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Finnegan's Foursome
Finnegan's Foursome is a 2026 comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Edward Burns, with Brian d'Arcy James, about rival brothers scattering their father's ashes on an Irish golf course; released June 19, 2026 by Republic Pictures.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce's final novel, published 4 May 1939 after seventeen years as "Work in Progress". Written in multilingual dream language about HCE's night-dream, structured on Vico's cycles, 628 pages, ending mid-sentence.
Finnic languages
Finnic (Baltic-Finnic) languages: a Uralic branch around the Baltic Sea, including Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Ingrian, Votic, Livonian, Ludic. Descended from Proto-Finnic; only Finnish and North Estonian are not endangered.
Finnie (mascot)
Finnie is the she-unicorn official mascot of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, unveiled 23 July 2025 atop the Finnieston Crane, her namesake, with a traffic-cone horn and features co-created by 76 Glasgow schoolchildren.
Finnish Academy of Technology
The Finnish Academy of Technology (Teknillisten Tieteiden Akatemia, TTA) is a Finnish learned academy for the technical sciences, founded in 1957 and based in Helsinki.
Finnish Air Force
Finnish Air Force (Ilmavoimat), air service of the Finnish Defence Forces founded 6 March 1918; flies F/A-18 Hornets and BAE Hawks, is replacing them with F-35s from 2026, and has been part of NATO's integrated air defence since Finland joined the alliance in April 2023.
Finnish Americans
Finnish Americans are Americans of Finnish ancestry, from a 1630s Delaware settlement to a migration of roughly 340,000 between 1870 and 1920, concentrated in the Midwest.
Finnish Army
The Finnish Army (Maavoimat) is the land branch of the Finnish Defence Forces, dating to 1918 and fielding 230,000 reservists with Europe's strongest NATO artillery.
Finnish banking crisis
The Finnish banking crisis was the collapse of much of Finland's banking system between 1991 and 1995, with bank failures, state rescues, unemployment above 20%, and a rescue cost of about 17.2% of GDP.
Finnish Civil War
Finnish Civil War (Finnish sisällissota, kansalaissota, vapaussota), January 27 to May 15, 1918 conflict between socialist Reds and conservative Whites after Finland's December 1917 independence; White victory under Mannerheim with German aid, about 36,600 dead.
Finnish cuisine
Finnish cuisine, the Nordic cooking tradition of Finland (suomalainen ruokakulttuuri), centers on rye bread, fish, berries and potatoes, with dishes like karjalanpiirakka and kalakukko, Russian-influenced eastern flavors, and eight Michelin-starred restaurants as of 2026.
Finnish Defence Forces
Finnish Defence Forces (Puolustusvoimat): Finland's conscription-based military, founded 1918, with 280,000 wartime strength, ~900,000 reserves, NATO member since April 2023, strongest artillery in Western Europe.
Finnish famine of 1866–1868
The Finnish famine of 1866–1868, known in Finnish as suuret nälkävuodet, the Great Hunger Years, killed roughly 150,000 to 200,000 people in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
Finnish folk poetry
Finnish folk poetry (suomalainen kansanrunous) is the orally transmitted sung tradition of the Baltic-Finnic peoples, best known in the Kalevala meter that supplied Finland's national epic.
Finnish grammar
Finnish grammar (suomen kielioppi): the Uralic agglutinative system of Finnish, with 15 cases, six local cases, vowel harmony, consonant gradation, partitive object marking, and its Latin-influenced descriptive history from Petraeus 1649 to Iso suomen kielioppi.
Finnish language
Finnish (suomi, suomen kieli) is a Finnic Uralic language, national language of Finland with Swedish, ~4.9M native speakers, 15 cases, written standard since Agricola's 1543 Abckiria.
Finnish Lapphund
Finnish Lapphund (Suomenlapinkoira): Finnish herding spitz of the Sami, bred to herd reindeer in Lapland; split from the Lapponian Herder in 1967, AKC Herding Group since 2011, 18–21 in males, 16–19 in females, vocal and friendly.
Finnish Literature Society
The Finnish Literature Society (Finnish: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, SKS) is a scholarly society founded in 1831 in Helsinki to research and promote Finnish language, literature, and folklore.
Finnish markka
The Finnish markka, or Suomen markka, was Finland's currency from 1860 until the euro, divided into 100 penniä; it was replaced by euro cash in 2002.
Finnish Meteorological Institute
The Finnish Meteorological Institute (Ilmatieteen laitos) is Finland's national meteorological service and research institute under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, tracing its origins to 1838.
Finnish military ranks
Finnish military ranks (sotilasarvot): rank system of the Finnish Defence Forces, shaped by Swedish and Russian rule, rebuilt after 1917 independence, codified by decree 1490/2007, and mapped to NATO OF-1 to OF-9 grades.
Finnish modernism
Finnish modernism is the set of modernist literary movements in Finland, beginning with Finland-Swedish poetry in the 1910s and dominant in Finnish by the 1950s.
Finnish mythology
Finnish mythology: pre-Christian religion and myth of the Finns, also called Balto-Finnic mythology, known through Kalevala-meter oral poetry. Distinguished by few written sources, Agricola's 1551 list, and the 1835/1849 Kalevala.
Finnish Navy
Finnish Navy (Merivoimat, Marinen): coastal naval branch of the Finnish Defence Forces guarding the Gulf of Finland and Baltic Sea; NATO member since 2023; modernizing with four Pohjanmaa-class corvettes under Squadron 2020.
Finnish profanity
Finnish profanity (kirosana, voimasana): swearwords of Finnish built on religion, sexuality, and excrement, with ancient Baltic-loan perkele, genitive-case intensifiers, thousands of variants, and loanwords like damn occupying distinct social meanings.
Finnish Rally Championship
The Finnish Rally Championship, also known as Rallin SM or FRC, is Finland's national rally championship, organized since 1959 by AKK Sports Ltd, which also runs Secto Rally Finland.
Finnish sauna
Finnish sauna (savusauna, puusauna, sähkösauna): heated-room bathing practice central to Finnish identity, about 3 million saunas for 5.5 million people, roughly 90 percent weekly use, löyly steam on stones, UNESCO intangible heritage 2020.
Finnish Sign Language
Finnish Sign Language (suomalainen viittomakieli, FinSL) is one of Finland's two domestic sign languages, descended from Swedish Sign Language via Carl Oscar Malm's 1846 Porvoo deaf school; about 3,000 deaf native speakers, 5,500 total.
Finnish Spitz
Finnish Spitz (Suomenpystykorva), Finland's national dog breed since 1979, is a red-gold spitz-type bark-pointer used for hunting capercaillie and grouse; FCI breed 49, Group 5, registered from 1892.
Finnish State Prize for Literature
The Finnish State Prize for Literature (Valtion kirjallisuuspalkinto; Statspriset för litteratur) is Finland's state literary award, founded in 1865 and granted annually by the state literature committee.