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- 1 2 3 4 5 W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968–1993, Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 346
- ↑ Flackes & Elliott, p. 347
- ↑ "Glossary of the strike", The Irish Times , 2 May 1977, p.11
