finnigan's Wake on the North Side, where Joyce's entire novel will be read, in three concurrent sessions, from 8 a.m.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_198990.html   (462 words)

  
 Bloomsday - Become a Bloomsday Sponsor
Bloomsday is one of the largest and most prestigious road races in the world, with approximately 45,000 entrants each year.
Bloomsday is organized by the Lilac Bloomsday Association, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation whose mission is to promote national and international sports competition and fitness education for the civic betterment, social improvement, and physical well-being of the general public.
Bloomsday appreciates the role of Major Sponsors in making the event possible, and encourages Sponsors to publicize their association with Bloomsday.
www.bloomsdayrun.org /SponsorsHow.htm   (919 words)

  
 Bloomsday News: Koskei Upsets Two Past Champions at Bloomsday; De Reuck in a Runaway
De Reuck, who was back at Bloomsday for the first time since her win in 1996, broke away from the field early and was never challenged, as she blasted to a 38:53 victory, the seventh fastest 12-K in history.
In masters competition, 2000 Bloomsday champion and course record-holder Simon Karori rebounded decisively from last year's third place finish, even leading the open race for a while before dropping back to 16th place overall and a 37:36 masters victory.
This year's open male and female Bloomsday winners—James Koskei and Colleen De Reuck—will be invited to the PRRO Race of Champions at the Peachtree Road Race on July 4 in Atlanta.
www.bloomsday.org /News/News10.htm   (583 words)

  
 ireland.com | Bloomsday
Like Dublin's Bloomsday, it was started by a small group of scholars and artists who met informally to revive over drinks the anarchic spirit of Joyce; 10 years on and sponsors include the city council and the Irish Embassy in Budapest, and the whole town (population 80,000) is expected to attend.
Laszlo Najmanyi, writer, musician and organiser of the Hungarian Bloomsday, says: "The Blums were big textile traders in Szombathely and members of the family were posted in Trieste.
On Bloomsday, the mayor of Szombathely, Dr Gyorgy Ipkovich, and the Irish Ambassador to Hungary, Brendan McMahon, are to unveil a statue of Joyce that will "step out" of the wall of the Blum house.
www.ireland.com /events/bloomsday/story5.htm   (655 words)

  
 Bloomsday 2008 - Over 50,000 runners, joggers and walkers!
April 29, 2008—John Korir of Kenya is the only three-time men’s champion in Bloomsday history, and this Sunday he returns to Spokane hoping to add a fourth title to his impressive road racing resume.
April 23, 2008—With a little over a week until the 32nd running of the Lilac Bloomsday Run, organizers are eagerly seeking volunteers to help with T-shirt distribution, as well as entrants willing to push wheelchair participants.
Bloomsday is a registered trademark of the Lilac Bloomsday Association
www.bloomsday.org   (215 words)

  
 Bloomsday News: Bloomsday '05 off and running! Organizers encourage every BODY to participate on May 1
During its nearly thirty years on the Spokane scene, Bloomsday has become a favored spring gathering place for families and friends, most of whom complete the course and collect the coveted finisher’s shirt, the color and design of which are kept secret until the finish line.
Bloomsday weekend will also have its traditional Trade Show in the Convention Center, one of the largest shows of its kind in the nation.
Bloomsday has continued to pursue its policy of designating a special charity each year, with the Eastern Washington Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation being this year’s designee.
www.bloomsdayrun.com /News/News28.htm   (782 words)

  
 Dublin Tourism - Bloomsday in Dublin
BLOOMSDAY marks the day in 1904 on which all the action of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses takes place.
In Dublin, where the novel is set, Bloomsday celebrations go on for a week, with most of the attention on the day itself.
There is another take on the Bloomsday pageant, of course, one that pitches it as a vulgar and populist attempt to cash in on the books.
www.visitdublin.com /bloomsday   (2528 words)

  
 Bloomsday - Fit For Bloomsday Overview and History
The program was developed by Bloomsday volunteers in cooperation with PE instructors, coaches and parents in the Spokane area.
In many ways, the growth of the Fit for Bloomsday, Fit for Life Program is as remarkable as the history of the Lilac Bloomsday Run itself.
Bloomsday officials were made acutely aware of the burgeoning interest in running among kids when they ran out of extra-small T-shirts after the 1985 Bloomsday Run.
www.bloomsday.org /FFBOverview.htm   (445 words)

  
 Rosenbach Museum & Library - Bloomsday
Bloomsday is the day on which protagonist Leopold Bloom made his "odyssey" through Dublin in Ulysses.
Philadelphia's Bloomsday at the Rosenbach is one of the cultural highlights of the season, drawing hundreds of friends, neighbors, Joyce enthusiasts, book-lovers, and curious passersby to DeLancey Place throughout the day.
June 16, 2006 marks the 15th annual Bloomsday at the Rosenbach—an event that is not to be missed!
www.rosenbach.org /programs/bloomsday.html   (169 words)

  
 Dubliners kick off Bloomsday celebrations - BOOKS - MSNBC.com
Dublin's main thoroughfare O'Connell Street is closed and turned into an outdoor eaterie for the Bloomsday Centenary breakfast in commemoration of Leopold Bloom's famous morning meals in James Joyce's "Ulysses" almost 100 years ago.
It’s awfully hard to serve offal at all,” said Philomena Caulfield, 60, a Bloomsday veteran wearing a straw bonnet with a bright green ribbon.
Bloomsday is normally a much smaller affair for an academic crowd.”
msnbc.msn.com /id/5209791   (659 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Sound of Bloomsday comes 100 years later
Bloomsday, on June 16, marks the centenary of one of the most famous real and fictional dates in literary history.
Soon they would elope and spend the rest of their lives together, quarrelling, making up, exchanging passionately obscene love letters and she would be transmuted into Molly Bloom, his immortal heroine.
Joyce made the date the first Bloomsday, the long day's journey into night which his heroes, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, spend wandering the streets of Dublin crossing and recrossing the tracks of hundreds of other lives which are woven into the text.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1232771,00.html   (780 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Bloomsday
Bloomsday, celebrated on June 16, marks the day on which, in 1904, all the action in James Joyce's classic work Ulysses takes place.
This year is the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday.
Now it's James Joyce's turn as the centenary of Bloomsday is marked by a mass fry-up in Dublin.
books.guardian.co.uk /news/page/0,8097,1236906,00.html   (282 words)

  
 Joyce fan bringing Bloomsday to state
Bloomsday is celebrated on June 16 by Joyce fans worldwide, as they bring the fictional account of Bloom; his wife, Molly; Stephen Dedalus; and "all the great talkers of Dublin" to life.
Apart from Dublin, Bloomsdays are celebrated in some North American cities, including San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y. Now, Aldridge wants to add Phoenix, with a Bloomsday at the Irish Cultural Center today.
A Bloomsday in the Valley of the Sun, however, is not without its problems.
www.azcentral.com /community/chandler/articles/0616cr-bloomsday16Z6.html   (467 words)

  
 Bloomsday: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This article is about Bloomsday, EHandler: no quick summary.
The lilac bloomsday run is an annual timed road race in spokane, washington, held the first sunday of every may since 1977....
On the Sunday prior to the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday (2004) 10,000 people in Dublin were treated to a free open air breakfast on O'Connell Street O\'Connell Street quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/bloomsday.htm   (898 words)

  
 About_Bloomsday_Festival,_Toronto
BLOOMSDAY has become a growth industry world wide in recent years and now more so since Ulysses was voted "Book of the Century" in recent polls, and Joyce was cited as one of the "Most Influential Writers of the Century" in TIME magazine.
The celebratory components of BLOOMSDAY satisfy people's craving for some form of ritual in their lives; in an era that is virtually devoid of ritual, BLOOMSDAY helps fill that void.
This may account for the popularity of BLOOMSDAY in general and the BLOOMSDAY HOOLEY in particular, and why increasing numbers of people mark the day in their calendar and take the day off work to participate.
www.pathcom.com /%7Elivia/about.html   (497 words)

  
 Northwest Runner -- Regional News Article
In taking over as Bloomsday Race Director, Kardong will be leaving his job as Executive Director of the Children's Museum of Spokane, a position he has held since July 2002.
Next year's Lilac Bloomsday Run, the 29th running of the popular 12-kilometer events, is scheduled for May 1.
Bloomsday, once the largest foot race in the area, has now been passed for that honor by the Vancouver Sun Run--the B.C. event was able to attract nearly 50,000 to their April event last year.
www.nwrunner.com /news/10-29-04-bloomsday.html   (357 words)

  
 Bloomsday: ThinkExist.com celebrates the legacy of James Joyce - Free-Press-Release.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bloomsday, the annual commemoration of the day that Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom embarked on their epic voyage through Dublin in 1904 in James Joyce's Ulysses, one of history’s most celebrated no
Will anyone remember this date?" The author was referring to Bloomsday, the annual commemoration of the day that Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom embarked on their epic voyage through Dublin in 1904 in James Joyce's Ulysses, one of history’s most celebrated novels.
Bloomsday itself is the continuation of a five-month festival, which lasts until 31 August 2004.
www.free-press-release.com /news/200406/1087311489.html   (380 words)

  
 Bloomsday News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lots of exciting things happening with Bloomsday, we are looking forward to a great summer festival season and are going into the studio this summer to get to work on our first full length album.
We at Bloomsday have all thought hard and seriously about how we would like to improve ourselves this year and have decided to share our resolutions with you all.
Bloomsday is excited to be returning to the venue where they first played.
www.thewhistleshop.com /bloomsdayband/news.htm   (4536 words)

  
 Eye - The lessons of Bloomsday - 06.10.04
Even though Aristotle said dramas are best played out in the space of a single day, and though probably thousands of writers have played along, very few of them ever gave us a particular date for that day, and even fewer wrote books good enough for us to care what that date might be.
And so Bloomsday, the day a hundred years ago when James met Nora, the Nancy to his Ronald, the day he set the action of his greatest accomplishment, becomes our international literary holiday.
For the most part, people who celebrate Bloomsday spend it puzzling how to cross their cities passing as many pubs as possible, or dressing up as early-19th-century Dubliners.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.10.04/op/oped.html   (505 words)

  
 nthposition online magazine: Bloomsday 3004
It was Bloomsday Eve, and he didn't fancy braving the rush in the General Store to get them.
"Bloomsday is about Peale, the prophet of Mohamed, the Great Wheel With Many Arms" the Pastor of the Church of Norman Vincent Peale and His Helpmate Buddha had declared in a letter to the paper.
Of all the feasts that they must have had in the Good Time, all we have is Bloomsday, he thought...
www.nthposition.com /bloomsday3004.php?serif=1   (1709 words)

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