Mark your diaries – it’s festival season

Here’s a round up of some of the best festival line-up’s country-wide, from Ailin Quinlan.

THE Bloomsday Festival is on June 16 because that is the date in 1904 on which the action of James Joyce’s acclaimed novel, Ulysses, takes place.

Whether popping out to the Martello Tower, at Sandycove, where Joyce stayed as a guest of Oliver St John Gogarty, or lunching on the gorgonzola sandwich favoured by Ulysses’ protagonist, Leopold Bloom, Bloomsday is a great day to roam Joyce’s Dublin.