Ep. 34 - Kilmainham Gaol
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Kilmainham Gaol is an immense structure found in Dublin, Ireland that holds a place in the annals of Ireland's fight for independence and has a history that spans over two centuries. Today, it is the largest unoccupied prison in the country and is now a museum, but at one time it was home for hundreds of prisoners and was the scene of many executions. Those prisoners included not only notable revolutionaries, but also ordinary men, women and yes, children. And now it seems to be home for the spirits of several of these former occupants. Kilmainham Gaol is rumored to be haunted. The Moment in Oddity features the Legend of the Ourang Medan (very strange story) and This Day in History features the first female pharmacist Susan Hayhurst.
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| 0:21.8 | You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. History tells the story of the world and of our lives. |
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| 1:07.0 | Hello, you spook-people-people. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello, you spook-tacular people. welcome to this 34th episode of the |
| 1:15.8 | History Ghost Bump podcast ghost tours for the theater of the mind I am your |
| 1:20.5 | host Diane and this is Denise and today since tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day so happy |
| 1:28.5 | St. Patrick's Day everybody out there we thought we'd go over to Ireland We're going to Dublin and we're going to the Kilmingham |
| 1:35.6 | Jail. This is quite a haunted place. And the neat thing about the history today, Denise, |
| 1:41.0 | is this jail is so prominent in Ireland's political history that we're |
| 1:46.7 | going to have to share a lot of that political history today. So people are |
| 1:49.8 | going to get a whole lot of history about Ireland. A whole lot about the Irish. And of course this |
| 1:54.7 | is the political history we'll be focusing on today. Anybody who knows about the history |
| 1:59.1 | and Ireland knows that there's a lot of religious fighting that has gone on there as well between the |
| 2:03.8 | Catholics and the Protestants even to this day. We're not going to get into that as |
| 2:08.0 | much because that doesn't figure into this quite as much. But you know it was |
| 2:12.2 | interesting I was listening to a podcast this morning |
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