![]() ![]() When the First World War began, and Ireland was still then part of the British Empire and thus at war with Austria, he moved to Switzerland in 1915. He published Dubliners when he was living in Trieste. They lived in Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary. ![]() Joyce and Nora left Ireland to go to Europe where he taught English. It’s clear from their letters that Joyce and Nora were very much in love and remained together all their lives. In 1904, (aged 24), he met Nora Barnacle, a girl from a Galway workhouse Before she met Joyce, she’d had two teenage lovers who by great misfortune both died. He was Catholic by heritage and upbringing and did well academically at the Jesuit run Belvedere College and at University College Dublin. Joyce was born in 1882 to a middle class family in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin. Listen to James Joyce’s The Dead About James Joyce ![]()
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