“Brigid's Song” (or, "Dingdong! The Castle Bell!") This piece shows up where an extremely youthful Stephen Dedalus cites it verbatim, thinking in his sick bed how sweet and sad the words are and how sentimental his own funeral is likely to be. It is one of the primary signs of Stephen's distraction with sounds and words. “Oft in the Stilly Night” This delightful Thomas Moore tune (organized by Sir John Stevenson)
Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland, and he was raised in a Roman Catholic dominant family with his mother being a successful pianist and his father being a failure at holding a stable household. However, his father was an impressive singer. Joyce was an intelligent and motivated child, so he was able to teach himself Norwegian and other languages. Therefore, he was able to read and analyze many plays that no other monolingual person could. Some books he read as a child greatly