Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858In the late eighteenth century, an influx of Protestant settlers to the mainly Catholic parish of Forkhill on the Ulster borderlands provoked clashes between natives and newcomers. None was more horrific than the brutal attack on a Protestant schoolmaster and his family in the winter of 1791. The conflict was immediately cast in sectarian terms, leading to more than 200 years of ill will. But was it a misdiagnosis? Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill