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Noel O’Grady Entertains with Music at the Tower
The Bloomsday Festival activities kicked off at the James Joyce Tower & Museum yesterday with a selection of songs and stories delivered by Noel O'Grady (five time winner of Oireachtas na Gaeilge for traditional singing). Noel, who has been described in the press...
From Bollywood to Sandycove!
It was our great pleasure to welcome Deepti Naval to the Tower on Saturday last. Deepti Naval is a major star in the Bollywood film industry and has also published books of poetry and short stories. She also paints and holds exhibitions of paintings and photos. She...
Bloomsday 2017 at the James Joyce Tower & Museum
The programme for the Bloomsday Festival activities at the James Joyce Tower & Museum has just been finalised. The festival will run from June 10th through to June 16th (Bloomsday itself). It promises to be a terrific week with theatre, music and general craic....
DLR ‘Spring into Heritage’ at Joyce Tower
The 'Spring into Heritage' programme of events is a series of free guided tours run by the Heritage Office of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. They are suitable for schools, students, families, historic groups and individuals interested in local history. This...
Joyce Tower to Receive Facelift
Important Notice (issued on April 2nd): We have discovered that Dr Avril Foorst is a fraud and her 'plans' for the tower should not be taken too seriously. It's all in the name (and the date) really. It was always thought that the iconic James Joyce Martello Tower at...
Joanna Trollope Visits James Joyce Tower & Museum
Joanna Trollope is among the UK’s most popular novelists with a string of highly acclaimed and bestselling novels to her credit. She has chaired the Whitbread and Orange Awards, as well as being a judge of many other literature prizes. In 2014, she updated Jane...
DLR CoCo Cathaoirleach visits Friends of Joyce Tower Society AGM
The AGM of the friends of Joyce Tower Society took place on the 9th March 2017. The meeting included a review of all the activities of the society throughout 2016 during which the wonderful work of our volunteers and the FJT committee was highlighted as they continued...
Frank Delaney RIP
Author, broadcaster and James Joyce fanatic, Frank Delaney has passed away aged seventy four. Born in Tipperary, Delaney had worked in RTE, BBC and other radio and television broadcasters where he fronted many important arts shows most notably Bookshelf, Omnibus and...
Italian Scholars visit the tower
On Saturday 14th January we were delighted to welcome Italian Joycean scholars Enrico Terrinoni and Fabio Pedone to the Tower. Enrico and Fabio have been translating Finnegans Wake into Italian and the first portion of their work was launched at the Italian Institute...
