joyce met nora barnacle in 1904 and they began to have a long relationship until his death in 1941. the couple moved out of dublin to zürich in 1904, then to trieste, paris then back to zürich. they married in 1931. they had a son and a daughter. their daughter had a mental illness later in her life. because he was smart, his parents wanted him to go to college. he studied modern languages at university college dublin.