Ours is the Omphalos: The Sandycove Martello Tower in the book and on the bay
This lecture is part of the Joycenights Festival celebrating the anniversary of the week that Joyce stayed at the Sandycove Martello Tower – 9-14 September 1904
Dr Alice Ryan is Curator of the James Joyce Tower in Sandycove, Dublin caring for a unique collection of Joycean artefacts as well as the Martello Tower itself, its ‘cold domed room’, and its famous stairhead. She regularly delivers an eighteen-week course on reading Ulysses at the James Joyce Tower and previously at Saor-Ollscoil na hÉireann. She has presented papers at the International James Joyce Symposia in Utrecht (2014) and Dublin (2022). She was also co-editor with Helen Solterer of the 2022 reissue of C. P. Curran’s James Joyce Remembered.
Event Details
Date: Thursday 11 September 2025
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Location: Carnegie Library, 19/23 Georges Street Lower, Dun Laoghaire
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