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Apr 2022
50m 41s

Cocaine, Murder & Inquests: A night on t...

FIN DWYER
About this episode

This live podcast pokes in to the darker corners of the past looking at life in Victorian Waterford. Recorded live in Katty Barry’s in Waterford, it's a strange journey through macabre inquests that took place in pubs through to dentists who peddled cocaine!


The second half of the podcast looks at a bizarre murder involving a veteran of the Famine.


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