James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 to a downwardly-mobile middle class family. He was educated at the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College before he went to University College, Dublin. It was here that he began writing. In 1902 he went to Paris where he remained for a year, returning home only to see his dying mother. He left again soon after her death and spent the rest of his life abroad.
Joyce published Dubliners in 1914 and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man two years later. But his most famous works are Ulysses, published in 1922, and Finnegans Wake, completed in 1939, two years before his death.
Here's a chance for book lovers to test their knowledge of the life and works of James Joyce. Did he marry a barnacle, a limpet, a whelk or a winkle? Find out in this quiz!
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His full name was James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
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On hearing of Nora's surname, Joyce's father said: 'She'll stick with him'
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Dubliners contains fifteen short stories which describe Irish middle class life in the early 20th Century, at the height of
Irish nationalism
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was written by Dylan Thomas
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Joyce was born at number 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin
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The school has educated other writers apart from Joyce including Pat Reid MBE, Maurice Healy and Aidan Higgins
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This one was hard work; it took him 17 years to write it
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The Exiles is based on The Dead, the final short story in Joyce's Dubliners
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She's loosely based on the ancient Greek heroine Penelope
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He underwent surgery on the 11th of January but relapsed the next day and fell into a coma. He died on the 13th of January and is buried in the Fluntern Cemetery near Zurich Zoo
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