John Feeley on James Joyce guitar

John Feeley, widely renowned Irish guitarist and arranger had a pleasure to play traditional Irish song " Corolan's Farewell" on the guitar which famous writer James Joyce was pictured playing on photo taken in Trieste by Joyce’s friend Ottacaro Weiss in 1915.

The close relationship between James Joyce and music has long been recognized by his readers, critics, and biographers. Joyce, like his father, was both an excellent singer (with a sweet tenor voice) and an accomplished pianist with an encyclopedic mastery of music of every type and genre.
He studied and performed music throughout his life and once once shared the stage with opera singer John McCormack.
He has also played the guitar. His small-bodied guitar has been on display at Joyce Tower in glass casing for 45 years. It has been restored recently by renowned lutenist Gary Southwell of at facilities provided by Collins Barracks. He has undertaken a restoration of the instrument at the behest of Tower Museum curator Robert Nicholson and Fran O’Rourke, professor of philosophy at Joyce’s alma mater, University College Dublin.
Luthier described the guitar as “a standard instrument of the period". This refurbished guitar was played at a series of lunchtime recitals at Newman House in Dublin during Bloomsweek by renown Irish classical guitarist John Feeley who teaches guitar at the Dublin Institute of Technology and is responsible for nurturing a number of top quality young Irish classical guitarists.