Bloomsday Open House

 (Vladimir Nabokov's diagram of Ulysses, “a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures.” Courtesy of the Morgan Library)

Bloomsday Open House

Sunday, June 16th, 11:00am - 5:00pm

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The novel Ulysses by James Joyce is a record of a single day in Dublin, Ireland - June 16th, 1904. Through the text, Joyce creates a walking map of Dublin, of sights and sounds, stores, buildings, streets and passersby.

Visit the Velaslavasay Panorama on this day and enjoy a pre-recorded reading of the book, have a rest in the verdant garden in late spring, and finish your visit with a tour of the local neighborhood, courtesy of the Velaslavasay Panorama's newly printed walking map.

James Joyce "Ulysess" walking map, courtesy of The Joyce Project.

Velaslavasay Panorama walking map.

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A chapter-by-chapter map of Ulysses, courtesy of the Rosenbach (the depository of the original manuscript).

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Flowers of idleness. The air feeds most. Azotes. Hothouse in Botanic gardens. Sensitive plants. Waterlilies. Petals too tired to. Sleeping sickness in the air. Walk on roseleaves.

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As ’twere, in the peerless panorama of Ireland’s portfolio, unmatched, despite their wellpraised prototypes in other vaunted prize regions, for very beauty, of bosky grove and undulating plain and luscious pastureland of vernal green, steeped in the transcendent translucent glow of our mild mysterious Irish twilight...