Except for an eight-month stay in Rome working as a correspondence clerk and three visits to Dublin, Joyce resided there until 1915. He briefly worked in Pula and then moved to Trieste in Austria-Hungary, working as an English instructor. In 1904, he met his future wife, Nora Barnacle, and they moved to mainland Europe. Despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's unpredictable finances, he excelled at the Jesuit Belvedere College and graduated from University College Dublin in 1902. He attended the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare, then, briefly, the Christian Brothers–run O'Connell School. Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).

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