Bloomsday

For anyone unfamiliar with Bloomsday, it celebrates Thursday 16 June 1904, the day depicted in James Joyce’s Ulysses, and is named after the novel’s central character Leopold Bloom. The day itself had a special significance for Joyce, as it was the day that he first went out walking together with his future wife, Nora Barnacle! The Gallery's Millennium Wing entrance is located just opposite the site of their initial fateful encounter opposite, outside what was then Finn’s Hotel, where Nora was working as a chamber maid – look up, and you’ll still see the ghost sign for the hotel on gable end of the wall!

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