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- 1 2 David Gordon, The O'Neill Years
- ↑ Irish Historical Studies vol. 33 no. 129–130 p. 122
- 1 2 Bob Purdie, Politics in the Streets
- 1 2 "No. 2696". The Belfast Gazette . 2 April 1971. p. 207.
- ↑ "Political Biography of Robin John Bailie (6 March, 1937 – ????)", The Stormont Papers
- ↑ Henry Patterson and Eric Kauffman, Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945