Bloomsday: Never-before-seen music for key love song in James Joyce's ‘Ulysses' recovered from Titanic wreckage
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Today is Bloomsday – and an exclusive picture released to the Irish Independent echoes the main theme of James Joyce's Ulysses, acclaimed as the greatest novel of the 20th century.
The music and lyrics of Love's Old Sweet Song resonate through Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom's life on June 16, 1904, as he realises his singer wife Molly Bloom is about to be unfaithful to him.
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