James Joyce Tower and Museum

James Joyce Tower with entrance to the museum.

James Joyce's and partners room within the tower.

view from James Joyce Tower

The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights (September 9–14) in 1904.^[1] Admission is free.^[2]

History

The tower was leased from the British War Office by Joyce's university friend Oliver St. John Gogarty, with the purpose of "Hellenising" Ireland. Gogarty later attributed Joyce's abrupt departure after only six days to a midnight incident with a loaded revolver.^[3]

The opening scenes of Ulysses are set the morning after this incident. Gogarty is immortalised as "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan" (the opening words of the novel).

The tower now contains a museum dedicated to Joyce and displays some of his possessions and other ephemera associated with Ulysses (e.g., an empty pot of "Plumtree's Potted Meat"). The living space is set up to resemble its 1904 appearance (with a ceramic panther to represent one seen in a dream by a resident). It is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday.

The Tower became a museum opening on 16 June 1962 through the efforts of Dublin artist John Ryan. Ryan also rescued the front door to 7 Eccles Street (now at the James Joyce Centre) from demolition and organised, with Brian O'Nolan, the first Bloomsday Celebration in 1954.

The James Joyce Tower is open 365 days a year, 10am-6pm (10am-4pm in Winter). Admission is free. The museum is run by the Friends of Joyce Tower Society on a voluntary basis.

References

↑ Bowker, Gordon (2012). James Joyce: A New Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. pp. 130–131.
↑ "James Joyce Tower and Museum". Retrieved 9 February 2015.
↑ Gogarty, Oliver (1948). Mourning Became Mrs. Spendlove. New York: Creative Age Press. pp. 56–57.

Bibliography

Ryan, Susan (20 August 2012). "Joyce Tower set to reopen thanks to volunteer support". TheJournal.ie.

External links

Ulysses by James Joyce

Characters	Leopold Bloom Molly Bloom Stephen Dedalus

Locations	Davy Byrne's pub Glasnevin Cemetery James Joyce Tower and Museum Sandymount Strand National Library of Ireland

Analysis	Gilbert schema Linati schema

Adaptations	Ulysses in Nighttown (1958 play) Ulysses (1967 film) Ulysses (1982 broadcast) Blooms of Dublin (1982 operetta) "The Sensual World" (1989 song) Bloom (2003 film) "Air War" (2007 song) Ulysses "Seen" (2012 graphic novel)

Other	Bloomsday Lilac Bloomsday Run Obscenity trial of Ulysses in The Little Review United States v. One Book Called Ulysses

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Leinster	An Post Museum Carlow County Museum Chester Beatty Library County Carlow Military Museum County Museum Dundalk The Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Dublin Writers Museum Irish Agricultural Museum Irish Jewish Museum Irish Museum of Modern Art James Joyce Centre James Joyce Tower and Museum Kilmainham Gaol Luan Gallery Marsh's Library National 1798 Rebellion Centre National Gallery of Ireland National Leprechaun Museum National Library of Ireland National Maritime Museum of Ireland National Museum of Ireland National Photographic Archive National Print Museum National Transport Museum of Ireland National Wax Museum Natural History Museum Number Twenty Nine - Georgian House Museum Pearse Museum Science Gallery State Heraldic Museum Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio

Ulster	Cavan County Museum Donegal County Museum Donegal Railway Centre Monaghan County Museum

James Joyce

Works

Novels	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Ulysses (1922) Finnegans Wake (1939)

Short stories	Dubliners (1914, written 1904–07) "The Sisters" "Eveline" "After the Race" "An Encounter" "Araby" "The Boarding House" "Counterparts" "Clay" "A Painful Case" "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" "A Mother" "Two Gallants" "A Little Cloud" "Grace" "The Dead"

Play	Exiles (1918)

Poetry	Chamber Music (1907) Pomes Penyeach (1927)

Posthumous publications	Stephen Hero (1944) Giacomo Joyce (1968) The Cats of Copenhagen (2012) Finn's Hotel (2013)

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Coordinates: 53°17′19″N 6°06′50″W / 53.28869°N 6.11375°W / 53.28869; -6.11375

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