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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.

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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.