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James Joyce

Died in 1941

James Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 in Dublin. A pupil of the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood and then at Belvedere, he studied languages at University College. In October 1904 he left Ireland with Nora Barnacle, taught English in Trieste, lived in Zurich during the war and then in Paris from 1920. Supported by patrons, among them Harriet Shaw Weaver, he underwent numerous eye operations. Having returned to Zurich after the invasion of France, he died there on 13 January 1941, after an operation for a perforated ulcer.

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