Whilst back in Dublin for talks with publishers, Joyce bumped into an old acquaintance, Vincent Cosgrave, who claimed that Nora had enjoyed relations with him whilst committed to Joyce. In 1909, Joyce befriended Ettore Schmitz (Italian author 'Italo Svevo') who praised Joyce's unfinished manuscripts for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and persuaded him to finish the novel. Statue of Joyce in Trieste (Italy) by S.Wetzel (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons Nonetheless, Joyce's singing teacher clearly made an impression on him as he used his name for Captain and Emily Sinico in his Dubliners story 'A Painful Case'. Unfortunately, Joyce did not have the funds to continue with his lessons for the suggested length of time. He also took singing lessons Joyce's teacher, Francesco Ricardo Sinico, 'praised his voice but told him he would need two years to train it properly'. Despite his below-par health and lack of money, Joyce managed to avail himself of Trieste's cultural delights drinking, dining, more drinking, theatre, popular opera, dances, concerts, and films. Around the time of Lucia's birth, Joyce was hospitalised with rheumatic fever and began to experience the eye troubles which would plague him throughout his life. He was followed by Joyce's daughter, Lucia, who was born on 26 July 1907. On 27 July 1905, Joyce's son, Giorgio, was born. Except for six months in Rome, attempting to become a banker, Joyce stayed in Trieste for the next eleven years. In 1905, Joyce transferred to the Berlitz School in Trieste. They arrived in Zurich but soon moved to Pola as Joyce secured a job teaching English with the Berlitz School. Four months later, the couple left Dublin for continental Europe.
Joyce and Nora first went out together on 16 June 1904, the date on which Ulysses is set. Shortly after leaving the family home, Joyce met Nora Barnacle, a charming chambermaid hailing from Galway. He began work on his short story collection Dubliners (1914) and Stephen Hero (a semi-biographical novel), wrote his first poetry collection Chamber Music (1907), and wrote an essay entitled 'A Portrait of the Artist' which would later be transformed into a novel entitled A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Early Works and Familyġ904 was a significant year for Joyce. In 1903, Joyce came back to Dublin to be with his ailing mother who died on 13 August. Joyce returned to Paris in January but soon gave up his course. Whilst back in Dublin for Christmas, Joyce met Oliver St John Gogarty, a fellow medical student and poet who was to be reimagined as Buck Mulligan in Ulysses (1922). Joyce's Parisian days were largely spent reading philosophy or literature, rather than learning about medicine. In the same year, Joyce registered to study medicine at the Royal University but decided to leave Dublin and start medical school in Paris instead. In 1902, on a visit to London, Joyce met Yeats who introduced him to the British poet and critic Arthur Symons. Joyce became particularly interested in the work of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and Irish writer W. He also enjoyed visits to the music hall. During his time at university Joyce published several papers on literature, history, and politics. In 1898, Joyce began studying modern languages at the Royal University (now University College, Dublin). However, he was not as pure as he seemed Joyce claimed to have begun his ‘sexual life’ later that year, at the age of fourteen. In 1896 Joyce was made prefect of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a devotional society. Despite increasing poverty and upheaval, Joyce managed to win a prize for his excellent exam results and wrote an essay on Ulysses which, arguably, sowed the seeds for Joyce's 1922 masterpiece of the same name. They also sold off their last remaining Cork property. In 1894, with the Joyces' finances dwindling further, the family moved house for the fourth time since Joyce's birth. After a brief spell at the Christian Brothers School, all of the Joyce brothers entered Belvedere College, a Jesuit boys' day school fortunately, the school fees were waived. Around the same time, Joyce took 'Aloysius' as his confirmation name. He attended Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boys' school in County Kildare, until his father lost his job as a Rates Collector in 1891. James Augustine Joyce, the eldest surviving son of John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane ('May') Joyce, was born in Dublin on 2 February 1882.
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