"Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin, Ireland, and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce (1882 – 1941) and relive the events in his novel Ulysses (19220, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses. 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."[text from Wikipedia entry for Bloomsday. Photograph from Google image search for 'James Joyce.' Caption: "James Joyce by Bernice Abbott, 1926." Click on image to enlarge.]
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