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*[http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/documents/Heritage-Chapter.pdf "A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness"] by John Morrissey, 2005 , Chapter 3 of Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity edited by M Mc Carthy 2005.Website: Geography Dept, National University of Ireland, Galway. Includes details of the recruitment area for the regiment, including page 5 of the pdf.
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/collection/collection-news/indian-mutiny-tunic-reveals-death-defying-story "Indian Mutiny Tunic Reveals Death-Defying Story"] with additional [http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26simpleText%3Dindian%2520mutiny%26themeID%3D%26resultsDisplay%3Dlist%26page%3D15&pos=18&total=299&page=15&acc=2012-02-1-1 details] National Army Museum. Lieutenant Campbell Clark, [[2nd Bengal (European) Light Infantry|2nd Bengal European Fusiliers]] was attached to the 88th Regiment of Foot when he was shot at Cawnpore in November 1857 while taking part in an attack against the mutineers.
*[http://www.royal-irish.com/ The Royal Irish <nowiki>[Regiment]</nowiki>] Details of Museums and database for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers ([[27th Regiment of Foot|27th]] and [[3rd Madras (European) Infantry|108th]] Regiments of Foot), the Royal Irish Rifles ([[83rd Regiment of Foot|83rd]] and [[86th Regiment of Foot|86th]] Regiments of Foot), and the Royal Irish Fusiliers ([[87th Regiment of Foot|87th]] and [[89th Regiment of Foot|89th]] Regiments of Foot). In addition, in time it is intended to include in the database the names of many soldiers who served in what have become known as the Disbanded Irish Regiments, such as the Connaught Rangers, (88th and [[94th Regiment of Foot|94th]] Regiments of Foot), the Dublin Fusiliers ([[1st Madras (European) Fusiliers|102th]] and [[1st Bombay (European) Fusiliers| 103th]] Regiments of Foot) and the [[18th Regiment of Foot|(18th) Royal Irish Regiment]]
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecord00grea#page/n11/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Eighty-eighth Regiment of Foot or Connaught Rangers, containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1837''] 1838 Archive.org
