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- ↑ Guy Beiner, "In Pursuit of a People’s Hero: Remembering Father Manus Sweeney and The Year of the French" in Mayo, History and Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, edited by Gerard Moran and Nollaig Ó Muraíle (Dublin: Geography Publications, 2014), pp. 301-18.
- Annala Beaga Pharaiste Bhuireis Umhaill. A short account of the history of Burrishoole parish, P. O Morain, Burrishoole, 1957.
- The Return of the Cathach to Ireland, Michael Herity, in Seanchas:Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis John Byrne , Dublin, 2000; p. 455, 456, 461, (pp. 454–64).
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