Culture is Ireland's superpower and James Joyce is perhaps our biggest ever cultural export. After all Bloomsday is celebrated now from Dublin to Tokyo and its footprint is only growing. This year it will be celebrated with a Canadian accent in Dublin.
Finnegans Wake was first published on May 4th 1939 in New York (Viking Press) and London (Faber & Faber), after James Joyce spent 17 years on its composition.