The family fortunes soon dipped considerably due to the regular inebriation of John Stanislaus and young James was to know nine more addresses in Dublin before he struck out on his own.

All this wandering helped to steep Joyce in the geography of Dublin, a necessary prerequisite for the topographical descriptions that were to follow in his great novels including "Ulysses", "Dubliners" and "Finnegan's Wake".

James Joyce began his self-imposed exile in 1904 when he travelled to Trieste and Paris. On the outbreak of the Second World War he left France for Zurich where he died in 1941.

Image: Brighton Square, bithplace of James Joyce.

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