James Porter

Porter, (Revd) James (1753-1798), Presbyterian minister and author who contributed a series of letters to The Northern Star in 1796, satirizing local landlords. These were published as Billy Bluff and Squire Firebrand in the same year (repr. 1810, 1829). At the outbreak of the Rebellion of 1798 [see United Irishmen] he was captured and hanged outside his meeting-house at Grey Abbey, Co. Down. He is the subject of Séamus Ó Neill's Faill ar an bhFeart (1967).