Saturday is also known as Bloomsday, so called because it's the day in which what author set the events of his novel Ulysses?
Bloomsday June. A 2009 episode of the cartoon "The Simpsons", "In the Name of the Grandfather", featured the family's trip to Dublin and Lisa's reference to Bloomsday. U2's 2009 song "Breathe" refers to events taking place on a fictitious 16 June. On Bloomsday 2014, it was announced that the chemist shop Swenys on Lombard Street, at which Bloom called to buy lotion for his wife, might soon close. Bloomsday Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere on 16 June, the day his novel "Ulysses" takes place in 1904,
Bloomsday wall calendar shows that the current day is 16 June, indicating that it is, in fact, Bloomsday. Punk band Minutemen have a song on their 1984 "Double Nickels on the Dime" album entitled "June 16th", which is named after Bloomsday. Richard Linklater alludes to "Ulysses" in two of his films. In 1991's "Slacker", a character reads an excerpt from "Ulysses" after convincing his friends to dump a tent and a typewriter in a river as a response to a prior lover's infidelity. The film also takes place over a 24-hour period. In 1995's "Before Sunrise", events take place on 16