James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters.Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin—a kilometre from his mother's birthplace in Terenure—into a middle-class family on the way down. A brilliant student, he excelled at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's love of drink and precarious finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.In 1904, in his early twenties he emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris, and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there; Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."
University College Dublin, Belvedere College, Clongowes Wood College
Nationality
Irish
Spouse
Nora Barnacle (m. 1931–1941)
Children
Lucia Joyce, George Joyce
Parents
John Stanislaus Joyce, Mary Jane Murray
Siblings
Stanislaus Joyce, Mabel Joyce, Chales Patrick Joyce
Movies
Bloom, I'm Going Home, The Dead, James Joyce's Women, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Uliisses, Passages from Finnegan’s Wake
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Trademark
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Complex stream-of-consciousness writing style, multilingual puns, non-use of hyphens.
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Quote
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
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[Upon meeting William Butler Yeats]: "We have met too late; you are too old to be influenced by me."
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. [from a letter, 22 Nov. 1902, in which Joyce declared his intention of leaving Ireland for good]
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I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. [lecture, 27 April 1907]
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Fact
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A fan once asked Joyce if he could "shake the hand that wrote Ulysses." Joyce refused, saying "It's done other things as well.".
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Is lampooned in Noel Fielding's "Luxury Comedy", for his agonizingly slow writing process.
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He was the eldest of 10 children.
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Graduated from the University College of Dublin.
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The character of Leopold Bloom was based on Alfred H Hunter, a friend of Joyce's father who had once helped him recover after an alcohol fueled fight.
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He was an accomplished Tenor.
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Opened the first movie theater in Dublin, Ireland.
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The name of the cinema was 'The Volta'.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Painful Case
2014
Short story
James Joyce's a Day in the Committee Room
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's After the Race
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's a Little Cloud
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's Clay
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's Eveline
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's Grace
2014
Short original story
52
2013-2014
TV Series original story - 2 episodes
James Joyce's a Mother
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's an Encounter
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's Counterparts
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's the Boarding House
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's Two Gallants
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's the Sisters
2014
Short original story
James Joyce's the Dead
2013
Short oringinator
An Encounter
2006
Video short short story
The Dead
2004
Video short story
Bloom
2003/I
novel
Je rentre
2001
book "Ulysses"
Vyhnanci
2000
TV Movie play
The Wake
2000
Video novel "Finnegan's Wake"
La femme
1993
inspired by "Exile"
Sashobao dgiuri
1992
story "Earth"
The Dead
1987
story "Dubliners"
Edith Clever liest Joyce
1987
TV Movie text
La voz humana
1986
TV Series author - 1 episode
James Joyce's Women
1985
novel
A Painful Case
1984
TV Movie story writer
Uliisses
1982
novel "Ulysses"
Estudio 1
1979
TV Series play - 1 episode
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977
novel
Esuli
1976
TV Movie play "Exiles"
Les exilés
1975
TV Movie play
Izgnanici
1973
TV Movie story
BBC Play of the Month
1972
TV Series original author - 1 episode
Fragments of an Alms-Film
1972
text - as J. Joyce
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1971
TV Series story - 1 episode
Carnet de identidad
1970
Short texts
Erin éreintée
1967
Short novels 'Ulysses' & 'Portrait of the artist as a young man"
Ulysses
1967
novel
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
1966
novel
Festival
TV Series based on novel "Ulysses" by - 1 episode, 1964 Origianal Story - 1 episode, 1963
Encounter
1960
TV Series short story - 1 episode
The United States Steel Hour
1956
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Artist as a Young Man: A Portrait of Cameron Fairchild
2008
Short special thanks
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Biography of the Millennium: 100 People - 1000 Years