IrishCentral contributor Martin Burns celebrates James Joyce’s masterpiece "Ulysses", its journey through Dublin and what makes Leopold Bloom so special... or not.

As someone who is reading Ulysses like I am prepping for Armageddon—Annotations splayed wide on my coffee table, pen in hand, bewitched by every wrinkle in the prose—this process seemed flatly ...

“The United States vs. Ulysses” centers on the case, tried at the Southern District of New York in 1933, of United States v.One Book Called Ulysses, which is a landmark of America’s law on free ...

Ireland is preparing to mark 100 years since Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set - 16 June 1904. But why is Joyce - and Ulysses in particular - continually held up as such a ...

‘Ulysses’ is an ‘impossible’ novel. Now — somehow — it’s also a play. Elevator Repair Service, known for its word-for-word reproduction of “The Great Gatsby,” has wrestled (and ...

There's no such thing as 'too clever books', writes former English teacher, PhD researcher, editor, writer and recovering bibliophile, Ryan Coogan. No, not even Ulysses ...

Give Ulysses a chance and its pleasures are spellbinding. Yes, it contains passages that are trying. Few of us could truly say we love every sequence in the book, as we mightn’t love every track ...

German Ulysses*ALEXAXDERPLATZ, BERLIN — Alfred Doblin; translated by Eugene Jolas— Viking ($5). The birth of books is never quite legitimate, and often their parentage is hopelessly ...

“Yes” is the word of acquiescence, affirmation and ecstasy that Molly Bloom repeatedly uses in the final chapter of Ulysses, as she gives us a breathless, scandalising piece of her mind across ...