![]() ![]() ![]() The family was large, with James the oldest of ten children who survived childhood. His parents, John and Mary Jane Murray Joyce, were both musically talented, a trait which was passed along to their son. Stephen Daedalus, the central character of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is considered to be a semi-autobiographical account of the authors own life, James Joyce. James Joyce was born February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a Dublin suburb. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove." (Lecture Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages) The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality.
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