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- ↑ Finnegans Wake Rolodexed, Mikołaj Gliński, culture.pl, 8 June 2015.
- ↑ Secret Code in Joyce's Finnegans Wake Cracked, Mikołaj Gliński, culture.pl, 28 January 2014.
- ↑ La guida di un poeta ingegnere nel labirinto di Joyce Archived 2 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Edoardo Camurri, Il foglio, 2 February 2016.
- ↑ Finneganów tren: James Joyce Archived 27 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine , publisher's repository of links, ha!art, 2012–2016.
- ↑ Translation and Authorship Revisited: Krzysztof Bartnicki, Finneganów tren, Da Capo al Finne, and Finnegans _ake, John Kearns, in Authorizing Translation, ed. Michelle Woods. Routledge, 2017. 96–113.
- ↑ Star Wars and Finnegans Wake, Sara Jewell, Waywords and Meansigns, 4 January 2016.
- ↑ Macleid, Act 5, Scene 5, Wakat, 4(31), 2015.
