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Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 24 to 29 of Joyce’s last novel to conclude Chapter 1, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (pages 24:16-29:36) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 31 August 2022.

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

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Thank you to the artists for this episode: Kevin Kennedy, Sound by William Bembridge, Podcast production by Sean Rasmussen, Stage Management by Laura Lakatosh, Rehearsal Stage Management by Sandi Becker, Directed by Adam Seelig.

Thanks to our live audience of Pip Dwyer, Cathy Murphy, Nomi Rotbard, Arlo Rotbard-Seelig; and thanks to our rehearsal audience of Jackie Chau, Jordy Koffman, Andrew Moodie & Shai Rotbard-Seelig.

Thank you to the Embassy of Ireland in Ottawa and the Irish Consulate in Toronto and to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy and Andrew Moodie.

Thank you to Darina Gallagher and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin for your partnership.

Thank you for listening!

Mentioned: Tim Finnegan, “Finnegan’s Wake” Irish American folk song, the title of Finnegans Wake, FIN FINNE & FINE as ‘the end’, EGAN as ‘again’, literary device of ‘it and its opposite’, at Tim’s wake, “Finn no more!”, better off dead?, Dublin (and Toronto) traffic, Aunt Florenza & Timmy the Tosser, “queenoveire”, neighbourhood news, Edenborough as Eden & Burg Quays in Dublin, synopsis.

Resources:
Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 24-29.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies 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.

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009. William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2016.
John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog.
Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.