BLOOMSDAY

The author James Joyce in his literary marvel ‘Ulysses’ mentions London Bridge Road. Ulysses first published in 1922 tells the tale of Leopold Bloom’s travels through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904 (the day of Joyce's first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle). The lovers of Joyce worldwide now celebrate 16th June annually as Bloomsday. In Episode Ten title The Wandering Rocks, Joyce observes,
‘Two old women fresh from their whiff of the briny trudged through Irishtown along London Bridge Road, one with a sanded umbrella, one with a midwife’s bag in which eleven cockles rolled.’ Another quote alluded to ‘the boy that had the bicycle off the London Bridge Road always riding up and down.’