Why do people continue to put an apostrophe on Finnegan. It is Finnegans Wake, no apostrophe. A plural. Finnegan may be a metaphor for Irish people. In other words, they should wake, according to Joyce.
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Since Finnegan is a typical Irish surname there may be some element of confusion between Joyce's Finnegans (i.e. as a collection of people) and the use of Finnegan's as a genitive word (i.e. Finnegan's Wake or his wake). Finnegan's Wake (with a comma) is also an Irish-American comic ballad, first published in New York in 1864, that refers to the wake (funeral) of a character called Tim Finnegan. This is how you would expect to see the phrase written and may further add to this frequent error.
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