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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 2h

Where in the world is the Bloomsday Journal?

Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 1d

JAMES JOYCE IS SATAN!

“For some reason that she could never successfully define, my landlady, a Bavarian woman married to a Liechtensteiner stonemason, was afraid of Joyce. The chorus girls in the Stadttheater were more definite. They nicknamed him ‘Herr Satan.’”
– Frank Budgen

Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 2d

Should I have solved this "Stately" Wordle sooner?

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 5d

My friend, Professor Josh Newman, is teaching a course on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man online and in-person at the James Joyce Centre.

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Course 5 November — 10 December 2025 Join us at the James Joyce Centre where Dr. Josh Q. Newman will lead a six-week course on James Joyce’s groundbreaking first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Y...

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 5d

SUBMISSION SUNDAY

Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 6d

My Own Private Ulysses:
In the Pages of the Bloomsday Journal

Today’s Ezraku:

In the Pages of the Bloomsday Journal

Written words for the wasteland of Joyceana:
From Heaven or Hell, your choice of manna.

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 8d

An offer you can't refuse...

Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s Hemingway Half-Dozen Prose Poem:

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 10d

Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 11d

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Helen of Joyce: Trojan Horses in Ulysses

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 11d

My Own Private Ulysses:
In Stephen’s Mixed Metaphor of Mulligan

Ezraku inspired Senan Molony’s “Helen of Joyce.”

In Stephen’s Mixed Metaphor of Mulligan

Face, equine in length; hued hair like pale oak:
Wooden horse, Troy’s towers in flame and smoke.

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My Own Private Ulysses: In Stephen’s Mixed Metaphor of Mulligan

Today’s Ezraku inspired Senan Molony’s “Helen of Joyce.”What the Hell’s an Ezraku? Answer here. “Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly a...

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 13d

DOUBLE COMET OVER DUBLIN

On Saturday, November 1 “The Green Comet,” Comet Lemmon, will be visible in the heavens, and The Bloomsday Journal’s Senan Molony will be risible at the James Joyce Centre giving his indivisible lecture, “Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Comet.”

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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Comet - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Lecture by Senan Molony Saturday, 1 November 2025 at 6.30pm Prepare for a dazzling evening where literature meets the cosmos. On Saturday, 1 November 2025 at 6.30pm, journalist and Joyce scholar Senan...

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 14d

With what rationale do they recognize Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam on this day?

(Correct answer will be rewarded with a pint on The Bloomsday Journal. Prize must be collected around lunchtime on Bloomsday somewhere on Duke St, Dublin, Ireland. See you there!)

Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 15d

A Painful Case

“He inserted his left hand into the left lower pocket of his waistcoat and extracted and replaced a silver coin (1 shilling), placed there (presumably) on the occasion (17 October 1903) of the interment of Mrs Emily Sinico, Sydney Parade.”

Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 15d

My Own Private Ulysses:
This is Ithaca #1

Are there more defects than too slow, too dull?
Too many to count (he’s bad at math too).
What other skills and strengths are void and null?
Far more than two, he scores low through and through.

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 16d

Gloomsday!

- The Bloomsday Journal

Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 17d

My Own Private Ulysses:
This is Ithaca #1

Was his pursuit begun without deep thought?
Thought may be too high a speed for this fool.
Are racing words all this guy’s got to trot?
With metaphors, he’s not the sharpest tool.

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 17d

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A Painful Case by James Joyce

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 17d

RIP Mrs Emily Sinico

To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest return a monosyllabic negative answer?

If he had known the late Mrs Emily Sinico, accidentally killed at Sydney Parade railway station, 14 October 1903.

The Bloomsday Journal

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 20d

Feel the need for a Sunday read?
Steal the Bloomsday Journal here:

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 20d

My Own Private Ulysses:
Gloomsday’s Nigh

Today’s Hemingway Half-Dozen Prose Poem:

Darkest sky,
Deepest sigh,
Gloomsday’s Nigh.

(Art by Dave Gibbons’ & Alan Moore’s Watchmen)

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My Own Private Ulysses: Gloomsday’s Nigh

Today’s Hemingway Half-Dozen Prose Poem: Darkest sky,Deepest sigh,Gloomsday’s Nigh. (Art from Dave Gibbons’ & Alan Moore’s Watchmen)

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 22d

Our man Senan Molony:
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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Comet - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Lecture by Senan Molony Saturday, 1 November 2025 at 6.30pm Prepare for a dazzling evening where literature meets the cosmos. On Saturday, 1 November 2025 at 6.30pm, journalist and Joyce scholar Senan...

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 23d

My Own Private Ulysses:
This is Ithaca #1

Why does he read Ulysses by James Joyce?
It is the only novel worth his heed.
What cause or defect led to this odd choice?
He never chose, he chased the longest lead.

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My Own Private Ulysses: This is Ithaca #1

This is Ithaca #1Why does he read Ulysses by James Joyce?It is the only novel worth his heed.What cause or defect led to this odd choice?He never chose, he chased the longest lead.Was his pursuit begu...

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 24d

Ulysses.
They're still trying to ban it.
#BannedBooksWeek

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Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge

Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally

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Robert Roman Empire @robertromanempire.bsky.social · 26d

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Ivy Day In The Committee Room by James Joyce

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