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- ↑ review of Maebh Long's The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien by David Wheatley Literary Review, July 2018
- 1 2 Dr Maebh Long Convener of English, Senior Lecturer, University of Waikato
- ↑ Maebh Long USP: School of Language, Arts and Media
- ↑ Keynote Speakers: Maebh Long Flann O'Brien Society
- ↑ Long, M. (2018). Vanua in the Anthropocene: Relationality and sea level rise in Fiji. Symploke, 26(1-2), 51-70.
- ↑ Shared immunity: poetic and political 2020, Royal Society of New Zealand
- ↑ The Third Columnist – An Irishman's Diary about the unseen collaborators behind Myles na gCopaleen and Flann O'Brien by Frank McNally, The Irish Times, Jul 19, 2017
- ↑ USP Academic launches monograph University of the South Pacific, Apr 23, 2014
- ↑ Brooker, J., 2019. Flann O'Brien, The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien. Affirmations: of the modern, 6(1), pp.97–112.
- ↑ review of Maebh Long's Assembling Flann O'Brien by Julian Hanna Irish Studies Review, Volume 25, 2017 - Issue 4, July 2018
- ↑ Society Awards 2015 The International Flann O'Brien Society
- ↑ Society Awards 2019 The International Flann O'Brien Society
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- ↑ "Introduction: Oceania in Theory" Project Muse
- ↑ "Vanua in the Anthropocene: Relationality and Sea Level Rise in Fiji" Project Muse
- ↑ "Girmit, postmemory, and Subramani" University of Canterbury: Research Repository
- ↑ The collected letters of Flann O'Brien The Dalkey Archive
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