Northern Ireland: The Wild West for Gambling?

Between 1865 and 1895, the American frontier was a place of rapid expansion and lawlessness, forever immortalised in popular culture by the spaghetti westerns of Italian director Sergio Leone. Settlers and speculators raced into new territory faster than the law could follow, and in the gap between opportunity and regulation, vast fortunes were made. However, for every story of fortune, there were countless stories that ended in ruin. It is a history we like to think belongs to another century....