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- ↑ "The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Trust".
- ↑ "Poets invited to apply for €8,000 Kavanagh fellowship". The Irish Times. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Kavanagh fellowships worth €20,000 awarded to three Irish poets". The Irish Times. 30 May 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
- ↑ Healy, Alison (25 August 2014). "Poet Desmond O'Grady dies, aged 78". The Irish Times. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
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- ↑ Dempsey, Kate (15 October 2012). "Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship Readings". Writing.ie . Retrieved 16 June 2015.
- ↑ "Our House: a new poem by Jean O'Brien". Irish Times. 17 November 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
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