Bloom's Dublin

This is my first post.

I have just read Joyce's Ulysses, mostly as preparation to get something special out of a visit to Dublin. I'll be there for Bloomsday, June 16, will visit the James Joyce Center, listen to the readings, and do the walking tours of Joyce's Dublin.

It took reading the first quarter of the book before I could actually care about what might happen next. Now that I care, I'm finding The James Joyce audio collection fabulous, very enjoyable, without the hard work of reading and trying to appreciate Joyce's literary experiments. Also the Gifford & Seidman annotations have made Ulysses much more accessible, but I'm glad I persisted and read cover to cover. Now, as I go back into parts of the book that stay in my thoughts, I know where Joyce goes from there.

I'll welcome any suggestions about mining Bloomsday in Dublin for any light it can shed on Joyce's work.

I spent Bloomsday in Dublin last summer before having read Ulysses. I regret not taking the opportunity to read the novel first, because I spent a week in Dublin again not too long ago and got so much more out of the experience.

I hope you enjoyed your stay. Did you stop in at Davy Byrnes?

Hahahaah...

Thanks to Joyce, Davy Byrnes still makes a lot of money from cheese sandwichs and burgundy :)