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Obscure Ireland With Peter
Obscure Ireland With Peter is an independent Irish history series that is dedicated to retelling forgotten stories from Ireland's dramatic past. From obscure historic murders to the struggles of tenement life your host Peter digs through the archives to the discover the real stories of those who walked our streets before us and creates vivid and detailed documentaries.
Each story is meticulously researched using primary sources and is recounted with compassion for those involved.
Peter is a…
Episodes
Obscure Ireland With PeterMurder on Ireland's Eye - The Maria Kirwan Story
The Murder of Maria Kirwan | Scandal in Victorian Dublin | Ireland in 1852 In 1852 a scandal rocked the Victorian City of Dublin when accusations of murder…
Obscure Ireland With PeterWho Killed Tommy Powell? | Dublin 1961
In June 1961 the body of 5 year old Tommy Powell was discovered in the ruins of St. Kevin's Church on Camden Row. Tommy, who had been missing since the…
Obscure Ireland With PeterThe Horrific Dublin Foundling Hospital
For 100 years The Foundling Hospital on Dublin's James's Street cast a dark shadow over the city. Designed to be a place of refuge and care for the poorest and…
Obscure Ireland With PeterMurder in Rathmines | The Shocking Case & Murder Trial of Ellen Byrne
Did This Dublin Woman Murder Her Husband? The Shocking Story & Murder Trial of Ellen Byrne. In the summer of 1842 the respectable neighbourhood of Rathmines in…
Obscure Ireland With PeterBuried Beneath The Tenements | The 1963 Disaster That Claimed 4 Lives
In the summer of 1963 Dublin’s dark and deadly tenement past returned to torment the residents of the inner city. Exactly 50 years after the catastrophic…
Obscure Ireland With PeterHanged in Carlow: The Story of Lucinda Sly
At 2:25pm on the 30th March 1835 Lucinda Sly, a 57 year old Carlow woman was taken from her cell in the county gaol to begin the short walk to the gallows that…
Obscure Ireland With PeterThe Hatchet Killer of Helen's Road | The Shocking Murder of Lavena Ball | Dublin 1936
Investigating The Murder of Lavena Ball in Dublin, Ireland 1936. In February 1936 a shocking crime was uncovered on Corbawn lane in Dublin when an abandoned…
Obscure Ireland With PeterMass Murder in Malahide | 6 Victims Killed by One Man
The Largest Mass Murder in Irish History & The Hanging of Henry McCabe | Malahide, Dublin 1926. In March 1926 the largest mass murder (excluding political…
Obscure Ireland With PeterDublin's Darkest Secret | The Notorious Nurse Cadden | Murder and Scandal in 1950s Dublin
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…
Obscure Ireland With PeterThe Hanging of John Delahunt "The Teenage Throat Slitter of Dublin City"
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…
Obscure Ireland With PeterBang Bang The Story of a Dublin Street Character
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…
Obscure Ireland With PeterDeath in The Dublin Slums
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…
Obscure Ireland With PeterThe Hanging of The Kearney Family
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…
Obscure Ireland With PeterThe Execution of Kevin Barry | A Young Irish Rebel and Martyr
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…
Obscure Ireland With PeterThe Murder of Honor Bright
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…