Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem: The Odyssey.
Plaque in memory of Bloom in his (fictional) ancestral home, Szombathely
Zero Mostel in costume as Bloom for the play Ulysses in Nighttown (1958)
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.
Joyce, c. 1918
Photograph of Joyce aged six, 1888
Newman House, Dublin, which was University College in Joyce's time
Bust of Joyce on St Stephen's Green, Dublin, by Marjorie Fitzgibbon