Word: martello
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...faced a firing squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented the river with a brace of swans. A mighty tosspot in his youth, he made a pilgrimage to the top of Featherbed Mountain to restore the snakes to Ireland. When he and Joyce shared a Martello tower near Dublin (Ulysses' opening scene), they protested to the British Admiralty about a warship that interfered with their view, had the ship removed...