James Joyce, born in 1882, attended University College Dublin, before travelling through Europe in his early twenties. His work includes the semi-autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), the landmark work of modernist fiction Ulysses (1922) and its successor Finnegans Wake (1939). He died in 1941 in Zurich.
Joyce’s brilliantly vivid portrait of Dublin, introduced by Colm Tóibín