#Otd 1941: Death of #Rathgar, #Dublin's James Joyce. Novelist, short story writer & poet e.g. Ulysses (1922), short-story collection Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Finnegans Wake (1939), 3 books poetry, a play & published letters. Buried: Zurich

#DYK #Bloomsday is celebrated on 16 June! It celebrates & relives the events of James Joyce's novel Ulysses (which is set on 16 June 1904)! On that day novelist & poet James Joyce had his 1st date with Nora Barnacle in #Ringsend, #Dublin!

#DYK James Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a retelling of the Odyssey set in modern-day Dublin! Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus (hero)! Each chapter in the book has an assigned theme, technique, & correspondences between its characters & those of Homer's Odyssey!

27 Sept 2000: 33 years after it was made, censors lift the ban on a film adaptation of James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses. The 1967 film version of the book was directed by Joseph Strick. Starring Milo O'Shea as Bloom, it was nominated for @TheAcademy for Best Adapted Screenplay!

James Joyce statue called 'The prick with the stick' by Dubliners! In his early 20s, Joyce emigrated to continental Europe with his partner (& later wife) Nora Barnacle. Lived in Trieste, Paris & Zurich, though his fictional universe centres on #Dublin! @theirelandguide #Ireland

Anna Livia is in Croppies Memorial Park, #Dublin. Formerly on O'Connell Street. Personification of River Liffey. Anna Livia Plurabelle is character in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939, final novel) who also embodies the river. Nicknamed the Floozie in the Jacuzzi! #Ireland

#Otd 1882: Birth in #Rathgar, #Dublin of James Joyce. Novelist, short story writer & poet e.g. Ulysses (1922), short-story collection Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Finnegans Wake (1939), 3 books poetry, a play & published letters! #IrishAuthors

“A man’s errors are his portals to discovery.” James Joyce #WednesdayWisdom

#Otd 1904: Irish author #JamesJoyce met the love of his life, Nora Barnacle, his future muse & wife. She was born in #Galway workhouse, worked as porteress & laundress, then as chambermaid in Dublin. 1st date was 16 June (Joyce put it in his novel Ulysses) now known as Bloomsday!

#Otd 1904: #Bloomsday! Novelist & poet #JamesJoyce had 1st date with Nora Barnacle in #Ringsend, #Dublin. It became the date on which everything takes place in his 1922 novel Ulysses, which is set on 16 June 1904! Named after main character Leopold Bloom! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday 

#Otd 1924: Friends sent #JamesJoyce, who was in hospital, a bouquet of white & blue hydrangeas. He wrote in his notebook: “Today 16 of June 1924 twenty years after. Will anybody remember this date?” #Bloomsday

#Otd 1929: Some think 1st official #Bloomsday held. Joyce was guest of honour at dinner party held at Les Vaux de Cernay, a village near Versailles, France. Samuel Beckett there & needed to pee so much he was abandoned on the outskirts of Paris! But there is 1924 reference to it.

#Otd 1931: James Joyce & Nora Barnacle married in London, after being together for 25 years! Joyce 49 & Nora 47. Had 2 grown up children, Giorgio & Lucia (right in ). Tried to keep it secret (applied for licence 2 days before civil ceremony, full name, no birthplace/profession)

#Otd 2001: A draft Eumaeus chapter with red, blue & black scribbles, from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses sold for nearly £900,000 at auction. Wasn't as much as expected? 2002, an early draft of the Circe chapter raised just >£1 million at auction. : 1st ed https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/10/2

#Otd 2000: The original manuscript of James Joyce’s Ulysses was on display at the @CBL_Dublin in @dublincastleopw! The exhibition ran from June until October 2000. https://chesterbeatty.ie/exhibitions/ulysses-in-hand/

#Otd 2000: Censors lift ban on Ulysses (1967); 33 years after made! Based on James Joyce's 1922 novel. Directed by Joseph Strick. Milo O'Shea as Bloom. Nominated for @TheAcademy @BAFTA @goldenglobes Best Adapted Screenplay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(1967_film)