Stephen Dedalus´s Colleges.

Clongowes College. Source: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/seidel/joyce/edit/images/week4/CWCCastle&ChapelTJC.jpg

James Joyce was a student at Clongowes from 1888 to 1891 (ages 6–9), as was Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce had to leave when his father could no longer afford the bills, and the same appears to be true for Stephen.

(Clongowes Wood College, 1888. The class of the Elements. Joyce is front center, on the grass. . The man behond Joyce is Father Power, who appears in Portrait as Father Arnal)

Then, Stepehn Dedalus attended the Jesuit Belvedere College in Dublin (Joyce studied in it from 1893 to 1898).

Belvedere College. Source: http://users.clas.ufl.edu/

Belvedere College constituted the remainder of both Joyce and Stephen’s education before attending University College in Dublin. The major part of Belvedere’s mission is to help the students to find God in all things but Stephen moves away from this idea.

As a student at University College, Dublin, the skepticism of Stephen about the institutions around him (Ireland Nation, Church and family) grows increasingly.

86 St. Stephen’s Green: University College, Dublin, 1900. Joyce studied Modern Language here from 1898 to 1902. A Catholic school run by Jesuits, degrees had to be issued by the Royal University. Source https://theboardinghouseblog.wordpress.com