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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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Premieres from Upcoming Release

2017-04-24 IssyReleases, Reviews and Coverage

As we approach the May 4th release date of Waywords and Meansigns, James Joyce continues to premiere advance audio for your listening pleasure! Check out the second premiere from It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, featuring a mind-bending collection of tracks from […]

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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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Steve Gregoropoulos and the Acoustic Disturbance

2016-01-232016-10-22 Chimpden123Releases, Reviews and Coverage

Steve Gregoropoulos discusses his approach to Waywords and Meansigns with the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Gregoropoulos worked with the Wake’s third chapter and “the result is a wonderful 97 minutes of music, evoking the simultaneous simplicity and complexity of […]

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Grammy Award-Winning Producer David Kahne on Setting Finnegans Wake to Music

2015-12-232016-10-16 IssyInterviews, Reviews and Coverage

“You may not know David Kahne’s name but you will almost certainly have heard his music. A Grammy-winning American record producer and composer, Kahne has worked with the likes of Paul McCartney, the Strokes and Stevie Nicks (to name but […]

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