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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.

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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.