Joyce

[jois]

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noun

James (Augustine Aloysius), 1882–1941, Irish novelist.
William Lord Haw-Haw, 1906–46, U.S. and English Nazi propagandist in Germany.
a female or male given name: from a French word meaning “joy.”

Joyce

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noun

James ( Augustine Aloysius ). 1882–1941, Irish novelist and short-story writer. He profoundly influenced the development of the modern novel by his use of complex narrative techniques, esp stream of consciousness and parody, and of compound and coined words. His works include the novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) and the short stories Dubliners (1914)
William, known as Lord Haw-Haw. 1906–46, British broadcaster of Nazi propaganda to Britain, who was executed for treason

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James Joyce’s "Ulysses" rained em dashes on winding sentences that he had already stripped of quotation marks, resulting in prose so unruly that numerous reading groups are devoted specifically to parsing it.

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There was also an Irish Coast Guard helicopter and drones used in the search operation, Mr Joyce said.

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“I used to get up in the middle of the night and sit and look at them to find out what I was doing,” he told Paul Joyce.

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Wally Lamb has been likened to Joyce and Tolstoy.

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David Joyce, 38, was shot by an armed officer at Milton Keynes Central Station on 1 April after Thames Valley Police responded to reports of a man carrying a gun.

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