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- ↑ "Ian resigns as director of SNMF". Ian Wilson homepage - Latest news. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ↑ Daniel Dunne: "Wilson, Ian", in: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. H. White & B. Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), vol. 2, p. 1061-3.
