James Joyce (1882–1941) was the eldest of 10 children in a Roman Catholic family in Dublin. His father did not earn a stable living, and the family had degenerated into poverty by the time Joyce reached the age of maturity. Joyce began living with Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid from western Ireland, in 1904 and married her in 1931. Shortly after meeting Nora, they left Ireland to live on the European continent. Nora was the model for the character Molly Bloom in Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922). They had two children: a son, Giorgio, born in 1905, and a daughter, Lucia, born in 1907.
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