Eight Ways to Commemorate Bloomsday

June 16th is Bloomsday, the day on which, in 1904, James Joyce's novel Ulysses was set. Named after the novel’s central character Leopold Bloom, Bloomsday is celebrated every year by Joyce nuts around the world, but this year’s date is even more significant because 2014 marks the 100 year anniversary of Joyce’s first published work, Dubliners.

Joyce has many claims to being the most influential writer of the twent...