Bloomsday 2018

Christie and Nick attended Bloomsday at the Rosenbach celebrating James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses. See what Christie said about the event below!

Here are a few photos of the Bloomsday event on Saturday, which included a day-long reading of Ulysses with musical interludes of live traditional Irish music. Ed Rendell and the Irish Ambassador to the US were among the readers at the event. I've been asked to read at next year's event, along with the undergraduate essay contest winner. Each reader did about two pages, and there were short readings from each of the episodes with brief summaries up on the screens. A couple readings were accompanied by professional vocalists, who sang for Simon Dedalus and for the Croppy Boy song. Several people in the audience had their Gabler editions open on their laps.
The Rosenbach House was offering free admission, so we got to explore the house a bit and ran into Penn professor Dr. Paul Saint-Amour, who attended the Kevin Dettmar lecture and dinner last fall.

At the beer garden, they had plastic Guinness cups and served Bloom's gorgonzola and ham sandwich from the cannibalistic Lestrygonians chapter ("Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred..."). Nick enjoyed the sandwich.

                                                                                              --Christie Leonard