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"A fadograph of a yestern scene": Performances promising authenticity in dublin's bloomsday

This essay looks at the ways in which Dublin's annual Bloomsday festival functions as a cultural performance, providing a stage for the creation and contestation of Irish identity. Through a consideration of three performance sites-Dublin's urban topographical landscape, Bloomsday advertising literature, and corporeally embodied representations of James Joyce's fiction-the essay explores the contingencies of authenticity and the relationship between performance and cultural identity. It argues that while some forms of Bloomsday performance invoke a regressive politics predicated on colonial images of Irish identity, others hold a regenerative value for their participants, enabling them to imagine, contest, and embody ameliorative notions of community and cultural identity.