Bloomophiles take note: today's the day for the straw boater, the battered copy of Ulysses (to show everyone how many times you've read it) and indulging your passion for all things Joycean.
Early risers can go to the Joyce Tower in Sandycove, where there will be a coddle breakfast at 6 a.m., followed by an optional plunge in the "snotgreen scrotum-tightening sea". A later breakfast will be served from 7 a.m. at the nearby South Bank Restaurant. k Breakfast starts at 8 a.m. at the James Joyce Centre on Dublin's North Great George's Street (tel: 01-8788547). The "inner organs of beasts and fowl" will be served with Guinness, accompanied by readings from the great book. At 11 a.m. there will be a celebration of Anna Livia and Molly Bloom, with a bus ride along the Liffey followed by a trip to Howth Head.
From 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., at Joycean and other sites, there will be readings and performances from the various sections of Ulysses, along with street theatre and jazz. Choose from Davy Byrne's at lunchtime, the Ormond Hotel at 4 p.m. or the steps of the National Library at 5 p.m.
Those in search of lore about the Joyce family should gather at the James Joyce Centre at 2.30 p.m., where Ken Monaghan - Joyce's nephew and cultural director of the centre - will give a lecture. Afterwards there will be a walking tour through Joyce's student stomping-ground in the north inner city.
Those who decide to stay around the tower in Sandycove (tel: 01-2809265) will be treated to Barry McGovern reading from the "Aeolus" section of Ulysses during the morning, followed by Peter Donnelly's Bloomsday Rack performance poem in the afternoon.
People in Cork who feel the Joycean spirit moves them (Joyce's father was, after all, a Cork man) can go to the Vineyard pub on Market Lane at 5.30 p.m. for crubeens and Beamish and readings by novelists Eamonn Sweeney and Antonia Logue.
Meanwhile, the Dublin Writers' Festival continues today (tel: 01-8741415), with readings by Paul Durcan, Philip Casey, Aine Ni Ghlinn and many more, culminating in the annual Bloomsday reading at St Ann's Church, Dawson Street, at 8 p.m. The performers are writers Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Macdara Woods and Bernard McLaverty, and flautist Ellen Cranitch.