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Brought to you by Penguin. The Number 1 Bestseller Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived...

Shadows of Éire is a serious investigation into Ireland’s most consequential crimes — from the Kinahan-Hutch feud to centuries-old mysteries lost to history. Host Tim Warburton cuts through tabloid noise and folklore to deliver the facts, the context, and the human cost behind each case.

Today, Tipperary-born priest Patrick Ryan cuts a modest but strong figure, to the layperson. A man of God who has been entrusted with the confessions of hundreds of earnest parishioners. But in fact his story is dark, dramatic, and pivotal to Irish history, on both sides of the border. In The Padre, award-winning investigative journalist Jennifer O'Leary exposes the paramilitary exploits of notorious former Catholic priest and active IRA supporter Patrick Ryan–exposing details which have, outside of his very guarded circles, been unknown until now.

NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025, AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS The heart-breaking account of a search for the truth behind the brutal killings that shocked a nation. On 29 August 2016, devastating news hit the headlines that an entire family was found dead in a rural community. For Jacqueline...

One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans.

IN 2017, TINA SATCHWELL VANISHED FROM HER COUNTY CORK HOME. HER HUSBAND RICHARD CLAIMED THAT SHE HAD TAKEN THEIR SAVINGS AND LEFT OF HER OWN ACCORD. But as questions mounted, suspicion grew. Why did her husband wait four days before reporting her missing? And would Tina have left behind her...

It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window.

Brought to you by Penguin. Kinahan Assassins is the extraordinary story of how the killers used by Ireland’s most notorious drug gang, the Kinahan Cartel, were taken down. After an audacious assassination attempt on boss Daniel Kinahan's life, the Kinahan Cartel recruited an unprecedented...

John Gilligan is no altar boy, by his own admission. One of Ireland's most infamous criminals and drug lords, and widely believed in the court of public opinion to have ordered the cold-blooded murder of crime reporter Veronica Guerin, he remains a defiant figure. In this remarkable book—the first of its kind—journalist Jason O'Toole distills hours of sensational face-to-face, no-holds-barred interviews with the feared criminal into a fast-paced and jaw-dropping account of the Irish gangland scene.

Irish mafia from the streets of Dublin to the highest echelons of global organised crime and right into the heart of professional boxing. When a weigh-in turns into a gangland bloodbath, the tables begin to turn on the powerful Kinahan Organised Crime Group. But is it too late to tame the beast or can the law finally catch up with the mob? With a unique insight into the rise of mob and its reach into boxing through a tapestry of confidential informants and some too-close-for-comfort experiences, Tallant brings to life one of the most extraordinary stories in modern organised crime.

Frank McCann tried to kill his wife and child four times to keep a dark secret from coming out.The swim coach secretly fathered a child with a special needs teenager in 1987, just months after marrying Esther O’Brien.In September 1992, with Esther on the brink of discovering the truth and after repeated efforts to kill her, he burned her and their 18-month-old foster baby Jessica to death.And now, to the horror of those left behind, the remorseless former publican stands on the brink of a permanent release from prison.Nobody Heard Them Cry is the extraordinary story of a woman and her child ...

Brought to you by Penguin. A story that grips Ireland When recently widowed Jason Corbett hired a wholesome young American, Molly Martens, to care for his two young children, there was nothing to suggest she was a fantasist - and that her obsession with his children would end in his death. In...

Dead For Justice: 7 Years at War with the Irish Police / Gardaí. Listen to the true story of E.F. Fluff's nightmarish war with Irish Police after a corrupt Kevin Street Cop / Gard targeted me with wholly false charges as part of a scam to defraud the Irish State, and the physical torture, sexual assault and false imprisonment I was put through in the nightmare of trying to escape.

AN INVESTIGATION INTO ONE OF THE OLDEST UNSOLVED CASES ON THE FBI'S BOOKS, SPANNING SIX DECADES AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 1967. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. At his son's fifth birthday party, Joseph Maloney was alleged to have poisoned his wife. While awaiting trial in the psychiatric wing of a Rochester...

True Crime podcast based around cases from the little island of Ireland with feminism and some utter nonsense thrown in for good measure.

Robert Delany was 27 when in 2008 he was shot in the head on the orders of a brutal dissident Republican.The innocent dad’s “crime” was to break up a pub fight involving the wrong man.Shot in front of his young daughter in their Dublin home, Bob suffered catastrophic brain damage.For 17 years he has been neither living nor dead.But his family is refusing to give up hope that the man who orchestrated the attack will be caught.This is Robert is an Irish Sun podcast narrated by Damien Lane, brought to you by the producers of the Kinahans and the Stardust Tragedy.This is his story. Hosted on...

This 8 part series tells the story from the very beginning up until the current day, with several individual stories of the young victims as they set off for the Valentine’s night disco in the Stardust nightclub in Artane in 1981. The podcast continues with a thorough investigation into the fatal fire, testimonies from survivors, firefighters and first responders on the scene, and the devastating aftermath that followed as families fought for over four decades for justice for their loved ones. The series concludes with Episode 8: Unlawful Killing, which provides expert insight into the final...

What exactly happens on the hunt for a killer? The Making Of A Detective tells the story of 5 of Ireland’s most notorious murder cases, told through the lens of the man who once solved them.In over three decades working in An Garda Síochána, Pat Marry has seen it all. Each episode features a step-by-step account of how justice was ultimately served, with interviews from victims' friends and family, Pat's former colleagues in the force, and The Irish Sun's Stephen Breen to help tell these stories one by one. Pat's Story begins with the tragic death of Rachel Callaly by her husband Joe ...

Don't Blame The Mom is a weekly true crime podcast where friends Hannah & Kate discuss and dive into cases of the worlds most infamous serial killers from around the world.From the most notorious investigations to some more obscure, these fascinating cases won't fail to shock. Whilst some killers and psychologists have tried to blame the Mom or a parental killer on the reason these evil acts have been committed... we'll let you decide where the blame lies; if its nature, nurture or perhaps both.

GUBU tells the story of killer Malcolm Macarthur and how his crimes impacted the government of Taoiseach Charles Haughey. Coming soon from Harry McGee of The Irish Times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.