Bloomsday Festival 2026
Exhibitions at the James Joyce Centre
Exhibition
9 - 16 June, 2026
10:30am – 4:30pm
James Joyce Centre
Bloomsday Villages: Sandycove and Glasthule
Event, Food & Drink, Music, Theatre
10 - 16 June, 2026
Times vary
64 Wine, Cavistons, Fitzgerald's of Sandycove, James Joyce Tower & Museum, Mitchell & Son Wine Merchants, The Eagle
Bloomsday at Sweny’s Pharmacy
Event, Food & Drink, Music, Reading
10 - 16 June, 2026
Times vary
Sweny’s Pharmacy
Introducing Joyce’s Dublin: A Literary Walking Tour
Tour
11 - 13 June, 2026
11am – 1pm
James Joyce Centre
Bloomsday at the National Maritime Museum of Ireland
Exhibition
11 - 16 June, 2026
11am – 5pm
National Maritime Museum of Ireland
Footsteps of Leopold Bloom: A Literary Walking Tour
Tour
11 - 13 June, 2026
2pm – 4pm
James Joyce Centre
The Poetry Stroll: A Guided Literary Walking Tour (James Joyce Tower)
Music, Tour
11 - 15 June, 2026
Times vary
James Joyce Tower & Museum
The Poetry Stroll: A Guided Literary Walking Tour (Sweny’s Pharmacy)
Music, Tour
11 - 15 June, 2026
Times vary
Sweny’s Pharmacy
Joyce’s Puzzle Walk: To Cross Dublin without Passing a Pub
Tour
13 - 16 June, 2026
11am – 12:45pm
Dublin Unitarian Church
Vintage Tea Trips Bloomsday Bus Tour
Food & Drink, Tour
13 - 16 June, 2026
Times vary
20-22 St. Stephen's Green
Bloomsday Film Festival: Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation Bloomsday Showcase
Film
13 June, 2026
7pm – 8pm
Belvedere College
Jewish Dublin in the Time of Ulysses
Exhibition, Tour
14 - 15 June, 2026
Times vary
Irish Jewish Museum
A Blooming Great Day: Reading and Workshop with Úna Woods
Arts & Crafts, Children, Reading
14 June, 2026
11am – 12pm
James Joyce Centre
James Connolly and Ulysses: A Joycean Walk Through the Workers’ Republic
Tour
14 June, 2026
12pm – 2pm
James Connolly Memorial
Bloomsday for Kids: The Cat and the Devil
Children
14 June, 2026
2pm – 3pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum
James Joyce Institute of Ireland Annual Pre-Bloomsday Walk
Tour
14 June, 2026
2pm – 4pm
Fusiliers' Arch
Bloomsday Villages: Portobello
Event, Music, Reading, Theatre, Tour
14 - 16 June, 2026
Times vary
Charlemont Mall, The Lower Deck Pub
Bloomsday Film Festival: Ulysses – A Magic Lantern Odyssey
Film
14 June, 2026
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Belvedere College
A Tale of Two Cities: The Dublins of Swift & Joyce
Lecture
15 June, 2026
6pm – 7pm
James Joyce Centre
Why Ulysses is the Perfect Dublin Guidebook
Lecture
15 June, 2026
6pm – 7:30pm
The Hendrick Smithfield
Bloomsday Breakfast at Belvedere College
Event, Food & Drink, Music, Reading
16 June, 2026
Times vary
Belvedere College
The Balloonatics Bloomsday Street Theatre Tours
Event, Reading, Theatre, Tour
16 June, 2026
Times vary
Eccles Street, Grattan Bridge, Irish Life Centre
Bloomsday Breakfast in St. Andrew’s Resource Centre
Food & Drink, Music, Reading
16 June, 2026
8am – 10am
St. Andrew's Resource Centre
Bloomsday at the James Joyce Centre
Children, Dance, Event, Exhibition, Film, Food & Drink, Music, Reading, Theatre, Tour
16 June, 2026
9:30am – 6pm
James Joyce Centre
Bloomsday Film Festival: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Chapter 4
Film
16 June, 2026
10am – 11:30am
James Joyce Centre
RDS Bloomsday Celebrations
Event, Food & Drink, Music, Reading
16 June, 2026
10am – 6pm
Royal Dublin Society (RDS)
Bloomsday Villages: Sandymount
Event, Food & Drink, Reading, Theatre, Tour
16 June, 2026
Times vary
Sandymount Community Centre, Sandymount Green
Bloomsday Villages: Ringsend & Irishtown – Joycean Procession
Tour
16 June, 2026
11am – 12pm
St. Patrick's Church, Ringsend
Bloomsday at Glasnevin Cemetery: Poor Dignam!
Event, Reading, Theatre, Tour
16 June, 2026
11am – 1pm
Glasnevin Cemetery
Joyce’s Nighttown: The Monto Walking Tour
Event, Tour
16 June, 2026
11am – 2pm
Cleary's Pub, James Joyce Street
Bloomsday Coffee Morning at Ranelagh Arts Centre
Food & Drink
16 June, 2026
11am – 12pm
Ranelagh Arts Centre
The Likes, Dislikes and Loves of James Joyce
Reading
16 June, 2026
11am – 12:30pm
Papermint Store Terenure
In the Heart of the Hibernian Metropolis: Bloomsday Reading at Seamus Heaney-Listen Now Again
Exhibition, Reading
16 June, 2026
12pm – 1pm
Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again
Bloomsday Villages: Ringsend & Irishtown – Bloomsday Brunch & Music
Children, Food & Drink, Music
16 June, 2026
12pm – 2pm
Ringsend & Irishtown Community Centre
Bloomsday Tour at the National Gallery of Ireland
Exhibition, Tour
16 June, 2026
1pm – 2pm
National Gallery of Ireland
Midday Mumming Madness: Bloomsday with the Fingal Mummers
Theatre
16 June, 2026
1pm – 2pm
James Joyce Centre
Pipeworks Festival Bloomsday Recital with Rónán Murray
Music
16 June, 2026
1:10pm – 2:10pm
Church of the Immaculate Conception - Adam and Eve's
Bloomsday Afternoon Tea at the Belvedere Hotel
Food & Drink
16 June, 2026
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Belvedere Hotel
Scylla and Charybdis in the National Library of Ireland
Reading
16 June, 2026
Times vary
National Library of Ireland
Bloomsday Literary Afternoon Tea at the College Green Hotel
Food & Drink, Music, Reading
16 June, 2026
2:30pm – 3:30pm
The College Green Hotel
“A Play for the Mummers”: Fingal Mummers at the National Library of Ireland
Event
16 June, 2026
3pm – 4pm
National Library of Ireland
Heigho! Heigho! St. George’s Church Bells
Event, Food & Drink, Music
16 June, 2026
3:30pm – 5pm
Christ Church Taney
Bloomsday Villages: Ballsbridge
Event, Music, Reading, Theatre, Tour
16 June, 2026
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Herbert Park
An Evening with Nuala O’Connor on James Joyce’s “The Dead”
Lecture
16 June, 2026
5:30pm – 6:30pm
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
MoLI Bloomsday Garden Party
Exhibition, Food & Drink, Lecture, Music
16 June, 2026
6pm – 9:30pm
MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland
Reading Room at the National Library of Ireland
Event
16 June, 2026
6pm – 8pm
National Library of Ireland
Beyond Blooming: An Open Page Reading Night & Celebration of Queer Ireland
Reading
16 June, 2026
6pm – 8pm
Irish Writers Centre
God, Kinch, if you and I could only work together . . .
Exhibition, Music, Reading
16 June, 2026
6:30pm – 8pm
Olivier Cornet Gallery
Bloomsday Film Festival: The Clouds are not Inaccessible + Entr’act
Film
16 June, 2026
6:30pm – 7pm
Irish Film Institute
Bloomsday Coffee Painting Art
Arts & Crafts, Food & Drink
16 June, 2026
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Bewley's Grafton Street
Reading Circle: Yeats & Joyce – Who Goes with Fergus?
Reading
16 June, 2026
6:30pm – 7:30pm
Ballyroan Library
Yes I Said Yes: A Bloomsday Evening of Song, Literature & Art
Event, Food & Drink, Music, Reading
16 June, 2026
7pm – 9pm
Stephen's Green Club
Re-Joyce: Bloomsday Concert with the Palestrina Choir
Music
16 June, 2026
7:30pm – 8:30pm
St. Mary's Cathedral
The Balloonatics Bloomsday Humid Nightblue Fruit
Reading, Theatre
16 June, 2026
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Wynn's Hotel
Bloomsday Meets Baroque: A Joycean Serenata
Music
17 June, 2026
7:30pm – 9pm
Church of the Three Patrons




















































































































