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
Object
Finnegans Wake
Books
Press
Time
Family
John Joyce
Harriet Weaver
Photograph
Nora
Ephemera
Film
Museum
Exiles
Giorgio
Map
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6 Prints of scenes from Dubliners by Farrell '75
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James Joyce's Dublin, portfolio of 6 prints by Paraic Doyle 1982
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4 First Day Covers of Joyce Centenary stamp 1982
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3 copies of poster INC Consejo Britanico 1986
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Original MS letter from Clive Hart to the Curator, 16 June 1982
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25 documents in file: minutes etc of James Joyce Tower committee 1962
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Spectacle frames in case,claimed to have been JJ's
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The Irish Times 25 July 1903, pp 3 - 6
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The Belvederian Vol VII, No 2, 1925
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2 b/w photos of Paul Ruggiero with brother and wife
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Giclee print of 'Telemachus' by Antje Hubold No 3130
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Handwritten poem by Donagh MacDonagh on the occasion of the opening of the Tower as a museum
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Copy of 1904 broadside 'The Holy Office' by James Joyce
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Copies of 2 corrected page proofs of Ulysses 1921
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0161
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Copy photo of 223 above