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Irish Film Festival Reviews: Tarrac & Dance First, That They May Face the Rising Sun, and more.

Tarrac, a heart-warming Irish language comedy drama set on the Kerry coast in Dingle… Joyce feels like someone we can know, though probably not like very much….The scaffolding and the bedrock of this visually sumptuous film is what it does with landscapes and cloudscapes and the imposition of the human impress on them. Continue reading →

Melbourne’s Finnegans Wake Reading Group

Raphael Slepon, founder of FWEET, on annotating Finnegans Wake. Continue reading →

The Music of ‘Finnegans Wake’ evolves….

Waywords and Meansigns extends its offering of musical adaptations of Finnegans Wake Continue reading →

Pure and Sublime Poetry: A conversation with visual artist Robert Amos

Sara Jewell, of Waywords and Meansigns, interviews a Canadian Visual Artist. Joyce aficionado Robert Amos has had a copy of Finnegans Wake since 1969. One of Victoria’s best known artists talks frankly to us about Finnegans Wake, decorating the entirety of the James Joyce Bistro in Victoria, British Columbia, and writing out (by hand) one of … Continue reading →

‘Is it Literature?’: Finding the music in ‘Finnegans Wake’

His prose is in fact very poetic, very much attuned to the melody of sound. Continue reading →

Waywords and Meansigns: new ways into ‘Finnegans Wake’

‘What’s all this talk about ‘Ulysses’?…’Finnegans Wake’ is the important book.’ – Nora Joyce, 1941. Continue reading →

Riverrun: Melodio[sities] in pure effusion

Riverrun, the theatrical tour de force based on the final section of Finnegans Wake, devised and performed by Olwen Fouéré, in making the choice to dramatise the Liffey rather than the characters offers an unexpected but very clarifying innovation… Continue reading →

Riverrun’s Olwen Fouéré talks to Tinteán

Riverrun, an adaptation of the last section of Finnegans Wake, by Olwen Fouéré, had its genesis in Sydney in 2011…. Continue reading →