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Hallowe’en Radio Broadcast that Terrified Thousands

Date: Oct 31, 23
By Liam Nolan As historian A. Brad Schwartz said: “On Halloween morning, 1938, Orson Welles awok...

A Tour of the Irish Wake Museum

Date: Oct 24, 23
“I was as thou art and thou yet shall be” Cian Manning takes us on a tour of Ireland’s first Wak...

Living, and dying, in Ireland during the time of The Bodysnatchers

Date: Oct 24, 23
By Andrew Doherty Many years ago a wealthy lady from Ballinlaw, Co. Kilkenny, on the banks of th...

The Story of The Hellfire Club

Date: Oct 24, 23
In 1741, this notorious building in the Dublin Mountains was struck by lightning, damaging the st...

The Demon of The Liberties

Date: Oct 24, 23
In 1788 a pig-headed demon haunted the dim alleyways near the Black Dog prison in Dublin’s Libert...

‘The Carlow Seven Sisters’ – first Sisters of Mercy in USA

Date: Oct 24, 23
180 years ago, on November 2nd, 1843, seven Sisters of Mercy left Carlow town for Pittsburgh, Pen...

The Garden Where the Praties Grow

Date: Oct 17, 23
The humble spud has been not just a staple of our diet but of Irish culture for centuries. John C...

Annette Kellerman – the Million Dollar Mermaid

Date: Oct 17, 23
By Melanie Ward As an old uncle of mine used to say, there’s nothing new under the sun. We live ...

Stranger Than Fiction – Restless Corpse in the Chest

Date: Oct 17, 23
By John Macklin It took four workmen well over an hour to remove it from their van and carry in ...

Autumn Evening – a Seasonal Reflection

Date: Oct 17, 23
By Patrick O'Sullivan A lovely autumn evening. A few weeks earlier, I had dead-headed the yellow...