James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

About James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Join us for James Joyce's divine and delirious comedy, Finnegans Wake, read by Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte, with introductions by director Adam Seelig. From 2024 to 2029, One Little Goat Theatre Company will film and record all 17 chapters (~30 Hours) of Finnegans Wake before live audiences in various locations, screening/releasing them along along the way and completing the entire book by its 90th birthday, May 4, 2029. “Harte has found a way to crack the private code and maintain the original voltage… of one of the most funny and challenging novels of the 20th century.” —Irish Voice

Publisher

One Little Goat Theatre Company

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Apr 2024

Latest episode

13 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Ep.028: CSI: Dublin (123:11-125:23, end of Ch05)

   https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake) Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episodewe’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading 123 to 125 to conclude Chapter 5 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p.123:11-125:23) was recorded with a live audience at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, on 21 October 2024. For atranscript of this episode, please visit ⁠⁠https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast⁠⁠ (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake). “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 (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/contact). To get in touch, email us at ⁠⁠onelittlegoattc@gmail.com⁠⁠ (mailto:onelittlegoattc@gmail.com) — 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), Tyler Emond (Bass, Recording at Ghost Town Studio Toronto), Jinu Isac (drums). Thanks to JohnShoesmith, Special Collections Librarian, to David Fernández, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and to their colleagues at the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thankyou to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Boston, Massachusetts, ALP, The Letter, suggestive envelope, Belinda the Hen,The Letter and treasure found in muck, Ardagh Chalice, Book of Kells, punctuationless letter, epistolary tropes, Picasso and Braque’s cubism, tea stain, blurry photography, Kate, “Lead, kindly fowl!”, championing womankind, Obama cheers on Harris, she writes, thunderword #5, Women and Literature, Eve and Adam and snake, synopsis. Resources: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcript for this episode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast), 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 (http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://jjda.ie/f/ff/app/chkb.htm) 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 (https://johngordonfinnegan.weebly.com/book-i). Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (http://www.fweet.org/) William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

2. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Ep.027: The (Dirty) Book of Kells (119:10-123:10)

   https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake (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 119 to 123 from Chapter 5 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p.119:10-123:10) was recorded with a live audience at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, on 21 October 2024. For atranscript of this episode, please visit ⁠⁠https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast⁠⁠ (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake). “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 (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/contact). To get in touch, email us at ⁠⁠onelittlegoattc@gmail.com⁠⁠ (mailto:onelittlegoattc@gmail.com) — 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), Tyler Emond (Bass, Recording at Ghost Town Studio Toronto), Jinu Isac (drums). Thanks to JohnShoesmith, Special Collections Librarian, to David Fernández, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and to their colleagues at the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thankyou to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Boston, Massachusetts, ALP, The Letter, suggestive envelope, Belinda the Hen,The Letter and treasure found in muck, Ardagh Chalice, Book of Kells, punctuationless letter, epistolary tropes, Picasso and Braque’s cubism, tea stain, blurry photography, Kate, “Lead, kindly fowl!”, championing womankind, Obama cheers on Harris, she writes, thunderword #5, Women and Literature, Eve and Adam and snake, synopsis. Resources: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcript for this episode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast), 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 (http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://jjda.ie/f/ff/app/chkb.htm) 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 (https://johngordonfinnegan.weebly.com/book-i). Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (http://www.fweet.org/) William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Cited: Sir Edward Sullivan. The Book of Kells. London, The Studio, 1914. Brendan O Hehir. A Gaelic Lexicon for Finnegans Wake. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967.

3. 

   16 Jul 2026

   Ep.026: Spill the Tea, Study in Brown (114:21-119:9)

   https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake (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 114 to 119 from Chapter 5 of Joyce’s last novel, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig. Richard’s reading (p.114:21-119:9) was recorded with a live audience at the Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, on 21 October 2024. For atranscript of this episode, please visit ⁠https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast⁠ (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake). “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 (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/contact). To get in touch, email us at ⁠onelittlegoattc@gmail.com⁠ (mailto:onelittlegoattc@gmail.com) — 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), Tyler Emond (Bass, Recording at Ghost Town Studio Toronto), Jinu Isac (drums). Thanks to JohnShoesmith, Special Collections Librarian, to David Fernández, Head of Rare Books and Special Collections, and to their colleagues at the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, as well as to our wonderful live audience. Thank you to everyone at the Irish Consulate in Toronto. And thankyou to Production Consultants Cathy Murphy, Andrew Moodie. Thank you for listening! Mentioned: Boston, Massachusetts, ALP, The Letter, suggestive envelope, Belinda the Hen,The Letter and treasure found in muck, Ardagh Chalice, Book of Kells, punctuationless letter, epistolary tropes, Picasso and Braque’s cubism, tea stain, blurry photography, Kate, “Lead, kindly fowl!”, championing womankind, Obama cheers on Harris, she writes, thunderword #5, Women and Literature, Eve and Adam and snake, synopsis. Resources: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Transcript for this episode⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.onelittlegoat.org/podcast), 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 (http://www.finwake.com/1024chapter1/1024finn1.htm) ⁠⁠⁠⁠James Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide”⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://jjda.ie/f/ff/app/chkb.htm) 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 (https://johngordonfinnegan.weebly.com/book-i). Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Raphael Slepon, ⁠⁠⁠⁠fweet.org⁠⁠⁠⁠ (http://www.fweet.org/) William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996. Cited: “Rauschenberg’s Cultural Canvas,” by Hank Burchard, Washington Post, 1991-05-12.

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