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Happy Bloomsday
Daniel Burke
June 17, 2008

In honor of Bloomsday, which marks the day in 1904 when James Joyce’s great novel “Ulysses,” takes place, here’s a piece from America, the Jesuit weekly.

Across the pond in Ireland, June 16 is a day when litterateurs and other fancy jakes re-enact scenes from the novel across Dublin. It might also be a time to reflect on how we treat outsiders like Leopold Bloom, the Jewish Irishman at the center of “Ulysses,” says Thomas G. Casey, S.J. It’s worth noting that the Jesuits educated Joyce, so blame them for all the $4 words and Latin guessing games.

‘Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes’


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