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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Personal-effects
Signed
Lucia
Artwork
Portrait
Play
Maria Jolas
Tower
Gogarty
Ulysses
Death-mask
Poems
Music
Dubliners
Manuscript
Dublin
Translation
Magazine
Ezra Pound
Documents
Postcard
Sylvia Beach
Building-fragments
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Finnegans Wake
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John Joyce
Harriet Weaver
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Map
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Dubliners by James Joyce, first edition, Grant Richards 1914
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TIME, The Weekly Magazine,Vol XXIII.5, Jan 29 1934, drawing of Joyce on cover
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Chamber Music by James Joyce, first edition, Elkin Mathews 1907
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7 photos and 4 printed items from opening of James Joyce Museum
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4 photos (Giorgio Joyce, John Kidd, Stephen Joyce) and 1 booklet (James Joyce's Tower)
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Programme for Hengler's Grand Cirque, Dublin 1881 or 1887
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Terracotta buttercooler
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Menu for Bloomsday lunch 1949 in Trieste signed by Stanislaus Joyce et al
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Portrait of Harry Norman by John Butler Yeats 1902
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Upright Petrof piano owned by James Joyce
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Portrait of James Joyce by Basil Blackshaw 1961
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Postcard signed by Lucia, Nora and James Joyce to John Sullivan, 1930
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Iron Jelloids' tin
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3 bronze pennies (1900, 1902, 1904)
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Les Amis de 1914, No 40, 23 Feb 1934
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Joyce The Artificer (88/90)
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Photo of F.W. Sweny
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Exiles at Mermaid Theatre 1970
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Ulysses, Shakespeare and Company, 1925
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Transition 1 - 8, 10 - 12 (April 1927 - March 1928
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Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, Faber & Faber 1932 (1st UK edn)
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Anna Livia Plurabelle by James Joyce, Faber and Faber 1930
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A Key to the Ulysses of James Joyce by Paul Jordan Smith, limited first edn (one of 960 copies), Pascal Covici 1927
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MS Verse in hand of Oliver St John Gogarty
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Photograph of James Joyce, portrait, by Berenice Abbot, Paris 1928
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James Joyce’s Tower by Richard Ellmann signed by author and Seamus Heaney
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The Resurrection of Hungary by Arthur Griffith, first edition 1904
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Copy of 1904 broadside 'The Holy Office' by James Joyce
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Copy of 3 June 1904 letter from James Joyce to Oliver St John Gogarty
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Copy of 10 September 1904 letter from James Joyce to Nora Barnacle
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Copy of 16 September 1904 letter from Nora Barnacle to James Joyce
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Photos of 2 postcards of Vlissingen
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Photos of 2 sides of 26 July 1912 postcard from James Joyce to Italo Svevo
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Copy of inscribed portrait photo of James Joyce in 1918
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Copy of Joyce's library card, Zurich 1915
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Copies of 2 corrected page proofs of Ulysses 1921
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Ulysses by James Joyce, first edition 1922 in box cover, No 819/1000
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Copy (4 pp) of 11 March 1923 letter from James Joyce to his father
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Copy of photograph of Dejeuner Ulysse 27 June 1929 and menu
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Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce, first edition, Shakespeare and Company 1927
