Jack the Ripper: Irish Connections [From the Archives]
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This episode was originally released in 2019. Over the past week I was recording the audio version of 'A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders' so I didnt have time to prepare a new episode but this is worth a relisten! Normal service resumes next week.
“In the later half 1888 London was gripped by fear when five women were murdered within a few months of each other in the East End of the city. Initially dubbed the Whitechapel murders after the district where they took place, they are better known today by the sensational title of the Jack the Ripper murders.
Over the past century the case has become without doubt the most famous serial killings in history however the victims have been largely forgotten. The identity of the killer, frequently cast as an evil genius, dominates the seeming endless retellings of the murders both in fact and fiction.
However in 2019, this changed when Hallie Rubenhold published a book called The Five – The untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper…”
In this interview with Hallie Rubenhold explores Irish connections to the notorious murders and shares her new research from her book ‘The Five’.
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| 0:40.2 | In the latter half of 1888, London was gripped by fear when five women were murdered within |
| 0:46.4 | a few months of each other in the east end of the city. |
| 0:49.8 | Initially dubbed the White Chapel murders after the district where most of the killings |
| 0:54.5 | took place, they are better known today by the sensational title of the Jack the Ripper |
| 0:59.6 | murders. |
| 1:01.1 | Over the past century, the cases become without doubt the most famous serial killings in history. |
| 1:08.0 | However, the victims have been largely forgotten. |
| 1:11.6 | The identity of the killer frequently cast as an evil genius dominates the seemingly |
| 1:17.0 | endless retellings of the murders, both in fact and fiction. |
| 1:21.8 | However, in 2019, this changed when Harry Rubenhold published a book called The Five, |
| 1:28.5 | the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. |
| 1:32.3 | This upended the traditional understandings of the case, because the book doesn't really |
| 1:37.2 | focus on the murders and rarely mentions Jack the Ripper, but instead as the title suggests, |
| 1:43.5 | it focuses on the lives of the women who were killed. |
| 1:47.5 | Through this approach, Hallie gained a fresh perspective on the case. |
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