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Significant Dates for James Joyce

2nd February 1882

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce is born at 41 Brighton Square in Rathgar.

1888

Joyce is enrolled in Clongowes Wood College in Sallins, Co. Kildare.

1893

After being forced to leave their Bray residence due to hardship, the Joyce family move to the North Inner City and Joyce becomes a student at Belvedere College

1896

While seriously contemplating joining a religious order, Joyce begins writing prose sketches and visiting the infamous brothels of ‘Monto’.

1898

Joyce enrols in a degree at University College at Newman House, studying Modern European Languages.

1902

Joyce receives his degree before enrolling in medical school in Paris and departing.

1904

Having returned home to care for his mother as she died, Joyce now meets his wife-to-be Nora Barnacle on July 10th. He also begins writing Dubliners and Stephen Hero.

1914

Dubliners is finally published by Grant Richards in London.

1917

Joyce’s glaucoma worsens and he undergoes the first of a series of eye operations.

1922

A first edition of a thousand copies of Ulysses is published by Joyce’s friend Sylvia Beach, proprietor of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co.

1939

Finnegans Wake is first published after a very long and protracted period of writing.

13th January 1941

James Joyce dies of a perforated duodenal ulcer. He is buried in Fluntern cemetery, Zurich.

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