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What happened on the very first Bloomsday in 1954?

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By Barry Houlihan
| RTE Brainstorm
Analysis: Dublin's annual celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses may be a big event now, but its debut outing was rather inauspicious June 16th may not be the first date that springs to mind as a celebrated Irish national day. It isn't a public holiday (yet at least), but marks Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses. The modernist masterpiece provoked responses as polarising as declarations of literary genius to book confiscations and banning internationally.
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Meet John Ryan, the renaissance man behind the first Bloomsday

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By Barry Houlihan
| RTE Brainstorm
Analysis: Ryan was a key mover and shaker in mid-20th century Bohemian Dublin alongside a host of notable writers, poets and artists Many European capital cities of the mid-20th century had a Bohemian area populated by artists, writers, and intellectuals. Paris had its Left Bank and London had Soho. Dublin had its own Bohemian clusters that belied the associated tagline of 'the dark 1950s'.
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How more Irish novels are finding a new home on the small screen

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By Barry Houlihan
| RTE Brainstorm
Analysis: The reasons for this rise in adaptation for television and major streamers reflect how we as audiences are consuming culture differently Normal People by Sally Rooney may have sparked off numerous trends and fandom, GAA shorts and gold chains chief among them, but in recent years we have seen a growing trend in the adaptation of books and stories by leading Irish writers for the small screen.
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