Murder under Gaslight

Send us Fan Mail Liverpool, 1880. In the packed courts around Scotland Road, thousands of Irish families lived shoulder to shoulder, carrying with them the hunger, hardship, and resilience they’d brought across the...

Send us Fan Mail In the winter of 1896, deep in the quiet fields of Tipperary, a tragedy unfolded that Victorian Ireland was neither equipped to understand nor willing to fully confront. It was a time when a woman’s...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the windswept west of Ireland, where the Atlantic mist clings to the fields and the nights fall early, the year 1881 brought a crime that unsettled even the hardiest of rural communities...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>On a winter’s night in 1892, as the great bells of Mullingar Cathedral tolled across the town, a far darker sound stirred beneath the vaulted stone. By morning, whispers were already spreading...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>On a cold spring morning in 1901, the quiet streets of Galway stirred with a terror they had never known. A young woman—<b>Sarah McGarry</b>, just twenty‑three years old—was found brutally...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the summer of 1879, the quiet respectability of Richmond was shattered by a crime so brutal it stunned Victorian Britain. When the remains of wealthy widow Julia Martha Thomas were...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the summer of 1853, a pleasure trip to Ireland’s Eye ended in horror. Maria Kirwan—young, elegant, and by all accounts in good spirits—was found dead on the rocks beneath the island’s jagged...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p> In the summer of 1877, the quiet Cork village of Castletownroche was shattered by a crime so brutal it echoed far beyond its fields and farmsteads. What began as a dispute over land—an...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the spring of 1882, the quiet Westmeath estate of <b>Barbavilla</b> was shattered by a killing that sent shockwaves far beyond its gates. What began as a seemingly straightforward murder...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the summer of 1846, the town of Mullingar became the stage for a tragedy that should never have happened. A young man named <b>Brian Seery</b> was accused, condemned, and executed—swiftly...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Snow was already falling when the Donner–Reed Party reached the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846. What began as a hopeful journey westward—families, wagons, and the promise of...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In March of 1895, in a quiet corner of rural Tipperary, a young woman named Bridget Cleary vanished from the world of the living and stepped—at least in the minds of her neighbours—into...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the summer of 1861, the quiet Sligo market town of Ballymote was shaken by a series of strange and unsettling attacks that left locals gripped by fear. This episode unravels the rumours, the...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the spring of 1848, as Ireland staggered under the weight of famine and fear, a young woman named Margaret Maher was found brutally murdered on the outskirts of Mullingar. Her death shocked...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In the early hours of a spring morning in 1869, Mullingar Station was almost silent. Almost.<br/>Because somewhere between the shadows of the platform and the dim glow of the signal lamps, a...