Bloomsday Celebration
Celebrate Bloomsday at The Wild Geese Hotel, home of the Celtic Club Melbourne
Come and enjoy an afternoon of readings and a celebration of Bloomsday with Professor Ronan McDonald, Stephen Regan and Jasper Harrington at the Celtic Club Members’ bar on Sunday 16th June from 3.00pm until late.
Pinot Noir and Gorgonzola Sandwiches $12 will be available throughout the afternoon.
If you are coming earlier for lunch, we would recommend you make a booking in advance.
A prize will be awarded to the best-dressed person on the day, so come in your favourite Bloomsday costume!
About Bloomsday
Bloomsday 16th June is an annual celebration of the life and work of the Irish writer, James Joyce. It takes its name from the fictional character Leopold Bloom, whose wanderings through Dublin on 16 June 1904 are brilliantly imagined and narrated by Joyce in his epic novel Ulysses (1922). It was also the day on which Joyce ‘went out walking’ for the first time with his future wife, Nora Barnacle. Bloomsday is now enjoyed around the world with readings from Joyce and other Irish writers, with music and song, with eating and drinking, and (especially in Dublin) with the wearing of Edwardian costumes.
