Bloomsday Festival 2019 – What a week!

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...
New Volunteers with Joyce Connections

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...
Joyce Tower to proudly fly the Union Flag

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...
Nora Barnacle’s Birthday Quiz

Nora Barnacle’s Birthday Quiz

On Thursday night. the friends of Joyce Tower volunteers held a quiz night to mark the birthday of Nora Barnacle, James Joyce’s partner. Nora was born on the 21st March, 1884 in the West of Ireland. Her father was a baker, her mother a dressmaker. Her early life was...
FJT at the IPB Pride of Place Awards 2018

FJT at the IPB Pride of Place Awards 2018

Representatives of the Friends of Joyce Tower Society travelled to Cork over the weekend to attend the IPB Pride of Place Awards 2018. We were there at the invitation of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council who had nominated the Society for an award in the Pride of...
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