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This study aims to examine the characteristics of an individual’s memory on the basis of a corpus linguistic technique with James Joyce’s Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. One’s memory is constructed through his or her personal experience; however, the construction of memory may also be influenced by the social framework. In ‘Eveline’ in Dubliners, Eveline’s memory of her dying mother was connected with her difficulties by patriarchal ideology. In ‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’ in Dubliners, Joe Hynes and others remembered Charles Stewart Parnell as an Irish independence fighter; thus, their memory of him indicated that they were supporting Irish independence. In A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, young Stephen Dedalus was forced to remember what the adults wanted at the first Christmas dinner. The adults tried to implant their own memories into him. In Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan, Haines had different memories of the same event, and it may depend on the situations where they were at the moment. Thus, it can be said that what the main characters from Joyce’s texts remembered is closely related to the contemporary political, religious, social situations surrounding them.