James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist born on February 2, 1882 in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland called Rathgar. He was the first-born of six other children to come by the efforts of John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane Murray. Joyce’s father, John Joyce, much like his son, had a fine singing voice which accounted with being a “jolly, bibulous, pugnacious fellow, well known in Dublin for his reckless extravagance and his biting wit” (“Joyce, James”), as well as poor gentleman who would pass time by indulging in all sorts of professions, ranging from politics to tax collecting (GradeSaver). Joyce’s mother, Mary Jane Murray, ten years junior to John, was a pianist, life filled with her dedication to the Roman Catholic Church and
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This restricted Joyce from going back to Clongowes Wood. Therefore, from 1893 to 1897, Joyce attends a cheaper day school called Belvedere College in Dublin where his fondness for writing takes root (“Joyce, James”). The most part of Joyce’s school years are important for two events that occur at age fourteen. The first was his invitation to the schools “Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary”. The second, just a week after the first, Joyce come across his first sexual experience with a Dublin prostitute …show more content…
On his free time, he took on a variety of jobs; that of a journalist, a teacher, and, like his father, pursued other occupations with his lack of financial support (“Joyce, James”). However, the lectures given in French was one Joyce’s education on the language did not prepare him to face (European Graduate School). It was in Paris where he met the German poet Teodor Daubler and his “compatriot the playwright John Millington Synge” (“Joyce, James”). After a year in France, he received a telegram in April of 1903 about a fatal illness his mother had (“James Joyce”). He returned to Ireland and despite his mother’s attempts to get him to return to Catholic Church, James remained unmoved even after her death in the August of the same year (European Graduate
This restricted Joyce from going back to Clongowes Wood. Therefore, from 1893 to 1897, Joyce attends a cheaper day school called Belvedere College in Dublin where his fondness for writing takes root (“Joyce, James”). The most part of Joyce’s school years are important for two events that occur at age fourteen. The first was his invitation to the schools “Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary”. The second, just a week after the first, Joyce come across his first sexual experience with a Dublin prostitute …show more content…
On his free time, he took on a variety of jobs; that of a journalist, a teacher, and, like his father, pursued other occupations with his lack of financial support (“Joyce, James”). However, the lectures given in French was one Joyce’s education on the language did not prepare him to face (European Graduate School). It was in Paris where he met the German poet Teodor Daubler and his “compatriot the playwright John Millington Synge” (“Joyce, James”). After a year in France, he received a telegram in April of 1903 about a fatal illness his mother had (“James Joyce”). He returned to Ireland and despite his mother’s attempts to get him to return to Catholic Church, James remained unmoved even after her death in the August of the same year (European Graduate