On June 16th, the second floor of The Galway Arms at 2442 N. Clark Street in Chicago's Lincoln Park will once again welcome "Bloomsday In Chicago" readings from James Joyce's ULYSSES.
Sponsored by Puddin'head Press and hosted by university instructor, playwright, and Heirloom Books on-line lecturer Jeff Helgeson, the evening provides an overview of Joyce's novel with passages presented by actors, poets, scholars, and Joyce aficionados of all sorts.
Begun in 2004 on the 100th anniversary of the date on which the book termed the "Best Novel of The 20th Century" by The Modern Library takes place, "Bloomsday In Chicago" readings have continued annually, although moving on-line during the COVID pandemic. In 2025, Puddin'head Press released a "Bloomsday In Chicago" collection of select passages in a "Do It Yourself ULYSSES" paperback book including photographs gathered together from over twenty years.
Readers will include: Rory Barton (pictured above as Stephen Dedalus), actors Jeff Brown, Barbara Button, Rita Crowley, Liz Goodson, Courtney Reed Harris, Rory Jobst, Katelyn Lane, McKenna Liesman, and Howard Raik (as Leopold Bloom), poets Francisca Barrett, Dan Cleary, Lynn Fitzgerald, Jerry Pendergras, Salli Berg-Seeley, Puddin'head Press publisher Dave Gecic, and writers/artists/photographers Henry Barret, Finn Halperin, Don Seeley, and Terry Verdoscia.
Pre and post-presentation music will again be provided by J.B. Pariah.
Cover at the door: $7 (in honor of # 7 Eccles Street, Dublin, the home of Leopold and Molly Bloom).
Copies of "Bloomsday In Chicago" A Do It Yourself ULYSSES will also be available.
