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==References== ===Citations=== {{Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs= <ref name=harvey>{{cite journal|last=Harvey |first=Clodagh Brennan |author-link=<!--Clodagh Brennan Harvey--> |title=The Supernatural in Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore: Conflict or Coexistence? |journal=Folklore and Mythology Studies |volume=10 |year=1987 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOFPAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Aes+Sidhe%22 |page=26<!--20–-->}}</ref> <ref name=ocroinin>{{cite book|last=O Croinin |first=Daibhi |author-link=Daibhi O Croinin |title=Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 |edition=2nd revised |location=New York |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AislDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |page=96 |isbn=<!--1317192702, -->9781317192701}}</ref> <ref name="ohogain">{{cite book|last=Ó hÓgáin |first=Dáithí |author-link=Dáithí Ó hÓgáin |title=Myth, Legend & Romance: An encyclopaedia of the Irish folk tradition |location=New York |publisher=Prentice Hall |year=1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUgUAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Luchorp%C3%A1n |page=270|isbn=9780132759595 }}</ref> <ref name=oreilly-lugharcan>O'Donovan's supplement in O'Reilly, Edward (1864) ''An Irish-English Dictionary'', s.v. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=B5QCAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA37-PA3 lugharcán, lugracán, lupracán]".</ref> <ref name=oreilly-leithbragan>O'Reilly, Edward (1864) ''An Irish-English Dictionary'', s.v. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=B5QCAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA11-PA8 leithbrágan]".</ref> <ref name=squire>{{cite book |last=Squire |first=Charles |author-link=<!--Chales Squire--> |title=The Mythology of the British Islands: An Introduction to Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance |location=London |publisher=[[Blackie and Son]] |year=1905 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GEAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA403 |pages=247–248, 393, 403}}</ref> <ref name=stokes>{{cite journal|last=Stokes |first=Whitley |author-link=Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar) |title=Mythological Notes |journal=Revue Celtique |volume=16 |issue=Contributions in Memory of Osborn Bergin |year=1870 |url=https://archive.org/details/revueceltique01gaid |pages=[https://archive.org/details/revueceltique01gaid/page/256 256]–257}}</ref> <ref name=windisch>{{cite book|last=Windisch |first=Ernst |author-link=Ernst Windisch |others=Whitley Stokes |title=Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch |location=Leipzig |publisher=S. Hirzel |year=1880 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6y8gSPledfoC&pg=PA839 |page=839}}</ref> }} <!-- Dead note "myth1": [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cft/cft06.htm The Field of Boliauns] - A typical tale involving a leprechaun printed in the 1800s. --> <!-- Dead note "myth3": [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfm/tfm133.htm Clever Tom and the Leprechaun] --> <!-- Dead note "myth2": [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfm/tfm134.htm The Leprechaun in the Garden] --> ===Bibliography=== {{refbegin}} * {{cite journal|last=Binchy |first=D. A. |author-link=D. A. Binchy |title=The Saga of Fergus Mac Léti |journal=Ériu |volume=16 |issue=Contributions in Memory of Osborn Bergin |year=1952 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UitKAAAAYAAJ&q=This+seems+to+be+the+earliest+reference+in+the+extant+literature |pages=33–48 |jstor=30007384}}; [http://www.ucd.ie/tlh/trans/dab.eriu.16.001.t.text.html online text] via UCD. * [[Katharine Mary Briggs|Briggs, Katharine]]. 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Bohn, 1870. * {{citation|last=Kinahan |first=F. |author-link=<!--Frank Kinahan--> |title=Armchair Folklore: Yeats and the Textual Sources of "Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry" |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature |volume=83C |year=1983 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25506103 |pages=255–267|jstor=25506103 }} * {{Cite book|last=Koch |first=John T. |author-link=John T. Koch |title=Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia |publisher= ABC-CLIO |year= 2006 |isbn= 1851094407}} * [[Samuel Lover|Lover, S.]] ''Legends and Stories of Ireland''. 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Scott |year=1888 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsIqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80 }} {{refend}}
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