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Finnegans Wake Turns 80 — Celebrations in Dublin!

2019-03-22 IssyLive Events and Performances, News

In case you haven’t heard, Finnegans Wake turns eighty this year — published 80 years ago, May 4, 1939 — & we’re celebrating with a big weekend event in Dublin, May 3rd through 5th at the Joyce Centre. We hope […]

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Bloomsday 2018 – Music of Joyce, Joyce for Arts, Joyce in the ‘Dam

2018-06-092018-06-11 IssyLive Events and Performances, Releases

June 16th is Bloomsday, and that means the streets will be filled with people wearing straw boater hats. But if you know what’s good, consider carrying a boombox too — battery-powered and ready to blast your favorite genre of James […]

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Report from London and Dublin

2016-07-302018-02-21 IssyLive Events and Performances

In June various Waywords and Meanings contributors converged in Dublin and London to celebrate the wild and wonderful world of Finnegans Wake. Some of the highlights included project director Derek Pyle’s talk at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin; an […]

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Waywords and Meansigns in Dublin and London

2016-06-022018-02-21 IssyLive Events and Performances

Waywords and Meansigns is headed to Europe! On Tuesday 14 June, Waywords and Meansigns director Derek Pyle will present at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Part of their Bloomsday Festival programme, Pyle will discuss the aim and scope of […]

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30-hour Wake Broadcast with Soundart Radio

2016-04-042016-10-16 IssyLive Events and Performances

To celebrate the anniversary of the Wake’s publication (4 May 1939), Soundart Radio will broadcast the entire second edition of Waywords and Meansigns. 3 May through 4 May. Soundart Radio is on the dial at 102.5 FM in the Totnes […]

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Joycean Libations in Victoria

2016-03-212016-10-16 IssyLive Events and Performances

guest post by Robert Amos The Joyceans of Victoria met at the legendary James Joyce Bistro on the night of February 1 (which was by then February 2 in Dublin, James Joyce’s birthday) to salute the launch of the second edition […]

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Mary Manning Performance in Boston

2015-11-142016-10-16 IssyLive Events and Performances

 You are invited to  The Here Comes Everybody Players’  staged reading, with live musical accompaniment, of   Passages from Finnegans Wake  A Free Adaptation for the Theater by Mary Manning of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake directed by Jean Sheikh & Josh Way with actors: Ann […]

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Live Performances of Finnegans Wake Music

2015-09-102016-10-16 IssyLive Events and Performances

  This fall contributors from Waywords and Meansigns will play two shows in Western Massachusetts, performing material from Finnegans Wake. Guaranteed, it will be weird, wild and fun. The first show is Saturday, September 26 at Flywheel Arts Collective. Flywheel […]

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