James Joyce's Ulysses begins at eight o'clock in the morning in the Dublin suburb of Sandycove where we meet Joyce's alter-ego, a young teacher called Stephen Dedalus. Striking photographic negatives from the archives of University College Dublin, of a young James Joyce, have a story to tell about the creator of a modernist masterpiece. The feature-length Arena film decoding Ulysses, 100 years after it was first published in book form, is streaming now on BBC iPlayer: https://bbc.in/3U0X0Uv | BB

Now on view: One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Set on one day, 16 June 1904, James Joyce’s "Ulysses" follows the young poet Stephen Dedalus and the unlikely hero Leopold Bloom as they journey through Dublin. The groundbreaking novel links the epic to the ordinary, connecting characters and motifs from Homer’s ancient Greek poem the Odyssey with life in the Irish city that created Joyce. Written in self-imposed exile between 1914 and 1921, "Ulysses" expanded the limits of language and