Nora

During the summer of 1904 in Dublin, James Joyce one of last century**s greatest modern writers, was a young man trying to establish himself as a writer. Here he met Nora Barnacle who had recently moved to Dublin from Galway and found work as a chambermaid in a hotel there. Joyce fell in love with Nora immediately and in the autumn of that year they left Dublin to travel in Europe. In spring 1905 they had settled in Trieste.