(16 Jun 09 - RV) June 16th is Bloomsday, the annual celebration of the life of the
Irish writer James Joyce.
People around the world gather and relive the events
of his novel Ulysses, where Leopold Bloom spends the day travelling through Dublin.
We
spoke to Brian Donnelly, Lecturer in Irish Literature at University College Dublin,
about the celebrations and why the novel resonates so well with people...