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James Joyce was born in Dublin. He was the oldest of ten children.
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He graduated in Modern Languages at the University College Dublin, where he studied French, Italian and German languages and literatures and English literature.
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He left Dublin and spent some time in Paris.
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The mother’s fatal illness brought Joyce back to Dublin.
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First date with Nora Barnacle, who became his wife in 1931.
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Joyce and Nora Barnacle moved to Italy, settling in Trieste. Joyce worked as English teacher and became friend with Italo Svevo.
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Joyce published Chamber Music, a collection of poetry.
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At the outbreak of the war Joyce left Trieste with his family and moved to Zurich, where he stayed till the end of the war. The time in Switzerland was a very fruitful period: after the publication of the Portrait, he wrote much of his masterpiece, Ulysses and published the play Exiles.
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Joyce published Dubliners, a collection of short stories about Dublin and Dublin life, which was completed in 1905, but published on the eve of the First World War.
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Joyce published his semi-autobiographical novel: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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Joyce published his only play, Exiles, a study of a husband and wife relationship.
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Joyce moved to France, after a short period in Trieste.
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Ulysses was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company, because declared obscene and banned in Britain and America.
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He began to work on his huge experimental novel: Finnegans Wake.
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Joyce reading from Finnegans WakeFinnegans Wake was completed and published, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Hitler’s advance in Europe forced Joyce to leave France and to flee to the neutral Switzerland.
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Joyce died in Zurich.
