Bloomsday

English

Etymology

From the name of Leopold Bloom, protagonist of Ulysses + -s- +‎ day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbluːmz.deɪ/
• Hyphenation: Blooms‧day

Noun

Bloomsday (plural Bloomsdays)

1. An annual celebration (on 16 June, in Dublin and elsewhere) of the life of Irish writer James Joyce and the events depicted in his novel Ulysses.
   • 1993, William Kennedy, Riding the Yellow Trolley Car, →ISBN, page 132:

     I happened into a meeting of the James Joyce Society last Bloomsday (June 16) at the Gotham Book Mart in New York, an unlikely stop for me; for such gatherings usually have the odor of formaldehyde about them. But not this one.