Dubliners

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 and educated at Jesuit schools and University College, Dublin, where he studied philosophy and languages. In 1909 and 1912 he made his final trips to Ireland, attempting to arrange publication of DUBLINERS which finally appeared in England in 1914. DUBLINERS was James Joyce's first masterpiece, a collection of stories dealing with fleeting in the everyday lives of lower-middle and working class DUBLINERS that virtually invented modern narrative prose-and whose original printer destroyed it on the grounds that it was probably libellous or indecent or blasphemous [or all three].