James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.
Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilised. 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). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his published letters.
Joyce was born in 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin—about half a mile from his mother’s birthplace in Terenure—into a middle-class family on the way down. A brilliant student, he excelled at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father’s alcoholism and unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin.
In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated permanently to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce’s fictional universe centres on Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses, he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, “For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.”
02.02.2017: A short Poetry reading will be in order at Pena Betis, behind Carrefour in Centro Commercial Fuengirola/Mijas, Malaga, Spain from 20-21 H.
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From an exhibition at the James Joyce House of the Dead at 15 Ushers Island, Dublin.
This exhibition took place from 2004 to 2011. Some of the images have not been recovered. None were sold.
Hi Roger I bought a Joyce painting from you on Merrion Square in 1999. It’s titled “ Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount Strand”. I get a lot of comment about it and at this stage I am wondering would there be any value on it? It is an original not a print. I think I paid around £300 for it. I was recently talking to an artist called Joe Moran who was saying that he knows you. He used to have a studio in Temple Bar.
Hi Eddie
Thank you for writing to me. accept my apologies in my delay in getting back to you. Cocooned in the West of Ireland due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Good to hear that Joe Moran is well.We were regular Buddies some years ago. Nice chap.
I am away from my records going back to1999 while I am in Kilfenora and am I am not allowed outside the house! Can you measure the painting that you bought from me, describe the colour and look at the back of the framed picture. There should be a number on it. Tell me what this is and hopefully I can give you a better idea.
Difficult times for everybody at the moment. Stay well.
Kind regards
Roger Cummiskey
http://www.rogercummiskey.com