Stamp your way across Dublin with the Bloomsday Passport as you walk in the footsteps of James Joyce’s Ulysses!
Visit Joycean locations across the city and collect every stamp! The Bloomsday Passport is a family-friendly way to experience the magic of Ulysses. Pick up your free passport at the James Joyce Centre or the National Library of Ireland.
The passport destinations include:
- Glasnevin Cemetary: Leopold Bloom attends the funeral of his dear-departed friend Paddy Dignam. Poor Dignam!
- Eccles Townhouse: Leopold and Molly Bloom live in No. 7 Eccles Street, where Leopold is enjoying a breakfast of beasts and fowls and Molly lingers in bed.
- James Joyce Centre: The James Joyce Centre on No. 35 North Great George’s Street is a museum dedicated to James Joyce and Irish literature, as well as the organiser of the Bloomsday Festival. Come see the real-life door of No. 7 Eccles Street and so much more.
- General Post Office: Bloom collects a letter from Martha Clifford, his secret penpal, at the post office. The GPO on O’Connell Street is one of the world’s oldest and most distinguisehd postal headquarters.
- College Green: On his way to lunch, Bloom passes the Hely’s men with their tall white hats and bumps into an old flame around College Green. Be sure to call in to see Seamus Heaney: Listen Now & Again in the Bank of Ireland building.
- National Literary of Ireland: Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan and company hash out their estoteric theories about Shakespeare, philosophy and more in the iconic Reading Room.
- Sweny’s Pharmacy: Bloom floats into Sweny’s Pharmacy on Lincoln’s Place to buy ‘sweet, lemony wax’ soap for Molly. You can buy the soap and take part in readings in the well-preserved Victorian pharmacy.
- Martello Tower: Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan and their English mate spend the mornin gin the Martello Tower in Sandycove. Visit the James Joyce Tower & Museum to see where it all started.
The Bloomsday Passport is sponsored by the James Joyce Centre and the National Library of Ireland and printed by At It Again!