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The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge: Sectarian Terror in 1816 Ireland
In October 1816, a farmhouse in County Louth called Wildgoose Lodge was set ablaze, killing eight people including an infant. This episode unpacks the sectarian feud between the Ribbonmen and the Orangemen that led to the massacre, the legal aftermath, and how the event exposed the raw wounds of the Penal Laws era. We follow the trial that condemned eighteen men to execution, the role of informer Patrick Drumgoole, and the controversial final speech of the convicted leader Patrick Devan. The episode considers how sectarian violence persisted long after the Act of Union, and what Wildgoose…
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