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- ↑ 'Proceedings of the Anti-Maynooth Conference of 1845' Thelwall, A.S., London:1865.
- ↑ 'Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England' By Denis G. Paz
- ↑ Providence and Empire: Religion Politics and Society in the United Kingdom by Stewart .J Brown.
- ↑ The question of Ireland: Seeking conciliation 1844-1845
- ↑ 'The Maynooth Grant, the Dissenters and Disestablishment, 1845- 1847' by Machin, G.I.T, English Historical Review, Vol. 82, No. 322 (1967),
- ↑ An Anti Maynooth Chronicle The Tablet, 10 May 1845.
- ↑ PROCEEDINGS - ANTI-MAYNOOTH CONFERENCE OF 1845. WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION, AND AN APPENDIX COMPILED AND EDITED (AT THE REQUEST OF THE CENTRAL ANTI-MAYNOOTH COMMITTEE,) by Rev. A.S. Thelwall MA, London.