Regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Irish novelist James Joyce is the product of the uniquely disparaging and unencouraging social and political climate in which he was raised. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1892, Joyce’s adolescence was plagued with political uncertainty and bitter pessimism, following the death of Charles Stewart Parnell, adored Irish Nationalist. As his family plunged into increasing poverty and financial instability, Joyce experienced a bleak and unprotected view of the dreary, dismal Dublin in which he lived. In this city that perpetuated an atmosphere of decay and disarray, Joyce grew up amidst an unstable p