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- ↑ Jean Gribenski: "Alday", in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, biographical part, volume 1 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1999), cc. 410–413.
- ↑ Barra Boydell: "Alday, [Jérôme] Paul [Bonaventure]", in The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 11.
- ↑ Boydell (2013).
- ↑ This is not the same as the London Anacreontic Society. The Dublin society existed c.1740–1850); see Catherine Ferris: "Anacreontic Society", in The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (2013), see above, p. 21–22.
- ↑ Another private musical society active in Dublin between 1786 and 1824; see Catherine Ferris: "Sons of Handel", ibid., p. 944.
- ↑ Dublin Magazine, March 1820, quoted after Boydell (2013).
