Bloomsday in Lüneburg

June 16, 1904 is the day on which James Joyce, in his novel Ulysses, sent two protagonists through Dublin. The central figure was Leopold Bloom, a somewhat staid advertising salesman. When, 50 years later, Irish writers met for the first time on this date for a trip to the Martello Tower, where this century-long novel begins, they named the event after him: Bloomsday.
As such, the day has since had a career. It is regularly celebrated in many cities, for example in Dublin, New York, Melbourne… and in Germany, among others in Berlin, Hamburg and Lüneburg. The Literary Society here has celebrated Bloomsday since 1998.

Bloomsday 2025 in Lüneburg :
NORA – Miss Barnacle / Mrs. Joyce.

NORA – Miss Barnacle / Mrs. Joyce
The date of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle’s first rendezvous has gone down in literary history; it took place on June 16, 1904 , the day the writer later used as the basis for his seminal novel, Ulysses .
Who was this woman who, just two months after meeting him, followed the then-unknown and completely penniless writer from Ireland via England to the European continent into an uncertain future, bore him two children, and later married him?
Thomas Ney and Rainer Pörzgen will use this year’s Bloomsday to introduce this astonishing woman behind the famous author, based on a few of her own accounts and, above all, written statements by contemporaries.