James Joyce on a Bloomsday banner

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.

Bloomsday (16 June) is a celebration of the day in which most of the action in James Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' takes place: 16 June 1904:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday