Museum
James Joyce Tower
Sandycove Point, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, A96 FX33
Napoleonic-era coastal watchtower where a young writer's chaotic six-day stay inspired a novel's opening scene.
This guide to the James Joyce Tower in Dublin puts you inside a chaotic night in 1904, when 22-year-old Joyce was staying here as a guest of Oliver Saint John Gogarty, a reckless medical student who had leased the old Napoleonic cannon tower half as a joke. It follows what happened when a third housemate, an Oxford friend named Samuel Trench, woke from a nightmare in the small hours certain something was stalking him in the dark. Best heard from the tower's gun platform, looking out over the bay where the noise once was.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.