Stephen Joyce, a grandson and last surviving direct descendant of James Joyce and the formidably rigid gatekeeper of that Irish author’s coveted literary estate, died Jan. 23 on Île de Re ...

When his grandson was born, Joyce asked the universe for “love and mercy”; with the passing of that grandson, Stephen James Joyce, on January 24th last, it feels that wish might be usefully ...

Stephen Joyce, the grandson and literary protector of Irish author James Joyce, is dead at 87. He died Jan. 23 on the French island of Ile de Re, confirmed Ireland’s president Michael Higgins.

Critics may wonder if Finnegans Wake is not a huge, jesting and virtuoso footnote to Joyce’s simplest and finest poem, Ecce Puer, written soon after his father died and his grandson Stephen was ...