A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Dublin boyhood grows into an artist's conscience: Stephen Dedalus moves from a Jesuit boarding school in the Kildare countryside through the schoolrooms and streets of Dublin to the strand and the university, until he resolves to leave Ireland to make himself an artist.

Stephen Dedalus

Clongowes Wood College, Clane

Chapter 1

The book opens with a small boy far from home at a Jesuit boarding school, learning the pecking order of dormitory, playing field and study hall. A pandying by a prefect for broken glasses becomes his first act of protest, when he walks to the rector to say he was punished unfairly. Clongowes is where Stephen first tests conscience against authority.

Chapter 1

explicit The novel names Clongowes as Stephen's boarding school; sited at the real Jesuit college near Clane in Co. Kildare, about 30 km west of Dublin. Marked outside the setting box because it lies well beyond the city the book otherwise inhabits.

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