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2009 Bloomsday Celebration with
Eddie Delahunt, Ulysses in Nighttown was grand!

O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to
say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."

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More coming soon. Thanks to all who joined in our celebration, with special thanks to Sylvia Stoner and Eddie Delahunt and the fabulous Brookside Players.

The 14th annual Bloomsday celebration was held starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at the Truman Forum Auditorium at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public
Library, 4801 Main St., Kansas City. The event is free and open to the public.

“Bloomsday” is a celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses,
acclaimed as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The
book is set on June 16, 1904, and follows the thoughts and actions of protagonist Leopold Bloom. The date is commemorated as Bloomsday and around the world is now marked with tributes to Irish arts and literature.

Kansas City’s Bloomsday celebration begins with troubadour Eddie Delahunt performing his own high-spirited compositions and Irish traditional music. Delahunt, a native of Dublin, is a frequent headliner and favored performer at Kansas City area venues.

The event continues at 7 p.m. with a script-in-hand performance of Ulysses in
Nighttown, depicting key sequences in Bloom’s travels through the streets, pubs and bordellos of Dublin. Directed by Sylvia Stoner, it features a cast
including some of Kansas City’s finest actors. Stoner is a singer and actor who has performed across the country in opera and theater.

The event concludes with Molly Bloom’s soliloquy, the famously earthy and erotic musings of Bloom’s wife, which provide the final affirmation of all life’s potential: “And yes, I said, yes, I will, yes.”

The Bloomsday celebration is sponsored by Bloomsday Books, a used and rare bookstore operating via the Internet. Bloomsday Books has hosted Kansas City’s annual celebration for 14 years, each year featuring Eddie Delahunt and Sylvia Stoner.

Please plan on joining us!

More info on the blog including a photo of Sylvia!

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Bloomsday Books is a used and rare bookstore with 15,000 books in our inventory.

We maintain a wide variety of titles, with a special emphasis o­n history, travel, adventure, writer biography, classics, science, regional works, biography, art, architecture and contemporary fiction. We have some new publications and rare and unique volumes, too.

We seek quality used and antiquarian books and offer immediate payment. We will purchase estates, academic collections and books from the individual reader.