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Three Castles Burning

Three Castles Burning

Donal Fallon 244 - Executioners: The Pierrepoint Family

Three Castles Burning is a social history podcast, dedicated to the story of the Irish capital. Dublin is a city of many stories, Three Castles Burning tells some of the more forgotten ones.

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Published 22 Aug 2026

Duration 33:12

Episodes

244-

Executioners: The Pierrepoint Family

Listened

22 Aug 2026

243-

Madame Tussaud and Dublin: Guillotines and Escape Cars

Listened

07 Aug 2026

242-

Bia Duit: Food in Dublin in 1904 (Live at The Signal House)

Listened

22 Jul 2026

241-

A Vision for Irish Theatre: Deirdre O'Connell (with Sabina Higgins)

Listened

06 Jul 2026

240-

Cold War Football: Yugoslavia in Dalymount Park

Listened

22 Jun 2026

239-

Citizen or Lord? The Life of Edward Fitzgerald (with Fergus Whelan and Annie Hughes)

Listened

06 Jun 2026

238-

Back to the Census: The Story of Us (with John Gibney)

Listened

27 May 2026

237-

Stephen's Green Shopping Centre: Dandelions and Developers

Listened

11 May 2026

236-

Unquiet Ghost: The Bones of Roger Casement (with Rory Carroll)

Listened

30 Apr 2026

235-

More Pricks Than Kicks: The Dublin of Samuel Beckett

Listened

13 Apr 2026

234-

Quiet Revolutionary: The Life of Éamonn Ceannt

Listened

30 Mar 2026

233-

Drowning the Shamrock? The Gaelic League and the War on Pubs

Listened

16 Mar 2026

232-

Little Wonder: David Bowie's Secret Gig at The Factory (with Ray O'Donoghue)

Listened

27 Feb 2026

231-

Census City: Dublin 1926

Listened

15 Feb 2026

230-

Before the Summer of Love: Emmett Grogan's Dublin Adventure

Listened

28 Jan 2026

229-

From Rutland to Parnell: The Story of a Dublin Square (With Elizabeth Kehoe)

Listened

22 Dec 2025

228-

When Earley Met Gandon: Bringing Light to the Custom House

Listened

19 Dec 2025

227-

Simms City (with Gayle Cullen Doyle and Eoin Ó Broin)

Listened

14 Dec 2025

226-

A Christmas Carol and Fenian Fears: Charles Dickens in Dublin

Listened

06 Dec 2025

225-

Modernist Mausoleum or Masterpiece? The US Embassy in Ballsbridge (With Cormac Murray)

Listened

30 Nov 2025

224-

The Making of a Brewery (with Ned Guinness)

Listened

15 Nov 2025

223-

Lord Leitrim, John Twiss and the songs of our year (with Michael Steen)

Listened

26 Oct 2025

222-

Castle Island Colossus: Remembering Con (With Roy Curtis and Brendan Conroy)

Listened

30 Sep 2025

221-

Grainne Shaffrey in Conversation: On Cities, Towns and Our Built Environment

Listened

10 Sep 2025

220-

Brian Kerr in Conversation: Drimnagh, Libya and Beyond

Listened

01 Sep 2025

219-

Famine Soup: Alexis Soyer, Trevelyan and The Great Hunger in Dublin

Listened

24 Aug 2025

218-

Fighting the Flames: Captain James Robert Ingram

Listened

12 Aug 2025

217-

Tipperary So Far Away: Remembering Seán Treacy on Talbot Street

Listened

26 Jul 2025

216-

Mohair Suits in the National Ballroom: The Showband Era

Listened

15 Jul 2025

215-

'A Perfect Prodigy of Moral Horrors' - The Donnybrook Fair

Listened

30 Jun 2025

214-

Porter Wars: Patriotism and Pints (with Christina Wade)

Listened

13 Jun 2025

213-

From 'Peelers' to Gardaí: How the Dublin Metropolitan Police and An Garda Síochána merged (with Paul Maher)

Listened

23 May 2025

212-

The Animal Gangs: An Irish Peaky Blinders?

Listened

09 May 2025

211-

Streets Broad and Narrow: Tony Gregory and Molly Malone

Listened

23 Apr 2025

210-

Blueshirt Bluster? The March on Dublin

Listened

02 Apr 2025

209-

Leo Burdock and Ivan Beshoff: Fish, Chips and Revolution

Listened

30 Mar 2025

208-

The End of Monto: A Century On

Listened

19 Mar 2025

207-

The Dawning of the Day: Last Orders at the Early House

Listened

28 Feb 2025

206-

A Complete Unknown? When Dylan came to Dublin

Listened

26 Jan 2025

205-

Traditional Singing from Dublin (with Macdara Yeates)

Listened

11 Jan 2025

204-

From The Nation to Shane MacGowan: Finding James Clarence Mangan (with Bridget Hourican and Warren Farrell)

Listened

20 Dec 2024

203-

Tonehenge: Edward Delaney's Wolfe Tone Monument

Listened

17 Dec 2024

202-

Night at the Museum

Listened

02 Dec 2024

201-

The Stained Glass Artist From a Dublin Tenement

Listened

29 Nov 2024

200-

Remembering The SFX Hall (with Paul Page and David Bell)

Listened

08 Nov 2024

199-

The Women of Bram Stoker's Life: Memory, Folklore and Patriotism (with Marion McGarry and Eva Jane Gaffney)

Listened

30 Oct 2024

198-

Irish Food History: From B.C. Times to the Grogan's Toastie

Listened

12 Oct 2024

197-

Paula Meehan: History and Poetry

Listened

06 Oct 2024

196-

Lee Miller: From Hitler's Bathtub to The Palace Bar

Listened

26 Sep 2024

195-

Catriona Crowe in Conversation (Live at the Seán Corcoran Series)

Listened

14 Sep 2024

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