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The Never-ending Cycle of Life

July 17, 2009 3 Comments »

“Finnegan’s Wake” is a ballad from around 1850 and is in the traditional Irish folk song style. It is most famous for being the foundation of James Joyce’s masterpiece of the same name, in which the humorous resurrection of Tim Finnegan is symbolic of the never-ending cycle of life (a typical Celtic