1. Nora Barnacle was born in a Galway workhouse on 21 March 1884.
15 Facts About Nora Barnacle
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Nora Barnacle's father, Thomas Barnacle, a baker in Connemara, was an illiterate man who was 38 years old when she was born.
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The unusual surname Nora Barnacle is derived from the Irish O Cadhain, usually anglicised as Coyne, Kyne, or Cohen or Coen.
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From 1886 to 1889, Nora Barnacle's parents sent her to live with her maternal grandmother Catherine Mortimer Healy.
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In 1896,12-year-old Nora Barnacle completed her schooling and began to work as a porteress and laundress.
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Nora Barnacle went to live with her mother and her uncle, Tom Healy, at 4 Bowling Green, Galway.
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In 1896, at age 12, Nora Barnacle fell in love with a teenager named Michael Feeney, who died soon after of typhoid and pneumonia.
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Nora Barnacle met Joyce on 10 June 1904 while in Dublin and they had their first romantic liaison on 16 June.
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Joyce seems to have admired and trusted her, and Nora Barnacle clearly loved Joyce and trusted him enough to agree to leave Ireland with him for the Continent.
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On 27 June 1905, Nora Barnacle gave birth to a son, Giorgio and later to a daughter, Lucia, on 26 July 1907.
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Nora Barnacle was diagnosed with schizophrenia and admitted to a clinic in 1936.
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Nora Barnacle's father visited her there often, but not her mother.
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Nora Barnacle died in Zurich of acute kidney failure in 1951, at age 67.
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Nora Barnacle was buried at Fluntern Cemetery, by her husband's side.
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In 1988, Nora Barnacle was the subject of a biography by Brenda Maddox, Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce.