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- ↑ Fay: The Fays of the Abbey Theatre. 1935. p. 110 et passim
- ↑ Mathews, P. J. (2003). "Stirring up Disloyalty: The Boer War, the Irish Literary Theatre and the Emergence of a New Separatism". Irish University Review. 33 (1): 99–116. doi:10.2307/25517216. JSTOR 25517216.
- ↑ Kavanagh, Peter. "The Story of the Abbey Theatre: From Its Origins in 1899 to the Present". (New York): Devin-Adair, 1950.
- ↑ Edward Kenny (nephew of Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh): The Splendid Years: recollections of Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh, as told to Edward Kenny, with appendices and lists of Irish theatre plays, 1899-1916. Duffy and Co., Dublin. 1955
- ↑ The Abbey 1904-1978, pp. 37-39
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