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Ciaran Conliffe

Ciaran Conliffe

Ciaran lives in Belfast, where he programs professionally and writes compulsively. See more of his writing and blogging at www.dailyscribbling.com or follow him on Twitter as @shinyemptyhead.

Terrible People from History

Charles Bowles, AKA “Black Bart”, the Outlaw Poet

Ciaran Conliffe Nov 3, 2014 0
The urge to reinvent yourself is often a strong one. The idea of a “mid-life crisis” is more of a cliché than an actuality, but people do often find themselves stopping to take stock and re-assessing themselves. Sometimes we all take a look…
History

The Hellfire Clubs – decadence, with a whiff of brimstone

Ciaran Conliffe Oct 31, 2014 1
No organisation quite captures the air of genteel decay that pervaded English society in the Georgian era quite like the Hellfire Club. The 18th and early 19th century was a hard time for England. A succession of wastrel princes became…
Terrible People from History

Henry Howard Holmes, the Death Doctor of Murder Castle

Ciaran Conliffe Oct 28, 2014 0
Nowadays, most people aren’t afraid of monsters. We know that our neighbours are not secretly werewolves, that the dead will not rise as vampires to steal our lives away, that witches will not cast malicious curses to blight our lives. And…
Terrible People from History

Delphine LaLaurie; The Socialite Slave-killer

Ciaran Conliffe Oct 19, 2014 1
Slavery is one of the most abhorrent human practices. In order to enslave another human being, you must be prepared to deny them their individuality. This basic attitude of ignoring the reality of another person’s experience lies at the…
Humour Reviews

Welcome To Night Vale Live: The Librarian (Olympia Theatre, 16th October)

Ciaran Conliffe Oct 19, 2014 1
It’s an odd crowd, in the Olympia Theatre tonight. A lot younger than the usual theatre crowd - in fact, the majority seem to be teenagers, dotted with geeky-looking types, the alternative crowd, and the occasional bemused parent. In other…
Terrible People from History

George Robert Fitzgerald – “The Fighting Fitzgerald”

Ciaran Conliffe Oct 13, 2014 0
Duels occupied a strange position in 18th century Britain. They were not legal, nor were they illegal. Killing another person was naturally a crime, but one that carried a lesser penalty than cold-blooded murder. Those who killed their…
Terrible People from History

Julie “La Maupin” d’Aubigny, swashbuckling opera singer

Ciaran Conliffe Oct 6, 2014 6
Mark Twain once wrote “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” Few things illustrate that quite like the life and career of Julie"La Maupin"  d’Aubigny, the 18th century…
Terrible People from History

Vladislaus Dracula, the Wallachian Impaler

Ciaran Conliffe Sep 29, 2014 0
Few outside of Romania and Bulgaria would have heard of their folk hero Vlad Tepes if it had not been for an Irish writer named Abraham Stoker. Bram (as he is more commonly known) was inspired by the tale, and it led to him researching…
Terrible People from History

Pearl Hart, the Last Lady Outlaw

Ciaran Conliffe Sep 22, 2014 0
Life on the frontier has always had a romantic air. Where civilisation ends, and wilderness begins, then there is room for tales of people we can relate to; having adventures we can only dream of. Still, every frontier comes to an end, and…
Terrible People from History

James Stuart, King of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland

Ciaran Conliffe Sep 16, 2014 0
James Stuart thought he was better than you. This isn’t a base slander on my part, this was his honest academic opinion. In The True Law of Free Monarchies, James explains that kings (such as himself) had been chosen by God to rule over…
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