Bloomsday is usually seen as a Dublin-based celebration of James Joyce but this year a West Cork town is giving Joycean Dubs a run for their money.

The 'Today' programme on BBC Radio 4 will become a real-life breakfast show next month when actor Henry Goodman cooks a meal in the studio as part of a day-long dramatisation of James Joyce's novel 'Ulysses'.

Several events are being organised in Dublin to mark Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce set his masterpiece 'Ulysses'.

Hundreds of people from all over the world tucked into a traditional Bloomsday breakfast in honour of James Joyce in Dublin today.

Thousands of people will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday today, the date made famous by James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.