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Bloomsday Festival 2026

Ulysses80

Reading

1 - 16 June, 2026

7am – 8am
Online

Cyclops

Theatre

1 - 16 June, 2026

Times vary
Bewley's Grafton Street

Exhibitions at the James Joyce Centre

Exhibition

9 - 16 June, 2026

10:30am – 4:30pm
James Joyce Centre

Telemachus

Theatre

10 - 15 June, 2026

Times vary
James Joyce Tower & Museum

Joyce For Your EnJOYCEment

Exhibition

10 - 30 June, 2026

10am – 8pm
Baldoyle Library

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

MoLI Bloomsday Drop-In Tours

Tour

11 - 16 June, 2026

10am – 5pm
MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland

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

Dublin Rare Bookfair

Event

12 - 13 June, 2026

Times vary
Flux Studios

Epiphany

Theatre

12 - 16 June, 2026

Times vary
The New Theatre

Royal Canal Odyssey

Fitness & Yoga

13 June, 2026

6am – 5pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum

Bloomsday at Bewley’s Cafe

Food & Drink

13 - 16 June, 2026

Times vary
Bewley's Grafton Street

Joyce Between Ireland and Spain

Tour

13 June, 2026

10am – 1:30pm
Instituto Cervantes Dublín

Joyce’s Puzzle Walk: To Cross Dublin without Passing a Pub

Tour

13 - 16 June, 2026

11am – 12:45pm
Dublin Unitarian Church

UCD Alumni in Bloom

Event, Film, Music, Reading, Theatre

13 June, 2026

1pm – 6pm
UCD Student Centre

Vintage Tea Trips Bloomsday Bus Tour

Food & Drink, Tour

13 - 16 June, 2026

Times vary
20-22 St. Stephen's Green

Ulysses aWake

Music, Theatre

13 June, 2026

2pm – 3:30pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum

Father John Conmee S.J. Walking Tour

Tour

13 - 16 June, 2026

Times vary
St. Francis Xavier's Church

James Joyce Ballet with Danse Lumière

Dance

13 June, 2026

Times vary
James Joyce Centre

“The Stagnant Bays” at Marsh’s Library

Exhibition, Tour

13 June, 2026

3pm – 4:30pm
Marsh's Library

Bloomsday Film Festival: Literature Shorts

Film

13 June, 2026

3pm – 4:30pm
Belvedere College

Bloomsday Film Festival: Poetry Shorts

Film

13 June, 2026

5pm – 6:30pm
Belvedere College

Druidy Druids

Music

13 June, 2026

6pm – 7pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum

Jewish Dublin in the Time of Ulysses

Exhibition, Tour

14 - 15 June, 2026

Times vary
Irish Jewish Museum

Ulysses in 60 Minutes Walking Tour

Tour

14 - 16 June, 2026

Times vary
James Joyce Centre

A Blooming Great Day: Reading and Workshop with Úna Woods

Arts & Crafts, Children, Reading

14 June, 2026

11am – 12pm
James Joyce Centre

Marilyn Monroe Turns 100

Tour

14 June, 2026

12pm – 1:30pm
McDowells Jewellers

Grace by James Joyce

Theatre

14 - 16 June, 2026

Times vary
James Joyce Centre

Bloomsday Film Festival: Experimental Shorts

Film

14 June, 2026

1pm – 2:40pm
Belvedere College

Bloomsday for Kids: The Cat and the Devil

Children

14 June, 2026

2pm – 3pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum

Bloomsday Villages: Portobello

Event, Music, Reading, Theatre, Tour

14 - 16 June, 2026

Times vary
Charlemont Mall, The Lower Deck Pub

From Dublin to Nairobi: A Lecture by Sahara Abdi

Lecture

14 June, 2026

3pm – 4pm
James Joyce Centre

Happy Birthday John McCormack!

Music

14 June, 2026

4pm – 5:30pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum

Bloomsday Film Festival: Ulysses – A Magic Lantern Odyssey

Film

14 June, 2026

5:30pm – 6:30pm
Belvedere College

James Joyce and The Great Irish Poets Songbook

Music

14 June, 2026

7pm – 8pm
James Joyce Centre

Cyclops

Theatre

14 June, 2026

7pm – 7:35pm
DLR Lexicon

Bloomsday Film Festival: Joycean shorts

Film

15 June, 2026

4pm – 5:30pm
Belvedere College

A Tale of Two Cities: The Dublins of Swift & Joyce

Lecture

15 June, 2026

6pm – 7pm
James Joyce Centre

Bloomsday Film Festival: Luulur

Film

15 June, 2026

6pm – 7:30pm
Belvedere College

Why Ulysses is the Perfect Dublin Guidebook

Lecture

15 June, 2026

6pm – 7:30pm
The Hendrick Smithfield

A Joycean Evening

Music

15 June, 2026

7:30pm – 9pm
Dalkey Castle

Stories From Dubliners

Theatre

15 - 20 June, 2026

Times vary
Smock Alley Theatre

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 Passport

Children, Event

16 June, 2026

9am – 5pm
Various

Bloomsday Treasure Map

Children, Event

16 June, 2026

9am – 5pm
Various

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

Shut Your Eyes and See

Event, Tour

16 June, 2026

10am – 5pm
Sandymount Strand

The Language of Flowers

Tour

16 June, 2026

Times vary
National Botanic Gardens

Bloomsday Film Festival: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Chapter 4

Film

16 June, 2026

10am – 11:30am
James Joyce Centre

Terenure Bloomsday Breakfast

Event, Food & Drink, Theatre

16 June, 2026

10am – 12pm
Terenure Inn

RDS Bloomsday Celebrations

Event, Food & Drink, Music, Reading

16 June, 2026

10am – 6pm
Royal Dublin Society (RDS)

Classical Joyce

Dance, Music

16 June, 2026

10am – 12pm
James Joyce Centre

Bloomsday at Ulysses Rare Books

Event

16 June, 2026

10am – 5:30pm
Ulysses Rare Books

Hiberno Celtic Bloomsday Tour

Tour

16 June, 2026

10am – 1:30pm
Utah Teapot

Pat Liddy Walking Tour

Tour

16 June, 2026

Times vary
Gate Theatre

Bloomsday at The Oarsman

Event, Food & Drink, Music

16 June, 2026

10:30am – 9pm
The Oarsman

Boulevard Bloom

Children, Dance, Event, Food & Drink, Music

16 June, 2026

11am – 1pm
Cow Parlour

Jim Norton Reading Ulysses

Reading

16 June, 2026

11am – 12pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum

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

Bloomsday at Cassidy’s

Food & Drink

16 June, 2026

11am – 11:30am
Cassidy's

The Likes, Dislikes and Loves of James Joyce

Reading

16 June, 2026

11am – 12:30pm
Papermint Store Terenure

Bloomsday at Davy Byrnes

Event, Food & Drink, Music, Reading

16 June, 2026

12pm – 6pm
Davy Byrnes

Drumcondra Joycean Jaunt

Tour

16 June, 2026

12pm – 2pm
Our Lady's Park

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

Himself and Nora: A Muzi Short Film

Film

16 June, 2026

12pm – 4pm
James Joyce Centre

Druidy Druids

Music

16 June, 2026

12:30pm – 1:30pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum

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

Bloomsday Tour with Ukrainian Action in Ireland

Tour

16 June, 2026

1pm – 3pm
The Spire

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

ATHRAITHEOIR

Theatre

16 June, 2026

2pm – 2:40pm
James Joyce Tower & Museum

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

Bloomsday Readings and Songs

Event, Music, Reading

16 June, 2026

3pm – 6pm
Meeting House Square

Ghost of Joyce Script Reading

Reading

16 June, 2026

3pm – 4pm
Charleville Mall Library

Heigho! Heigho! St. George’s Church Bells

Event, Food & Drink, Music

16 June, 2026

3:30pm – 5pm
Christ Church Taney

Dalkey Joycean Guided Walk & Schoolroom Scene

Tour

16 June, 2026

3:30pm – 5:30pm
Dalkey Castle

Nighttown Bloomsday Walking Tour

Tour

16 June, 2026

3:30pm – 5pm
Grainger's Cafe Bar

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

Old Ghosts

Film

16 June, 2026

6pm – 6:40pm
DLR Lexicon

The Balloonatics Dublin Horse Show

Reading, Theatre

16 June, 2026

6pm – 7pm
Wynn's Hotel

God, Kinch, if you and I could only work together . . .

Exhibition, Music, Reading

16 June, 2026

6:30pm – 8pm
Olivier Cornet Gallery

Ulysses aWake: Bloomsday at Blackrock

Theatre

16 June, 2026

6:30pm – 8pm
Blackrock Shopping Centre

Bloomsday Film Festival: The Clouds are not Inaccessible + Entr’act

Film

16 June, 2026

6:30pm – 7pm
Irish Film Institute

Ulysses in Limericks

Reading

16 June, 2026

6:30pm – 8pm
Grogan's

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

Songs of ReJoycing

Music

16 June, 2026

7:30pm – 8:30pm
James Joyce Centre

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

Strolling Through Ulysses!

Theatre

16 June, 2026

8pm – 9:35pm
Pavilion Theatre Dun Laoghaire

Ulysses Ballads

Music

17 June, 2026

6:30pm – 7:30pm
Dolphin's Barn Library

Bloomsday Meets Baroque: A Joycean Serenata

Music

17 June, 2026

7:30pm – 9pm
Church of the Three Patrons

Ghost Signs of Ulysses

Lecture

18 June, 2026

11am – 12pm
Terenure Library

Three Mollys

Reading

18 June, 2026

8pm – 9:30pm
Whale Theatre

Bloomsday at the National Concert Hall

Music

19 June, 2026

1pm – 2pm
National Concert Hall