This paper focuses on the intriguing complexity of Joyce`s representation of mother/land at the intersections of imperialism, nationalism, sexual dominance, and colonial modernity. From the perspectives of Irish studies, feminist theories and post-colonial discourses, my study observes that Joyce underlines the paradoxical significance of both the central and marginal role of mother that lays bare Ireland`s repressed cultural consciousness. The confrontation of amor matris and paternal authority enacts a psychohistory full of dialogical tension in Ulysses. For Asian Joyceans, the intrinsic historical, political and socio-cultural specificity of each country should be rethought and contested in face of the global Joyce studies. My arguments highlight the intriguing representational narratives of maternity in the discourses of inventing motherland in Taiwan as a case for comparison. The repressed mother/land powerfully sheds light on Joyce`s cultural and political imagination. Joyce subverts nationalist iconography of mother Ireland by creating a cardinal authentic emblem of m/other Molly. With this maternal otherness, Joyce envisions Ireland as a vibrant world of hybrid cultures rather than a land embedded in folkloric Celtic purity. This paper concludes that Joyce rewrites cultural sites of repression as routes to liberation in which his challenging narrative art negotiates a new relation to imperial power.