In this Halloween episode Rab and Kerry discuss all things Spooky including the origins of Halloween, a deadly fairy encounter, and the 1997 Corrib Park Poltergeist.

CONTENT WARNING This episode also includes discussion about slavery, infanticide and clerical sexual abuse.

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Music: Achaidh Cheide by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

"Halloween Werewolf Intro" by miksmusic is licensed under CC BY 3.0.

Source material

Halloween https://www.britannica.com/topic/Halloween Samhain https://www.britannica.com/topic/Samhain The Origins of Halloween Traditions https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/10/the-origins-of-halloween-traditions/#:~:text=Yet%2C%20the%20Halloween%20holiday%20has,costumes%20to%20ward%20off%20ghosts.

"The Kirwans of Castlehacket, Co. Galway: History, folklore and mythology in an Irish horseracing family", by Ronan Lynch. Published by. Four Courts Press, 2006

Galway Slave Traders & Sugar Planters in the Caribbean - Dr. Orla Power https://soundcloud.com/galwaycitymuseum/episode-6-galway-slave-traders

Galway Poltergeist - RTÉ archives https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0513/873383-galway-poltergeist/ A haunted house ; The Galway Ghost with Sandra Ramdhanie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ7zSs-e5XY Sandra Ramghanie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Ramdhanie ‘Every little bone’: How 796 babies at Tuam’s mother-and-baby home will be exhumed https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/06/04/every-little-bone-the-difficult-exhumation-ahead-at-tuams-former-mother-and-baby-home/ Eamonn Casey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamonn_Casey Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland#:~:text=15%20of%201995