Dublin celebrates 'Bloomsday' as James Joyce's 'Ulysses' hits 100

The Bloomsday festival is Ireland's most unique literary event, celebrating the '16th June 1904' which was immortalised in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Photo: Handout

One hundred years ago, a wandering Irish writer emerged from the ashes of World War I with a reworking of Greek myth that still retains the power to shock, to confound and to intrigue.

James Joyce's Ulysses was first published in February 1922 in Paris after printers in Britain had refused to handle the "obscene" novel.