The Road to Oldcroghan #6 - An Afterlife
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
It's very human to wonder how we will be remembered. However few have a legacy like that of the victim from Oldcroghan. It was certainly one neither he nor his contemporaries could have envisaged.
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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. The death of old Crohunman cannot have been sudden or unexpected. |
| 0:30.0 | Around 2,300 years ago, something had gone wrong in the local community he ruled over as king. |
| 0:36.7 | According to the most convincing theory that explains his brutal death, the community had grown desperate |
| 0:41.9 | after a disaster of one kind or another. |
| 0:44.4 | It may have been beyond Okrahanman's control, a crop failure resulting in famine or |
| 0:49.6 | perhaps an outbreak of disease. Alternatively it may have resulted from an ill-conceived |
| 0:54.4 | decision on his part such as an attack on a neighboring kingdom that ended in |
| 0:58.8 | defeat. One way or another O'Crahan man as King had failed in what was expected of him by his people. |
| 1:06.0 | He had not protected them. |
| 1:08.2 | In what was a different time, tradition and custom dictated he should be sacrificed to the gods in the hope this would help |
| 1:14.4 | improve the fortunes of his people. Based on his diet in the preceding months we |
| 1:19.1 | know it was on a winter's day when he was brought into a bog in the shade of Crohan Hill. |
| 1:24.0 | There perhaps surrounded by the very people he had known since he was a boy and had led as a king, he was |
| 1:29.6 | brutally murdered. |
| 1:30.6 | He was stabbed through the heart and mutilated in various ways. His torso was then |
| 1:35.5 | dumped in the bog, his head and legs were removed elsewhere. However, his life didn't end there. |
| 1:43.0 | 2,300 years after his death in 2020, |
| 1:47.0 | as the current community living in the shade of Crohn Hill faces another crisis, |
| 1:51.0 | they are turning to this long dead king for possible solutions. |
| 1:55.0 | While one crisis led to his death, another is leading to a rebirth of sorts. |
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