Identity area
Reference code
IE LMOD 570
Title
1954 Bloomsday 50th Anniversary
Date(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
Photographic paper, ink. 39 x 39 cm
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
22/08/2011
Content and structure area
Scope and content
1954 Anthony Cronin, John Ryan and Patrick Kavanagh at Martello Tower. A black and white photo of Anthony Cronin, John Ryan and Patrick Kavanagh on Bloomsday, 16 June, 1954 outside the Martello Tower, Sandycove, Co. Dublin
Bloomsday was first celebrated on the 16th of June 1954, the 50th anniversary of the day on which the story of James Joyce’s Ulysses took place. Poets Anthony Cronin (on the left) and Patrick Kavanagh (on the right) are pictured here with publisher John Ryan at the Martello tower in Sandycove, where Joyce once lived.
