The website eHow.com has a page which suggests different ways to celebrate Bloomsday. Here are a few ideas:
- Attend a Bloomsday celebration near you. Dublin has the biggest, but dozens of towns throughout the United States and Canada have rousing ones. Many include marathon readings of Ulysses, with local celebrities taking turns reading passages from the epic.
- Hold a Ulysses party. Serve Irish food and drink, play Irish music and have your guests take turns reading from the book.
- Read the book. Or, if you're new to Joyce, try a more accessible work first. Both "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and the short-story collection "Dubliners" provide good, easy-to-fathom introductions to the Joyce canon.
- Curl up with a Guinness or a glass of Irish whisky and watch "The Dead" on video. The movie version of a story in Dubliners, it was John Houston's last film, one of the most true-to-the-original movie adaptations of all time, and a perfect introduction to Joyce's work.
http://www.ehow.com/how_10185_celebrate-bloomsday.html
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Need ideas for your Bloomsday event? Here's a video from a 2007 celebration at Ulysses Bar, with a full day of activities that included carvery lunch, readings, live music and even complimentary drinks. Ulysses Bar, 95 Pearl St./58 Stone St., Hanover Square, New York, NY, http://www.ulyssesbarnyc.com/. Hat tip: MurphGuide.com