An Irish Diary on the career of former Coronation Street actor Paddy Joyce, James Joyce’s nephew
Eileen met her future husband when he attended English classes given by James Joyce in Trieste. Joyce was the best man at their wedding in 1915. Misfortune visited Eileen, however, and she had to return to Ireland with her three children in February 1928 following the death of her husband.
Paddy was around five years of age when he arrived in Dublin and could only speak Italian, much to the amusement of some of the local boys. When they heard him speak, they would chide him with chants of “gowwa that” but he quickly picked up the language of his peers. During his time in Belvedere, Paddy acted in Gilbert and Sullivan operas, including The Gondoliers and The Mikado. In the 1940s, with the Old Belvedere Musical Society, he performed in Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, Iolanthe and in the Edwardian musical comedy, The Arcadians. He was also a member of the UCD Players.
Paddy treaded the boards on London’s West End. He spent a year and a half performing in the long running stage show Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’be in the early 1960s. His first film role was in the 1953 war-time adventure, The Cruel Sea, which starred Jack Hawkins and Donald Sinden. He played a soldier in the 1969 film, Oh! What a Lovely War.
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