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Original Title: TIL James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake is named after a comedic Irish-American ballad called Finnegan’s Wake, about a man who breaks his skull and is thought dead, but when whiskey is spilled on his body at his wake, comes back to life and joins the celebration