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- ↑ Welch, Robert (1988). A History of Verse Translation from the Irish, 1789–1897. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 101–103. ISBN 0-86140-249-9.
- ↑ Hayley, Barbara (1987). Three Hundred Years of Irish Periodicals. pp. 29–48.
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