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Martello Tower on Sandycove Point is built as one of a series of fifteen similar towers built around Dublin to counter the threat of an invasion by Napoleon. |
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| 1904/08/00 |
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The tower is demilitarized and put up for rent at 8 pounds a year by the War Department. The first tenant is Oliver St John Gogarty, a medical student and budding poet. |
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| 1904/09/09 |
James Joyce |
Guest |
James Joyce spends six days, from September 9 to 14 at the Martello tower. Oliver St John Gogarty, his host, later attributed Joyce's abrupt departure to a midnight incident with a loaded revolver. |
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| 1954/00/00 |
John Huston |
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Architect Michael Scott buys James Joyce Tower with funding help from American film director, John Huston. |
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| 1962/06/16 |
Sylvia Beach |
Dignitary |
Established by Michael Scott and his friends, the James Joyce Museum is opened by Sylvia Beach, the first publisher of Ulysses. |
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