Fritz Senn

So within a few days, he had to leave.

And he asked Nora Barnacle, whom we had just met a couple of months earlier, to join him.

And she just said, yes, I'm coming with you.

Which was, of course, rather unusual at that time for a woman to leave her country, her family, with a man who just didn't have any professional prospects, who she wasn't married to.

So they went together and they came to Zurich.

But this turned out to be a miscommunication.

And it turned out that the job at the Berlitz School was in Trieste.

So after just a week staying at the Gasthofno, they moved on to Trieste and they stayed there for more than a decade.

They had two kids, Giorgio Joyce in 1905 and Lucia Joyce in 1907.

And when the war broke out, Joyce, the Irishman, of course, was still a British citizen.

And Trieste, being then still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was on enemy territory.

So he was a hostile alien.

That's

what these people were called.

So we had to leave.

So he spent the years of 1915 to 1919 here in Zurich until the end of the First World War.

And he wrote the first half of Ulysses here.

After the war, Joyce decided to leave Zurich and he and his family moved on to Trieste.

They stayed there for a short while and then left for Paris.

Their friends had urged them and invited them.