HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY! From People’s Favorite Magazine in 1916 to Argosy in the 1930s, the saga of Irish pirate and mercenary soldier Denis Burke unfolded from the pen of H. Bedford-Jones. The fictional buccaneer deserves to be remembered in the same breath with his fellow fictional Irish pirate Captain Peter Blood.
H. Bedford Jones created plenty of characters during his 40-year career as a pulp writer extraordinaire. His Captain Burke claimed descent from the real-life Iron Dick Burke and his wife Grace O’Malley, pirate queen of Ireland, who was featured in Balladeer’s Blog’s 2023 Saint Patrick’s Day post.
As for Burke, his tales were collected in The Royal Vagabond and again in Buccaneer Blood. Among the short stories that starred this hard-fighting, hard-drinking Irishman: Continue reading
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