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- ↑ "Review of Ireland's crusade against tuberculosis". The Dublin Journal of Medical Science. CXXVI: 379–381. November 1908.
- ↑ Neil Moxham, Longford Women's Unionist Association
- ↑ Longford Women's unionist association
