Bloomsday is today which is when polite society dress up in boater hats and dine on kidneys while listening to Ulysses recitals.
To mark the centenary of the book's publication, UCD have created this homage where Joyce's protagonist, a half-Jewish Freemason with identity issues who insists he is Irish though apathetic towards Irish nationalism, is reimagined as an African woman over hip hop beats.
It's quite fitting actually. They even snuck some lesbianism in.
They recreated a scene in a pub where Leopold Bloom exclaims "I was born here" to the question of his nationhood.
They omitted the preceding line though:
"A nation is the same people living in the same place"
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