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 […]
Oliver St John Gogarty
On this day…9 September
On 9 September 1904 Joyce arrived at the Martello Tower. Joyce’s short-lived stay at the Martello Tower in Sandycove began on Friday 9 September 1904 and ended just six days later. Despite the brevity of his stay there, his connection with this unusual residence has made it the most iconic of all the locations associated […]
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…20 April
On 20 April 1904 Stanislaus Joyce recorded in his diary that Joyce was living at Shelbourne Road. Joyce moved into lodgings at 60 Shelbourne Road in April 1904, and remained there until the end of August. During that summer, Joyce taught at Clifton School, Dalkey; he met his future wife, Nora Barnacle; he won third […]
On this day…10 December
On 10 December 1907 Gogarty invited Joyce to Vienna. Gogarty had gone to Vienna to continue his medical studies, and while there he wrote to Joyce suggesting that he should come and visit, or even come to Vienna to live. Gogarty had completed his final medical exams at Trinity College in June 1907, ten years […]
