James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake 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.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠James 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.org⁠⁠⁠William 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.com⁠⁠⁠⁠James 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.org⁠⁠William 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.com⁠⁠James 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.org⁠William 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.comJames 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.orgWilliam 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 [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); 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.