The 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the date made famous by James Joyce's novel Ulysses, is being marked by more than 80 events today including street celebrations, readings and guided walks around Dublin.
The celebrations got underway this morning with a Bloomsday breakfast at the James Joyce centre in Dublin.
Bloomsday celebrations are also taking place in at least 40 cities around the world.
On this day 100 years ago, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom each undertook their own fictional journey through Dublin in what was to become one of the most acclaimed novels of the 20th century.
Dublin's Bloomsday celebrations will culminate in a pageant which will see three parades converge on O'Connell Street. Two giant puppets will then climb the Spire and enact the Aeolus chapter by spitting plum stones on passersby.
