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- ↑ "Irish tours to North America". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ↑ "Gentlemen of Philadelphia v Gentlemen of Ireland, 1909". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ↑ "Gentlemen of Philadelphia v Gentlemen of Ireland, 1909". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 November 2018.