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- ↑ Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons
- 1 2 Brendan Lynn, Holding the Ground: The Nationalist Party in Northern Ireland, 1945 – 72 (1997), ISBN 1-85521-980-8
- ↑ Walker, Brian M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. p. 61. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
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