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23.05.2015. James  Joyce. Martello Tower. Sandycove.

Sandycove (Irish: Cuas an Ghainimh) is an area of Dublin, Ireland. It is a popular seaside resort.

The writer James Joyce  lived for a week as a young man in the Martello Tower, The most famous Tower in Dublin is Tower No. 11, in Sandycove Co. Dublin. It is known as Joyce’s Tower, a Museum dedicated to one of Irelands most talented authors James Joyce. He stayed in the tower in Sandy cove, and it is believed that James Joyce got inspiration there for one of his most famous works “Ulysses“. The museum is open to the public during the summer months, a must-see on the list of top Dublin attractions connected to James Joyce. Martello Tower is situated beside the Forty foot bathing place at Sandycove. The opening scene of Joyce' Ulysses  is set in this tower.

 It now hosts a small Joycean museum, open all year round Bloomsday is celebrated in Sandycove in Joyce's honour on the 16th of June every year.

Martello towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos, are small defensive  forts, that were builtt across the British Empire during the 19th century, and not only. Most were coastal forts.  Along the whole Adriatic coast we can see this tipical tower.

Walking through Sandycove.

The Irish sea. 

Alida, Nela i Danijela.

Martello towers were inspired by a round fortress, part of a larger Genoese defence system, at  Mortella (Myrtle) Point in Corsica. The designer was Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino (el Fratin),^[1] and the tower was completed in 1565.

Since the 15th century, the Corsicans had built similar towers at strategic points around the island to protect coastal villages and shipping from North African pirates. The towers stood one or two storeys high and measured 12–15 m (39–49 ft) in diameter, with a single doorway five metres off the ground that one could access only via a ladder which the occupants could remove.^[2]

Local villagers paid for the towers and watchmen, known as torregiani, who would signal the approach of unexpected ships by lighting a beacon fire on the tower's roof. The fire would alert the local defence forces to the threat. Although the pirate threat subsequently dwindled, the Genovese built a newer generation of circular towers (the Genoese towers), that warded off later foreign invasions.  

^{(from Internet. I wish you a nice surfing.)  But make a nice walk all around our Pula; from Premantura till Peroj and Barbariga you will enjoyed in seesitting of Martello towers even in Peroj, on the beach Bođinka.}

The James Joyce Tower was one of a series of Martello towers built to withstand an invasion by Napoleon and now holds a museum devoted to the life and works of James Joyce, who made the tower the setting for the first chapter of his masterpiece, Ulysses.

Beautifully located eight miles south of Dublin on the coast road, this tower is the perfect setting for a museum dedicated to Joyce, a writer of international renown who remains, world-wide, the writer most associated with Dublin.

Joyce's brief stay here inspired the opening of his great novel Ulysses. The gun platform with its panoramic view, and the living room inside the tower are much as he described them in his book.

The museum's collection includes letters, photographs, first and rare editions and personal possessions of Joyce, as well as items associated with the Dublin of Ulysses.

Ulysses was set on 16th June 1904. On Bloomsday, 16th June, the museum will be open from 8am-6pm for readings and celebrations.

                                                                                

The wiev to the Dublin bay and more. Images from inside of the Martello Tower.

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce. first published in 1914. They form a   naturalistic  depiction of    of Irissh middle class life in and around Dublin in the anda around Dublin in the early years of the 20th

The stories were written when when Irish naionalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel   Ulysses.  The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.

 http://www.literarytraveler.com/articles/james-joyce-and-the-golden-gate-of-pula/

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― Marija Jurić Zagorka, Gordana kraljica Hrvata 

 Happy birthday.

 

The event is going on.

Delia i Sonja.

Marija Buzet.. Darinka. Loredana Buzet. Olivera Pula.

 The group.  Selma, Isabela. Lily and Dragica.







 Selma. Isabela. Dragica. Lily.     

Historia est Magistra Vitea.....

.......so let's go.

Historia est Magistra Vitae (or often written like this, which is in a more Latin spirit - Historia magistra vitae est) is a Latin expression, taken from Cicero's De Oratore, which suggests that "history is life's teacher". The phrase conveys the idea that the study of the past should serve as a lesson to the future, and was an important pillar of classical, medieval and Renaissance historiography.

The complete phrase, with English translation, is:

Historia vero testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoriae, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis, qua voce alia nisi oratoris immortalitati commendatur?

By what other voice, too, than that of the orator, is history, the evidence of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality?

(quote from Internet)

 At the mouth of  Galway bay on the west coast, are situated  Aran Islands, group of three islands. From west to east the islands are: the largest Inishmore,  the second-largest Inishmaan, and Inisheer, the smallest. About 1.200 inhabitants primarily speak Irish, the language used in local placenames. Most islanders are also fluent in English.

The islands' geology is mainly karst limestone, related to the Burren in County Clare (to the east), but not the granits of Connemara to the north, and this is most obious in the construction of the walls around

 the fields. 

 

Huge boulders up to 25 metres (80 ft) above the sea at parts of the west facing cliffs are
in some cases an extreme form of storm beach, cast there by giant waves that occur on average once per century, though mpre are glacial erratic.  The fisherman currach boat.  The life in a lot of case are similar as it was through a centuries. 


This is idyllically scenery all over the islands,  and not only,  the same scenery accompained us all the way from Galway back to Dublin, except the ladies behind the spinner loom. The spinning mills usualy were bilt beside the castels, and the traditions goes forward since now 

a days. The results are the Woolly way of Ireland.     
On the islands since today is the tradition of spinning the wooll and left her natural colour, and ladies realised well known knitted Aran jumpers

and is a style of jumper that takes its name from Aran Islands. A traditional Aran Sweater usually is off white in color similar to a sheep's wool and is made from 100% wool and are recognisalble features of a traditional Aran cable patterns on the chest.

The jumpers are distinguished by their use of complex textured stitch patterns, several of which are combined in the creation of a single garment. Some stitch patterns have a traditional interpretation, often of religious significance. The honycomb is a symbol of the hard-working bee. The cable, an integral part of the Aran islander's daily life, is said to be a wish for safety and good luck when fishing. The diamond is a wish of success, wealth and treasure. The basket stitch represents the basket, a hope for a plentiful catch.... 

Myths. 

.. . The moss stitch is said to signify an abundance of growth

.... The blackberry stitch represents nature.

..... The honeycomb is a said to be a lucky stitch, signifying plenty 

.... Lattice or basket stitches to represent the old wicker basket patterns. 

.... The Ladder of Life and Tree of Life represent the stages of life.

It is sometimes said that each Islander (or his family) had a jumper with a unique design, so that if he drowned and was found, maybe weeks later, on the beach, his body could be identified 

This misconception may have originated with J.M. Synge's 1904 play Riders to the Sea, in which the body of a dead Islander is identified by the hand-knitted stitches on one of his garments. However, even in the play, there is no reference to any decorative or Aran-type pattern. The garment referred to is a plain stocking and it is identified by the number of stitches, the quote being "it's the second one of the third pair I knitted, and I put up three score stitches, and I dropped four of them". There is no record of any such event ever having taken place, nor is there any evidence to support there being a systematic tradition of family patterns. There is, however, a long-standing tradition of jumper patterns having a regional or local identification. It is said that the county, or parish, or township of a sailor or an Islander could be identified by his jumper pattern. Additionally, the wearer's initials were traditionally knit into the bottom of the garment, which would have been a far better indication of identity than the stitching pattern. (paraphrased and quoted from Internet).

 

 

And finaly Dublin and  my knitting mania with the help of our gentle tourist guide Peter (thanks Alenka www.Birikina.hr )  was awarded with this. 

Powerscourt Centre is a speciality shopping centre set in an elegant Georgian house centrally located just off Grafton Street.Formally, 59 South William Street was home to Richard Wingfield 3rd Viscount Powerscourt (1730-1788) and his wife Lady Amelia, who bought the Townhouse to entertain guests during Parliament season. Back then, the building was a house for parties, and very much lives up to that reputation nowadays!

The townhouse, designed by Robert Mack, took 3 years to complete at a cost of €80,000 and is the third finest Georgian House in Dublin, with the magnificent Leinster House and Charlemont House leading respectively. The Lord and Lady Powerscourt spared no expense in decorating the house and employed well know artists and craftsmen. In order to dazzle their guests the hallway and landing were decorated in a rococo style and the ceiling in the music room, currently The Town Bride, and in the ballroom, The Powerscourt Gallery, are in a neo classical style.

  

They were designed by Michael Stapleton. Known in Dublin as the ‘French Earl’ because he had made the Grand Tour and returned home wearing the latest Parisian fashions, starting a trend that continues in the building to this day, Richard died here in 1788 and was laid out in state for two days, with the public being admitted to view him.

Over the years, the Government made expansive alterations to the property.  Francis Johnston, architect of the G.P.O. and St. George’s Church, added three groups of buildings around the courtyard for use as a stamp office.  There are other examples of Johnston’s work nearby on Clarendon Street, with the Clock tower and Bell.

The Powerscourt Centre is a fine example of Dublin’s Georgian architecture; the house is unique in showing the transition from rococo style to neo-classic under one roof.  Meldon, in his ‘Views of Dublin’ (1779) said the house ‘ may be considered in point of consequence of appearance and architectural embellishment, as the third private edifice in Dublin.’ With its historic past the centre’s architecture serves as a magnificent setting for browser’s and shoppers alike. The house has become a regular test for students of architecture.  It was no time to discover more about the history of the Powercourt, just  time to award me with wooll, photos and admit to myself that I can't live without learning, reading ..... and this time even a shopping is going together with Historia est Magistra Vitae. 

Let's finished with the photos.

  Hope I didn't bore you,  have a nice time in reading my post: See you next time.