Book: Crosshill execution. The life and behaviour, since condemnation, of Dennis Doolan and Patrick Redding, with a description of the procession from the jail, to the place of execution, and conduct on the scaffold, and, a few remarks on the character and conduct of Green, while a ganger on the railways in England and Scotland. Glasgow: J. Morrison, [1841].

Account of life and behaviour of Dennis Doolan and Patrick Redding Irish labourers executed for killing English railway ganger, John Green in 1841. The execution was conducted at the site of the crime in front of a gathering of over 120,000 spectators. It was a controversial event: first public hanging since 1769 and was politically charged with Irish labour unrest and political conspiracy theories (Ribbonism) making the newspapers of the time. The labourers were constructing the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway. In 1840, tensions were high. Two months prior to this crime there had been another two murders of gangers and a high number of fatal accidents - seven accident per mile of track. There was also a backdrop of labour unrest with wages cut, contractors failing to make payments and missed deadlines. Almost all workers on the line were Irish but the gang leader was English. There was speculation on whether Doolan and Redding were the murderers.