Joyce, Martello Tower and Ulysses...

A minor Joyce note is warranted today as it was on this day in 1904 that Joyce (then 22) moved in with his friend, Oliver St. John Gogarty into Martello Tower. The Tower was in Shadycove, just outside Dublin. He stayed only a week...before running off to Europe with Nora. He did not return to Ireland...but the Tower was immortalized in the open chapter of Ulysses and the world is better for it *laughing*.