...evil lies in the race, the Celtic race of Ireland. There is no getting over historical facts . . . The race must be forced from the soil; by fair means,...land of all papists and Jacobites; this means Celts. (253-54) This is nothing short of a recipe and justification for racial genocide. Knox's book and ideas...

...misrule, claiming instead that: the source of all evil lies in the race, the Celtic race of Ireland. Look at Wales, look at Caledonia; it is ever the same....soil; by fair means, if possible; still they must leave.53 Knox's illustrations of the Celt tell the real story (see Plate 1). Whereas the Irish Celts...

...and, of course, the Irish: the source of all evil lies in the race, the Celtic race of Ireland . . . the race must be forced from the soil; by fair means,...safety requires it. I speak not of the justice of the case; nations must ever act as Machiavelli advised: look to yourself. (1862: 378-9) Knox did not explain...

...'Celtic race' as 'the source of all evil', and declared that it must be forced to leave the country, 'by fair means, if possible; still they must leave....nations must ever act as Machiavelli advised: look to yourself'.49 By this time, the climate was much less amenable to the idea of the British as a 'mixed...

...comes to the Celts of Ireland: 'the source of all evil lies in the race, the Celtic race of Ireland. The race must be forced from the soil, by fair means if possible, still they must leave'. A few sentences later is an entreaty to genocide no less chilling in intent than in Bosnia or Rwanda:...