As suyas obras mas conoixitas son Dubliners (una serie de relatos curtos sobre os habitants de Dublín publicata en 1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (una novela publicata en 1916), Ulysses (una atra novela, ista publicata en 1922) y Finnegans Wake (una tercera novela, publicata en 1939 quan ya yera amanata a suya muerte).