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- ↑ Usher, Ramona (14 July 2014). "Dublin and its Georgian legacy: The battle for iconoclasm". In Mancini, JoAnne; Bresnahan, Keith (eds.). Architecture and Armed Conflict: The Politics of Destruction. Routledge. p. 123. ISBN 978-0415702508.
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