Which Irish writer married an ex-chambermaid called Nora Barnacle?
Nora Barnacle to Barnacle sold at Sotheby's for £240,800, a record amount for a modern-day letter at auction. Nora Barnacle Nora Barnacle (21 March 1884 – 10 April 1951) was the muse and wife of Irish author James Joyce. Barnacle and Joyce had their first romantic assignment on a date celebrated worldwide as the ‘Bloomsday’ of his modernist novel "Ulysses", a book that she did not, however, enjoy. Their sexually explicit letters have aroused much curiosity, especially as Joyce normally disapproved of coarse language, and they fetch high prices at auction. Barnacle was played by Susan Lynch in the 1999 bio-pic "Nora".
Nora Barnacle and cried, 'Che bello! Che bello!' then lunged and tried to strangle them.' As Maddox also noted, 'There is no record that Nora ever saw her daughter again.' After Joyce's death in Zurich in 1941, Nora decided to remain there. She died in Zurich of acute renal failure in 1951, at age 67. In 1988, Nora Barnacle was the subject of a biography by Brenda Maddox, "Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce". This in turn was made into a film in 1999, directed by Pat Murphy and starring Susan Lynch and Ewan McGregor. In 2004, an erotic letter from Joyce