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- ↑ IAPH
- ↑ University College Dublin Press
- ↑ "Irish Historian Dr. Peter Gray visits UNB", University of New Brunswick, November 12, 2015
- ↑ MacRaild, Donald. review of Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society, 1843-50, Reviews in History, (review no. 173), February 2001
