Talk:Red Legs Greaves

Kilt-wearing?
"His nickname was based on a commonly used term for reddened legs often seen among the Scottish and Irish who took to wearing kilts in almost any kind of weather" This sounds speculative - a Barbadian born sailor, probably of lowland descent (surname is not Highland) is highly unlikely to be kilt-wearing. Also in almost any kind of weather is a redundant remark; kilts would have been the standard mode of dress in highland Scotland all year round, not just some summer fashion. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:25, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

There is no solid academic source for this entry beyond Gosse, a very poor one in and of itself, and it is contradicted almost in its entirety by Sean O'Callaghan, TO HELL OR BARBADOS: THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF IRELAND (Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland: Brandon, 2000) pp. 176-179. O'Callaghan is not an ideal source since it is not footnoted, but it is much more rigorous than Gosse and is based not only on a solid bibliography in 2000 (which includes Gosse 1924) but also archival sources in London and Barbados. I can return to this page when I have access to my university library after returning from leave this fall, but this article has survived over two years since being flagged as lacking legitimate sources. I think it is a reasonable candidate for being reduced to a stub entry in the interim. zeerover (talk) 02:35, 8 August 2011 (UTC)