James Joyce

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James Joyce

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Joyce was born at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, on 2 February 1882. His father invested unwisely, and the family's fortunes declined steadily. Joyce graduated from University College Dublin (UCD), in 1902. He briefly studied medicine in Paris but his mother's impending death from cancer brought him back to Dublin. In 1904, Joyce began "Stephen Hero", which he later re-worked as "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". He also met Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid, and on 16 June 1904 they went walking at Ringsend, at the Liffey's mouth; Joyce later chose that date for the events recorded in Ulysses.

  • When was
    James Joyce born?

    James Joyce was born on Thursday, February 2, 1882

  • Where was
    James Joyce born?

    James Joyce was born in Dubl, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]

  • How old was
    James Joyce when they died?

    James Joyce was 59

  • When did James Joyce die?

    James Joyce died on
    Monday, January 13, 1941

  • How tall is James Joyce?

    James Joyce is 5'10"(1.78m)


Best Quotes

  • The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of ex...
  • The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lieftime.
  • The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was fallin...
  • O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea and the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda g...
  • Not the least vital of the problems which confront our country is the problem of her attitude towards those of her children who, having left h...
  • If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content to recognize m...
  • —He's a cultured allroundman, Bloom is, he said seriously. He's not one of your common or garden ... you know ... There's a touch of the art...
  • I am not likely to die of bashfulness but neither am I prepared to be crucified to attest the perfection of my art. I dislike to hear of any s...
  • —I am the resurrection and the life. That touches a man's inmost heart. —It does, Mr Bloom said....
  • He winged away on a wildgoup's chase across the kathartic ocean and made synthetic ink and sensitive paper for his own end out of his wit's wa...

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