Obscure Ireland With Peter

At 6:30am on the morning of the 18th April 1956 a milkman named Patrick Rigney made a shocking discovery on the steps leading to the basement of a Georgian town house on Dublin’s Hume Street. Before him lay the body of 33 year old Helen O’Reilly, her legs bound together and a silk stocking tied tightly around her neck. As Rigney tried to make sense of what he was seeing he was startled by a noise...

Welcome to Obscure Ireland With Peter the history podcast that takes a deep dive into the lesser known stories from Ireland's past and seeks to bring back to life the lives of the people whose stories of murder, defiance and bravery once gripped the nation and filled newspapers for weeks on end but have slowly faded from memory. From long forgotten murders in the 19th century to more modern cases...

The story of Thomas "Bang Bang" Dudley who became the most famous of Dublin's many street characters. Born into poverty and the tenements of early 1900s Dublin Thomas was a beloved character who travelled around the city holding mock shootouts with his famous key while hanging out of the back of trams and buses. This detailed podcast tells the story of his life from his birth in 1906, his beloved...

In 1913 Dublin was a city in turmoil. Riddled with relentless poverty and row after row of filthy and dilapidated tenement housing the formerly grand Georgian Streets that had been the playground of the Anglo Irish Ascendency became a death trap for the 1000s of working class families that now lived in overcrowded homes built for the elite landowning overlords of Ireland. Every day the residents o...

The Hanging of Kearneys | A Miscarriage of Justice? | Dublin in 1816 | Ireland In the early 1800s the peace of Glenasmole Valley was forever broken by the disappearance of a despised land steward who worked on a nearby estate belonging to the powerful Shaw family. One evening John Kinlan walked out into the darkness a mountain laneway and seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. His disappea...

The Execution of Kevin Barry | A Young Irish Rebel | Dublin, Ireland in 1920 In 1920 as Ireland fought a War of Independence to break free from the grasp of The British Empire a young Volunteer by the name of Kevin Barry was captured on the streets of Dublin and then executed by the British authorities. Kevin Barry's death shocked the nation and became one of the most poignant stories of the revol...

This is the sad story of the murder of a young woman known as Honour Bright whose body was discovered on a quiet road in South Dublin in 1925. Join me as I uncover the story of her early life, her true identity and the dramatic trial that saw two seemingly respectable men accused of her murder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.