You can follow your breakfast with a trip to the James Joyce House, the James Joyce Museum or The Dubliners exhibition in the National Photographic Archive.

Head down to the National Library of Ireland on Kildare Street for an exhibition highlighting its newest literary treasures, the James Joyce manuscript notebooks. Using period photography and other media the exhibition will bring the viewer back to 1904 and then through the years until 1922, when Ulysses was finally published. Booking is essential for this exhibition, so book now at the National Library of Ireland website www.nli.ie.

Departing at 2pm from the James Joyce Centre, the Joyce's Heartland is a walking tour that visits a number of sites of central importance to any understanding of the development of the artist 'as a young man'. The Historical Walking Tour of Joyce's Night Town is a two-hour odyssey through the famous Night Town or Monto district as immortalised by James Joyce's Ulysses. Local historian, Terry Fagan takes you through all the old Monto haunts with tours starting at 11pm and 2.30am.

If you like art, you can check out High Falutin' Stuff, an exhibition of Joyce-influenced art at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The National College of Art and Design on Thomas Street is holding an exhibition of students prints and designs inspired by Ulysses entitled 100 Bloomsday/100 Thomas Street.

A Stroll Thro' Ulysses: An Exhibiton by Roger Cummiskey is an exhibition of watercolour paintings that take their themes from the wanderings and writings of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and other literary and historical personalities showing at Airfield House in Dundrum. James Joyce House on Usher's Quay hosts a Graphic Prints Exhibition inspired by James Joyce from the imagination of Erwin Pfrang.

If you like cinema, you can checkout Bloom, Sean Walsh's exciting new adaptation of Joyce's masterpiece. The movie features Stephen Rea in a masterly performance as Bloom, Angeline Ball in an evocative interpretation of Molly Bloom and Hugh O'Connor as Stephen Dedalus. Walsh uses the myriad visual possibilities of cinema to recreate the imaginative roller coaster that is Ulysses. Bloom is showing in cinemas around the city on Bloomsday.

Bloomsday Cabaret is a movie that explores the influence of music in the life and literature of James Joyce against a Blooms Day backdrop of three Canadians' visit to Dublin on a musical mission. This colourful tour of Dublin in the company of intriguing eclectic characters plays at the Irish Film Institute at 6.30pm.

The Sugar Club presents Her Song be Sung at 6.30pm on Bloomsday, an original play about an Australian bride who escapes from her wedding and tries to find out if Joyce has any insights into her dilemma. In the play, the bride-to-be gets to interrogate Joyce, his publisher and patron and a host of characters who have intimately entwined their lives with Joyce's characters.

In the National Concert Hall you can catch Just a song at twilight – Some Bloomin' great songs for Blooms Day at 8pm, a concert to celebrating the life of James Joyce through various musical references including “Love's Old Sweet Song”, “M'appari” and “Ave Maria”.

The Parable of the Plums is an event inspired by a passage in the Aeolus chapter of Ulysses, where two elderly Dublin women climb Nelson's Pillar and spit plum stones on the people below.  At 8pm, three parades will converge around The Spire on O'Connell Street for an hour-long spectacle with actors, musicians, giant puppets, percussion, circus tricksters, street performers in a medley of sights and sounds from 1904 Dublin.

For more information on Blooms Day check out the ReJoyce website www.rejoycedublin2004.com