After graduating from University Joyce spent some time in Paris, and returned to Ireland in April 1903 because of his mother’s illness. After her death in August 1903, Joyce stayed on in Dublin until October 1904, earning some money through occasional work as a teacher, a concert singer, and by writing book reviews for the Daily Express newspaper. On 10 June 1904 Joyce met Nora Barnacle, a young woman from Galway who was working as a chambermaid at Finn’s Hotel. We believe they went out together for the first time on Thursday 16 June 1904, the day commemorated in Joyce’s Ulysses. Though they eloped together in October 1904 and had two children, they didn’t marry until July 1931. They are buried together in Fluntern Cemetery in Zurich.
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