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[[Robert Dwyer Joyce]] was a younger brother. Joyce was a native Irish speaker who started his education at a [[hedge school]]. He then attended school in [[Mitchelstown]], County Cork.
Joyce started work in 1845 with the [[Commission of National Education (Ireland)|Commission of National Education]]. He became a teacher and principal of the Model School, [[Clonmel]]. In 1856 he was one of fifteen teachers selected to re-organize the national school system in Ireland. Meanwhile he earned his B.A. in 1861 and M.A. in 1863 from [[Trinity College Dublin|Trinity College]], [[Dublin]].<ref name=boy>{{cite book|last=Boylan|first= Henry |year=1998|chapter-url = https://www.dib.ie/biography/joyce-patrick-weston-a4364 | chapter = Joyce, Patrick Weston | title = A Dictionary of Irish Biography |page=198|location=Dublin|publisher= Gill and MacMillan|ISBN = 0-7171-2945-4}}</ref>
He was principal of the Training College, Marlborough Street, in [[Dublin]] from 1874 to 1893. As a member of the [[Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language]] he wrote an Irish Grammar in 1878. He was President of the [[Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland]] from 1906 to 1908, an association of which he was a member from 1865.<ref name=boy/>
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