A Portrait of the Musician as a Young Man

July 25, 2013

James Joyce inspires a lot of English papers but not songs. Yet musician Casey Black based his song “Happiness” off of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManWith lyrics like, “So I walk the Dublin streets like they were passageways through my soul,” we think Joyce would approve.

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