30 JUNE 1967, Page 3

Bloomsday

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

Though Strick's Ulysses shares may boom With Leopold and Mollie Bloom, The point he very strangely misses In celluloiding his Ulysses, Is that Joyce's purpose was to show Dublin of sixty years ago.

The Dublin of this year of grace Is quite a different sort of place.

Turning the story upside back

Or cutting a passing bawdy crack—

Which of the two, were it his choice, Would be the more disliked by Joyce?