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- ↑ Keating, Sara (12 July 2010). "Flann and me and his greatest story never told". The Irish Times . Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ↑ Lezard, Nicholas (17 September 2013). "The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 July 2019.
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