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Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 92 to 96 from Chapter 4 of Joyce’s last novel, with anintroduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 92:6-96:24) was recorded with a live audience at Type Books on Queen Street West in Toronto on 22 January 2024.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast.

“James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make acharitable donation and join our mailing list.

To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com— we’d love to hear from you.

This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support!

Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano),Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to Claire Foster and the staff and owners of Type Books, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thank you to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie and Shai Rotbard-Seelig. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening!

Mentioned:The four old men, ‘the four of them,’ four Gospels, Mamalujo, four provinces of Ireland, Annals of the Four Masters, four justices, the letter (of ALP to exonerate HCE), “A” and “O” as alpha to omega, cities and civilization founded on Adam and Eve’s fall, city from sin, Latin ‘malum’ as apple and evil, felixculpa, city from fear in Adam and Eve in Paradise by Eça de Quierós, synopsis.

Resources:⁠⁠⁠Transcript for thisepisode⁠⁠⁠, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many freecopies of FW to read online or download, e.g. ⁠⁠⁠finwake.com⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠⁠ to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977.

John Gordon’s annotations on his ⁠⁠⁠Finnegans Wake blog⁠⁠⁠.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠⁠

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Cited: José Maria de Eça de Quierós. Adam and Eve in Paradise (late 19th century). Trans. Margaret Jull Costa. New Directions, 2025.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake⁠

Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 86 to 92 from Chapter 4 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 86:32-92:5) was recorded with a live audience at Type Books on Queen Street West in Toronto on 22 January 2024.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit ⁠⁠https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast⁠⁠.

“James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please ⁠⁠visit us online to make acharitable donation and join our mailing list⁠⁠.

To get in touch, email us at ⁠⁠onelittlegoattc@gmail.com⁠⁠— we’d love to hear from you.

This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support!

Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano),Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto).

Thanks to Claire Foster and the staff and owners of Type Books, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thank you to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodieand Shai Rotbard-Seelig. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership.

Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: EU Film Fest, Tokyo screening, courtroom comedy, elusive evidence on HCE’s alleged sin, Parnell and O’Shea sex scandal, Adam and Eve, Original Sin, woman as scapegoat, misogyny, new witnesses W.P. and Hyacinth O’Donnell and Pegger Festy, thunderwords 1-4, retelling the fall, synopsis.

Resources:⁠⁠Transcript for thisepisode⁠⁠, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many freecopies of FW to read online or download, e.g. ⁠⁠finwake.com⁠⁠

⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠ to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977.

John Gordon’s annotations on his ⁠⁠Finnegans Wake blog⁠⁠.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 81 to 86 from Chapter 4 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 81:12-86:31) was recorded with a live audience at Type Books on Queen Street West in Toronto on 22 January 2024.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit ⁠https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast⁠.

“James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please ⁠visit us online to make acharitable donation and join our mailing list⁠.

To get in touch, email us at ⁠onelittlegoattc@gmail.com⁠— we’d love to hear from you.

This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support!

Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano),Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto).

Thanks to Claire Foster and the staff and owners of Type Books, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thank you to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodieand Shai Rotbard-Seelig. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership.

Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: ⁠Pip Dwyer, John Cage “Experimental Music,” “a purposeful purposelessness or a purposeless play,” the fourth and final confrontation between two men (the Cad and HCE), perhaps HCE is both attacker and attacked?, merging of identities, Charles Baudelaire’s “Let’s Beat Up the Poor,” the trial, Festy King, crown attorney P.C. Robort, synopsis.

Resources:⁠Transcript for thisepisode⁠, including the text of Finnegans Wake.Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many freecopies of FW to read online or download, e.g. ⁠finwake.com⁠

⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠ to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977.

John Gordon’s annotations on his ⁠Finnegans Wake blog⁠.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Raphael Slepon, ⁠fweet.org⁠

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 69 to 74 to conclude Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 69:5-74:19) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast.

“James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list.

To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you.

This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: cloud and ‘spit-fog’ at start of Ch03 becomes rain at end, “recirculation,” Bob Marley’s “Running Away,” Twilight Zone ‘the enemy is us,’ Earwicker as his own worst enemy, The Hole in the Wall Pub near Phoenix Park, 1798 Irish Rebellion song “By Memory Inspired,” Dublin lock-out of 1913, HCE locked in his “archicitadel,” muckraker Herr Betreffender, fall of man, Betreffender’s 111 insults, dialogue of God and Abraham/“Allprohome,” Mel Brooks History of the World, Dublin anthropomorphized as HCE’s body, rain, sleep, synopsis.

Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com

James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977.

John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Raphael Slepon, fweet.org

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 63 to 69 to continue Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 63:20-69:4) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast.

“James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list.

To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you.

This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support!

Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience.

Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership.

Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: “the reel world,” “The Keel Row” song, James Joyce and cinema, film, Dublin’s first movie theatre the Volta, Sergei Eisenstein, “a strawberry frolic,” cherchez la femme, ménage à trois, Peaches and Daddy Browning scandal, Benny Hill, synopsis.

Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com

James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977.

John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Raphael Slepon, fweet.org

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Cited: Ronald Bergan. Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict (1997). New York, Arcade, 2016.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 58 to to 63 to continue Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 58:23-63:19) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast.

“James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list.

To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you.

This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support!

Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience.

Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership.

Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: “I dream, therefore I become,” “strongers” vs. “softsies,” reportage, 20 Dubliners, HCE as Banksy, Buddhism motif, Karen Armstrong’s Buddha biography, “self” as process in flux, identity as changing stream, Heraclitus, Descartes, Nora Barnacle, Book of the Dead, “the real Us!”, synopsis.

Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com

James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977.

John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Raphael Slepon, fweet.org

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Cited: Karen Armstrong, Buddha. Toronto, Penguin, 2001.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 53 to 58 to continue Chapter 3 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (pages 53:7-58:22) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 2 October 2023.

For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast.

“James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, an official charity in Canada and the USA. To support our work, please visit us online to make a charitable donation and join our mailing list.

To get in touch, email us at onelittlegoattc@gmail.com — we’d love to hear from you.

This podcast is made possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the Emigrant Support Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support!

Thank you to the artists for this episode: Richard Harte (Reader); William Bembridge (Sound); Sean Rasmussen (Podcast Production); Sandi Becker (Stage Manager); Adam Seelig (Director, Music Arrangement, Piano), Brandon Bak (Drums, Recording at Sound Department Toronto). Thanks to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to the Irish Consulate in Toronto, to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie and to Music Consultants Warwick Harte and Kevin Kennedy. Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: Eldon Garnet sculpture on Don River Toronto, Heraclitus river aphorism, becoming, Fred Wah on elusive meaning, Earwicker and language running away, Casaconcordia, League of Nations, United Nations, polyglotism, Babel, “Irish Jaunting Car,” Phoenix Park, Cad confrontation, who is Earwicker?, Charles Dodgson and Alice Liddell, “strongers” vs. “softies,” , synopsis.

Resources:

Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 48-53.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.com

James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of each chapter by Danis Rose.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

Adaline Glasheen, Third Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, University of California Press, 1977.

John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Raphael Slepon, fweet.org.

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Cited:

Fred Wah, Music at the Heart of Thinking. Vancouver, Talonbooks, 2020.