John stanislaus joyce biography

John Stanislaus Joyce (4 July 1849 – 29 December 1931) was the.
Joyce, (John) Stanislaus (1884–1955), brother and supporter of James Joyce (qv), was born 17 December 1884 in Dublin, son of John Stanislaus Joyce (qv), civil.
John Stanislaus Joyce was the father of writer James Joyce, and a well known Dublin man about town.

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4/7/1849 - 29/12/1931 | Father of writer James Joyce

When James Joyce introduced his future wife, Nora Barnacle, to his father John, the reply he got was said to be “well she will certainly cling to you!”

Born in Cork in 1849, John Stanislaus Joyce was the only son of James and Ellen. His mother’s family claimed to be related to Daniel O’Connell. Aged 31, John inherited a substantial amount of property on his father’s death, and soon afterwards moved to Dublin where he worked as a secretary at a distillery company.

John met Mary “May” Murray while singing in the choir at the Church of the Three Patrons in Rathgar, Dublin, and they married in May 1880, despite his mother’s disapproval. After the wedding, she returned to Cork and never saw or spoke to her son again. John and Mary had ten surviving children, the eldest of whom was James, who would go on to become one of the most famous writers of the twentieth century.

John was a supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell, and was angry at his treatment by the Catholic Church. Jam

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John Stanislaus Joyce

The life of John Stanislaus Joyce, father of James, Fenian, Parnellite, drunk who claimed to have cured himself of syphilis.

Obsessed with the burden of being the only son of an only son, John Joyce himself

fathered no fewer than seventeen children with his long-suffering wife (despite many affairs and many engagements he actually married only once) but was concerned only with his eldest surviving son, James. This was through no intrinsic merit on James's part but because of John Joyce's excessive belief in the rights of primogeniture such that all his other children were excluded from his will and those who predeceased him were not even named on the family gravestone. John, as James liked to claim, gave to his son all of his wit: most of the characters in Ulysses are barely disguised friends of his and the incidents from his life pepper James's fiction. John Joyce was the most important person in James's life. But as well as the light thrown on the century's greatest novelist, this is a depiction of the high-spirits, ebulliant passions, deep depress

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John Stanislaus Joyce

John Stanislaus Joyce (4 July 1849 – 29 December 1931) was the father of writer James Joyce, and a well known Dublin man about town. The son of James and Ellen (née O'Connell) Joyce, John Joyce grew up in Cork, where his mother's family, which claimed kinship to "Liberator" Daniel O'Connell, was quite prominent.

Baptised in St. Finbarr's South Church, Joyce grew up in the Anglesea Street area.^[1] He attended St Colman's College, Fermoy, from 1859 and later studied medicine at The Queen's College, Cork, from 1867. However, he did not complete his university studies.^[2]

Following his father's death in 1866, Joyce inherited substantial property around Cork. Soon after he moved to Dublin, where he worked for several years as secretary at a distillery company. He was noted as a fine tenor singer, although he never pursued a musical career.

On 5 May 1880, Joyce married Mary "May" Murray. That year, as a reward for his work supporting Liberal candidates in the General Election of 1880, Joyce was given a post in the Dublin Custom H