Ulysses Walking Tour
Sandycove Martello Tower - Telemachus
Episode: Telemachus
The action of Ulysses begins in Sandycove, at Martello Tower No 11, which is located on the south of Dublin Bay.
The action of Ulysses begins in Sandycove, at Martello Tower No 11, which is located on the south of Dublin Bay. It’s early in the morning and the three men are young. Buck Mulligan blesses the awakening mountains in a parody of Catholic mass. He refers to the Tower as “the omphalos” suggesting that, like the oracle at Delphi, it is the centre of the world. As Stephen Dedalus is dressed in black and brooding like Hamlet, the third man, Haines, remarks how the Tower and the cliffs remind him somehow of Elsinore “that beetles o’er his base into the sea”. The Tower is now a museum to James Joyce.
