Monument Creameries shops in Dublin; and the brother of the film actress Kathleen Ryan. John Ryan studied at the NCA, but was largely a self-taught painter. He was a regular exhibitor at the RHA from 1946 onwards, and also showed at the annual Oireachtas and the IELA. He designed theatre sets for the Abbey, Gate, Olympia and Gaiety Theatres as well as for the stage in London. He acted in and produced several plays. From 1969 to 1974 Ryan was editor of The Dublin Magazine. He was a broadcaster, being a long-time contributor to Sunday Miscellany on Radio Éireann. In 1975 he published a book of his reminiscences of literary Dublin entitled Remembering How We Stood, featuring stories of his friends including Behan, Kavanagh, J. P. Donleavy (q.v.) and Anthony Cronin along with the many Dublin characters who patronised his famous pub, The Bailey, in Duke Street. He was also a patron to many artists. First Bloomsday celebration: Bloomsday (a term Joyce himself did not employ) was invented in 1954, the 50th anniversary, when John Ryan and the novelist Flann O'Brien organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the Ulysses route. They were joined by Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce (Joyce’s cousin and the only family representative that Ryan could find) and A. J. ("Con") Leventhal (Registrar of Trinity College, Dublin). A Bloomsday record of 1954, informally filmed by John Ryan, follows this pilgrimage. Notes and references Bibliography/ Further reading/ External links Remembering How We Stood, John Ryan (Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1975) Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography, Antoinette Quinn (Gill & Macmillan, 2003) Dead as Doornails, Anthony Cronin (Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1976) Envoy the literary magazine that sought to put Irish culture on the map, Irish Times, 17 August 2015 John Ryan (1925–92) Ricorso.net Irish Literature Collections Portal – Southern Illinois University – Morris Library Southern Illinois University The Irish Literary Periodical 1923–1958, Frank Shovlin, Oxford English Monographs, Oxford University Press, USA (February 12, 2004), p136 Google Books The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: The Making of a Psychologist, Dick Russell, Arcade Publishing (2013) Google Books Denis Sampson (2012). Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist, Oxford University Press Joyce's Critics: Transitions in Reading and Culture, By Joseph Brooker (The University of Wisconsin Press, May 2004) A Bash In The Tunnel (James Joyce by the Irish), (ed.) John Ryan (Brighton: Clifton Books 1970) Flann O'Brien: An Illustrated