Image 8 features Belvedere College, the school in which Joyce was educated, and looks over North Great George’s Street. Belvedere features extensively in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Lee Miller wrote of it: “Belvedere is a day school. The Rector told me that they were quite particular as to the background of the boys they accepted as students... not so much their financial as their moral, Catholic, good-home atmosphere in the off hours. He cited to me the sad case of a certain student I must have heard of, named James Joyce, a ‘freak writer’... who had lost his faith. He had come from the background of a drunken dissolute father – had no security in his home and ‘came a cropper’. Since this was a day school, they didn’t want anyone whose home life didn’t have the same amount of culture as the school”
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