James Joyce Subcollection of
the Irish Literature Collection
James Joyce (1882-1941), a radical innovator of 20 th century literature,
was born in Rathgara a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. He studied in the faculty of
Arts at the University College, Dublin. While an undergraduate he had his first
publication, a review of Ibsen's last play in the Fortnightly Review in
1900. During this period began to write poetry. These early poems were collected
and printed in his book Chamber Music (1907).
By 1904 he had left Ireland
and moved to the continent. He returned in 1914 to publish The Dubliners (1914).
1914 was a productive year for Joyce as he had two books in print: The Dubliners and Exiles --
a play.
It was also at this time that he began working on Ulysses. By
1916 he had published A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , which
had been publish serially between 1914 and 1915 in The Egoist . Ulysses too
had begun to appear serially in the Little Review (1918-1920 suspended). Ulysses was
first printed as a book in 1922 in Paris. This first edition was limited to 1,000
copies. The first unlimited printing of the book occurred in 1924 also in Paris.
It was not printed in America until 1934 and in Britain until 1937. His last
work, Finnegan's Wake, was published in 1939 just before his death.
Special Collections retains a variety of both primary and secondary reading
materials on Joyce and his work. Our collection strengths lay in various and
annotated editions of Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses , but we
retain copies of each of his published works. The collection also consists of
biographical materials including books on Dublin, his birth home, and his family.
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