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- ↑ National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland Archived 2007-10-24 at archive.today , University of Limerick
- 1 2 Aosdána short biography Archived 2007-08-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Toscaireacht
- ↑ "Alice Hanratty 1939 - , Irish Artist". adams.ie. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
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