i was in dublin for the day hoping to catch some bloomsday celebrations but look and search and inquisitively lift and peer under cobbles though i might there werent any celebrations to be found well no i tell a lie i think some cinema was showing a movie adaptation and some pub had a big banner saying welcome to bloomsday or something but to be honest i was pretty unimpressed by this as it was far from clear what if anything the pub was planning to actually do to celebrate it and im really inclined to think that the banner was the end of its plans well apart perhaps from some cheap irish trad music but it wouldntve been real trad so i dont think that counts but anyway a film screening and a banner in temple bar is hardly a just marking of the day when i went to bloomsday before two years ago there was a big stage in a square in the city centre and various important people such as radio personalities and standup comedians and the head of the irish astronomical society were reading their favourite passages and cracking jokes and being
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