The Dead is the last story in Joyce’s collection Dubliners. Historical And Literary Context of The Dead In the particular is contained the universal.” - James Joyce “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. The Joyces moved to Paris in 1920 and stayed there until 1940, until their residence was disturbed by another war and he returned to Switzerland where he died in 1941Įven though he lived most of his adult life abroad, nearly all his stories are based on people and places he knew in Dublin. When the First World War began, and Ireland was still then part of the British Empire and thus at war with Austria, he moved to Switzerland in 1915. He published Dubliners when he was living in Trieste. They lived in Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary. Joyce and Nora left Ireland to go to Europe where he taught English. It’s clear from their letters that Joyce and Nora were very much in love and remained together all their lives. In 1904, (aged 24), he met Nora Barnacle, a girl from a Galway workhouse Before she met Joyce, she’d had two teenage lovers who by great misfortune both died. He was Catholic by heritage and upbringing and did well academically at the Jesuit run Belvedere College and at University College Dublin. Joyce was born in 1882 to a middle class family in Rathgar, a suburb of Dublin.

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