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Finnegan's Wake" (Roud 1009) is an Irish-American comic folk ballad, first published in New York in 1864. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels , claimed authorship but a definitive account of the song's origin has not been established.
"Finnegan's Wake" is a traditional Irish song that has been recorded in more recent years by bands including the Dubliners and Dropkick Murphys. It predates Finnegans Wake and inspired Joyce's title. Finnegans Wake provided the name for the quark, one of the elementary particles proposed by physicist Murray Gell-Mann. [285]
James Joyce made up nine 100-letter words plus one 101-letter word in his novel Finnegans Wake, ... to the song title. The attributed meaning is "a word that you say ...
Waywords and Meansigns: Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its whole wholume] is an international project setting James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake to music. Waywords and Meansigns has released two editions of audio, each offering an unabridged musical adaptation of Joyce's book.
The Waywords and Meansigns Opendoor Edition debuted in 2017 as a part of the Waywords and Meansigns project, setting James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to music. The Opendoor Edition features over 100 artists and musicians performing unabridged passages of Finnegans Wake. [1]
The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly is a song in book one of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake (pages 44.24 to 47.32), where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumour which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in Phoenix Park; however details of HCE's transgression change with each retelling of events.
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
"Tim Finigan's Wake" – also known as "Finnegan's Wake" – mid 19th-century broadside and music-hall song published in New York, attributed to John F. Poole, [116] to an air called "The French Musician" [16] [117] "The Tipperary Christening" "Waxies' Dargle" – about the annual outing to Ringsend by Dublin cobblers (waxies) [118]