Ireland and Nigeria to Celebrate Literature and Bloomsday in Lagos

The Embassy of Ireland to Nigeria, together with Ambassador Peter Ryan and the Friends of Ireland Nigeria, has announced a special Bloomsday celebration to be held in Lagos.

The event, scheduled for Saturday, June 27, will pay tribute to James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses and highlight the strong cultural and literary ties between Ireland and Nigeria. Bloomsday, observed worldwide each June, commemorates Joyce’s masterpiece.

Irish literary figures such as W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, J.M. Synge, and Seamus Heaney have long inspired Nigerian writers. Notably, Chinua Achebe derived the title of his landmark novel Things Fall Apart from Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming.”