‘Jennifer Kelly offers local historians a whole new way of looking at the sources to tell imaginative new stories about past associations', Eoin Magennis, Seancas Ard Maca (2009).
‘The book is well written, accessible and a welcome addition to the historical examination of secret societies in the west of Ireland and their links with the better-known organisations in Ulster and Leinster … a fine addition to an already significant series of local histories from NUI Maynooth', Gordon Kennedy, Irish Economic and Social History (2009).