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- ↑ Clancy, Mary (1996). "The Western Outpost: Local Government and Women's Suffrage in County Galway 1898-1918". In Moran, Gerard; Gillespie, Raymond; Nolan, William (eds.). Galway History & Society: Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County. Dublin: Geography Publications. pp. 557–587. ISBN 0906602750.
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