The Joyce's at Brighton Square
The Joyce family lived at 41 Brighton Square from 1881 to 1884. The house was located in the fashionable Dublin suburb of Rathmines & Rathgar Township. James was born here on February 2, 1882. At the time, James Stanislaus Joyce was quite well-off. He held a position with the Collector General at a salary of £300 per annum and received about £500 annually in net rents from his Cork properties.
n/ Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, Rev. Ed. (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982).
In Ulysses, Major Tweedy and his daughter, Molly, in 1887 moved to Brighton Square from Rehoboth Terrace on Dublin's southside.
Thom's Map, 1898 - Courtesy of University College Dublin.
The main road to Dublin, shaded yellow, is Harold's Cross Road, which passes Mount Jerome Cemetery, north of Brighton Square. A tramline, opened 1879, ran on this street between central Dublin and Rathfarnham (which is south of Terenure where Mat Dillon lived).
n/ Wemmechien Hofman, "A snapshot of life in Harold's Cross Cottages 1884-1940," Dublin Historical Record 69, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2016): 59-70.
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Thom's Directory, 1883
Rathgar, Brighton-square. P. of Rathfarnham
41 Joyce, John S. esq. col-gen's. office
The previous occupant was Colonel Richard Harbord, 7th (Royal Fusiliers) Regiment, who had retired in 1879. Colonel Harbord relocated to Bath, England and died there in November 1894. His estate, excluding land, was valued at the then substantial sum of £7,103.
n/ Thom's Directory, 1881; Hart's Annual Army List, 1883; Illustrated London News, May 25, 1895.
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