SOUTH PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL    THE ENGLISH SEMINARAP [NICHOLSON] 


James Joyce
A Chronology



	2 Feb 1882	Joyce born at 41 Brighton Square 
West, Rathgar (a Dublin suburb)  
9
	1887	the family moves to Bray  7-59
	Sep 1888	Enrolls in Conglowes Wood 
College, a Jesuit school some 20 
miles west of Dublin  9
	June 1891	Withdraws from Conglowes 
because his father had lost his job 
at Collector of Rates (taxes) for 
Dublin  
	6 Oct 1891	Charles Stewart Parnell dies
		Joyce writes Et Tu, Healy! on the 
betrayal and death of Parnell  70
	1892	Family moves to Blackrock, about 
half way between Bray and Dublin 
 60ff.
	1893	Family moves to Dublin, their 
fortunes declining rapidly;   65  
Joyce attends briefly the Christian 
Brothers' school in North 
Richmond Street
	Apr 1893	Enrolls in Belvedere College, a 
Jesuit school  71
	Feb 1894	Visits Cork to sell the last of the 
family property with his father  
86-96
	Apr? 1894	Wins his first "exhibition" (a cash 
prize)
	1895	Joins the Sodality of the Blessed 
Virgin Mary
	1896	Elected prefect of the Sodality,k 
the highest honor at Belvedere  
104
	1897	Wins more prizes  96; re-elected 
prefect of the Sodality
	May 1898	Plays Grimstone in Anstey's Vice 
Vers, taking off the rector of 
Belvedere  73-86
	Nov 1898	Retreat in honor of St. Francis 
Xavier  107-146
	1898	Graduates from Belevedere and 
enters University College, Dublin  
 165, 174ff
	1899	Refuses to sign the student protest 
against Yeats's The Countess 
Cathleen  226
	1904	stories
	10 Jun 1904	meets Nora Barnacle
	1905	Moves to Trieste, Giorgio (son) 
born
	1906	Moves to Rome
	1907	Moves to Trieste; Lucia (daughter) 
born
	1908	Finishes three chapters of Portrait
	1909	Visits Ireland
	1910	Returns to Trieste
	1911	Throws Portrait into the fire; his 
sister Eileen rescues it and lays it 
by
	1912	Makes his last trip to Ireland
	1914	Portrait published as a serial in 
The Egoist (London) from 2 Feb 
to Sep 1915
	1915	Moves to Zurich
	1916	Portrait published in New York
	1918	Ulysses serialized in New York, 
March 1918-December 1920
	1919	Returns to Trieste
	1920	Moves to Paris; Ulysses  
publication blocked as 
pornography
	1922	Sylvia Beach publishes Ulysses in 
Paris at Shakespeare & Co.
	1923	Begins Finnegans Wake
	1931	Moves to London
	4 Jul 1931	Marries Nora
	29 Dec 1931	Joyce's father dies
	15 Feb 1932	Stephen James Joyce (grandson by 
Giorgio) born
	1933	Ulysses declared nor pornographic 
in the U.S.
	1934	Ulysses published in New York by 
Random House
	1936	Collected Poems published
	1939	Finnegans Wake published; 
Moves to France
	1940	Moves to Zurich
	13 Jan 1941	Joyce dies in Zurich
 



 

 


