The Hellfire Club: Lore Of Dublin's Hell House

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On a wooded hill overlooking Dublin city sits a mysterious stone lodge shrouded in legend and lore. Dubliners know it as the haunt of the Hellfire Club, a secret group of devil-worshippers who carried out ghastly and terrible rites there in times gone by. Join me as I find out the truth and learn of the strange men who once shocked eighteenth-century Dublin with their wild escapades and hard living. A world of rakes and libertines drinking and whoring to excess; idle rich who lived for absurd bets and deeds. You won't hear a tale as strange anywhere else, so grab a brew and join me at the cabin in the woods. SOURCES: The Hellfire Club: Accidental Satanists, Dave Walsh, 1999 http://www.blather.net/theblather/1999/11/the_hellfire_club_accidental_s/ Blasphemers & Blackguards: The Irish Hellfire Clubs, David Ryan, 2012 https://irishacademicpress.ie/product/blasphemers-and-blackguards-the-irish-hellfire-clubs/ The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History Of Anti-Morality, Geoffrey Ashe, 2000 Buck Whaley And The Hellfire Club, Come Here To Me Blog, Sam McGrath, 2010 https://comeheretome.com/tag/hellfire-club/ Sad Piano by Alexander Blu http://www.orangefreesounds.com/sad-piano/

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