Copying this explanation on Pinterest prevents dedicated readers from accessing this article, desist! Ulysses explained Ulysses is the most difficult of entertaining novels. Books were written to explain the wanderings around Dublin, Ireland on Bloomsday (celebrated and recreated by Anthony Cronin in 1952) of the fictional Leopold Bloom on 16th June 1904. Joyce wrote Ulysses in 1914 the same year he drafted the play Exiles, published Dubliners, the poem Giacomo Joyce,