It's Bloomsday!

Today’s the 100th anniversary of a completely fictional event: June 16, 1904 is the date James Joyce assigns to the stream-of-consciousness slice of Dublin life presented in his novel Ulysses. June 16th has subsequently become known to Joyce enthusiasts & Irish tourism authorities everywhere as "Bloomsday," after Joyce's protagonists Leopold & Molly Bloom. (Fellow protagonist Stephen Daedelus gets short shrift because he's too arty & his name's too long to constitute a decent tag line.)

Then again, like all occasions of Hibernian provenance, you might just think of it as a fine opportunity to lift a Guinness & pretend to gaelic eloquence--as I shall, directly:

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