Bloomsday Festival 2025
Visitors in costume at the Library on Bloomsday 2024.
- Wednesday June 11 - Monday June 16 | 9am - 5pm
- National Library of Ireland, 7/8 Kildare Street
Drop in all throughout the Bloomsday Festival and see our pop-up banner exhibition on James Joyce and Ulysses.
The Bloomsday Passport
The NLI is pleased to participate in the Bloomsday passport, in collaboration with the James Joyce Centre. The Bloomsday passport encourages you to walk in the footsteps of the characters of Ulysses and visit various locations across Dublin on your pilgrimage. The NLI can stamp your Bloomsday passport at two locations!
- Wednesday June 11 - Friday June 13 & Monday June 16 | 10am - 4pm
- National Library of Ireland, 7/8 Kildare Street
- Wednesday June 11 - Saturday June 14 & Monday June 16 | 10am - 3:30pm
- Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition on Westmoreland Street
- Saturday June 14 | 1pm - 2pm
- Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition on Westmoreland Street
Join us for a special tour where you can discover all the indelible connections between two masters of the pen, Joyce and Heaney. [Booking required]
Ulysses Readings
- Monday June 16 | between 1 - 2pm
- Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again exhibition on Westmoreland Street
Join Ayrton O’Brien as he reads from the Aeolus section of Ulysses.
- Monday June 16 | 5 - 7:30pm
- National Library of Ireland, 7/8 Kildare Street
Come visit the Reading Room at the National Library just as Leopold Bloom did in Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis of Ulysses. Ayrton O'Brien will reading passages at 5:30pm, 6pm, and 6:30pm.
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