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- ↑ Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick (2004). Riot and Great Anger: Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 103.
- ↑ ""General John Regan" Riot". The Manchester Guardian . 1914-04-11.
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