We hope that you and yours are staying safe in this unprecedented time of pandemic. Due to the ongoing situation, we are in the process of shifting our 2020 festival schedule online.
We look forward to a safe, remote, and much-needed celebration this June 12-16. Precise details will be released soon, so please check back!
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2018 Performers, Storytellers, Authors and Scholars
Reading and storytelling performances, panel discussions, walking tours, live music, food, theatre and much more.
Take a look at the 2018 program. Registration opens May 1.
Festival Bloomsday Montréal Newsletter
“No Pen, No Ink…”
Disease epidemics have been the inspiration for many a writer and his work. Boccaccio wrote his Decameron at the time of the Black Death in 1348. A recent article in the Guardian newspaper asked whether Shakespeare wrote King Lear in the lockdown of 1606. Even...
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Joyicity March 2020
In this issue: A word from our new President, Kevin Wright Recap of our celebration of James Joyce's birthday First tentative schedule for our 2020 Festival! Events around town A blog post on Finnegans Wake's Multifractal Structure A word from the President As...
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What is Bloomsday?
Bloomsday marks the day — June 16, 1904 — that Leopold Bloom walked through Dublin in James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. Our festival takes place this year from May 30 through June 16.
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Where, the mile end
Ou quand le vent boréal souffle une influence sur le poète. Du premier poème ‘Steel skin’ où on y regarde un hiver qui s’étend de Dublin jusqu’au bord du Mississipi et encore, au second poème ‘Looped’ où le fil du nord laisse des traces de vent glacial.
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A Review of Paul Auster’s 4321
It was by happenstance that I picked up a copy of Paul Auster’s latest novel 4321 (2017) a couple of weeks ago at a McGill University “take a book leave a book” site. As expected from Paul Auster, the novel is hilarious, genius, meta and highly readable. But what was unexpected was that I found myself reading a re-imagined version of Ulysses.
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Posset—The Perfect Dessert To End The Old Year
By the time New Year arrives you are bound to feel food fatigue — both in the making of, and the eating of… the thought of another heavy dessert is intolerable. So, lets consider a posset – light and delicious and so easy to make it’s ridiculous.
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Festival Bloomsday Montréal in Photos
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Festival Bloomsday Montréal 2018
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2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-16 Bloomsday Molly Bloom Soliloquy
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-12 Bloomsday Festival Opener
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Wake
2018-06-15 Bloomsday Ghost Walk
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Irish In Canada
2018-06-14 Bloomsday The Irish In Canada
(Photos by Thomas Bock – Thomas Bock Creative)
Festival Bloomsday Montréal Video & Media
With Love From Dublin: Bloomsday Montréal Greeting
In 2016 Montreal’s Mayor Coderre declared Montreal and Ireland as ‘twin cities’. In this spirit of fellowship the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Dublin City Council, have gifted us at Festival Bloomsday Montréal 2017 with this lovely video greeting.
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