James Joyce immortalized this misty port city in his literary epic "Ulysses," though many Dubliners freely admit they haven't read a word of the stream-of-consciousness novel. That doesn't stop them from throwing a huge celebration every June 16, honoring the day in 1904 when the fictional Leopold Bloom perambulated through the streets of the author's hometown.
In an odyssey worthy of its fictional hero, an Irish writer has finally brought James Joyce's "Ulysses" to the stage in Dublin after a copyright battle blew his adaptation off course for nearly two decades.
