Eveline Eveline "Eveline" is a short story by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was first published in 1904 by the journal "Irish Homestead" and later featured in his 1914 collection of short stories "Dubliners". A young woman, Eveline, of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home. She muses on the aspects of her life that are driving her away, while "in her nostrils was the odor of dusty cretonne". Her mother has died as has her older brother Ernest. Her remaining brother, Harry, is on the road "in the church decorating business". She fears
Stephen James Joyce Joyce, live in the Île de Ré in France. They have no children; Stephen is James Joyce's sole living descendant. Stephen Joyce and Seán Sweeney are the joint trustees of the Estate of James Joyce. Stephen Joyce has taken an active role in all legal matters relating to Joyce's works. He has brought numerous lawsuits or threats of legal action against scholars, biographers, and artists attempting to quote from Joyce's literary work or personal correspondence. In 2004, Stephen Joyce threatened legal action against the Irish government when the "Rejoyce Dublin 2004" festival proposed public reading of excerpts of "Ulysses" on