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• Buckram Back - The Country Dancing Master  
William Carleton, Amusing Irish Tales (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London mid-19th century).
• Dance Light For My Heart Lies Under Your Feet  
Samuel Lover, The Lyrics of Ireland (Houlston & Wright, London 1858).
• The Dance at Marley
Patrick J. McCall, 1861.
• At Swim Two Birds
Flann O’Brien, 1939
• The Ould Irish Jig
James McKowen (1814 - 1889).
• Banks of the Boro
Patrick Kennedy, Account of life in co. Wexford in 1817/18.
• Country Dance & Quadrille
Thomas Moore
• Attitude
Larry Qwillighan
• Evils of Dancing
Patrick O’Donnell, Archbishop of Armagh, 1925.
• Lanigan's Ball
George Gavin (1860)
Clever song where Brooks Academy takes its name.
• The Dance Halls
Flann O'Brien
A humorous account of the Public Dance Halls Act of 1935.