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- ↑ Ferris, Catherine (April 2011). ""The Use of Newspapers as a Source for Musicological Research: A Case Study of Dublin Musical Life 1840-44"" (PDF). National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ↑ The Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser, 10 June 1850
- ↑ The Caledonian Mercury, 3 April 1851
