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Its portrait of Dublin, and of the Jewish advertisement canvasser Leopold Bloom, revolutionised the novel with its 'stream of consciousness' technique; it was not published in Britain until 1936.

His only son Giorgio, and Helen Fleischmann Kastor had a son Stephen James Joyce born in Paris 15 February 1932 and died 23 January 2020 on Île de Ré , Charente-Maritime, France. He was his grandfather's persnickety literary executor and had worked before for the OECD . He was married to Solange Raythchine.

Joyce and Nora finally married in 1931.

In 1923, Joyce began the almost impenetrable "Finnegans Wake", which was published in 1939.

Joyce returned to Trieste in 1919, then moved to Paris, where, in 1922, "Ulysses" was published by Sylvia Beach, owner of a celebrated bookshop.

"Ulysses", his masterpiece, was serialised in New York in 1918-20, but eventually halted by a court action.

With the outbreak of World War I, Joyce moved to Zurich in neutral Switzerland, where, in 1917, he underwent the first of many operations for glaucoma.

In 1914 the book was published in England, and "A Portrait" was serialised in a London magazine.

His last visit was in 1912, when he failed to overcome his publisher's doubts about Dubliners.

In 1909, he made two trips to Dublin, to arrange publication of Dubliners, and to open a short-lived cinema.

In 1904, Joyce began "Stephen Hero", which he later re-worked as "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

He also met Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid, and on 16 June 1904 they went walking at Ringsend, at the Liffey's mouth; Joyce later chose that date for the events recorded in Ulysses. Having briefly shared a Martello tower at Sandycove, County Dublin, with Oliver St.

John Gogarty, he sailed from Dublin with Nora in October 1904. Joyce found work in a language school in Trieste.

Joyce graduated from University College Dublin (UCD), in 1902. He briefly studied medicine in Paris but his mother's impending death from cancer brought him back to Dublin.

Joyce was born at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, on 2 February 1882. His father invested unwisely, and the family's fortunes declined steadily.