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- ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN (1937)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
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- ↑ "Movie Review - - THE SCREEN; ' Boy of the Streets' Opens at the Globe-'Kathleen,' an Irish Film, Is Seen at the Squire At the Squire At the Teatro Hispano". The New York Times . 24 January 1938. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
