Today is Bloomsday, which is, according to Wikipedia, “a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The day is a secular holiday in Ireland. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce’s first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.”

Park Slope’s Michele Madigan Somerville is presenting excerpts from Ulysses at Ceol, an Irish pub on Smith Street. This should be quite an evening. Begins at 7:30.

Monday
June 16th
7:30 pm
featuring readings from Ulysses
by James Joyce

Ceol
191 Smith Street
between Baltic and Warren
in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
www,ceolpub.com
347 643 9911