Bloomsday Festival 2019 – What a week!

Bloomsday Festival 2019 – What a week!

Well, Bloomsday Festival 2019 at the James Joyce Tower & Museum has drawn to a close – and what a week it was! It all began on Tuesday last with a very enjoyable performance by the Darina Gallagher and Sinead Murphy. The ‘Seaside Girls’ entertained a...
Cathaoirleach raises the flag for Joyce Tower Bloomsday Celebrations

Cathaoirleach raises the flag for Joyce Tower Bloomsday Celebrations

James Joyce’s masterpiece ‘Ulysses’ began, at 8.00 am on the 16th June 1904, atop the iconic Joyce Tower in Sandycove.  That special date is celebrated, every June 16th, throughout the world as Bloomsday in honour of the great author and his work. On that date, no...
New Volunteers with Joyce Connections

New Volunteers with Joyce Connections

Niall Burgess and his son, Hugh, visited the James Joyce Tower & Museum recently and offered their services as Friends of Joyce Tower Society volunteers. Niall’s grandmother was a ‘Gerrard’, belonging to a family of stationers on St. Stephen’s Green...
Friends of Joyce Tower hold AGM – DLR Cathaoirleach  attends

Friends of Joyce Tower hold AGM – DLR Cathaoirleach attends

The Friends of Joyce Tower Society’s AGM was held in the Haddington Hotel, Dun Laoghaire this week. As is now becoming an annual tradition, the Cathaoirleach of Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council came along to meet with some of our volunteers and to address...
Joyce Tower to proudly fly the Union Flag

Joyce Tower to proudly fly the Union Flag

2nd April Update: It has been established that the article below contains some many inaccuracies. Fact checking has revealed that, indeed, it is completely false. Our website was hacked on April 1st and left us feeling like complete (April) fools! In an attempt to...
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