Just a correction to what Naemanson said above about the ballad "The Wreck of the Lady Washington." I do sing the song but it was composed by Micki Perry in 1991 of Washington state after her unfortunate encounter with a railroad bridge.

Still haven't seen this movie but I'm looking forward to it. With regard to Teribus's point about the passage of Irish Catholic "reform laws," I would suggest that O'Brian is correct that actual discrimination in the Royal Navy continued for years, if not decades.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble