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- ↑ "I had to be a total b****cks to make the picture work". The Irish Times.
- ↑ Whitington, Paul (6 September 2018). "'We got into week two and I was like, oh my God, what have I done?' - Lance Daly on directing Black 47 set during Famine". Irish Independent. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
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