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Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 100 to 103 to conclude Chapter 4 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 100:5-103:11) 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 [email protected]— 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: King James Bible, Psalm 137, “by the rivers of Babylon,” babble, Babel, transition from HCE to ALP, male to female, land to water, tides, River Liffey, Island Bridge, Phoenix Park, Eve and Adam, serpent, Garden of Eden, original sin, papal and sexual imagery, ALP’s 111 children, ALP’s defence of HCE, formula for longevity of ALP and HCE’s relationship, synopsis.

Resources: ⁠Transcript for this episode⁠, 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: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, “Madonna and Child with Saint Anne,” 1606, Galleria Borghese, Italy.

“Up on Cripple Creek” by The Band, The Band (eponymous), Capitol Records, 1969.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 96 to 100 from Chapter 4 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 96:25-100:4) 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 [email protected]— 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: Robbie Burns “Auld Lang Syne,” Earwicker as fox, Parnell, the hunt, gun dogs, public officials judging HCE, absurd news of HCE’s whereabouts and near fatal experiences, media and technology spreading news and rumours, synopsis.

Resources: Transcript for this episode, 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: “Technology” by Makaya McCraven, with Theon Cross and Ben LaMar Gay, Off the Record (Techno Logic), Nonesuch Records, 2025.

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. This episode isa special one because joining us from his home in Ireland’s capital will betranslator Kenji Hayakawa, who is currently translating Finnegans Wakeinto Japanese. Kenji will share his insights into Joyce’s last novel, and we’llhear him read excerpts from his translation alongside actor Richard Harte’sreadings in the original English.

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

“JamesJoyce’s Finnegans Wake” is produced by One Little Goat Theatre Company, anofficial 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 intouch, email us at [email protected]— we’d love to hear from you.

This podcast ismade possible by Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company and the EmigrantSupport Programme of the Government of Ireland. Thank you for your support! Thankyou to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. Thank you to DarinaGallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership. Thank youfor listening!

Mentioned:translator Kenji Hayakawa, existing Japanese translations of Finnegans Wake,why translate FW into Japanese, Kenji’s translation and annotations (with YutaImazeki) on https://finneganswake.net/,Japan Knowledgedatabase, Fweet, standardized Japanese in 20thcentury, 18 categories of Japanese dialects, drawing on nonstandard Japanesedialect terms to translate FW, suppression of Irish language under British rule,translating into “Japaneses” plural much as Joyce wrote FW in multiplelanguages (dream language), translating puns and sound, thunderword #3 inEnglish and Japanese, thunderword as a trans-lingual magical incantation, ‘horserace’excerpt from Ch02 in English and Japanese, starting with Ch02 rather than Ch01,Vancouver FW reading group led by Kevin Spenst, community aspect of reading andtranslating FW, “Ballad of Persse O’Reilly” excerpt in English and Japanese, politicaldimensions of “Ballad,” No Kings protest against American President DonaldTrump, opening line of FW in English and Japanese, “riverrun” as “Kawaran” meaning“unchanging” in Japanese, “Kaway” meaning “river” in Japanese, ‘culturaltranslation’ of Irish culture, Japanese script vs latin-letter scripts (English,German, etc.), JamesJoyce Digital Archive.

Resources:Transcript for thisepisode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.

Finnegans Wakes:Tales of Translation, Patrick O'Neill. University of Toronto, 2022.

TheMaking of Monolingual Japan: Language Ideology and Japanese Modernity, PatrickHeinrich. Bristol, UK, Multilingual Matters, 2012.

Kenji Hayakawa’s Japanese translation of FW Ch02online.

Note: Kenji Hayakawa will be speaking at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin on2026-01-15.

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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 [email protected]— 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 ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠— 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 ⁠[email protected]⁠— 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 episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 75 to 81 to begin Chapter 4 of Joyce’s last novel, with anintroduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (p. 75:1-81:11) 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 [email protected]— 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: New Japanese translation of FinnegansWake by Kenji Hayakawa edited by Yuta Imazeki, One Little Goat Wake screening in Tokyo, Roland McHugh (1945-2025), John Gordon, Kaitlyn Perrin’s rain-and-dreams poem “Rainmancer”, dream theory of narrator in Anna Moschovakis novel, dreams yield multiplicity, overview of Chapter 4, opening sentence of Chapter 4, repetition of “it may be”, HCE’s posthumous reputation, HCE blasting out of coffin, HCE livingin opulence, Kate in Phoenix Park, voices of gods, a gloss on “every morphyl man of us, pome by pome, falls back into this terrine”, 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

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

To get in touch, email us at [email protected]

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,

 Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free

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

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

To get in touch, email us at [email protected]

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

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

Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free

James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken

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

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

To get in touch, email us at [email protected]

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

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

Resources: Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free

James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken

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.