![]() It was here that he began writing, essays, plays and poems. ![]() ![]() In 1898 he began his studies in modern languages at University College, Dublin. Eventually, after a spell with the Christian Brothers, James went in 1893, along with his nearest brother Stanislaus, to the Jesuit school, Belvedere College in Dublin their education was free. ![]() When he was nine years old, his father was pensioned off from his position, and the Joyces became substantially poorer. James Joyce was educated first at the Jesuit boarding school, Clongowes Wood College, from1888 to 1891. When he was born in 1882, the family was reasonably well-to-do, John Joyce holding a position as collector of rates. James Joyce was the first surviving child of John Joyce and Mary Jane Murray. That Ireland was also neutral in that war was by then of no consequence to him his final visit to his native country was in 1912. But he died in Europe, during the Second World War, in a country that could give him shelter precisely because it was neutral. He was born and grew up in the nineteenth century, in a period when Ireland was under the political and social control of England, and under the even firmer moral control of the Catholic Church. These bare facts tell us a great deal about Joyce. ![]() James Joyce was born on February 2 nd1882 in the suburb of Rathgar, Dublin he died on January 13 th,1941, in Zürich, and was buried there. ![]()
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