Joyce turned on the Catholic Church, but his Jesuit education left a deep impression on his life and work

Bloomsday tomorrow is named for the day James Joyce met Nora Barnacle, the decisive personal influence in his life. But Joyceans should perhaps mark another day as a key influence: the day he began his Jesuit education, as a boarder at Clongowes Wood in 1888, when he was six-and-a-half years old.