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Christmas Debate – FJT Votes Remain!
Last Thursday evening, while our neighbours across the ‘Snotgreen’ were busy ensuring an imminent and unstoppable ‘Brexit’, the Friends of Joyce Tower Society members had more weighty matters with which to occupy themselves. It was decided by ‘the powers that be’ to...
FJT Volunteers Visit The Dead – again!
One of the many benefits of membership of the Friends of Joyce Tower Society (FJT) is the opportunity to participate in the terrific outings and events organised by the society throughout the year. Sometimes, these events are only deadly! Last year for, for example,...
Is Paul O’Hanrahan the Pied Piper of Sandycove?
‘What a great experience. Paul was terrific and really engaging – he really made it (Telemachus) so interesting and easy to follow.’ ‘That was just perfect!’ ‘I have never read Ulysses – but I’m going to give it a go after that introduction.’ ‘I loved the way Paul...
NO Bribery or Corruption at Bloomsday Best Dressed Volunteer Awards?!
It has become traditional for the Friends of Joyce Tower Society (FJT) to award extremely valuable and highly coveted prizes to those judged to be among the best dressed FJT volunteers over the Bloomsday Festival period. In past years, the prize-giving event was...
Bloomsday Festival 2019 – What a week!
Well, Bloomsday Festival 2019 at the James Joyce Tower & Museum has drawn to a close – and what a week it was! It all began on Tuesday last with a very enjoyable performance by the Darina Gallagher and Sinead Murphy. The 'Seaside Girls' entertained a full house...
Cathaoirleach raises the flag for Joyce Tower Bloomsday Celebrations
James Joyce’s masterpiece ‘Ulysses’ began, at 8.00 am on the 16th June 1904, atop the iconic Joyce Tower in Sandycove. That special date is celebrated, every June 16th, throughout the world as Bloomsday in honour of the great author and his work. On that date, no...
New Volunteers with Joyce Connections
Niall Burgess and his son, Hugh, visited the James Joyce Tower & Museum recently and offered their services as Friends of Joyce Tower Society volunteers. Niall’s grandmother was a 'Gerrard', belonging to a family of stationers on St. Stephen’s Green whose claim to...
Friends of Joyce Tower hold AGM – DLR Cathaoirleach attends
The Friends of Joyce Tower Society's AGM was held in the Haddington Hotel, Dun Laoghaire this week. As is now becoming an annual tradition, the Cathaoirleach of Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council came along to meet with some of our volunteers and to address the AGM...
Joyce Tower to proudly fly the Union Flag
2nd April Update: It has been established that the article below contains some many inaccuracies. Fact checking has revealed that, indeed, it is completely false. Our website was hacked on April 1st and left us feeling like complete (April) fools! In an attempt to...
