Belvedere College, Denmark St. - James Joyce Tour

James Joyce both attended Belvedere College and mentioned it in his works. After Joyce's father lost his job and the family finances dwindled Joyce had to leave the Jesuit Clongowes Wood, he attended a Christian Brothers school before he was offered a place in the Jesuits' Dublin school, Belvedere College, in 1893. This came about because of a chance meeting his father had with a Jesuit priest called John Conmee who knew the family and Joyce was given a reduction in fees to attend Belvedere.[9] In 1895, Joyce, now aged 13, was elected to join the Sodality of Our Lady by his peers at Belvedere. In Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s alter ego, struggles with feeling ashamed of his poor background while attending Belvedere and it was here he was terrified into vowing to live a life of purity after hearing a rousing sermon about hell.