The James Joyce Tower Collection
The James Joyce Tower Collection offers an intimate portrait of Joyce’s life, work, and lasting influence. Housed in the Martello Tower where Ulysses begins, the collection spans personal belongings, rare editions, letters, photographs, and ephemera connected with Joyce’s world — from Dublin to Trieste, Zurich and Paris.
What began as a modest tribute now stands as one of the most distinctive literary collections in Ireland, expanded through decades of generous donations and curatorial care.
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Lucia
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Maria Jolas
Tower
Gogarty
Ulysses
Death-mask
Poems
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Dubliners
Manuscript
Dublin
Translation
Magazine
Ezra Pound
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Sylvia Beach
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TIME,XXXIII.19, May 8 1939, photo of Joyce on cover
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Collected Poems of James Joyce, first edition (no 625/800), Black Sun Press 1936
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Original MS letter from James Joyce to Mrs Hansen, 30 August 1936
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Stephen Hero by James Joyce, first edition, Jonathan Cape 1944
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Picture postcard of TCD and College Green, 1904
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Colour photo of early 20th century postcard of Sandycove
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French/English dictionary inscribed by John Stanislaus Joyce 1902
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Wooden box painted by Lucia Joyce for Harriet Weaver
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Package with F.W.Sweny printed label
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Leather cigar case owned by James Joyce
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Original MS letter from James Joyce to Paul Ruggiero, 18 November 1938
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Original door of gunpowder magazine in the Joyce Tower
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Chair used by Sylvia Beach at opening of museum in 1962
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Copy of 1916 portrait photo of Nora Barnacle
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Copy of 1919 portrait photo of Harriet Weaver
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Bronze cast by Werner Schorman 1962 of death mask of James Joyce
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Copies of 2 photos (i) Sylvia Beach & JJ (ii) SB & JJ with John Rodker and Cyprian Beach
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James Joyce Reading 'Anna Livia Plurabelle', Orthological Institute 1929
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Photos of opening of Joyce Tower 1962
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Photo of James Joyce in flat in Trieste 1919/20
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Copy of Gisele Freund photo of 'Four Generations of Joyces'
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Copies of 2 photos of James Joyce and Nora with Stanislaus Joyce et al
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Portrait photo of Oliver St John Gogarty
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Painting of 7 Eccles Street by Flora Mitchell
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Copies of 2 photographs of Davy Stephens
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Caricature of James Joyce by Arthur Power
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Portrait sketch of James Joyce by Wilhelm Gimmi
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Leopold Bloom's House by Jack Caprani 1982
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Sandycove Point 7.30 a.m. by Florence H. Crowe 1917 (unframed)
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Dublin Bay Near Sandycovec. 1810, artist unknown
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Painting of Sandycove Point by LGH 1904
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Ulysses by James Joyce, Odyssey Press 1935
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Bohemian Literary and Social life by Sisley Huddleston 1928
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Ulysses by James Joyce, first Japanese translation 1932
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The Freeman's Journal 17 May 1904, in frame
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Burton restaurant Guinness label
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Poster for Joseph Strick's Ulysses 1967
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Ulysses by James Joyce, Bodley Head 1936, No 268/1000
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Programme for John Sullivan Concert 1930
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Carbon TS copies of 2 letters from James Joyce to Angelo Morterra, 1916
