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- ↑ Ita Beausang: "Cooke family", in: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland, ed. Harry White and Barra Boydell (Dublin: UCD Press, 2013), p. 237–240; ISBN 978-1-906359-78-2.
- ↑ Beausang (2013), as above.
- ↑ Beausang (2013), as above.
- ↑ Axel Klein: "Stage-Irish, or the National in Irish Opera, 1780–1925", in: Opera Quarterly 21.1 (2005), p. 39.
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