James Joyce Quotes
I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church …
James Joyce, 1882-1941, Irish Writer, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Defending his opposition to a League of Nations. He was instrumental in preventing the United States from joining the League of Nations which President Wilson had worked so hard to create. The Senate never ratified the treaty which Wilson had signed.
The Congressman represented a heavily Italian district that was very ambivalent about fighting for America in World War I. He addressed his constituents.
Announcing his opposition to the covenant of a League of Nations:
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
