Bloomsday 2026

In the early hours of June 17, 1904, Leopold Bloom takes a drunken Stephen Dedalus under his wing and brings him to 7 Eccles Street for a cup of cocoa, “the creature cocoa.” And then the two men step outside. From the catechetical “Ithaca” episode of Ulysses.


Bloomsday: “the 16th of June 1904. Also: the 16th of June of any year, on which celebrations take place, esp. in Ireland, to mark the anniversary of the events in Joyce’s Ulysses” (Oxford English Dictionary ).

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[Stan Carey points out that rere is “a standard variant form in Hiberno-English and is not uncommon” in Ireland, “especially in architectural, geographical, and property-related contexts.” The title of the post in which he writes about the word would fit nicely as a headline in the “Aeolus” episode of Ulysses: “Rare ‘rere’ rears its head in Ireland.”]