1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Paranormal UK Radio Network, the best 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,919 in paranormal talk radio in the UK and around the world. 3 00:00:19,399 --> 00:00:24,879 Scary Era Era is the Irish or Gaelic word for Ireland. 4 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,000 Paranormal means all the things that are impossible to explain 5 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,000 by non natural forces or by science, and Ireland is 6 00:00:33,079 --> 00:00:39,479 steep and lower ghosts, blood, sweat, tears, sacrifice, hunger, desperation 7 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:44,520 and charm. Oh and the paranormal. Welcome to Scary Era, 8 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:52,280 Mark Manning, I surrender, dear, oh, do put that away. 9 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,600 You'll have someone's eye at Hello and welcome to this 10 00:00:55,759 --> 00:00:59,560 edition all Scary Era. We've just had a big storm 11 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,439 in Ireland and I've heard it called storm Own, storm 12 00:01:03,799 --> 00:01:08,480 aon whatever it was, Big January twenty fourth, just gone. 13 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,680 Shortly we'll be getting on the telephone to discuss with 14 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:16,519 a man originally from Birmingham, England, the aftermath of aforementioned storm. 15 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:17,519 Speaker 2: Look for me too. 16 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,519 Speaker 1: I want to tell you that later on we'll be 17 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,359 discussing no tittering in the cheap seats, the Big Wind 18 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:30,799 of eighteen thirty nine, Ireland's most dramatic and explosive storm 19 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:34,439 stroke hurricane of all time. You're gonna love it now. 20 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:36,799 If you are listening to scary era, I would like 21 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,680 your participation please. I'm like a lonely child waiting by 22 00:01:40,719 --> 00:01:43,319 the phone. In the words of Juran Duran Well email 23 00:01:43,359 --> 00:01:46,359 to be precise. If you've got a ghostly tale, email 24 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:51,400 it to me Paranormal Island at ProtonMail dot com. Again, 25 00:01:51,799 --> 00:01:57,480 paramormal Island at ProtonMail dot com. Right, where's me phone, 26 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:01,079 den Well? 27 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:02,319 Speaker 3: They make. 28 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,599 Speaker 1: Nigel? How long ago is it now, Nigel? Since you 29 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,360 and your good lady settled in County Mayo. 30 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 2: Ireland thirty years this shirt at the end of this year. 31 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: And did you ever experience a storm as devastating as 32 00:02:17,719 --> 00:02:18,280 this one? 33 00:02:18,479 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 2: As devastating? No, but as bad In nineteen ninety eight 34 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,919 I think it was Sint Stephen's Day. It was bad 35 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,439 down as well. I just remember being outing it and 36 00:02:27,479 --> 00:02:28,199 it was really bad. 37 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 1: And were there any similar stormy travesties back in your 38 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:32,599 time in England? 39 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,199 Speaker 2: Na, We never got storms like that in the Middlands. 40 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,759 Speaker 1: Now it was as serious as a heart attack this 41 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,840 time around, because you had a red warning. Well, Nigel, 42 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,439 were you making plans it was coming? 43 00:02:45,479 --> 00:02:48,479 Speaker 2: This time? Where about twenty five years ago we didn't 44 00:02:48,479 --> 00:02:50,039 know it was coming, but at this time we did 45 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,080 and we just loo. You just move everything that can 46 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,319 blow around out of the way, and you close everything down, 47 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,879 and you shut all the doors and the gates, and 48 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,759 you do things like that help for the best. 49 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,199 Speaker 1: For those that don't know, County Mayo is a rugged, raw, 50 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:12,479 manly piece of the west of Ireland. I eat an 51 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,560 onion for breakfast kind of place. I know I'm being 52 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,800 a bit dramatic, but describe the terrain for people. 53 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 2: It's mountaineer and cialy and about two miles away from 54 00:03:22,159 --> 00:03:23,919 the sea, so it's wild and. 55 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 1: Rugged with a wild, unpredictable Atlantic get your doorstep. It's 56 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,120 quite remote, really, yeah, it is quite remote. But the 57 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,439 scenery is spectacular though, isn't it. It ranges from verdant to 58 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,560 desert like, and of course you've got those constant rocky cliffs. 59 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:44,159 You're spoiled, really, aren't you. 60 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 2: It's nice on a sunny day, pretty on a wet, 61 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,879 windy day. You just don't want to be a you know, 62 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:52,039 if you know what I mean. 63 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,199 Speaker 1: And so you had twenty four hours or so waiting 64 00:03:56,319 --> 00:04:07,039 for the storm to come crashing. 65 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:01,719 Speaker 3: Did. 66 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,639 Speaker 2: You now? It started like you get the quiet before 67 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,360 the storm. The wind drops, there's no windows all at first, 68 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,919 and then it slowly builds up. And it did that 69 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:15,719 in the evening time, and then it started to get 70 00:04:15,759 --> 00:04:17,959 gusty in the early hours. And I think it peaked 71 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:21,240 about seven or eight o'clock in the morning, you say, 72 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:24,240 just as it was getting light. But it's very noisy, 73 00:04:24,319 --> 00:04:27,519 and you know, the wind's rolling across the roof like thunder, 74 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,199 and you can hear things banging around, you know that's 75 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,839 come loose or something like that. And I just got 76 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,519 up when it got light and I went out to 77 00:04:35,519 --> 00:04:37,639 see how bad it was. I was being blown about. 78 00:04:37,639 --> 00:04:39,399 It's all out of the place and there was just 79 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,839 trees smashed and down all over the place everywhere on 80 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:46,560 my neighbour's land, you know. But there was no structural 81 00:04:46,639 --> 00:04:49,000 damage to our house, but he lost a few tiles. 82 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 1: And you're a farmer as well, aren't you, Nigel. Hopefully 83 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,639 those lovely animals of yours were safe and sound. 84 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:57,519 Speaker 2: Well yeah, I mean, I know when the storm's coming, 85 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,480 so they moved to a quiet place to the wind, 86 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:02,920 and the usually they're okay. You know, you don't hear 87 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:04,120 about animals getting hurt. 88 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 4: The nest. 89 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 2: They're kept in a small field, but usually you put 90 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,680 them somewhere safe. It's manual sheep around there. Sheep could 91 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:12,639 hide behind a rock or ifing. But if they were 92 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:15,000 if a sheep got caught in the middle of it 93 00:05:15,079 --> 00:05:16,959 in a field in that kind of wind, it would 94 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,519 have been blown away, like you know, it would have 95 00:05:19,639 --> 00:05:24,800 soon disappeared and got hurt. But they're quite clever. There's 96 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,839 no such thing as a dumb animal, as I say. 97 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: And electricity wise, how did you fare in Nigel? Because 98 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:32,560 the outages were widespread. 99 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 2: We had no power from the Thursday nights till Tuesday morning. 100 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,639 We had a generator so we were okay, so we 101 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,000 could keep warm and have the freezer was kept okay 102 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,160 and we had warm drinks and meals. A lot of 103 00:05:46,199 --> 00:05:48,480 people didn't so I had to move out of their 104 00:05:48,519 --> 00:05:51,560 homes it was too cold, and they went into the 105 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,680 towns and stopped in hotels because there was no services. 106 00:05:54,759 --> 00:05:56,720 There was no internet and there was no power and 107 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,519 no telephone and no water. We have no water up day. 108 00:06:01,639 --> 00:06:04,279 The hotels and the businesses which were open would only 109 00:06:04,319 --> 00:06:07,120 accept cash, so if you had a card or a 110 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,879 phone to pay, you were turned away. Because there was 111 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,319 just now why they could stick a payment. You see, 112 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:13,600 so cashless. 113 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: King and the irony as you hear so much about, 114 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,120 you know, the cashless society, and here we are back 115 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,160 to basics. Wouldn't surprise me if those difficulties with electric 116 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:22,879 vehicles as. 117 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 2: Well, because how would you charge the electric vehicle? You're stuck. Look, 118 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,439 if we've got petrol diesel, we can drive anywhere to 119 00:06:30,519 --> 00:06:33,240 try and find food or water or safety. People who 120 00:06:33,319 --> 00:06:35,759 electric vehicles, you've only got so much power stored on 121 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,079 it and you can't charge it back up. Also, an 122 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,519 electric power tool is completely useless because you can't charge that. 123 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:44,439 So a petrol chain saw can cut a tree out 124 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:47,000 of the way which is blocking your driveable blocking the road, 125 00:06:47,079 --> 00:06:49,480 but an electric one won't do that. It'll go flat 126 00:06:49,519 --> 00:06:52,319 and then it becomes totally useless. The proof is in 127 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,639 the pudding. All this talk about going electric and going 128 00:06:55,879 --> 00:06:59,040 you know, all digital, it's total rubbish and this storm 129 00:06:59,120 --> 00:06:59,639 proves that it. 130 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: Well, thankfully old, Well that ends well, so hopefully you 131 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:06,560 and the missus are okay, yeah looughly so yeah. 132 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we've only got the crowns back today 133 00:07:08,639 --> 00:07:11,079 after I don't know how many days. But the powers 134 00:07:11,079 --> 00:07:14,240 back now, the water's back and the internet's working again. 135 00:07:14,399 --> 00:07:16,519 So we were going to bed at seven at seven 136 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:18,920 o'clock in the evening because we're just sitting there looking 137 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,439 at teacher, have nothing to watch or do, you see. 138 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:22,879 So that's what we were doing. 139 00:07:22,959 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: Well. On the plus side, Nigel, you're not going to 140 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,120 be short to firewood for some time. You were also 141 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,720 telling me you had something like twenty trees blown down 142 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,560 around you, and some of them pretty old. 143 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, there were some really old oats about two hundred 144 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,000 years old. We lost two of those at least. There's 145 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,680 lots of other trees do come down as well and 146 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,519 smashed to pieces that you know, branches get torn off 147 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,120 and one tree falls on top of another and all 148 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:47,279 that kind of thing. You see. 149 00:07:47,399 --> 00:07:50,639 Speaker 1: Oh, Sony, you've really been through the wars. You are 150 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,720 going to be in lumberjack mode for some time. You're 151 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,920 going to be chopping and chopping. Well. Nigel, congratulations for 152 00:07:57,079 --> 00:08:01,120 weathering the storm in County Mail on Island's west coast. 153 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,519 Please give my best to your good lady as well, 154 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,720 and thank you for joining us here on scary era. 155 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, A couple of things over the years but 156 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:16,120 I've learned, well I don't. I suppose it's not learned. 157 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,120 I've just become accustomed to it. And I think it's 158 00:08:18,199 --> 00:08:21,600 kind of it's maybe it's another sense or something. But 159 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,199 often when you go into places, you will get a 160 00:08:23,199 --> 00:08:25,360 feeling for the place and you'll get a feeling of 161 00:08:25,399 --> 00:08:28,120 whether or not it's comfortable. And whatever cause is that, 162 00:08:28,439 --> 00:08:31,680 who knows what causes that. But we have an intuition. 163 00:08:31,759 --> 00:08:34,200 We have an inbuilt intuition. I can't describe what it 164 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,440 is or where it comes from, or the physics of 165 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,759 it or the chemistry of it, but it's there, and 166 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:42,399 anybody will will tell you to stick with your intuition. 167 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:46,080 If you think something doesn't feel right, then don't hang around. 168 00:08:46,639 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 3: Superb advice from regular contributor to Scary Era David McGlynn 169 00:08:51,799 --> 00:08:55,120 aka the Squire, And don't hang around either. 170 00:08:55,519 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: If you've got an Irish. 171 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 3: Paranormal tale to tell, simply email Paranormal Island at Proton 172 00:09:02,799 --> 00:09:06,120 Male dot com and it'll be read out for you 173 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,600 before you get to teletone yourself. That's Paranormal Island at 174 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:13,720 Protonmale dot com. 175 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:17,639 Speaker 1: Earlier this year, I reached out to the exotically named 176 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:23,320 Turtle Bunbury. He's an Irish historian and author. And I said, Turtle, 177 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,440 I said to him, my mother, my late mother, used 178 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:30,480 to tell me her grandparents related a story to her. 179 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,480 It was like a hurricane, a huge, big storm that 180 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,440 happened in Ireland years and years and years ago. Do 181 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,519 you remember anything about it? And unlike his name, Turtle 182 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,159 was very quick on the uptake. He said to me Mark, 183 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:45,879 I've just a thing for you. You can read all 184 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:50,159 about it on Turtlebunbury dot com. And that's exactly what 185 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,440 I'm going to be doing for you, folks. So gather 186 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,759 round the campfire, get your. 187 00:09:55,759 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 4: Marshmellows or else a dirty, great lump of taust on 188 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,000 the end of his stick, because here we go. Oh, 189 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,519 it doesn't have to be all ghosts and ghoulies and 190 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,440 leprechauns to be scary. You know, the elements are just 191 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:28,279 as terrifying. In dear old Ireland town. The Night of 192 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,879 the Big Wind was the most devastating storm in recorded 193 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:36,399 Irish history. The hurricane of sixth to seventh of January 194 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,120 eighteen thirty nine made more people homeless in a single 195 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,240 night than all the Surry decades of eviction that followed it. 196 00:10:44,919 --> 00:10:50,360 The calm before the big wind struck was particularly eerie. 197 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,279 Most of the eight million people living in Ireland at 198 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,279 the time were preparing for Little Christmas, the feast of 199 00:10:58,279 --> 00:11:02,559 the Epiphany. The previous day had seen the first snowfall 200 00:11:02,639 --> 00:11:06,080 of the year, heavy enough for some to build snow men. 201 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:15,799 By contrast, Sunday morning was unusually warm, almost clammy, and 202 00:11:15,919 --> 00:11:20,039 yet the air was so still that along the West Coast, 203 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,519 voices could be heard floating on the air between houses 204 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,879 more than a mile apart. Notwithstanding the snow, the day 205 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:34,279 was not cold, recalled Tomas o' nail Roseil Thomas O'Neill Russell, 206 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,639 who was on his family farm near Moat, County, Westmead 207 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:42,480 when the storm blew in. There was not even a 208 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,240 breath of wind. But there was something awful in the 209 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,720 dark stillness of that winter day, for there was no 210 00:11:48,879 --> 00:11:52,720 sunlight coming through the thick, motionless clouds that hung over 211 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:57,279 the earth. At approximately three p m, the rain began 212 00:11:57,399 --> 00:12:01,200 to fall and the wind picked up. Nobody could have 213 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:07,279 predicted that those first soft rain drops signified an advance 214 00:12:07,399 --> 00:12:12,679 assault from the most terrifying hurricane in human memory. By 215 00:12:12,759 --> 00:12:16,159 six p m The winds had become strong and the 216 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:21,120 rain drops were heavier, sleep like, with occasional bursts of hail. 217 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,799 Farmers grimaced as their hay ricks and thatched roofs took 218 00:12:25,799 --> 00:12:30,120 a pounding. In the towns and villages, fires flickered and 219 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:35,279 doors slammed, church bells chimed, and dogs began to whine. 220 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:41,879 Fishermen turned their ears west. A distant, increasingly loud rumble 221 00:12:42,039 --> 00:12:45,799 could be heard upon the frothy horizon at Glen O'sheen 222 00:12:45,919 --> 00:12:49,279 in County Limerick. A well to do German farmer called 223 00:12:49,399 --> 00:12:54,720 Jacob Stuffel began to weep. At Moidrum Castle in County Westmeath, 224 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:59,360 seventy eight year old Lord Castlemaine decided to turn in 225 00:12:59,399 --> 00:13:03,360 early and go to bed. In the Wicklow Mountains, a 226 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,600 team of geographic surveyors headed up by John O'Donovan, finally 227 00:13:07,639 --> 00:13:10,480 made it to their hotel in Glendaloche. They had been 228 00:13:10,519 --> 00:13:14,960 walking all day, often knee deep in snow, sailing upon 229 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,679 the Irish Sea. Captain Smith of the Pennsylvania studied his 230 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:23,480 instruments and tried to make sense of the fluctuating pressures 231 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,000 rounding the north coast of Ireland. In the schooner Venus. 232 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,919 Astor MacPhee decided his best course of action would be 233 00:13:32,039 --> 00:13:35,519 to drop anchor in Rathmullen rather than risk his cargo 234 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,840 of whiskey and chugar. All going to plan, he could 235 00:13:38,879 --> 00:13:41,799 complete the voyage from Glasgow to Sligo in the morrow. 236 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: By ten p m. Ireland was in the throes of 237 00:13:45,519 --> 00:13:48,480 a ferocious cyclone that would continue on a bit it 238 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:52,440 through the night for at least eight hours. The hurricane 239 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:57,120 had soared across three thousand miles of unbroken island free 240 00:13:57,279 --> 00:14:03,000 Atlantic Ocean, gathering momentum every second. It hit islands west 241 00:14:03,039 --> 00:14:05,600 coast with such power that the waves are said to 242 00:14:05,639 --> 00:14:08,000 have broken over the top of the cliffs of Moger. 243 00:14:08,799 --> 00:14:12,600 Reading contemporary accounts, the impression is that if Ireland did 244 00:14:12,639 --> 00:14:16,639 not have such magnificent cliffs forming a barrier along our 245 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:21,240 west coast, the entire country would simply have been engulfed 246 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:26,600 by water. The noise of the sea crashing against the 247 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,840 rocks could be heard for miles inland above the roar 248 00:14:30,919 --> 00:14:35,000 and din of the storm itself. The earth trembled under 249 00:14:35,039 --> 00:14:39,480 the assault. The ocean tossed huge boulders onto the cliff 250 00:14:39,519 --> 00:14:44,480 tops of the Arron Islands. Perhaps the most distressing aspect 251 00:14:44,679 --> 00:14:48,360 was that all this took place in utter darkness. People 252 00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:51,799 cannot have known what was going on. The wind churned 253 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:56,480 its way across the land, extinguishing every candle and lantern 254 00:14:56,519 --> 00:14:59,840 it encountered. The black night was only relieved by the 255 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,440 lightning streaks that accompanied the storm, and the occasional blood 256 00:15:04,519 --> 00:15:08,679 red flicker of the Aurora borealis burning in the northern sky. 257 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:14,480 All across Ireland, hundreds of thousands of people were attuned 258 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,720 to the sound of the furious tempest, their windows shattered 259 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:24,120 by hailstones, their brick walls rattling, their rain sudden, thatched 260 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,039 roofs sinking fast. The most terrible thing I have ever 261 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,679 heard was the roaring of the wind on that awful night, 262 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:34,559 stated t O Russell. I can never forget it, nor 263 00:15:34,639 --> 00:15:38,159 can anyone who heard it ever forget it. A horrible sound, 264 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:43,039 something between a howl and a roar, of unutterable awfulness. 265 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,639 It was hardly to be wondered at that. Almost everyone 266 00:15:45,679 --> 00:15:48,120 thought the end of the world had come. Those who 267 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:51,360 had probably never felt fear in all their previous lives 268 00:15:51,399 --> 00:15:56,000 were like babies, and wept like them as the wind 269 00:15:56,159 --> 00:15:59,879 grew stronger, it began to rip the roofs of how 270 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:05,000 chimney pots, broken slates, sheets of lead and shards of 271 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:10,080 glass were hurtled to the ground. Rather astonishingly, someone later 272 00:16:10,159 --> 00:16:15,120 produced as statistic that four thousand, eight hundred and forty 273 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,399 six chimneys were knocked off their purchase during the night 274 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,720 of the Big Wind. Many of those who died that 275 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:27,360 night were killed by falling masonry. Norman tower houses and 276 00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:34,080 old churches collapsed. Factories and barracks were destroyed. Fires erupted 277 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:39,559 in the streets of Castle, bar Athlone, Loch ray Kels, Kilkenny, 278 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:42,960 Mote and Dublin. The wind blew all the water out 279 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,200 of the canal near Tuam. It knocked a pinnacle off 280 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,320 Carlo Cathedral and the solitary remaining chimney off Carlo Castle. 281 00:16:50,879 --> 00:16:54,000 The north gable collapsed on the keep at Trim Castle. 282 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,519 The gable also tumbled from the bishop's palace on the 283 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,879 rock of Castle. Its remains can be seen on the 284 00:17:00,879 --> 00:17:04,839 great Lawn. It stripped the earth alongside the River Boyne, 285 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,640 exposing the bones of soldiers killed in the famous battle 286 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,359 one hundred and fifty years earlier. Fish were lifted from 287 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,119 the lake at Farnham County Cavern and scattered across the 288 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:20,799 fields of Farnham Estate. Hundreds of fish were likewise reported 289 00:17:20,799 --> 00:17:23,599 to have been blown out of Loch Ree and died 290 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,559 upon its shore. Others were washed ashore at Warren Point. 291 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,640 Stories would later be told of sea fish found in 292 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,480 the sleeved blooms. A stormy petrel sea bird was blown 293 00:17:34,559 --> 00:17:37,480 so far off course it was found that the Twett 294 00:17:37,519 --> 00:17:41,920 family estate near Sonna, Westmeath. At four o'clock in the morning, 295 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:47,079 Astor MacPhee of the Venus stood horrified on board his 296 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,079 ship as it was dragged from its anchorage in Rathmullen 297 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:54,240 and pulled towards the Inch Bar, a notorious sand bank 298 00:17:54,319 --> 00:17:57,519 at the mouth of Lochswillie. The ship struck the bank 299 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,960 with such force that she immediately killed with water and 300 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,440 fell on her beamends. In desperation, MacFee and his crew 301 00:18:05,559 --> 00:18:09,480 clung to the main rigging and waited in the village 302 00:18:09,519 --> 00:18:13,839 of Castle Dawson, near the northwestern shore of Lockney. The 303 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,359 wind seemingly toppled a sixty foot obelisk erected by the 304 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,359 celebrated Earl Bishop of Derry in seventeen ninety five, to 305 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:26,279 commemorate the virtues and benevolence of the descendants of Joshua Dawson, 306 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,799 the Spymaster and Chief Secretary for Ireland. In the reign 307 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:36,079 of Queen Anne. Roads in every parish became impassable. All 308 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,720 along the Grand Canal. Trees were pulled up by the 309 00:18:39,799 --> 00:18:42,599 roots and hurled across the water to the opposite bank. 310 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:47,079 Thousands of timber cabins were destroyed. The wind blew under 311 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,720 the half doors and swept the burning embers up from 312 00:18:49,759 --> 00:18:53,880 their fireplaces through the chimney to the thatched roofs, spreading 313 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,880 the fire to neighboring thatch. If there was any surviving 314 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,720 inhabitants had no choice but to flee into the pitch 315 00:19:00,799 --> 00:19:04,440 black night in clothes that were presumably soon wholly drenched 316 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,319 by the intense rains and snows that accompanied the cruel 317 00:19:08,559 --> 00:19:12,319 piercing wind, and he sought shelter amid the hollows and 318 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,920 hedges of the land. People in the Midlands found themselves 319 00:19:16,039 --> 00:19:19,720 drenched in sudden torrents of salt water, water that must 320 00:19:19,799 --> 00:19:23,880 have been carried on the tempest from the ocean. Farmers 321 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,599 were hit particularly hard. A ricks in the fields across 322 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,160 Ireland were blown to pieces. Wooden fences and dry stone 323 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:36,240 walls collapsed, allowing terrified livestock to run away. Sheep were 324 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,599 blown off mountains or killed by tumbling rocks. Mister Powell 325 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,119 of County Claire lost one hundred and seventy sheep that night. 326 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,240 Cattle were reported to have simply frozen to death in 327 00:19:48,279 --> 00:19:53,279 the fields. The next morning, one of Jacob Stuffel's neighbors 328 00:19:53,319 --> 00:19:56,880 recalled seeing the distraught Germans standing high up on a hillock, 329 00:19:57,279 --> 00:20:01,119 looking with dismay at his haggard farm, his stacks having 330 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:06,119 been swept out of existence. Suddenly he raised his two hands, 331 00:20:06,599 --> 00:20:10,599 palms open, high over his head, and looking up at 332 00:20:10,599 --> 00:20:13,160 the sky, he roared in a voice that was heard 333 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:18,319 far and wide, Oh God Almighty, what did I ever 334 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,200 do to you? And you should creem me in that way. 335 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,119 Stoffel was not the only man who believed that the 336 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:29,000 hurricane occurring on the night of the Epiphany was of 337 00:20:29,079 --> 00:20:32,960 divine origin any sort, as a warning that the day 338 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,599 of judgment would soon be upon them. Some believed the 339 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,119 Freemasons had unleashed the devil from the gates of Hell. 340 00:20:40,759 --> 00:20:46,240 Others maintained that English fairies had invaded Ireland and forced 341 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,799 the indigenous little people to disappear amid a ferocious whirlwind. 342 00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:55,319 Irish fairies, of course, are wingless, and can only fly 343 00:20:55,519 --> 00:21:01,160 by calling up the Sia delcora, the magic whirlwinds. The 344 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,440 well to do did not escape any mansions had their 345 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:10,400 roofs stripped off. Lord Castlemaine was fastening his bedroom windows 346 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,519 when the storm blew them open and hurled him so 347 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:18,559 violently upon his back that he instantly expired. His brother 348 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,480 in law, the Earl of Clancarty, later reported the loss 349 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:27,000 of nearly twenty thousand trees on his estate at Balanislowe. 350 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,039 Similar figures came in from the other landed estates. Henry 351 00:21:31,079 --> 00:21:34,400 Bruin of oak Park in Carlow declared that his woods 352 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,720 were now as bold as the palm of my hand. 353 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,039 At the Seaford estate in County Down, an estimated sixty 354 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,039 thousand trees were felled. The Marquess of Cunningham lost a 355 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,000 third of his woods at Slain. The Lord Bishop of 356 00:21:49,079 --> 00:21:54,000 Mead's domain at ard Bracken House was likewise devastated. In 357 00:21:54,079 --> 00:22:00,160 County Monaghan, the beautiful plantation at glass Lock now castles, 358 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:05,240 and at nearby Castle Shane had severely felt the force 359 00:22:05,319 --> 00:22:08,599 of the storm. The Lefroy family had just completed the 360 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,480 Carryglass Manor in County Longford. All of the trees around 361 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:17,200 the house fell down utterly, altering the architectural perspectives, although 362 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:21,200 the estate carpenters working on site did manage to craft 363 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,640 a fine dining room sideboard from a fallen oak on 364 00:22:25,799 --> 00:22:30,240 sixth of January eighteen thirty nine. Timper was a valuable commodity. 365 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:34,160 Twenty four hours later, so many trees had fallen that 366 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:39,079 it was virtually worthless on imagined numbers of wild birds 367 00:22:39,079 --> 00:22:43,640 were killed, their nesting places smashed, and there was little 368 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:48,920 birds on that spring. On a road near Athlone, thousands 369 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,640 of dead crows were found alongside a screen of trees. 370 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:58,319 Crows all but vanished from Irish skies for several years afterwards. 371 00:22:59,279 --> 00:23:03,759 Jack DAWs also seemed on the verge of extinction. In 372 00:23:03,839 --> 00:23:07,680 his hotel room in Glendelock, John O'Donovan was fortunate not 373 00:23:07,759 --> 00:23:11,079 to share Lord Castlemaine's fate. He was struggling with the 374 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,640 shutters when a squall mighty as a thunderbolt propelled him 375 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:22,079 across the room. When he viewed the damage next morning. 376 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:25,799 He described it as if the entire country had been 377 00:23:25,799 --> 00:23:35,400 swept clean by some gigantic broom in NAIs the destruction 378 00:23:35,559 --> 00:23:40,240 as awful, reported the newy Examiner. Scarcely a house has 379 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,680 escaped demolition. This report from the archives of the Dublin 380 00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:49,839 Metropolitan Police following the night of the Big Wind January sixth, 381 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:56,960 eighteen thirty nine. Parson's killed, two Parson's injured, eighteen Hales 382 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,119 has blown down, thirty eight Hels's Park blown down, one 383 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,640 hundred and nineteen houses completely unroofed, two hundred and forty 384 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,559 three houses partly unroofed four thousand, eight one hundred and 385 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:14,160 forty six chimneys blown down, fifteen hundred and twenty seven 386 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,119 windows blown in, eleven hundred and forty three panes of 387 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,400 glass as are twined to be broken thirty thousand, three 388 00:24:22,519 --> 00:24:25,440 hundred and fifty eight out. This is about to be 389 00:24:25,519 --> 00:24:29,400 considerably less than the actual damage. Valuable tree is blown 390 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:34,079 down two thousand, five hundred and twenty four miscellaneous damage 391 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,799 not included in the above. Total amount of damage in 392 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:42,480 monetary terms sixty four thousand and forty five pounds. 393 00:24:48,039 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 2: Worse. 394 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: Dublin resembled a sacked city. The whirlwind of desolation spared 395 00:24:55,839 --> 00:24:59,960 neither building, tree nor shrub. The liffy rose by several 396 00:25:00,079 --> 00:25:04,119 feet and overflowed the key walls. The elms that graced 397 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,920 the main thoroughfare of the Phoenix Park were completely leveled, 398 00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:16,079 as were the elms at the Royal Hospital Kilmaenum. At 399 00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:20,920 the Viceregal Lodge now or So Noucton, a tree crashed 400 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,640 through the roof of the guardroom, where soldiers had been 401 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:32,000 conversing just moments earlier. The trees on Leinster Lawn outside 402 00:25:32,039 --> 00:25:35,839 the present day dall Ahern the Irish Parliament were uprooted 403 00:25:35,839 --> 00:25:47,759 and scattered like prostrate giants on their mother earth. The 404 00:25:47,799 --> 00:25:52,680 back wall of the Guinness Brewery collapsed, killing nine fine horses. 405 00:25:53,039 --> 00:25:56,960 A witness next morning described how the noble animals were 406 00:25:57,079 --> 00:26:00,680 stretched everywhere as if sleeping, but with every boy crushed 407 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:04,240 by the ponderous weight of the wall. Military sentry boxes 408 00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:16,200 were blown off their stands and scattered like atoms. A 409 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,200 glass shop on Nassau Street became a heap of ruins. 410 00:26:20,839 --> 00:26:24,000 On Claire Street, a chimney collapsed on a woman who 411 00:26:24,039 --> 00:26:28,640 had just got into her bed, killing her instantly, Police 412 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,000 stations and churches opened their doors for thousands of frightened 413 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,079 citizens who brought their young and frail in for protection. 414 00:26:35,759 --> 00:26:38,680 Even churches could not be trusted. On this night of Lucifer. 415 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,920 The steeple of Irish Town Chapel caved in, and the 416 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,359 bell from the spire of Saint Patrick's Cathedral came down 417 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:50,119 like a meteorite. Mercifully, nobody died in either instance. Bibbsborough 418 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,160 Road was a bomb sight of exploded windows and fallen chimneys, 419 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,400 as if by shot and shell. One of the forty 420 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,799 female inmates at the Bethiste penitention on Dublin's north side 421 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,160 took the opportunity to light a fire that destroyed the 422 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,079 building as well as the surrounding houses, schoolhouse and chapel. 423 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,759 Two fire men died trying to extinguish the flames. The 424 00:27:13,839 --> 00:27:16,960 hurricane did not stop in Dublin. It pounded its way 425 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:25,079 across the Irish Sea, killing hundreds of luckless souls caught 426 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:32,960 at sea. It killed nearly one hundred fishermen off the 427 00:27:33,039 --> 00:27:36,640 coast of Skerries. It killed Captain Smith and the thirty 428 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,960 people on board the packet ship Pennsylvania ships Ail along 429 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,920 the west coast of England were wrecked. Dead bodies continued 430 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:56,480 to wash up on shore for weeks afterwards. At Everton, 431 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,720 the same wind on roof to cotton factory that whitened 432 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,799 all the space for miles around, as if there had 433 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:06,160 been a heavy fall of snow. Estimates as to how 434 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,599 many died that night vary from three hundred to eight hundred, 435 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,680 a remarkably low figure given the ferocity of the storm, 436 00:28:14,039 --> 00:28:17,720 and he must have succumbed to pneumonia, frostbite or depression 437 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,440 in its wake. Those bankrupted by the disaster included hundreds 438 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,519 who had stashed their life savings up chimneys and in 439 00:28:25,599 --> 00:28:29,039 the thatched roofs that disappeared in the night. Even in 440 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,480 those days, it was an ill wind that turned none 441 00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:36,759 to good, and among those to benefit were the builders, carpenters, 442 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,640 slaters and thatchers who subsequently rebuilt the fallen buildings. The 443 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,599 big wind also inspired the Reverend Romney Robinson of the 444 00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:50,240 Armagh Observatory to invent the Robinson cup, anemometer, which was 445 00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:53,160 to be the standard instrument for caging wind speed for 446 00:28:53,240 --> 00:29:01,839 the rest of the nineteenth century. Tremendous tales of heroism too. 447 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,960 As daylight began to break across Lockswillie, Lieutenant John Holland, 448 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,279 the head coast guard at Rathmodden, became aware of the 449 00:29:09,279 --> 00:29:12,279 faith of the stricken schooner Venus, whose master and crew 450 00:29:12,319 --> 00:29:15,079 were still clinging to the rigging for dead life. He 451 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,759 rounded up six brave men and put out in a boat, 452 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,519 reaching the ship at about nine o'clock in the morning. 453 00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:24,359 They managed to rescue all nine men, for which Lieutenant 454 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,960 Holland was awarded as Silver Medal. Perhaps the most unlikely 455 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,839 beneficiaries of the Night of the Big Wind were those 456 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,160 old enough to remember it when the Old Age Pensions 457 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,279 Act was enacted in January nineteen o nine, seventy years 458 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:42,880 after the event. The act, which offered the first ever 459 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,000 weekly pension to those over the age of seventy, was 460 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,160 likened to the opening of a new factory on the 461 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,640 outskirts of every town and village in Britain and Ireland. 462 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:57,039 By March nineteen o nine, over eighty thousand British pensioners 463 00:29:57,079 --> 00:30:01,079 were registered, of whom seventy thousand were i Irish. When 464 00:30:01,119 --> 00:30:04,680 a committee was sent to investigate this imbalance, it transpired 465 00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:08,400 that few berths in Ireland were registered before eighteen sixty five. 466 00:30:08,839 --> 00:30:12,880 As such, the Irish Pensions Committee decreed that if someone's 467 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,720 age had gone astray on them, they would be eligible 468 00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:18,759 for a pension if they could state that they were 469 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,799 fine and hearty on the night of the Big Wind, 470 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,000 or the ihan a guiha mura, as it's called in Irish. 471 00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:30,519 One such applicant was Tim Joyce of County Limerick. I 472 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,440 always taught I was sixty, he explained, But me friends 473 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,440 came to me and told me there were certainly sure 474 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,920 I was seventy, and if there were three or four 475 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,960 of them against me, the evidence was too strong for me. 476 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,480 I put in for the pension and got it. But 477 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,920 we're not finished with a storm just yet. For the 478 00:30:51,079 --> 00:30:55,359 North of Ireland suffered just as badly. This extract from 479 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,759 the Late Storm from the Northern Standard, dated Saturday January 480 00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:06,359 twenty eighteen thirty nine, read by David McGlynn aka the Squire. 481 00:31:07,279 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 5: On the night of Sunday last the severe storm which 482 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,920 ravaged the Kingdom was felt severely in the town of Monahan. 483 00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:15,799 About half past eleven o'clock, the gale, which had been 484 00:31:15,839 --> 00:31:19,240 gradually increasing for some time, swelled into a most terrific 485 00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:22,759 hurricane at about three am on Monday morning. The power 486 00:31:22,759 --> 00:31:25,839 of air rushing from the southwest bore everything before it 487 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,759 with resistless force. The slates and roofing of several houses 488 00:31:29,759 --> 00:31:32,160 were borne upon the raging element as if they were 489 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,599 leaves upon the breeze, and the cowering and terrified inhabitants 490 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,359 looked under devastation, with arms palsied with fear and in 491 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:43,079 trembling awe looked to the Almighty dispenser of all things 492 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,759 for an abatement of the fury of the winds. Of Ever, 493 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,599 a fire burst forth from the chimney of mister John 494 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,640 Murray's Church Square, and the sparks and flame were dashed 495 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,799 upon the roofs of several thatched houses which occupy one 496 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,720 side of the diamond. For upwards of one hour. The flu, 497 00:31:57,799 --> 00:31:59,839 which we believe had not been swept for a length 498 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:03,119 time through fourth masses of fire, which were hurled by 499 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:07,160 the tempest to a great distance. An occasion much additional alarm, 500 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,799 but thank god, no more evil result followed. The fire 501 00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:11,880 burnt itself out on the roofs of the houses on 502 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,680 which the sparks had fallen, were so saturated with wet 503 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,680 from the rain and snow which had fallen on the 504 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,880 previous days, that they were immediately extinguished. However, several dwellings 505 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,440 present that view a frightful wreck. Many chimneys were wrecked, 506 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,440 and we regret to say that three of the small 507 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,799 spires which ornamented our beautiful church were thrown from their 508 00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:33,240 bases and broken to pieces. The amount of damage done 509 00:32:33,279 --> 00:32:39,240 in the neighborhood is enormous. The farmyards are a melancholy spectacle. Hay, straw, oats, 510 00:32:39,319 --> 00:32:42,480 wheat and barley have been, in almost every instance heaped 511 00:32:42,519 --> 00:32:45,920 together in dreadful confusion. Turf riggs have been tossed to 512 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,920 a distance scarcely credible, and much of the fine old 513 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,680 timber which graced the domains of the nobility and gentry 514 00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:53,920 of the neighborhood had been torn up by the roots. 515 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,519 The beautiful plantation in the domain of Missus Leslie of 516 00:32:57,519 --> 00:33:01,039 Glasslock had suffered to a great extent, and the residence 517 00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:04,000 of mister Edward Lucas, Esquire of Castle Shine, m B. 518 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,119 Has severely felt the force of the storm. The memory 519 00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:10,039 of the oldest inhabitants of this country cannot furnish us 520 00:33:10,039 --> 00:33:13,599 an instance of such devastation in so limited a period, 521 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,119 and not to storm alone are many of the injuries attributed. 522 00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:21,000 Fire has in sundry places lent its aid to the 523 00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:25,480 terrible destruction. In Glasslach, a small town within five miles 524 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,559 of Monah, eight houses were burned to the ground and 525 00:33:28,599 --> 00:33:32,440 their inhabitants driven houseless into the streets. But it affords 526 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,599 no pleasure amidst the recital of such calamity to be 527 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,759 able to state that no human being was deprived in life. 528 00:33:39,039 --> 00:33:42,720 In Kililis, between Glasslach and Armagh, great havoc has been 529 00:33:42,759 --> 00:33:46,720 committed by the combined elements of destruction. The town of Clonus, 530 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:50,240 from its elevated position, felt the full force of the tempest, 531 00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:53,640 and bally Bay, Castle Blaney and Carrick Macross have had 532 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:58,519 many houses rendered untenantable. Several carts laden with pork et cetera, 533 00:33:58,799 --> 00:34:01,640 coming from the direction of Clers to our market on Monday, 534 00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:05,880 were compelled to return in consequence of the numerous impediments 535 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,199 of the roads caused by fallen trees. 536 00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:16,599 Speaker 1: And again my sincere thanks to Turtle Bunbury, that most 537 00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:20,800 accomplished Irish historian and author, for his help on that 538 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:28,199 piece not paranormal. Mong Manning is real. Now, that's a 539 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:36,639 scary sort. Now, if you don't know about the Rendalshum 540 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,000 Forest incident in nineteen eighty in England, where on a 541 00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:45,679 US air base apparently UFOs appeared, this is all well documented, folks. 542 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,480 If you don't know about that, don't consider yourself part 543 00:34:48,519 --> 00:34:51,840 of the paranoral community. But I'm sure you do. What 544 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,559 I was amazed to find out recently, as I was 545 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:59,800 now raising a documentary on Rendelsham Forest, was that allegedly 546 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:03,440 there were heroglyphics on the side of the UFO. I 547 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,719 don't know if they photographed them or what, but years 548 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,159 later they were analyzed and apparently they represented two coordinates. 549 00:35:10,599 --> 00:35:13,960 One was for the Pyramids of Giza and another for 550 00:35:14,039 --> 00:35:18,519 a lesser known place called High Brasil or High Brazil, 551 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:24,440 off the northwest coast of Ireland. It's a mythical, shrouded mystery. 552 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,639 It is supposedly a kind of an atlantis that sunk 553 00:35:27,679 --> 00:35:31,000 under the waves and used to reappear every I don't know, 554 00:35:31,079 --> 00:35:34,760 seven years something like that. David McGlynn, aka the Squire, 555 00:35:35,079 --> 00:35:37,400 is now going to relate a story all about it, 556 00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:40,039 and your children might like to listen in on this one. 557 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,079 Speaker 5: The god of the sea, Mananon Maclear, rode his horse 558 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,000 enbar across the ocean. The scales on the god's skin 559 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:52,400 rippled over his taut muscles, his hair flowing behind him 560 00:35:52,599 --> 00:35:57,559 like a cape, and his sword Answerer hanging by his side. 561 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,519 He smiled at the sight of a cloud of far ahead. 562 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,760 To the unsuspecting human eye, this was nothing unusual, but 563 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,559 Mananan knew one of his phantom islands lay hidden inside. 564 00:36:10,079 --> 00:36:13,440 Unlike his other secret abodes, this one was dangerously close 565 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:18,280 to land, and if discovered by humans, would be ruined forever. Luckily, 566 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,639 it was always cloaked in fog, except for one day 567 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,360 every seven years, when it became visible to human eyes, 568 00:36:26,119 --> 00:36:29,360 and that day was getting close. That's why he'd been 569 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,400 summoned to the island. Now he emerged through the fog 570 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,480 onto a golden beach, behind which the spires of a 571 00:36:35,519 --> 00:36:39,480 magnificent city rose into the clouds. Some of the other 572 00:36:39,519 --> 00:36:42,639 gods were waiting for him on the sand, their faces 573 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,920 grim with concern. If gods can't be happy, laughed Mananan, 574 00:36:47,199 --> 00:36:50,760 jumping off his horse. What hope is there for mere mortals? 575 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,199 It is the mere mortals we are worried about, said 576 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,079 the Dagda, god of weather, crops, and the seasons. When 577 00:36:58,119 --> 00:37:01,000 he planted his staff in the sand, a crow landed 578 00:37:01,079 --> 00:37:05,559 on it. What do you mean, asked Mananan. The Dogta 579 00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:09,239 looked at the bird, Tell him, my love. The crow 580 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,039 hopped down on to the sand, instantly transforming into a woman, 581 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,320 the Morrigan, goddess of war. The humans know when our 582 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,679 island will appear, she said. They wait in their ships. 583 00:37:21,079 --> 00:37:24,079 We must stop them. The Dagda put his hand on 584 00:37:24,159 --> 00:37:28,400 his wife's shoulder. We cannot expose ourselves. Well, we must 585 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,519 do something, she said angrily. The gods all look to 586 00:37:31,599 --> 00:37:34,599 Mananan because he was the only one who moved easily 587 00:37:34,679 --> 00:37:37,000 between the world of gods and the world of men. 588 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,719 Leave it to me, he said, leading enbar across the 589 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,519 sand to his palace. Inside, he swapped his godly robes 590 00:37:44,559 --> 00:37:48,039 for human clothes, and, closing his eyes, he transformed his 591 00:37:48,119 --> 00:37:52,280 body too. His opalescent scales fell away to reveal human skin. 592 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,079 The gills on the either side of his neck sealed 593 00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:58,280 themselves shut, and the webbed skin between his fingers and 594 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,719 toes disappeared. He had entered his palace as a God 595 00:38:02,039 --> 00:38:06,559 and left it as a human, his alter ego Orbson Macalid. 596 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,239 Mounting his horse, he rode off across the waves and 597 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,880 soon arrived at Mainland, Ireland, where as the Morrigan had said, 598 00:38:14,159 --> 00:38:16,840 a fleet of ships waited for the island to show itself. 599 00:38:17,199 --> 00:38:21,360 Using his magic, Mananon failed himself in fog and landed 600 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,639 unseen on the Human's beach, where a large crowd had gathered. 601 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,480 As he approached, the people parted to make way for him, 602 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,400 even the king's soldiers, who knew by the rider's horse 603 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,880 and clothing that he was a man of some importance. 604 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:38,519 Arriving before the human king, Mananon dismounted his horse, got 605 00:38:38,559 --> 00:38:43,599 down on one knee, and introduced himself as Orbson Macalid, merchant, 606 00:38:43,679 --> 00:38:48,159 trader and nobleman. I am Bressel, said the king. How 607 00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:52,039 can I help you? Mananon smiled. I think you will 608 00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:55,800 find that his eye who can help you? Bressel arched 609 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,559 his eyebrows. I believe you are waiting to conquer the 610 00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:02,079 ghostly island known as the Isle of the Blessed, continued Mananan. 611 00:39:02,679 --> 00:39:05,400 The king nodded with interest, for it wasn't often he 612 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,159 met some one who knew anything about the mysterious island. 613 00:39:08,639 --> 00:39:11,840 You know, the island only appears for one day, said Mananon. 614 00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:14,400 A day is all it will take to seize it, 615 00:39:14,599 --> 00:39:19,480 said the King. Mananon shook his head in disagreement. By nightfall, 616 00:39:19,519 --> 00:39:21,639 the island will have sunk beneath the waves, and you 617 00:39:21,679 --> 00:39:24,800 will all be drowned. That is not what I have heard, 618 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,079 Orbs and maclid. I have heard that if we land there, 619 00:39:28,119 --> 00:39:30,719 we will live forever in a realm of plenty among 620 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,039 the gods. The thought of an army of humans on 621 00:39:34,079 --> 00:39:38,679 his precious island paradise made Mananon's human skin crawl. He 622 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,679 could tell the King wasn't going to be put off 623 00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:43,800 his quest, though, so Mananon came up with another plan 624 00:39:44,039 --> 00:39:46,960 to prevent an invasion. There is one way to stop 625 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,719 the island from submerging beneath the water, he said. Oh really, 626 00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:51,639 said the king. 627 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:52,480 Speaker 1: What is that? 628 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,639 Speaker 5: Each of its four corners must be pinned down with 629 00:39:55,679 --> 00:39:59,800 a metal spear, said Mananan. If this is done before midnight, 630 00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:03,440 the island will remain solid for you to conquer and stay. 631 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:09,159 That sounds easy, said Brazil. Not so, replied Mananan. You 632 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,320 have but one day to reach all four corners. The 633 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,639 king thought about this for a moment, and then ordered 634 00:40:14,679 --> 00:40:17,480 his men to prepare four spears and send for the 635 00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:21,760 four fastest runners in his city of the tribes. It 636 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,400 was night by the time they returned with three athletes, 637 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,880 two men and a woman. The first was Manus, the 638 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,599 finest hunter in the land. It was said that he 639 00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:33,800 couldn't pass a deal without bringing it down. The second 640 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,960 was Macta, a musician who collected songs from all over Ireland. 641 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,280 The third was Sealer, a woman whose speed was only 642 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,920 surpassed by her knowledge and love of nature, particularly flowers. 643 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,039 But that is only three, said the king. We couldn't 644 00:40:48,039 --> 00:40:51,320 find a fourth, said one of his soldiers. I will go, 645 00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:55,159 said a lone voice from the crowd. Everybody turned to 646 00:40:55,199 --> 00:41:00,880 see the king's daughter, Gahlia, step forward. King Brads grasped 647 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,599 her hands and shook its head. I cannot let you go, 648 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,320 my dear princess, it is too dangerous. I want to 649 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,480 go farther, she replied. I'm a fast runner and I 650 00:41:10,519 --> 00:41:13,599 want to claim this island in your name. As always, 651 00:41:13,639 --> 00:41:16,079 the princess got what she wanted, and in the end 652 00:41:16,159 --> 00:41:20,079 her father agreed. The four runners were given metal spears 653 00:41:20,119 --> 00:41:23,280 and put aboard a boat manned by twenty rowers to 654 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,320 wait for the island to appear. As the first rays 655 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,079 of morning sun splashed orange across the dark horizon, the 656 00:41:30,079 --> 00:41:33,159 phantom island started to appear through the mist like a 657 00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:37,960 mirage on the water. Distant hilltops and city spires materialized 658 00:41:38,199 --> 00:41:42,159 before the waiting rowers eyes, spurring them into action, their 659 00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,079 muscled arms moving in unison to cut their boat through 660 00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:48,039 the waves. As soon as the craft made landfall on 661 00:41:48,079 --> 00:41:51,599 the elusive island, the four runners took off, sprinting in 662 00:41:51,599 --> 00:41:56,199 different directions, their spears perfectly balanced by their sides. Manus 663 00:41:56,199 --> 00:41:59,199 bounded across the soft sand and cleared the grassy dunes 664 00:41:59,199 --> 00:42:01,800 in a few strides to enter a forest on the 665 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,280 other side. He raced through the trees, treading so lightly 666 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,280 that he barely broke a twig. At midday, he stopped 667 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,119 to rest and drink from a small brook. As he 668 00:42:11,199 --> 00:42:13,719 was catching his breath, he noticed movement in the trees 669 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,239 and squinted his eyes to see more clearly. In the gloom, 670 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,559 a magnificent stag ambled through the trees, unaware of his presence. 671 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,679 Manus had taken down many a stag in his days, 672 00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,079 but never one of this size or species. He knew 673 00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:31,119 we shouldn't let himself get distracted from his task, but 674 00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:34,119 he couldn't resist the thrill of the hunt. It'll only 675 00:42:34,119 --> 00:42:37,320 delay me a few moments, he thought, raising his spear 676 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,440 above his shoulder. He began to tiptoe towards his prey, 677 00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:42,760 but the stag seemed to have better senses than the 678 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,800 deer he usually hunted, because alerted to his presence, the 679 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:49,960 animal took off at speed. Manuscaped chase, following the creature 680 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,599 out of the forest, across hillsides and over gurgling streams. 681 00:42:54,039 --> 00:42:57,400 Whenever he accelerated to get closer, the deer increased its 682 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,159 pace and never allowed Manus to get close enough to 683 00:43:00,199 --> 00:43:03,079 throw his spear. He knew he should abandon his pursuit, 684 00:43:03,119 --> 00:43:06,239 but he couldn't, and as the evening sky started to darken, 685 00:43:06,519 --> 00:43:09,800 he knew he had failed the king. Meanwhile, Macta was 686 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,280 gaining good ground across grassland full of grazing cattle, the 687 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,960 likes of which he had never seen before. There were 688 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,800 twice the size of normal cows and were weighed down 689 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,599 with others, each full enough to feed a small village. 690 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,760 As he was crossing a ditch from one field to 691 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,159 the next, he heard the most magical music. Now Macta 692 00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,280 knew almost every tune in Ireland, but he'd never heard 693 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,000 anything like this before. It seemed to be played by 694 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,039 some alien instrument, and though he knew he shouldn't get 695 00:43:36,039 --> 00:43:40,199 distracted from his mission, he couldn't resist the spell binding melody. 696 00:43:40,519 --> 00:43:43,119 He followed it from field to field and towards mountains 697 00:43:43,119 --> 00:43:46,559 that rose out of the horizon like shards of broken flint. 698 00:43:47,079 --> 00:43:50,119 He knew he should abandon his foolish diversion, but every 699 00:43:50,159 --> 00:43:52,679 step seemed to bring him closer and closer to the music. 700 00:43:53,559 --> 00:43:55,760 By the time he reached the foothills of the mountains, 701 00:43:56,039 --> 00:43:57,960 the tune was so loud in his ears that it 702 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,119 seemed inevitable that he would reach it so and yet 703 00:44:01,119 --> 00:44:04,880 he never did. Sheila had almost arrived at her corner 704 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,119 of the island when she came across a garden of 705 00:44:07,119 --> 00:44:10,639 flowers so exotic and mesberizing that she had to stop. 706 00:44:11,159 --> 00:44:14,079 Though she considered herself an expert in the field of botany, 707 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,159 she couldn't identify any of the flowers in this garden. 708 00:44:17,559 --> 00:44:21,199 She soon lost track of time, moving from species to species, 709 00:44:21,599 --> 00:44:25,760 marveling at their opulencent sense and vibrant colors. Only when 710 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,719 it became too dark to see did she stop, realizing 711 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,800 then that she had failed in her errand for the king. 712 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:33,440 It was as if the island had put the garden 713 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,199 in her path to distract her. Gallia, the King's daughter, 714 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:42,000 was not sidetracked by wild animals, enchanted chuns, or outlandish flowers, 715 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,719 for there was only one thing. She loved, her father, Brazil, 716 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,440 and she was determined to do him proud. She ran 717 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,400 all day without stopping, and reached the furthest most corner 718 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,360 of the island as the evening sun sank in the sky. 719 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,599 Taking a ragged breath, she planted the spear deep into 720 00:44:58,639 --> 00:45:02,360 the ground before collapsing in exhaustion, hoping her fellow runners 721 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:06,800 had succeeded too. As darkness descended, Gallia fell into a 722 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,079 deep sleep, dreaming of welcoming her father to these hallowed 723 00:45:10,119 --> 00:45:13,320 shores in the morning. She didn't know that Manna, Smagda 724 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,079 and Sheila had failed to pin down their corners of 725 00:45:16,119 --> 00:45:19,280 the island, and now it was sinking slowly into the sea, 726 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:25,000 not to return for another seven years. Beech grassland cows 727 00:45:25,079 --> 00:45:30,360 forest city, and eventually mountains descended beneath the waves. Poor 728 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,039 Galia didn't even wake as the water lapped around her, 729 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,559 taking her into its cold embrace, for she was dreaming 730 00:45:36,599 --> 00:45:39,320 she was in paradise, and in a way she was. 731 00:45:40,079 --> 00:45:42,880 It just wasn't the island paradise her father dreamed of, 732 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,800 but one where her soul would join those of her 733 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,920 ancestors in a land of gods. King Brazil and his 734 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,440 people waited on the mainland for the morning to arrive, 735 00:45:53,079 --> 00:45:56,159 but the sun's first beams didn't illuminate the fabled island 736 00:45:56,159 --> 00:45:59,920 as they had hoped, but only the wide, empty sea, vast, 737 00:46:00,559 --> 00:46:04,639 cold and heartless. As always, the king cried for what 738 00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:09,000 he had lost, and it wasn't an island. Sadden too 739 00:46:09,039 --> 00:46:13,239 at the loss of four young lives orbson, Macalid slipped 740 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,320 quietly away to find his horse to return to his island, 741 00:46:16,639 --> 00:46:19,800 which was safe for another few years at least. Some 742 00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,159 people say the island was later named Island of Brazil 743 00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:26,559 after the king who tried to capture it. They got 744 00:46:26,599 --> 00:46:31,119 shortened to Ebrasil in Old Irish, he is sometimes written 745 00:46:31,199 --> 00:46:35,960 as High, so the name eventually became High Brazil. The 746 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,480 island of Brazil. The city of the Tribes was named 747 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,599 after his daughter, Gallia, which is the Irish word for Galway, 748 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,159 and Loch Crib, whose river flows through the city, was 749 00:46:47,199 --> 00:46:52,079 called Loch Orbson, after Manonon Maclear's pseudonym. Over time, the 750 00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:55,719 lake became known as Loch Arab and eventually Loch Corib 751 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,039 as we know it today. For a long time, High 752 00:46:59,039 --> 00:47:01,800 Brazil was believed who have been a real place. It 753 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,840 is included on countless maps of Ireland from as early 754 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,519 as thirteen twenty five to as recently as eighteen sixty five. 755 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,679 Speaker 1: Certainly hoped you enjoyed hearing all about High Brazil children, 756 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,679 And that was an excerpt from Kiron Fannings Haunted Ireland, 757 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,480 an atlas for every county in Ireland of ghost stories, 758 00:47:21,559 --> 00:47:23,679 and indeed Kiron joined us here a few weeks back 759 00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,400 as well. Oh you'll get it in all good bookstores 760 00:47:26,519 --> 00:47:33,239 and online as well. Mark Manning, Oh, that would be 761 00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,800 me going out with a bang, don't you know. So listen, 762 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,000 like and subscribe, do whatever you can to stay in touch. 763 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:43,639 I'd really love to hear from you. If you have 764 00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:47,679 any Irish related ghost stories, let's be having them indeed 765 00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:50,000 they don't have to be, because we do welcome a 766 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:54,400 little international interlude right here on Scary Era all the time. 767 00:47:54,679 --> 00:47:59,639 So send me those stories to Paranormal Ireland at proton 768 00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:04,280 mail dot com. That's it. Take care because I care. 769 00:48:04,599 --> 00:48:08,039 Speaker 4: Scary Era is a mark manning media production and associating 770 00:48:08,079 --> 00:48:09,559 the Paranormal Radio UK