Favorite Books and Authors:
•Thomas Acquinas (though I rejected Catholicism at 16)
•Harriet Shaw Weaver
•Homer’s Odyssey
•Samuel Beckett
Important Quotes:
On Dubliners: "I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”
Life Timeline/Major Events:
•Born in Dublin in 1882 to a large family
•Attended Jesuit School
•Excelled as a student at Belvedere College (1893)
•I left Dublin for Paris in 1903 to pursue medicine, but I returned home when my mother was diagnosed with liver cancer.
•I met Nora Barnacle in 1904 and finally married her in 1931.
•Thomas Acquinas (though I rejected Catholicism at 16)
•Harriet Shaw Weaver
•Homer’s Odyssey
•Samuel Beckett
Important Quotes:
On Dubliners: "I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”
Life Timeline/Major Events:
•Born in Dublin in 1882 to a large family
•Attended Jesuit School
•Excelled as a student at Belvedere College (1893)
•I left Dublin for Paris in 1903 to pursue medicine, but I returned home when my mother was diagnosed with liver cancer.
•I met Nora Barnacle in 1904 and finally married her in 1931.