On 8 October 1904 Joyce eloped with Nora Barnacle. A couple of days after he left the Martello Tower at Sandycove, Joyce heard from Evelyn Gilford of the Midland Scholastic Agency in England that there was a teaching post available at a Berlitz School on the continent. Joyce paid £2 2s to Gilford who, […]
Martello Tower
On this day…15 September
On 15 September 1904 Joyce left the Martello Tower in Sandycove. Having arrived to stay at the Martello Tower on Friday 9 September, Joyce left it abruptly in the early hours of Thursday 15 September, and did not return. This final break with Gogarty also seemed to have confirmed Joyce’s determination to leave Ireland as […]
On this day…17 July
On 17 July 1879 James Sullivan Starkey was born. Starkey was a poet and essayist, and founder and editor of the Dublin Magazine, who wrote under the name Seumas O’Sullivan. Joyce knew him while he was in Dublin, but didn’t think much of his verse. Starkey’s father ran a pharmacy at 30 Rathmines Road where […]
On this day…24 June
24 June 1904 was the date from which Gogarty offered to occupy that Martello tower at Sandycove. In the tender for the no. 11 Martello tower at Sandycove (which was addressed to ‘His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the War Department’), Gogarty stated his willingness to become the tenant from 24 June 1904. However, […]
On this day…1 March
On 1 March 1914 Joyce started writing Ulysses. At the end of 1921 Joyce wrote to Harriet Weaver about a coincidence of birthdays connected with Ulysses. He claimed that he had finished writing the book on 30 October, Ezra Pound’s birthday, and that he had started writing it on 1 March, Frank Budgen’s birthday. If […]
