ard mhacha, you are quite right that many of the details in the story I posted are incorrect. This is a common failing of writers the "Shock ! Horror ! Probe !" genre. Details ? Pah ! Why let mere facts stand in the way of a good juicy story. Still, the murders are documented elsewhere, in much more restrained style.

(I originally stumbled across the site looking for some more lyrics to the Jesse James tunes in the Digitrad.)


A much better piece of literature which refers to "Black Irish" is the book, "The Irish R.M" by Somerville and Ross, later made into a TV series starring Peter Bowles. The character through which the book is written in the first person, Major Sinclair Yeates, describes the extended Knox family he meets in West Ireland as "Black Protestants".

(As he continues, "They occupied every social class and situation from Sir Valentine Knox of Castle Knox, to the auctioneer Knox, better known as 'Larry the Liar'."