John Stanislaus Joyce (4 July 1849 – 29 December 1931) was the father of writer James Joyce, and a well known Dublin man about town. The son of James and Ellen (née O'Connell) Joyce, John Joyce grew up in Cork, where his mother's family, which claimed kinship to "Liberator" Daniel O'Connell, was quite prominent.

Joyce, John Stanislaus (1849–1931), businessman, civil servant, and father of James Joyce (qv), was born 4 July 1849 in Cork city, the only son of James Augustine Joyce, a minor corporation official, born in Fermoy, Co. Cork, and his wife Ellen (née O'Connell), a distant relation of Daniel O'Connell (qv), a connection of some importance both ...

In the novel Ulysses, Simon Dedalus is a version of John Stanislaus Joyce, James Joyce's father. And obviously the father was a very bad provider for his family, but what Joyce did in the novel was he showed him as a figure on the streets, as a popular man.

John Stanislaus Joyce (17 December 1884 – 16 June 1955) was an Irish teacher, scholar, diarist and writer who lived for many years in Trieste. He was the younger brother of James Joyce. He was generally known as Stanislaus Joyce to distinguish him from his …

4 July 1849 – 29 December 1931 -- was the father of writer James Joyce, and a well known Dublin man about town. The son of James and Ellen (née O'Connell) Joyce, John Joyce grew up in Cork, where his mother's family, which claimed kinship to "Liberator" Daniel O'Connell, was quite prominent.

Jun 18, 2024 · John Joyce is Notable. "But as John Stanislaus was the only son of an only son of an only son, there seemed to be no immediate Joyce relatives by whom the family traditions in which he set such great store could be confirmed."" [1] [2] He was the only son of James Augustine Joyce and Ellen O'Connell and the husband of Mary Jane Murray.

The most recent of these, by the young Irish artist Patrick Tuohy, displayed the passionate intensity of the author's father, John Stanislaus Joyce, his ruddy face aglow with the fire of life.