BLOOMSDAY

Today is Bloomsday the day in 1904 when James Joyce met his wife Nora Barnacle ( a Galway Girl ) for the first time on Nassau Street in Dublin . Joyce's book Ulysses is set on the same day taking the reader across Dublin on a helter skelter journey , in the company of Leopold Bloom. I thought I would create a new cover for the book, from some old papers I have collected, this is what I got. I leave you with a quote from the book it self "“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.” , The tome is filled with gems like this , but you have to search them out. Nora's house in Galway was open to the public for the day. Should anybody wish to know a little more about Joyce's muse.( she was a quite a character for a woman of her time) , here is a piece from 2011 note the writer , I am not responsible for the grammatical errors contained within it
http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/40741/remembering-nora-on-bloomsday Thanks for taking the time...

[kali]

By coincidence there was an article in our local paper this weekend about his sister Margaret aka Sister Mary Gertrude , the opening paragraph reads
"In the 1920s, as her brother's controversial book Ulyssees was debated and denounced as obscene for its explicitness... and praised as a groundbreaking masterpiece, a Greymouth nun quietly went about her daily tasks, teaching piano and violin to children in Greymouth"
she never stopped praying for him. apparently her personal papers including decades of correspondence between them were burnt after she died

[kali]

i remember watching the movie Nora ,with Ewan McGregor

[john morley]

@kali66 ya seen it Sudan Lynch was very good as Nora, interesting that his sister finished so far away, and wouldn't those letters be interesting,

[kali]

she said it was his idea for her to come here, to do something heroic at the uttermost ends of the earth .

[Diane]

Love this image. I remember slogging through Ulysses in college. Maybe it's time to reread it?

[Joyce]

A great design.

[Margo Sayer]

Have read his others, although not 'Ulysses'...not yet. TYF the link. VML your cover.

[Tim L]

Never read the book, probably because I watched the film at too young an age. I watched it because Milo O'Shea was in it, and he was a TV comedy star at the time, and had been in Barbarella (which is more my intellectual level). I thought it was going to be funny, couldn't have been more wrong! The statue in your photo is evocative of Dublin.

[john morley]

a DVD of the film came with the Times a few years ago , I liked it as the actors and Dublin in it took me back what it was in the 60's . Some parts of book and film are difficult , I like the abstract nature of the book and the Nora connection makes it personal in a way for Galwegians. The Abbey are staging a production of it this summer , which I'm looking forward to. Barbsrella was equally strange , but a fine piece of art for it's time..Hope the summer is treating you well Tim , plenty of days out with Jasper..