Portrait of the artist on Leeside: Eight ways James Joyce is connected to Cork

His nan is buried in Ballyphehane, and the southern city regularly crops up in Joyce's work
Portrait of the artist on Leeside: Eight ways James Joyce is connected to Cork

James Joyce had many links to Cork. 

1. Stephen Dedalus in Cork

In Joyce’s coming of age novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man published in 1916, his semi-autobiographical protagonist Stephen Dedalus recounts his real life experience of travelling to Cork in 1894 with his father in order to sell the family properties in the South Parish. 

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