Career
He was the brother of James Joyce. Considered a "whetstone" by his more famous brother, who shared his ideas and his books with him, Stanislaus was three years younger than James, and a constant boyhood companion. This "Book of Days", as he called it, sheds light on James Joyce"s life between the years 1906 and 1909.
Arrested as a subversive on December 28, 1914, at the beginning of World War I, he was interned by the Austrians at Katzenau, near Linz.
Stanislaus took his brother"s teaching position at Trieste"s Scuola Superiore di Commercio "Revoltella" in 1920. This school later became assimilated into the University of Trieste and he continued on as a non-tenured professor of English until his death.
On August 13, 1928, Stanislaus married Nelly Lichtensteiger. They had one son —James— who was born in February 1943.
Due to his anti-Fascist views, Stanislaus moved to Florence sometime in 1941, where he may have been protected from the Germans by various wealthy Italian and American families.
He later published Recollections of James Joyce (1950). Published after his death on June 16 ("Bloomsday") were My Brother"s Keeper (1957) and Dublin Diary (1962). In the 1950s, Stanislaus had also assisted Richard Ellmann, his brother"s biographer, with Ellmann"s monumental James Joyce (1959).
Stanislaus, however, would channel these instincts into sober academic study rather than wild flights of literary fancy.
Some inner purpose transfigured him." He died in the Free Territory of Trieste, and is buried in Trieste at the Via della Pace cemetery.