The Dead (short story) and Shaun Davey, which won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. The original production starred Christopher Walken as Gabriel Conroy. Joyce Carol Oates's 1973 story "The Dead" makes many allusions to Joyce's story. The Dead (short story) "The Dead" is the final story in the 1914 collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952 words, "The Dead" is long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. Gabriel Conroy,
James Joyce Tower and Museum James Joyce Tower and Museum The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his novel "Ulysses" take place here, and the tower is a place of pilgrimage for Joyce enthusiasts, especially on Bloomsday. Admission is free. The tower was leased from the British War Office by Joyce's university friend Oliver St. John Gogarty, with the purpose of "Hellenising" Ireland. Joyce stayed there for six days, from September 9 to 14 in 1904. Gogarty later attributed Joyce's abrupt departure to a midnight incident with