He was to live at the college, except during holidays, until June 1891. By the end of the 1890-1891 school year, however, his father's mounting financial difficulties dictated that he be withdrawn from the college. He was allowed for a time to study at home by himself, which he seems to have done conscientiously. Sometime during the fall or winter term of 1893 John Joyce finally enrolled James in the Christian Brothers' School, a considerable descent both academically and socially for the Joyces. Fortunately Father John Conmee, who had been rector at Clongowes while James had been a student there, was now the prefect of studies at an outstanding Jesuit day school, Belvedere College. Hearing of James's somewhat compromised situation, he arranged for all the Joyce boys to attend Belvedere without fees, and James began his studies there on 6 April 1893.
Joyce distinguished himself at Belvedere, and upon graduating in 1898 he matriculated at University College of the Catholic University in Dublin founded by John Henry Cardinal Newman in 1853. Again Joyce did exceptionally well. In the fall of his sophomore year he prepared a paper defending Henrik Ibsen's drama, a paper titled "Drama and Life," for presentation to the college Literary and Historical Society.
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