Obscure Ireland With Peter

Bang Bang The Story of a Dublin Street Character

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 13:41:08 GMT

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 home in the liberties and how he became Dublin's answer to John Wayne.

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Death in The Dublin Slums

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:57:19 GMT

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 of Dublin's tenements faced disease, death and hunger in the eye and the year of 1913 would see their bones broken by the masonry of their decrepit homes and the batons of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In September of that year two crowded tenement homes crumbled into the crowd killing 7 of their residents. This is the story of that sad day and of the bravery of a young man named Eugene Salmon who gave his life to save his siblings.

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The Hanging of The Kearney Family

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:14:40 GMT

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 disappearance led to the arrest of Peter Kearney and his four sons. The body of Kinlan would never be found but despite this the authorities and local landlords contrived to exact a terrible revenge on a rebellious mountain family that would see their lives extinguished by the hangman's rope on the bank of The River Dodder.

This is the story of the hanging of the Kearneys of Piperstown, a family who rebelled with the United Irishmen and gave sanctuary to Robert Emmet, the powerful land owning families who sought to make an brutal example of them and a hated magistrate and landlord who himself was destined to meet a brutal end.

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The Execution of Kevin Barry | A Young Irish Rebel and Martyr

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:06:04 GMT

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 revolutionary period.

This is the story of his life from his birth in Dublin, his early years in Carlow, his college life and volunteer training and his sad death aged 18 in November 1920.

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The Murder of Honor Bright

Thu, 29 May 2025 16:11:21 GMT

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.

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