In Popular Culture
- The Black Watch is the subject of an Irish Rebel song, in which they are depicted as a "regiment the devil calls his own" along with B Specials, Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Black and Tans.
- There are however also many more complimentary anthems associated with the regiment. The above is a parody of "The Gallant Forty-Twa"; there is also "Wha Saw the Forty-Second", a reworking of the Jacobite song "Wha Wadna Fecht For Charlie"; "Twa Recruitin' Sergeants".
- In 2006, the National Theatre of Scotland premiered a new play, Black Watch (play), by Gregory Burke. Compiled from interviews with former soldiers, the play dealt with the history of the regiment and in particular the recent deployment in Iraq.
- In the game Empire Total war the Black watch is an elite British unit.
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