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- ↑ A Quaker take on Irish Business History by Colm Keena, Irish Times, 2 March 2012.
- ↑ William Penn Cork Past and Present.
- ↑ Quaker Cemetery Rosenallis
- ↑ The Quaker village of Ballitore Irish Quakers, Irish Genealogy Toolkit.
- ↑ Thomas Russell Communist Party of Ireland, Website.
- ↑ Quakers in Ireland Quakers in the World.
- ↑ Quaker burial ground Summer of Heritage Programme.
- ↑ Quakers during the Famine History Ireland
- ↑ "Original text of the constitution of Ireland".
- ↑ "Press Release".
- ↑ "Press Release".
- ↑ "Quaker Historical Library".
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