June 16th is celebrated as Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland by literary devotees of James Joyce. The followers dress up in period costumes and trace the route of Leopold Bloom as he meanders thru that famous city visiting his favorite haunts circa 1912. My last visit to Dublin was in 1978 long before the Celtic Tiger roared and while smoking was still allowed in the pubs to accompany the "craic" and Guinness. Our agent had an office on Grafton St. and his favorite meeting place was the Paddock Bar in the Shelburne Hotel - also very smokey. Ah, but so was the salmon! But it all beat traipsing thru cemeteries in the rain.
tjs
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