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References

  1. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 443. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
  2. 1 2 3 Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-821744-2.
  3. ↑ Hill, George (2004). The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans and the Plantation of Ulster. p. 48. ISBN   9780940134423 . Retrieved 2012-11-08.
  4. ↑ Ranelagh, John (1994). A Short History of Ireland (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-46944-9.
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