The above pictures show a Martello Tower, built to watch out for Napoleon's invasion of the British Isles. This one is in Dun Laoghaire, south of Dublin, and would be just any other relic of Britain's military past had it not been briefly lived in by author James Joyce, who later set the opening Telemachus chapter of 'Ulysses' in it. In the novel it is the residence of Buck Milligan, Stephen Dedalus and Haines. I visited it the day after the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday and it is now the James Joyce Museum.
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