And it's a real honor to be here with Father Hesburg (ph) and with Father Joyce (ph).

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Still there was enough spirit amid the umbrellas, raincoats and bin liners here on Bloomsday - the day in 1904 in which novelist James Joyce set Ulysses - to make this a worthwhile event in a dirty old town.

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