Bloomsday in Chicago – June 16th

Bloomsday

‘BLOOMSDAY IN CHICAGO’ RETURNS ON JUNE 16th, 2025, 7 PM
To The Second Floor of The Galway Arms at 2442 N. Clark Street

Our 21st Year

At 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 16th, Puddin’’head Press will present a “Bloomsday” reading from James Joyce’s Ulysses hosted by playwright and author Jeff Helgeson on the second floor of The Galway Arms at 2442 N. Clark Street.

Featuring a sequence of readings presented by local actors, writers, scholars, and devoted James Joyce fans, this year’s salon in a saloon will be a continuation of the regular commemorations begun in 2004 on the 100th anniversary of the day the novel is set, “Bloomsday” June 16th.

Banned in The United States and many other countries, including Ireland, when it was first published in 1922 by Sylvia Beach, the owner of Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris, in 1998 Ulysses was selected by The Modern Library as the best novel of the 20th century.

Following the design of The Odyssey of Homer within the setting of 1904 Dublin, Ulysses is a literary adventure of the highest degree that is filled with allusions, extended passages of stream-of-

The Galway Arms
2442 N. Clark Street
Chicago, Illinois 60614
As of 2013, James Joyce House in Dublin has “Liked” WWW.Facebook.com/BloomsdayChicago

$7 cover at the door

See our 2021 presentation on YouTube: Bloomsday on YouTube

Here is a video of Barbara Button performing Molly Bloom at the closing of Bloomsday in Chicago 2022.

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