"Finnegans Wake" author (5)
I believe the answer is:
'finnegans wake author' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for joyce that I've seen before include "William ---, Lord Haw-Haw" , "dictator's spokesman" , "James . . . . ., William . . . . ." , "lady" , "James ---, Irish modernist author" .)