"If Keegan got that wrong, I wouldn't take the rest of what he says on trust."
Typos and mis-spelling of names is a pretty pathetic defence of s known tyrant David
You are nit-picking to avoid the obvious
Leitrim was generally hated - by his tenants, by his fellow landlords and his fellow peers

You brought up Slevin - that is what her researches revealed   
C'mon - he was a bad lot among badl lots exploring a mass tragedy
Mis-spelling - you have to be joking
No reference to the documented evidence of the general behaviour of landlords in that period
Rather than Teribus's Stalin quote I would much rather accept the wonderful opening to the late Frank Harte's lecture on Irish Political Song given to an audience at the National folk Festival in Sutton onnington

He opened:
"The english have never understood the Irish" - heavy pause - "but the Irish have always understood the English"

I've never seen a shudder run through a roomful of people as it did that morning
Britain still has to get to grips with its shameful behaviour in Ireland
Leitrim was one of many
Jim Carroll