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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish author, poet, novelist, and teacher. Born in Rathgar, Dublin, in 1882, he was the son of John Stanislaus Joyce. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and University College Dublin. Joyce held citizenship in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, and France. He spoke English, French, Italian, and Latin. He was unmarried partner to Nora Barnacle, and they had two children.
His notable works include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Joyce lived and worked in Paris, Trieste, and Zurich. He died in Zurich in 1941 from peritonitis, having previously suffered from iritis and astraphobia. He is buried at Fluntern Cemetery. His archives are held at the British Library, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, National Library of Ireland, and the Zürich James Joyce Foundation.
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- Died
- 13 January 1941
- Works
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Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the twentieth century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a…
Known for
- Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles — Self2021
- Paris Was a Woman — Self (archive footage)1996
- Practisse — Self (voice) (archive audio)1994
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- France
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- Dublin
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- Zurich
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- Nora Barnacle
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- John Stanislaus Joyce
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- Stanislaus Joyce
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- librettist
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- Belvedere College
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- Danish
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- English language
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- Catholicism
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- novel
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- blue
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- brown hair
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- 71
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- 2
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- Zurich
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