In 1906-07, for eight months, he worked in a bank in Rome. In 1905 they moved to Trieste, where their children, Giorgio and Lucia, were born. Joyce obtained a position at the Berlitz School in Pola, Austria-Hungary, and worked in his spare time on his novel and short stories. Eventually, he convinced her to leave Ireland with him without marrying. Joyce had met Nora Barnacle in June 1904 they probably had their first date on June 16, a day he chose as what became known as “Bloomsday” (the day of his novel Ulysses). Joyce began writing the stories published as Dubliners under the pseudonym Stephen Dedalus, before the publisher decided that Joyce’s work was not suitable for his readers. He tried various occupations, including teaching, and lived in various domiciles. In April 1903 he was called home because his mother was dying. To support himself while writing, he decided to become a doctor, but borrowed what money he could and went to Paris, where he abandoned the idea of medicine, wrote some book reviews, and studied at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève.
He wrote verse and experimented with short prose passages he called “epiphanies”. This early success confirmed Joyce in his decision to become a writer. He entered University College Dublin, where he studied and graduated with «second class honors in Latin» on October 31, 1902.Īn admirer of Henrik Ibsen, he learned to read the original Dano-Norwegian and published an article, «Ibsen’s New Drama», a review of the play «When We Dead Awaken», published in the London Fortnightly Review in 1900, just after his 18th birthday.
In April 1893, he and his brother Stanislaus were admitted, without fees, to Belvedere College, a Jesuit elementary school in Dublin. Joyce did not return to Clongowes in 1891 he stayed at home for the next two years and tried to educate himself. But his father neglected his affairs and his family sank deeper and deeper into poverty. He was the eldest of ten children who survived childhood, sent at the age of six to Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, was born on Februin Dublin, Ireland.
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