Original postcard from James Joyce to George Dempsey 20 December 1917

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Original postcard from James Joyce to George Dempsey 20 December 1917

Dempsey, Joyce’s old English teacher in Belvedere, appears in A Portrait as ‘Mr Tate’. Card reads “”To my English master, with kind rememberances from his old pupil.” Acquired for the Tower from George Dempsey’s grandson, Brian Ellis, in 1989.

Subject

Museum artefacts, James Joyce

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