Bloomsday

If you are a devotee of James Joyce you might find yourself in Dublin today - June 16th - which is designated Bloomsday the world over to commemorate Leopold Bloom's meandering thru that city on a given day - with certainly a stop at an Irish pub. My last visit to that fair city was circa 1978 when our agent had an office on a prominent thorofare- Grafton Street. He liked to hang out at the Paddock Bar in the Shelburne Hotel on St. Stephen's Green. There was no smoking ban then and you could cut it with a knife. Ah, but the stories they could tell - and the smoked salmon was the best thing on the menu.
tjs