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When Ulysses was first published back in 1922, it expanded the public's preconceptions about what was permissible in fiction despite being denounced as obscene and even unreadable by some critics. These days, Joyce's labyrinthine novel is widely touted as one of the greatest fictional works of the 20th Century. In this documentary, James Joyce Museum curator Robert Nicholson offers an irreverent tour of both the author's fascinating world and the environment that helped to shape him into a literary legend.