Bloomsday Festival

The Irish Repertory Theater of Tallahassee's Third Annual Bloomsday Festival will be held at Goodwood Museum and Gardens Thursdays and Fridays June 1, 2, 15, 16 from 6pm to 9:30pm and Sunday June 4, 18 from noon to 3:30pm.  You'll be transported back to 1904 Dublin with dancers from Irish Dance Tallahassee and Tallahassee Irish Step Dancers, singers of Irish folk songs, actors in costume performing skits, and a lecture on the influence of James Joyce's Ulysses in Latin America.  You'll be treated to a reenactment of the lives of Goodwood's Irish laundresses who worked there a few years later, employed by Goodwood's owner Fanny Tiers.  Traditional Irish meals, snacks, and beverages will be available for purchase.