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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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Bronze cast by Werner Schorman 1962 of death mask of James Joyce

Artefacts

James Joyce's last cane

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James Joyce's wallet

Artefacts

Original iron key of the Tower

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Plumtree's Potted Meat pot

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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 Object Finnegans Wake Books Press Time Family John Joyce Harriet Weaver Photograph Nora Ephemera Film Museum Exiles Giorgio Map
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