Pic of Day: Jim Kiernan and a James Joyce actor in a Bloomsday Festival drive by outside the James Joyce Centre on Dublin's North Great George's Street. Bloomsday, June 16, is not only celebrated in Ireland but also in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world. It is a commemoration and celebration of the life of James Joyce. The day itself is named after Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce's 1922 masterpiece "Ulysses." RollingNews.ie photo.