James Joyce Timeline
2nd February 1882 Joyce is born in Rathgar, Dublin
1888 Joyce is enrolled in Clongowes Wood College
1893 After being forced to leave their Bray residence due to hardship, the Joyce family moves to the North Inner City and Joyce becomes a student at Belvedere College
1898 Joyce enrols in a degree at University College at Newman House, studying Modern European Languages
1900 Publishes Ibsen’s New Drama
1901 The Day of the Rabblement is published
1902 Joyce receives his degree before enrolling in medical school in Paris and departing
1903 Joyce’s mother, Mary Jane Joyce, dies
1904 Joyce meets his wife-to-be Nora Barnacle. He begins sketching A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
1905 Giorgio, James and Nora’s son, is born; they move to Trieste
1906 Live briefly in Rome; most likely date of writing Stephen Hero
1907 Lucia, James and Nora’s daughter, is born; they move back to Trieste; Chamber Music is published
1911 Gives lectures on Shakespeare in Trieste
2 February 1914, Joyce’s thirty-second birthday, with Ezra Pound at the helm, the London magazine the Egoist began serialising A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce’s ran serially in the Egoist for a year and a half in twenty-five non-consecutive installments (from 2 February 1914 to 1 September 1915)
June 1914 Dubliners is published
1915 The Joyces move to Zürich; work on Ulysses resumes; Exiles is written
1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published in the United States
1917 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published in Britain
1918 The serialization of Ulysses in The Little Review begins
1920 The Joyce’s move to Paris and the serialization of Ulysses stops
1922 Ulysses is published in Paris
1924 The first section of Work in Progress is published in Transatlantic Review
1927 Pomes Penyeach is published
1939 Finnegans Wake is published
13th January 1941 James Joyce dies of a perforated duodenal ulcer at the age of 58. He is buried in Fluntern cemetery, Zurich.
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