Dublin celebrates ‘Bloomsday’ as Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ hits 100

DUBLIN – 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.

It remained banned there and in the United States for years.

The anniversary four months ago was duly observed by Joyceans around the world.

But this week fans will don period dress to celebrate their annual commemoration of the novel with more than usual gusto.

“Ulysses” plays out entirely on one day — June 16, 1904 — and…