Evening Telegraph (Dublin) drawings as illustrations. A project is currently underway to help restore a 16 June 1904 edition The paper was published on distinctive pink newspaper, which marked it out visually from the buff (brownish-yellow) paper colour used by one of its Dublin rivals, the "Dublin Evening Mail". Leopold Bloom sells advertising for the "Evening Telegraph" in James Joyce's novel "Ulysses". The paper was published between 1871 and 1924. It closed in the same year as the main daily Nationalist newspaper, the "Freeman's Journal". It is unclear whether the elimination of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1918 general election, and the
Bloomsday the novel by Enrique Vila-Matas "Dublinesca" (2010), part of the action takes place in Dublin for the Bloomsday. The book's main protagonist, Riba, a retired Spanish editor, moves to this city with several writer friends to officiate a "funeral" for the Gutenberg era. In Mel Brooks' 1968 film "The Producers", Gene Wilder's character is called Leo Bloom, an homage to Joyce's character. In the musical 2005 version, in the evening scene at the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, Leo asks, "When will it be Bloom's day?". However, in the earlier scene in which Bloom first meets Max Bialystock, the office