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  1. James Stephens (born Feb. 9, 1880, Dublindied Dec. 26, 1950, London) was an Irish poet and storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his fairy tales set in the Dublin slums of his childhood and in his compassionate poems about animals.

  2. James Stephens' birth is somewhat shrouded in mystery. Stephens himself claimed to have been born on the same day and same year as James Joyce (2 February 1882), whereas he is in fact probably the same James Stephens who is on record as being born at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, on 9 February 1880, the son of Francis Stephens (c. 1840–1882/3 ...

  3. May 17, 2018 · Founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and a key figure in the creation of the transatlantic Irish revolutionary republican movement, James Stephens (1824–1901) was born in Kilkenny in 1825.

  4. Irish poet James Stephens was born in Dublin to a working-class family. After his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage, he was sent to the Meath Protestant Industrial School for Boys. In 1896, he left school and began work as a clerk-typist in Dublin.

  5. James Stephens was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland, and died December 26, 1950, in London, England. At the age of two James' father passed away leaving his mother to fend for herself in the Dublin slums.

  6. Stephens himself claimed to have been born on the same day and same year as James Joyce (2 February 1882), whereas he is in fact probably the same James Stephens who is on record as being born at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, on 9 February 1880, the son of Francis Stephens (c. 1840–1882/3) of 5 Thomas's Court, Dublin, a vanman and a messenger ...

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  8. Stephens was born on or about Feb. 9, 1880, in Dublin. He was working as a solicitor’s clerk and educating himself when he met the Irish poet Æ (George William Russell), who encouraged him and helped him publish his first book of poetry, Insurrections, in 1909.

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