On 8 July 1912 Nora and Lucia arrived in Dublin. Though Joyce had made two return visits to Ireland in 1909, Nora had not been home since leaving Dublin in 1904. She had been corresponding with her family for a while and since there wasn’t enough money for the entire Joyce family to visit Ireland […]
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On this day…14 June
On 14 June 1904 Nora Barnacle missed an appointment with Joyce. After meeting for the first time on Nassau Street on Friday 10 June 1904, Joyce and Nora Barnacle made an appointment to meet again on Tuesday 14 June outside Sir William Wilde’s house on the corner of Merrion Square and Lower Merrion Street. Joyce […]
On this day…10 June
On 10 June 1904 Joyce met Nora Barnacle. On Friday 10 June 1904 as he was walking along Nassau Street, Joyce met Nora Barnacle, the woman who was to become his lifelong partner. Despite the significance of this event, little is known about exactly what happened. As Richard Ellmann describes it, Joyce was walking down […]
On this day…21 March
On 21 March 1884 Nora Barnacle was born. However, according to Brenda Maddox, Nora’s biographer, it’s not certain on which day Nora was born: the records of her birth disagree about whether it was 21 or 22 March 1884. She was the second of eight children of Thomas and Annie Barnacle who lived at several […]
