The Ulysses Telegraph

On Friday October 5, 1967, Timothy Finnegan (55), a labourer of 5 Walkin Street, was working on the demolition of a row of Dublin houses in Eccles Street to make way for a new hospital extension when he discovered a cache of old newspapers among the bricks and mortar. A lover of the turf he decided to take them home to peruse the old sports pages over a pipe while waiting for his supper. Sadly he died the next day in an accident at work. It was after an encounter with his son, Michael, in The Ship Tavern, Lower Abbey Street, that Mr Ian Gunn, a visiting scholar and gentleman from Scotland asked if he might see the papers which the son had kept for sentimental reasons. Gunn (72) of Edinburgh recognised immediately that among this pile of papers was the original copy of the Evening Telegraph for June 16, 1904, owned by one of Dublin's most famous literary characters, Leopold Bloom.

On return to Scotland Mr Gunn showed the documents to Mr Alistair McCleery (17) of the Split Pea Press in Edinburgh and together they decided on its immediate reproduction as a poster together with a guide to the references to this newspaper in the account by James Joyce in his Ulysses.