<p>I am celebrating it by starting to make some reservations for H and I’s trip to Ireland next month (I haven’t been overseas since before D was born–she’s 26.) H, though Irish to the core, has never been there, so should be fun. (Unless we ending up sleeping behind some stone wall cuz i don’t get anything planned…)</p>
<p>Anyhoo, any Joyce fans out there? Been many years since I’ve read Ulysses and am seriously thinking of another round.</p>
<p>Never read Finnegan’s Wake, though I recently met a guy who reads from it every day, carrying it like a Bible. </p>
<p>Happy Bloomsday to all!</p>
<p>Happy Bloomsday, garland! ReJoyce and enjoy. The weather’s kind of Dublin-esque this morning, over here across the river from you, anyway. </p>
<p>Enjoy planning that trip. I’m envious.</p>
<p>I will actually finish reading “Ulysses”, I will, I will, I will, I will…</p>
<p>Hi, garland and HarrietMWelsh, no surprise to find you here. Hi, AnudduhMom–will look for your posts. Planning to buy lemon soap at Sweny’s while you are in Dublin? I have heard that there is a long line there on Bloomsday. :)</p>
<p>Happy Bloomsday to You! I read Ulysses many, many moons ago. Would love to go to Ireland someday, too. Had a friend that went there during Easter several years ago and said the little girls all dressed in white coming out of church were a site to behold. Not sure why it struck her so profoundly, but there you have it. Back in the 80’s, my parents took my grandmother to Ireland to see HER mother’s birthplace (County Cork). I still have the mead cup my grandmother stole from a pub. (Oh, the shame of it.) Slainte!</p>
<p>“…and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”</p>
<p>I think I read * Dubliners* and I have attempted * Portrait of an Artist* but Joyce is not someone I have read lately.
( but I liked the film- The Dead-then again you could cast Anjelica Huston as Madge the Palmolive lady and I would watch it)</p>
<p>Ive also never been abroad- cause I don’t think Vancouver BC counts
I do have much Scotch -Irish though & have the red hair to prove it-</p>
<p>I want lots of stories from your trip!</p>