James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little Fuckbird”

On Nassau Street in Dublin, on June 10, 1904, twenty-two-year-old James Joyce saw (as clearly as he could see, since he was not wearing his glasses, and his vision was poor) the twenty-year-old Nora Barnacle, then a young chambermaid, sauntering by.  Nora would later tell the story of their first meeting often, though she often told it differently. James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little Fuckbird”

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