''I Know That I Have Broken Every Heart''

The central theme of this monograph is James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in Finnegans Wake, the virtuosity with which he makes use of the tongue, the understanding of its grammatical and syntactical subtleties which he reveals in the book and ''the explanatory treasure of heart and mind'', as the the author put it himself, which the Gaelic component of the writer's final word on the world provides.