On Saturday, June 13, at 5:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., Bloomsday Books presents the 14th annual “Bloomsday” Celebration, featuring Eddie Delahunt and Sylvia Stoner and the Bloomsday Players, a group that includes some of the best acting talents in Kansas City.

The program celebrates the day immortalized in James Joyce’s masterwork Ulysses and is a tribute to Irish music and literature. 

Joyce’s Ulysses is the story of one day in the life of Leopold Bloom – June 16, 1904. On this day, as Bloom walks the streets, pubs and bordellos of Dublin, Joyce provides a portrait of the city and its people. The play ends with Molly Bloom's beautifully earthy and erotic soliloquy.

In Ireland and around the world, June 16 is now commemorated as “Bloomsday” and is manifested by tributes to Joyce, marathon readings of Ulysses, and celebrations of Irish literature and music.

The program, on stage at the Truman Forum Auditorium at the Plaza Branch, features traditional Irish music from Eddie Delahunt and Sylvia Stoner directing the script-in-hand dramatization of Ulysses in Nighttown.

Admission is free. Free parking is available in the library parking garage at 4801 Main St.