Bonus - Medieval Ireland's Red Wedding

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

Ireland, Irish History, Norman Invasion, Great Hunger, Vikings, Interviews, History, War Of Independence, Great Famine

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Red Wedding is an infamous chapter in the Game of Thrones series. It saw one family wipe out their rivals in a treacherous and brutal massacre. In this podcast I look at a comparable event from Ireland in the 14th century.

In 1305 the Lord of Tethmoy Peter de Bermingham invited several leading members of the O'Connor-Faly family to Carrick castle for a feast. The guests included his godchild. What followed was one of the most notorious incidents in what was already a brutal age. Listen to the show for the full story.

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0:49.4	com. Hi folks and welcome to the Irish History Podcast. My name is Finn Duwire and this is a bonus episode arising out of my last show
1:06.4	Fatal Fudes Part 2. During that podcast I mentioned that a fairly minor figure from
1:12.0	medieval Ireland, the Lord of Thethmoy, Peter the Birmingham, became one of the most notorious men during the Middle Ages after an atrocity he committed in 1305.
1:23.2	While I had intended to return to that atrocity later in the episode, I forgot, but subsequently
1:29.6	Brenda from Philadelphia was in touch asking, what was so notorious that it could make Peter
1:35.0	the Birmingham stand out in what was already an age ravaged by extreme violence.
1:40.8	The answer is an intriguing anecdote from the early 14th century worthy of an episode in the series Game of Thrones.
1:49.0	For those of you unfamiliar with Game of Thrones, the title of today's show comes from an episode called The Red Wedding,
1:56.2	which saw one family treacherously and brutally wipe out a rival family when they were guests
2:02.4	at a wedding. While the events that I'm
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