The Big Snow Tragedy - Stories From a Living Graveyard (Part 5)
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Graveyards chronicle the history of the communities where we. At Preban, Co Wicklow one of the most tragic stories is that of the Mulhall family. In this episode local resident Helen Byrne talks about the fate of the Mulhall family, who were killed in an avalanche in the hills above Wicklow a story that was covered across the world at the time.
This episode is the fourth of seven in 'Stories from a Living Graveyard’. The series will be released daily as part of Heritage Week 2020.
Narration by Aidan Crowe
Sound by Jason Looney
Special thanks to Yvonne Whitty, the Heritage Office of Wicklow County Coucil & Preban Graveyard Committee.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. And then there's a Mulhall headstone over there. You heard about that already. |
| 0:30.0 | That there was a snow storm in 1867 and they had a cottage in the mountains over |
| 0:38.5 | asking a gap which is just over that far hill and And when the snow melted, it swept the cottage away. |
| 0:47.0 | And the entire family were swept, father and mother and four children. |
| 0:51.3 | And the youngest child was only weeks old so the children were |
| 0:55.2 | 975 and a baby and the community in asking the gap put a headstone over here in about 1997 to remember the family. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello and |
| 1:14.0 | welcome to stories from a living graveyard, |
| 1:17.0 | a podcast series created by myself Finn de Weir and Damien Shields, |
| 1:22.0 | the host of the Forgotten Irish Podcast. |
| 1:24.0 | This series tells some of the remarkable stories unearthed in the restoration work at Prebens Cemetery in County Wickrow. |
| 1:31.0 | This is episode 5 in the series about the Mulhall family whose story |
| 1:35.2 | as relayed at the start of the show by Jack Lynch is without doubt one of the most tragic in the graveyard. |
| 1:42.0 | It brings us back to the year 1867 and to the fate of one family eeking out a living in the hills above |
| 1:48.3 | pre-bident cemetery and the dangers this entailed. Before we start, we just want to acknowledge a few people without whose support this |
| 1:55.9 | podcast would not be possible. |
| 1:58.1 | Stories from a living graveyard was created in association with the Prebben Graveyard Committee and the Heritage Office of |
| 2:04.0 | Wicklow County Council. We would also like to thank the Heritage Council and |
| 2:08.0 | Wicklow County Council for funding this podcast and their ongoing work to reveal the hidden heritage of Preb and graveyard. |
| 2:18.7 | The story of the Mulhall family is perhaps the most poignant myself and Damien encountered in Prebbing the cemetery, |
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