EVERY year, on June 16, dedicated people around the world dress in Edwardian finery and head off to particular watering holes, there to join other groups and individuals similarly decked out in big hats and feather boas, or waistcoats with the obligatory bowler and pocket watch. Not all are called Shanahan or Sheehan, McGuire or Maloney, but they all have one thing in common; a passionate devotion to the cause of spreading the Irish literary heritage represented by James Joyce's Ulysses. This is Bloomsday. For the uninitiated, Bloomsday -- Sunday -- is that one particular day in one particular year when Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, takes himself on his own odyssey around...
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