His father was a river pilot on the Shannon Estuary approach to the port of Limerick.
[2] He was educated by the Christian Brothers, attending three of their schools, including CBS Sexton Street.
[1] He was a member of St Michael's Temperance Society where he played Gaelic football.
While travelling to London aboard the RMS Leinster in October 1918, Joyce survived his fifth maritime disaster, when the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat in the Irish Sea.
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