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- Anne Sullivan, The Tinnakill dunaire, in: Celtica; 11, (1976), pp. 214–28.
- Eoghan Ó Raghallaigh, "A poem to Aodh Buidhe and Alasdar Mac Domhnaill of Tinnakill", in: Ossory, Laois and Leinster; 2 (2006)
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