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James Joyce


James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a fairly prosperous southern suburb of Dublin. (http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~kershner/bioa.html) He had an older brother that was born and then died in 1881. (And a Very Good Time It Was: A Short Life of James Joyce, Tim Miller, Six Gallery Press, http://www.sixgallerypress.com). His father, John Stanislaus Joyce, was from Cork, where the Joyce family had been merchants for some generations, and where they had married into the O'Connell family, who claimed a connection with the famous Daniel O'Connell, "the Liberator." (http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~kershner/bioa.html) His father, John Joyce, born in 1849, was an only child who ended up with a wife and ten children of his own. It was said that “there were no more babies, and after eleven mortgages, there was no more property. John Joyce filled his house with children and with debts.” (Richard Ellman, James Joyce (revised edition, 21; from an......

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