ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a poem 'Martello' for Roy and Aisling Foster that describes a visit to the Martello Tower by the Society's members who came from far afield: from the United States, Germany, Finland, Italy, Australia, France, England and Turkey. Learned academics mingled with less learned enthusiasts. Mr James Duffy's Chapelizod was visited, and Mr Power's Dublin Castle. Capel Street and Ely Place were investigated, visits were made to the renowned Martello Tower, to Howth and to Pim's. Betty Bellezza was mentioned, and Val from Skibbereen. One consequence of the intimacy might be described as James Joyce's lack of illusion as to the odds-against chances of revolution in Ireland. A comparison with Yeats in terms of their attitudes to Hitler would be banal; a more profound comparison might focus on the manner in which each responded to the late nineteenth-century legacy of the imperialist formalism conveniently represented here by Kipling.
