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"ref": "1967 October 30, Myles na gCopaleen, “Language Please”, in The Irish Times, page 10:",
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"ref": "1993, Colbert Kearney, The Consequence, Blackstaff Press, →ISBN, page 277:",
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"ref": "2014, Sinéad Sturgeon, Essays on James Clarence Mangan: The Man in the Cloak, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 47:",
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